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Professor, cinephile, treehugger 🌱🪵🪲🦬

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15/10/2026
This is so so nuts: the @earthshotprize.bsky.social is partnering up with NVIDIA. By my calcs: just 1 yr of NVIDIA's AI climate emissions undo Earthshot's total avoided emissions todate, several times over. No other company getting away with it quite like this one ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...
I think today is my proudest day at NVIDIA so far.

This morning, we announced together with The Earthshot Prize that NVIDIA will be joining that ambitious initiative as a Global Alliance Founding Partner.

NVIDIA has long been working to solve the world's biggest challenges through technology. Today's announcement demonstrates--although not for the first time--that we believe sustainability and climate are included in those challenges.

I've been saying for a while now that I believe AI is the best tool for sustainability the world has ever seen. How tragic would it be if we didn't apply that tool deliberately to benefit humanity through sustainability? It's available and powerful, and we want to get it into the hands of people who will use it for good.

That's the most exciting aspect of this partnership:  NVIDIA will be directly supporting innovators and pioneers in The Earthshot Prize program with educational and computing resources, engineering support, and even donated DGX Spark supercomputers.

The Earthshot Prize is doing amazing work. I couldn't be prouder that NVIDIA will be helping that work scale with AI--and bringing the world closer to the sustainability solutions we may all soon be celebrating.

https://lnkd.in/gpvfJX5QThe Earthshot Prize
teams up with NVIDIA to
bring world-leading
technical expertise and
resources to Earthshot
Finalists
14 2026 - fNvidia's greenhouse gas emissions rising 725 percent since 2020 only for the supply chainNVIDIA's Scope 3 Product Used Emissions estimated to be between four and 21 megatons of CO2 for the year 2025
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Interesting media news share.google/4ntKU79qDjDp...
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Did Ukraine’s drone strikes on Yandex data centers silence Russian bots?
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy says bot activity dropped after his country attacked Russian data centers.
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If I were a billionaire I would start an electric car company to relaunch the Ferves Ranger 🚗
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We should all be wearing these, a new uniform for our times.
Four models wearing colorful, elongated puffy jackets. They must be standing on tall boxes under there, looks cozy otherwise.
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I am so here for this
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026
This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Congratulations! 🎉
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I once encountered a Freudian Slip at English Department Halloween
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Then there’s the incorrect alt text claiming the image shows a kangaroo!
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This looks like a magnificent bear, but the script underneath says it’s a sloth. And what’s that creature below?
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Saw that video this morning 🙁 audio adds to the terribleness
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Lawrence Culver @lawrencecphd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Los Angeles is butted up against nature…We’re inside this huge natural park – way bigger than Central Park – and also much more native. And then you’ve got this man-made sign of it that’s meant to withstand rockslides and landslides and winds.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Snakes, bobcats, mountain lions: the secret animal world beneath the Hollywood sign
An international symbol for the city, the sign is also hallmark of the region’s environmental richness
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 05/10/2026
LAST CHANCE to speak up to protect the #RoadlessRule. The public comment period closes Tuesday, Oct. 6. ICYMI: The Trump administration is aiming to undo this landmark rule and remove protections from nearly 45 million acres of wild, intact, national forests and 70,000 miles of rivers and streams.
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Protect the Roadless Wild
The Trump administration just released its plan to undo the landmark 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule and strip protections from nearly 45 million acres of wild, national forest and 70,000 miles o...
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This looks good 🐯
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Monoculture, now in overdrive
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Me too. What a tragedy.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Apropos of nothing, I get a lot of mileage out of this meme.
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Silent film historian with specialization in early nonfiction dreams of monetizing their object of research..." #SilentCinema #SlowCinema theankler.com/zone-out-tv-...
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Zone-Out TV Is Becoming Big Business - The Ankler
Fireplaces, nature scenes: Samsung, Disney and YouTube find audience and money in shows barely meant to be watched
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026
Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...
A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is. Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just showed Body and Soul in Film History 1 the other week. I am a fan. Sinners definitely came up in our discussion.
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Boosting this post with link to watch The Flower Fairy (which is in the post but here it is again). You know you want to watch this. #flowers #fairies #silentfilm www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfL5...
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The Flower Fairy / La Fee Aux Fleurs (1905)
YouTube video by NFSA Film Australia
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Another marine heat wave "Blob" is shaping up this year. Bad news, sadly not surprised. e360.yale.edu/features/mar...
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A Surge of Marine Heat Waves Threatens to Scramble Ocean Life
Fueled by climate change and a strengthening El Niño, record-setting marine heat waves are gripping oceans worldwide and playing havoc with sea life. Mounting evidence from recent events suggests the ...
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
For the anniversary of Silent Spring, published on this day in 1962. This Peanuts cartoon is from February 1963. #envhist @carsoncenter.bsky.social
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"It’s the definition of climate injustice, and in some ways it’s the latest iteration of the great game of imperialism, of world-making and world-destroying. It’s laying bare all the same structural inequalities." e360.yale.edu/features/jul...
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From Indigenous Loss, a Potent Legal Argument on Climate
In an interview, human rights lawyer Julian Aguon explores how climate change is undermining the cultural traditions of Indigenous peoples. He is citing these injuries in legal actions, including in a...
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is a good interview
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Cool, thanks!
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yay books. This is a good comfort watch. Formulaic doc, but good content. Gets better after the opening VO. youtu.be/oM17mX_C0Cw?...
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The Booksellers | Full Documentary | WATCH FOR FREE
YouTube video by Samuel Goldwyn Films
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is true, I can report from the front lines, “AI slop” is a top 10 dis overheard among my 13 year old kid and his friends, maybe even number 1 right now
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Honestly this is how I feel at the end of a particularly long day, like today
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 23/09/2026
The Trump admin's latest attack on endangered species is a memo saying that as long as you claim you didn’t mean to kill an endangered species, the law can’t and won’t stop you. It’s an absurd and illegal misreading of the Endangered Species Act. The @nytimes.com ’s The Daily podcast breaks it down.
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The Trump Administration Defangs the Endangered Species Act
A new interpretation of the law would mean that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, would be illegal.
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What has escaped containment is not the AI but the narratives around it. More evidence of how storytelling actually does matter, a lot. www.wired.com/story/why-ai...
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Why AI Isn’t Likely to Wipe Out Humanity With Bioweapons
Of all the threats presented by uncontrollable artificial intelligence, scientists say death by plague ranks low.
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ugh
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hito Steryl, In Defense of the Poor Image
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Thanks! ☺️
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Trail of ‘98 (1928), a Klondike gold rush drama, should be more well-known
Color lobby card for The Trail of ‘98
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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
#fungi season has definitely started
An old fallen log with good cover of tightly packed glistening inkcaps. Light brown in colour. One patch in the top right are older, grey, more open and falling about
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Martin L. Johnson @martinlj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ten years in the making, my new book traces how corporations successfully infiltrated the movies in the early 20th Century in spite of scandal and massive audience resistance. Out in December, but you can order it (with a discount!) now. www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...
A picture of the cover of Commercial Cinema: The History of the Advertising Film in the United States and the text "The development of a pervasive but little-known genre from 1910 through the 1940s." You can get a 30 percent discount on the book by using the promo code F26UIP.
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I have been noticing some AI-seeming spots on the LA Times lately, but this is egregious
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Posting into the ether 🕳️
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Where the analysis is sharper but the likes and thrills are few
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
So I return to this flat, algorithmless, text-based platform
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
But those thrilling little spectacles hardly compensate for the grotesquerie of these times
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A very satisfying one yesterday: tangled up screech owl freed from plastic netting, rescuers called it sweet pea
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’m in it for those animal rescue videos the algorithm feeds me
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Sometimes I cheat on Bluesky with Instagram for a few weeks
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
So how about this for a "pause AI" proposal: "pause credulous AI reporting". No more media about "breakthroughs" or "rogue agent swarms" or ... UNLESS and UNTIL that media demands the actual empirical evidence and/or focuses on the motivations of & harms by these companies.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 11/09/2026
everyone stop what they’re doing and watch the classic Log Driver’s Waltz animation right now
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The Log Driver’s Waltz. A Canadian favourite from 1979.
YouTube video by Life in Canada
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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Customs and Border Protection claimed construction at Big Bend National Park in TX was only “survey and design” work. That's a lie. Using satellite images to track the activity found patrol roads and vehicle barriers already being built. Watch video (fascinating): www.nytimes.com/video/us/100.... 🌎
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Video: Satellite Images Contradict Border Agency on Construction in Big Bend
Customs and Border Protection claimed that construction on a border security project in Big Bend National Park in Texas was limited to “survey and design” work. Visual Investigations’ satellite specia...
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