iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Oh, Alexis @ohalexis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Crawling out of internet hiatus (tis great, sad to be back online) to share this very cool looking role. No affiliation!

010 0

Oh, Alexis @ohalexis.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

All it's missing is the RSVP button and a link to pitch in for their honeymoon

000 0

Oh, Alexis @ohalexis.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

But have you seen their announcement page with TWO quotes from Ive and Altman each? openai.com/sam-and-jony/

openai.com

Sam and Jony introduce io

Building a family of AI products for everyone.

100 0

Reposted by Oh, Alexis

Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 16/05/2025

Just a reminder that if you follow @aimod.social you can see which accounts are using AI, so you can do whatever you want with that information (and also tag accounts yourself). It allows you to customize and toggle what you want to be notified about which takes the form of a banner (see image 2).

An example of the tag in use, for your typical occupy democrats type. below the bio you see the label "User - Occasional AI Imagery"

10392232 0

Oh, Alexis @ohalexis.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Great piece! Your prototype makes me wonder if chat is a regression. Visual programming is so powerful in and of itself. It's as through scratch got it right all those years back. How has a chat based prompting improved your workflow?

000 0

Oh, Alexis @ohalexis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Brain: pizza chips dino shaped nuggies 3 magnum minis 2 seconds later Heart: I feel empty 2 mins later Tummy: grr

010 0

Oh, Alexis @ohalexis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES this is a nice resort

000 0

Oh, Alexis @ohalexis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

It is entirely possible to eat all 3 at the same time. I can't tell you how i know this

010 0

Oh, Alexis @ohalexis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Why eat one magnum when you can eat 3 magnum minis

250 0

Oh, Alexis @ohalexis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Figma sites is just a sack of divs

010 0

Oh, Alexis @ohalexis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

We are all cubes in the pattern

010 0

Oh, Alexis @ohalexis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The wheel of cheese weaves as the wheel of cheese wheels

110 0

Oh, Alexis @ohalexis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The Forsaken, very old cheese

110 0

Oh, Alexis @ohalexis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Pattern aged parmesan,woven with water from the two rivers

120 0

Oh, Alexis @ohalexis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Ca'arcan Cheddar Wheel, of the rind but not raised by the rind

210 0

Reposted by Oh, Alexis

kepano @stephango.com · 28/03/2025

technology always finds the next reproducible thing art always finds the next irreproducible thing

314118 0

Oh, Alexis @ohalexis.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

but legends are old and most of the time dead

010 0

Reposted by Oh, Alexis

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/05/2025

Another addition to the 'generative AI energy use is small when you compare it to something bigger so what's the problem' series, this most recently from Hannah Ritchie's substack. This reply from @sashamtl.bsky.social is informative archive.ph/wip/lNoKX www.linkedin.com/posts/sashal...

Electricity use in the United States is about three times higher than in the UK, so ChatGPT prompts are an even smaller piece of the pie. Ten searches per day would come to 0.09% of per capita electricity generation, while 100 searches would be 0.9%.

Unless you’re an extreme power user, asking AI questions every day is still a rounding error on your total electricity footprint.

View Dr. Sasha Luccioni’s graphic link
Dr. Sasha LuccioniDr. Sasha Luccioni
• 1stVerified • 1st
AI & Climate Lead @ Hugging Face, AI & Social Justice Chair (Abeona/ENS/OBVIA), Keynote Speaker, Featured on TIME AI 100 and BBC 100 Women (2024).AI & Climate Lead @ Hugging Face, AI & Social Justice Chair (Abeona/ENS/OBVIA), Keynote Speaker, Featured on TIME AI 100 and BBC 100 Women (2024).
3h • 3 hours ago • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn

The "3 Wh per ChatGPT query" estimate is back and haunting my social media feeds! 🧟‍♀️

First of all -- that number is a back of the envelope calculation 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘃𝗶𝗯𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘀𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸. We don't know much about the model underpinning ChatGPT, how big it is, what hardware it's running on, nor how much energy it's using. 💡

Second -- even if it is true, or close to being true, the 𝗰𝘂𝗺𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗺𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗱𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲. We are switching out technologies that worked well for decades to new, shiny ones that use orders of magnitude more energy, and that comes with a cost. It's not just a matter of asking ChatGPT a question or 2, but also using genAI for searching the web, drafting emails, and generating images and video.🔌

So please don't listen to people who are loudly proclaiming that this "isn't an issue". We don't know the answer to that question -- and actually, there is no single answer to that question, since every gram of CO2 and Wh of energy matters in the fight against climate change. 🌎

What we need is:
- More 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 about the energy and GHG emissions of all in production AI models, right now. 🔎
- More 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 and legislation to incentivize tech companies to choose more efficient models and truly renewable energy sources 🌱
- More 𝗯𝘂𝘆-𝗶𝗻 from the AI community (as opposed to this truly c…

116819 0

Reposted by Oh, Alexis

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

"Tech is neutral" is really just the "guns don't kill people, people kill people" argument reused. Sure, guns don't have agency. But they have what's called affordance - they are designed to make killing as easy as possible, which makes murder a viable* solution for a greater range of problems.

643094 0

Reposted by Oh, Alexis

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I keep catching strays from "technology is neutral" people, so let's set things straight. 1) Technology is not neutral, especially the subset of technology called "algorithms" 2) The form-factor that makes a technology into a tool is not neutral 3) How tools are productized is not neutral [rant]

453180713 0

Reposted by Oh, Alexis

Una Kravets @una.im · 06/05/2025

The future of web development is swinging back to basics. CSS and HTML are the most exciting things in web development right now. And don't worry about getting left behind because these features are here to stay. We're just getting started 🥳 #usetheplatform

515218 0

Oh, Alexis @ohalexis.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

It's pronounced boo-glay like beret but sharper

010 0

Reposted by Oh, Alexis

amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 06/05/2025

i actually think it's disgusting that slack automatically changes :) to 🙂. they do NOT communicate the same meaning! you're embarrassing me!!

151309117 0

Oh, Alexis @ohalexis.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Who are you and why are you on my feed

130 0

Reposted by Oh, Alexis

onion person @junlper.beer · 05/05/2025

leftists: if jesus was alive today he’d be a socialist jesus alive today:

1011902104 0

Reposted by Oh, Alexis

Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Love how the economy is becoming a Russian nesting doll of tech companies built to solve the problems created by other tech companies www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...

19680601547 0

Oh, Alexis @ohalexis.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Crazy how i can "change" the intention of a sentence with "airquotes"™️

000 0

Reposted by Oh, Alexis

John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Does this tune bring back a flood of memories? End of an era as the #Skype shutdown nears.

37424 0

Oh, Alexis @ohalexis.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I dream of a legacy like yours

000 0

Oh, Alexis @ohalexis.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

If you told me bk projected their logo on the moon I honestly wouldn't be surprised

010 0

Oh, Alexis @ohalexis.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Saw a meme after my own heart and had to find the source. It's by Van Applegate @vanapplegate.bsky.social unless there are multiple Van Applegates in which case hello and I'm sorry

130 0

Oh, Alexis @ohalexis.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Great siege weapon of choice! Wrecks empires then packs up like a little carry on.

020 0

Reposted by Oh, Alexis

Ryan Rumsey @ryanrumsey.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

“Another article about the death of design does not help us. In order to push back and do something brave, you have to get energy coming back. And that’s through joy, and through laughter, and through a little bit of cheekiness.” www.designweek.co.uk/ryan-rumsey-...

designweek.co.uk

Ryan Rumsey archives 100 years of “design is dead” warnings

Last month, Fast Company ran an article titled, “Is design dead? Design leaders wrestle with the question.” A lot of designers rushed to pile into the debate across social media…

032 0

Reposted by Oh, Alexis

Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This is so spot on. As a climate scientist and public intellectual, I see or experience these often

16553521416 0

Reposted by Oh, Alexis

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/12/2024

This is such a brilliant example of how "cheap thing" does not always = 'fast transition' Battery packs themselves are swelling in design size - resulting in excessively expensive EVs (because car companies make more $$ per unit by severely oversizing products).

On the vehicles themselves, battery packs keep getting bigger, which makes achieving price parity harder. Average EV battery pack sizes globally are rising at around 10% per year and some automotive segments will require battery prices well below $100/kWh to reach price parity. Full-sized pickup trucks in the US, for example, have very large battery packs, which pushes out the point where they’re fully price competitive. Even at today’s low prices, the battery pack alone on a top-spec Chevy Silverado electric pickup costs around $20,000 based on BNEF estimates.

There’s an interesting parallel here with internal combustion vehicles. From 1985 to 2005, the average fuel economy of passenger vehicles in the US was flat, despite technical improvements in engine efficiency over this period. Much of the efficiency improvements were offset by a switch to larger, more powerful models. A similar trend is happening now for EVs, with range and power expectations rising.

55512 0

Oh, Alexis @ohalexis.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I like the idea of corporate cartography. Or any cartography really. I like maps. Hi Lou 👋

010 0

Oh, Alexis @ohalexis.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Welcome! It's cosy here with plenty of corners to lurk 🦎

010 0

Oh, Alexis @ohalexis.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

But app engagement will go up so well deserved all around *cries*

000 0

Oh, Alexis @ohalexis.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

All to say that the world isn't black and white, context matters and critical thinking goes a long way! I like to think of this from a socioeconomic POV in addition to disability too. If you think of more unexpected pairings please share!!

010 0

Oh, Alexis @ohalexis.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Congrats! Ireland is lovely and soda bread is magnificent.

010 0

Oh, Alexis @ohalexis.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Nice! I'm seeing the feed with AXSchat tagged. Would be nice to have a system to always reply to the thread of a question so people can trace the reply back to its source. (Speaking on behalf of me who forgot to label which answer is for what Q)

110 0