Prof @TrentUniversity Cultural Studies + @Trent_TSE. STS/Media/Enviro stuff. Low-Carbon Methods. She/her. I like to think about how people think about carbon.

Peterborough, Ontario
Joined April 2014
In the new issue of the Canadian Journal of Communication, Anne Pasek and Darren Fleet examine the 2019 "energy war room" initiative in #Alberta, and its role in defending the #OilAndGas sector from online critics. Read more: bit.ly/CJC494b @TrentUniversity @SFU
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I love the tires, plastic, hay, and boot pic chosen for my talk on AI. Let me see if I can work that in somehow!
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Merci aux collectif le nuage était sous nos pieds, mon zine Getting Into Fights with Data Centres est maintenance publié en français! Version de lecture en ligne: emmlab.info/Resources_page/L… Version imprimée: emmlab.info/Resources_page/P…
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Watch out francophone data centers!!!
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I think I'm winding down my time on this free website. You can find me on mastodon (@[email protected]) and blue sky @apasek.bsky.social) ✌️
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Anne Pasek retweeted
When you've been told safety is a shared responsibility after being hit by a driver.
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I've donated some riso prints to our lovely local artist-run centre's fundraiser. All this could be yours for 30 small Canadian dollars (plus shipping)! artspaceptbo.ca/shop/p/artis…
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Happy Halloween everyone 🎃
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I'm giving a short online talk in Feb on why so-called AI sucks + why we should fight against its uncritical expansion: trentu.libcal.com/event/3847… (My library asked me to contribute to a 'both sides have points and are very serious' lecture series. I am bringing only pessimism)
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Think it's getting to the point that my main use case for Twitter is checking which wrestlers are on AEW Wen nights. With the news of the bad block policy change, the weighting bias towards paid accounts + fascists, & the (of course) training of AI, I've got to wonder: why post?
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Aw man, it's sad when platforms die, especially this kind of death...
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Remember at conferences when folks would put their handles in the corner of their slides and there'd always be one dude in the corner tweeting the whole thing? I'd have tweetdeck (RIP) open to the conference hashtag so I could follow several panels at once + meet so many people!
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I am having a lovely time working out a set up for my noise music gig
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I was harvesting all my runner beans last evening to beat the frost, and I found a half eaten croissant tangled in the top of the vines. Birds!!!!!
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If you run Windows 10 or 11, you got copilot (shitty AI privacy disaster software) automatically installed with Wen's update. I recommend yeeting it into the sun via O&O ShutUp++, along with various unhelpful ad and bloatware you may have accrued. oo-software.com/en/shutup10
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This is incredible. So many zines!
We've a great batch of zines in this year's DIY Methods, our annual conference-by-mail. Packages should hopefully have arrived to all participants. And now today everyone can enjoy the zines via our digital proceedings! hcommons.org/deposits/item/h… #DIYMethods24
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I'm playing a gig! Normal Human Amount combines Kelly Egan's facility with film projectors + my love of synths, noise, and the mess that is digital/analog circuits. We'll be joined by Garbageface and Horseman, Pass By. Come one, come all! ticketscene.ca/events/49518/
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This semester I've been giving my students extra credit if they submit an 'academic fit check' detailing how they do academic work in whatever way works for them. The results have been cool! Check out my students' sweet candle ambiance, color-coding excellence, + digital comments
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#DIYMethods24 is out online! So many beautiful methods zines, in many inventive formats and directions, are now available to read, cite, and enjoy!
We've a great batch of zines in this year's DIY Methods, our annual conference-by-mail. Packages should hopefully have arrived to all participants. And now today everyone can enjoy the zines via our digital proceedings! hcommons.org/deposits/item/h… #DIYMethods24
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This is the true AI doomerism. Not the stuff about a rogue AI enslaving humanity, but rather using AI as an ideological tool to justify the capitalist nihilism of maximum extraction by claiming its the only solution for planetary collapse.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says energy demand for AI is infinite and we are never going to meet our climate goals anyway, so we may as well bet on building AI to solve the problem
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