Mark Leckey: enter thru medieval worlds exhibition , Berlin

Every 10 second video created with OpenAi's Sora burns 1 Kilowatt hour - which is more than boiling 4 full kettles of water. That's over 10 per cent of the energy used in a day for an average German household. On one 10 second video. And that video emi…

AWS outage update: Customers of Eight Sleep – a smart bed company that connects to the internet to control the temperature and incline of a person’s bed – found they were unable to adjust the bed or the temperature of the bed during the outage because th…

“When we talk about the AI supply chain, we’re talking about one of the most resource-intensive industrial systems on the planet. Every AI model you interact with is the endpoint of a long, complex and often opaque chain of extraction, processing, manufa…

Public Service Announcement from the Berlin Strippers Collective

Meta's "ground breaking" AI-led research that discovered 135 new materials for efficient carbon removal - was essentially rubbish,. according to researchers at Heriot Watt Uni. None of the materials worked - some were simply hallunicated. Meta’s AI cli…

It is an unshakeable article of faith in Silicon Valley that technology brings abundance. And in abundance. More wealth, more stuff, even more technology. More of everything. But now with Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's book also called Abundance, influ…

We’ve already passed 1.5°C. AI and digital platforms are now the fastest-growing source of emissions in industrial nations. Sustainable tech isn’t enough. This Wednesday at Regen AI Builders, @alicma explores how we can shift from “less harm” to regenerative digital futures.

New for this year - the republica repair cafe

Making the makerspace at republica

With AI we're going way beyond weird now... https://t.co/IQbK90u3HR

The pitch for The Orb's US launch is to verify authentic human identitiy in a world saturated by AI generated identities and content . So one of Altman's companies is created to make money solving the existential problem created by another. Which sound…

I'm hosting this online event tomorrow - please join us Ecological rave: listening to the singing planet ATNC Mon 28 April 9pm CEST, Listening as ecological practice Sound artist, researcher Steve Williams joins Mort Drew & Grant Smith of Soundcamp https://t.co/ctY41tJ1gt

I'm hosting this online event tomorrow - do please join if you can ... Ecological rave: listening to the singing planet ATNC community Mon 28 April 9pm CEST, Listening as ecological practice Sound artist and researcher Steve Williams joins Mort Drew an…

I wrote this piece after three inspiring conversations with indigenous leaders - but it is every bit as relevant now as when i wrote it in 2023. It’s clear that indigenous cultures and communities will play a critical role in any meaningful restoration o…

the problem is that for many people AI is simply a no-brainer

Recently I spoke with a researcher and expert on AI in Education , Helen Beetham, who writes the excellent imperfect offerings newsletter. We had a great conversation on the wider ecological implications of AI, and we went the scenic route; using art fo…

I don't normally write about politics - but the German election forced me into it..... We're on a conveyor belt to fascism. I have zero confidence Merz can stop it - he's one of the people keeping it running. If all "centre ground" politicans can offer…

The German exit poll is about as good as can be hoped for - but its still bad. neo-nazi AFD below 20% at 19.5 and Conservative CDU at 29%, Greens do OK at 13.5% - and Die Linke, the Left party, had an amazing late surge to 8.5%, breezing past the all …

Err....no shit. https://t.co/d3w1WLIBcH