Graceheart the Leopard

@graceheart95.bsky.social

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Furry. Amur leopard. Brony. History MA, PhD student and TA. Classical libertarian. Korean-Canadian. Tibetan Buddhist. Bisexual. Chair of the Leopards Licking People's Faces Party. Profile icon by @punkpega.bsky.social (He/They)

Listing for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's [sic] Stone for $7.14 USD on Amazon.com

Your AI prompts come with an energy price tag—Google just revealed how high (https://www.energysage.com/news/google-ai-energy-use-electric-bill-impact/)

Google just pulled back the curtain on one of tech's best-kept secrets: exactly how much energy its Gemini AI uses with every prompt. The answer—0.24 watt-hours (Wh) per median query—might seem small at first (about the same as running your microwave for one second). But multiply that by billions of daily interactions, and it suddenly becomes clear just how much energy AI is really using every day.

This level of transparency in a new report from Google provides comprehensive data on per-prompt energy usage. It's a wake-up call about how Silicon Valley's AI race will impact the trajectory of clean energy demand—and translate into increased energy costs for everyday Americans.

But now that anti-shipping is here being a noticeable force in fandom spaces, I think it’s gathering steam particularly among younger people (especially Americans) because it has built itself into a perfect storm of social forces:
• Its surface motivations are appealing and pretty (enforcing social justice);
• the underlying motivations have base appeal (crushing things that make you uncomfortable or that you don’t like for personal reasons);
• the methodology gives an illusion of power (intimidating others into doing the ‘right thing’);
• the dogma is familiar and simple (black & white thinking, some people are Good and some are Bad & you can never cross from Bad to Good, clear in-group/out-group designations); and
• you can never leave once you’re in (a completely insular social web that enforces cutting social ties with defectors and non-believers).

From: https://www.tumblr.com/freedom-of-fanfic/162334998999/i-think-your-post-about-why-antis-are-young-is?source=share

Bronze of Caesar Augustus, c. 10 BCE

Remains of the Antikythera Mechanism

So-called Trojan "Mask of Agamemnon", c. 1500 BCE

Neolithic jewelry

Archaic-era pottery

Remains of the Tholos (a circular government building)

View of the Temple of Haephestus from an angle

Parthenon from the front

Acropolis of Athens from below

Temple of Apollo

View from the front