Farah Nájar Arévalo 🇲🇽 (纳法拉)

Why are so many academics in the Epstein files? It’s not just about money | Christopher Marquis In a university ecosystem that breeds hunger for status, Epstein made scholars feel like celebrities

Why are so many academics in the Epstein files? It’s not just about money | Christopher Marquis

Researchers warn of AI, data centers’ water impact Two separate reports warned the technology and the infrastructure needed to power it could exhaust water supplies. But they said policy could help avert the worst disasters.

Researchers warn of AI, data centers’ water impact. Two separate reports warned the technology and the infrastructure needed to power it could exhaust water supplies. But they said policy could help avert the worst disasters. (via Route Fifty): https://bit.ly/4arb02O

Our Clean Nuclear Future Has a Labor Problem | Essay Can We Protect the Invisible Workers at Reactors and Containment Sites?

Policymakers are rebranding nuclear energy as clean, safe, and inevitable. But in practice, the industry moves risk around—and onto the bodies of vulnerable workers: zps.la/4kst29l

How cities are using AI in 2026 “We’re all in learning mode … and looking at it with a wary eye,” one mayor said about AI’s potential for municipal operations. Read more in this 2026 outlook.

How cities are using AI in 2026 www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/how-cit...

Spotlight on New Spacefaring Nations: Mexico + Argentina (Ft. Farah Najar Arevalo) YouTube video by Space For Humans

My fourth video with #ArizonaStateUniversity Space For Humans is out! Watch, like and follow the channel on Youtube. This is a follow up of Part I which I recorded earlier in Spanish and English. With deep gratitude for the team #EdPlus
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Uber’s Festering Sexual Assault Problem

This is a must-read on "Uber's festering sexual assault problems" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/b...

Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door

The people who live near Meta's data center may be forced to ration water. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t... @elitan.bsky.social

Mapping the AI economy: Which regions are ready for the next technology leap | Brookings The AI revolution across 387 U.S. metropolitan areas and assessing how the nation and local economies are positioned to create, apply, and harness AI.

"Mapping the AI economy: Which regions are ready for the next technological leap.” New report from @shriyared.bsky.social and myself

See how your metro is doing! @brookings.edu www.brookings.edu/articles/map...

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“Oil-producing countries have had an oversized influence on international affairs; in an A.I.-powered near future, compute producers could have something similar since they control access to a critical resource,” Prof Vili Lehdonvirta told @paulmozur.bsky.social, @nytimes.com.

How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying A growing body of research attempts to put a number on energy use and AI—even as the companies behind the most popular models keep their carbon emissions a secret.

How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying www.wired.com/story/ai-car... #artificialintelligence #energy #greenenergy

NAACP calls for emergency shutdown of Musk’s supercomputer in Memphis The civil rights group alleges that the project’s pollution could be harmful to nearby residents.

NAACP calls for emergency shutdown of Musk’s supercomputer in Memphis

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

@caseycrownhart.bsky.social and I spent months reporting together and found the common understanding of AI's energy appetite to be full of holes. As Big Tech aims to restructure our energy grids around the needs of AI, we dive as deep as one can go.

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Students are using AI to create their course asisgnments. Teachers+TAs use it to grade their students.
Content creators use it to create content and content consumers summarise the content with it.
Recruiters do so to screen job applicants and these to apply for jobs.
Is AI talking to itself?

En el Spotlight de las Nuevas Naciones Espaciales: América Latina y el Caribe 🌎 YouTube video by Space For Humans

La región de América Latina y el Caribe tiene una gran historia de descubrimientos astronómicos. Ahora alcanza las estrellas con una agencia espacial regional. En este episodio exploramos cómo MX y AR lideran dicho lanzamiento.

X: Iniciativa Interplanetaria y EdPlus de ASU

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Spotlight on New Spacefaring Nations: Latin America + the Caribbean 🌎 (Ft. Farah Najar Arevalo) YouTube video by Space For Humans

Latin America & the Caribbean have a rich history of astronomical discovery, and now they're reaching for the stars together in a new collaborative space agency! In this episode, we explore how Mexico and Argentina lead the way in launching!

By ASU’s Interplanetary Initiative & EdPlus.

Governance can’t be automated On the corners of the Holborn viaduct in central London, there are four statues: Commerce, Agriculture, Fine Art, and Science. The figure representing Science looks like she should be in Ancient Greec...

Governance can't be automated. A new one from me in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Everyone thinks they are making the world a better place.
What would happen if instead we set the goal to not harm at all, or do less harm, less damage, to the best of our abilities?
Don’t create a better world, pelase, please just don’t make it worse.