Artur de Matos Alves

This is brilliant. Thanks for setting up the pack 👍🏻

Everything you need to know about estimating AI’s energy and emissions burden Here’s how MIT Technology Review waded through a mess of data and hidden variables to calculate the individual and collective energy demand from AI.

Yesterday, MIT Technology Review published a first-of-its-kind look at AI’s energy use and the resulting climate impact. Here’s how our reporters waded through a mess of data and hidden variables to calculate all of it.

AI could keep us dependent on natural gas for decades to come AI data centers are driving a surge in new natural-gas power plants around the country. What does that mean for our clean-energy aspirations?

AI data centers are driving a surge in new natural-gas power plants around the country. What does that mean for our clean-energy aspirations?

I’m truly sorry to see you lose your job. Your work on videogame worker unions has been really important for my research.

Mapping the dark-money oil and gas ads targeting a small Ontario town Dark money is paying for oil and gas ads on shadowy Facebook pages, all coordinated by a PR firm with oil and gas — and Conservative Party — connections. How did a small town in Southern Ontario find ...

Last fall, a blizzard of ads started running on Meta, targeting a tiny collection of postal codes in Southern Ontario. The ads seemed low-budget, independent. They weren't.

In reality, the ads were coordinated by a PR firm with strong Conservative Party ties.

US court upholds Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’s conviction Holmes, who is serving nine years, attempted to overturn conviction over multimillion-dollar investor fraud scandal A US court upheld the conviction of the Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes for defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars…

US court upholds Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’s conviction

Writer April Lindgren admits that many local publications are guilty of defending the status quo and lacking diversity in their reporting and newsroom staffing. Still, until recently, newspapers generated the most comprehensive coverage of public affairs. thewalrus.ca/local-news-is-dy...

Disparition aujourd’hui de Maria Teresa Horta, grande féministe portugaise, journaliste et opposante à la dictature salazariste. La dernière des « trois Marias » autrices des « Nouvelles lettres portugaises » @humanite.fr avait publié ce beau portrait le 25 avril dernier

Technology is supposed to decrease teacher burnout – but we found it can sometimes make it worse Efforts to simplify teachers’ jobs through technology can backfire without a strong focus on teacher well-being.

A good study that shows what many teachers have been experiencing for a long time – even before the pandemic: an onslaught of education technology that just made our administrative load worse.

Another day, another mandatory windows update forcing a reboot during an important work meeting. At least it was done quickly.