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🤦 Here we go again: A new, very shaky claim about AI and heat is spreading fast
A non-peer-reviewed study with extreme claims about data centers and temperature increases is now spreading across both news and social media. Time to bring out the vaccine!
🚰 A single golf club uses more water than ChatGPT
On social media, the claim is spreading that a single prompt consumes a half-liter water bottle. That is completely wrong. In reality, very little water is used, especially compared to other activities like golf or agriculture.
🦋 The lord of the pessimists is dead – this was his great mistake
Dr. Paul Ehrlich has passed away. He was a cheerful pessimist who viewed humans as insects.
🎹 Can an unmusical, washed-up politician create a hit song? (Probably not, but worth a try)
I’ve made a song based on a famous poem. Make your own version too.
🎷 AI isn’t a threat – it’s the music industry’s next superhit
The music industry is terrified of AI-generated music. It shouldn’t be. AI music is about to become the biggest hit in music history.
⛪ Tobias Wahlqvist: Pessimism is a kind of religion
No culture has ever existed without religion. And neither do we. Robin Dunbar shows that religion is not about God, but about belonging. In our secular age, pessimism has become the creed. Complaining is the ritual. And the optimist? A heretic.
✊ My American love story — and why I believe the U.S. will not become a dictatorship
I fell in love with the United States on election night in 2004. Twenty years later, I stood in tears by the Statue of Liberty, wondering if it was over. This is a story of grief and betrayal — and why I still believe the American people will defend and save their democracy.
💙 Don’t repeat my mistake – you really have to try Lovable
The fact that I was wrong proves that I was right.
🌕 Finally, FINALLY, we’re heading back to the Moon (with the goal of staying)
This is Artemis II and an interview with Sweden’s first astronaut, Christer Fuglesang.