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Emma Strubell

@strubell.bsky.social
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associate professor, @ltiatcmu.bsky.social. machine learning: LLMs and climate. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ they/them/dad (2 dogs). pro-AI, anti-capitalist, anti-fascist. Website: strubell.github.io

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Emma Strubell @strubell.bsky.social · 9h
CMU Miami will be built from the ground up as a politically conservative institution, a response to the lack of "viewpoint diversity" (representation of conservative viewpoints) in higher ed that the ("center") right has been complaining about for years.
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Cella @cellllla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Please join us at Carnegie Mellon University and online on October 2nd, 2026 for the Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit, a statewide convening to consider the opportunities, challenges, and governance of AI infrastructure development in Pennsylvania. RSVP here: communityaisummit.org
Flyer for the Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit on Friday October 2, 2026 from 9-5pm at Mellon Institute Auditorium, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. Join residents, community organizations, policymakers, researchers, technologists, energy experts, and advocates from across Pennslyvania for a public convening. Organized by CMU, Data & Society, PA Climate Equity Table, and Center for Coalfield Justice, with support from the Block Center.
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Jacob Morrison @jacobcares.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Most LLM environmental reporting covers only the final pretraining runs. For Olmo 3, we measured every stage across all four variants: 7B and 32B, instruct and reasoning, and found that 82% of the compute went to development, all before the final runs 😱
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 24/07/2025
Canceling transmission lines will raise electricity prices and raise emissions. Canceling transmission lines enhances corporate monopoly power and profit. Canceling transmission lines is climate denial.
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Emma Strubell @strubell.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
A project that would make energy more affordable and reliable for more than 40% of Americans is cancelled, just days before a new EO is released calling for accelerated funding and permitting for data center energy projects (including reducing and removing environmental review wherever possible).
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Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section  1.  Policy and
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/07/2025
If I were in charge of PBS or NPR I would be doing 24-7 programming right now about the end of PBS and NPR
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Platforming this kind of junk in 2025 is itself anti-science
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Patrick Gonzalez @patrickgonzalez.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
As a public service, people will find the original pdf files of all the U.S. National Climate Assessments, 2001-2023, publicly available at: www.patrickgonzalez.net#us_national_...
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
In all fairness, Trump uses IQ in the most historically accurate way possible, as a way to do a racism in service of eugenics.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Another thing this chart shows is that one of these groups is much more in touch with empirical reality than the other. Believing that whites face more discrimination than immigrants or Black people is like being a flat-earther. Propaganda works.
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Websites that use AI to transform photos into nonconsensual explicit imagery have become a lucrative business, and “Silicon Valley’s laissez-faire approach to generative AI” has allowed them to persist. www.wired.com/story/ai-nud...
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AI 'Nudify' Websites Are Raking in Millions of Dollars
Millions of people are accessing harmful AI “nudify” websites. New analysis says the sites are making millions and rely on tech from US companies.
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
if you took a dementia test and thought it was an IQ test you failed both the dementia test and the IQ test
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WESA @wesa.fm · 14/07/2025
Students and community members at Carnegie Mellon University are pushing back against an AI and energy summit planned at CMU on July 15. Leaders in AI and related fields and President Donald Trump are expected to attend the invitation-only event, convened by Pennsylvania Senator Dave McCormick.
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CMU community pushes back on AI summit with paint, petitions, and protests
Students and community members at Carnegie Mellon University are pushing back against the National AI and Energy Summit planned at CMU on July 15.
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Emma Strubell @strubell.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
I did an interview w/ Pittsburgh's NPR station to share some of my views on the topic of the McCormick/Trump AI & Energy summit at CMU tomorrow. Despite being hosted at the university, there will not be opportunities for our university experts to contribute viewpoints at the event.
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
In a policy memo published by @scientistsorg.bsky.social‬, D&S’s @tamigraph.bsky.social‬, and Emma Strubell, recommend that approaches to measuring AI’s environmental impacts consider the use cases that are driving energy consumption, and how data centers impact communities. fas.org/publication/...
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Reporting AI’s Impacts to Build Public Trust and Advance AI
As AI becomes more capable and integrated throughout the United States economy, its growing demand for energy is driving higher environmental costs.
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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 20/06/2025
HEY NYC TRANS PEOPLE: Brooklyn Brewery is taking the $25k it would have spent on Pride ads and giving $1k each to 25 NYC trans folk. You can nominate yourself here: brooklynbrewery.com/brooklynbrew...
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BROOKLYN BREWERY SUPPORTS | Brooklyn Brewery
Welcome to Brooklyn Brewery Supports. Along with Angelica Christina from The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative, we will be choosing twenty-five applications to receive $1,000 in funds each and give ...
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LM4Sci @ COLM2025 @lm4sci.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
🚨 Call for Papers: LM4Sci @COLM_conf 2025 🚨 Excited to announce the Large Language Modeling for Scientific Discovery (LM4Sci) workshop at COLM 2025 in Montreal, Canada! Submission Deadline: June 23 Notification: July 24 Workshop: October 10, 2025
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
NEW ESSAY: rather than reading the legalese SCOTUS used to justify Skrmetti, learn about how conspiracy theorists hijacked mainstream discourse on gender-affirming care: on Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/what-covid... & Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/what-covid-l...
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What Covid “Lab Leak” and “Rushing Kids into Transition” Have in Common
and more general thoughts about conspiracy theories and negativity bias
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José Vargas-Muñiz @mycorican.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Protect transgender scientist! 🏳️‍⚧️
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Protect transgender scientists
Transgender and gender nonconforming (TGnC) people are a primary target of the Trump administration. Multiple executive orders seek to erase TGnC protections; mandate denial of gender identity; and ba...
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Joanna Wyld @joannawyld.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
This looks like the cover of their third album
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 19/06/2025
there's an interesting detail in this, which is that *technically* he did not have his visa cancelled for his speech, they used his speech as a pretext to single him out for search and concoct allegations that he'd lied about illegal drug use, and that became the pretext for the deportation.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
TW: harm to children. My research into the effects of the UK government puberty-blocker ban has finally been published after peer-review. It details the severe harm being caused to young trans people & children by the Starmer government's puberty-blocker ban. Unlike Cass it is peer reviewed...
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Harming children: the effects of the UK puberty blocker ban
This paper presents an analysis of data from trans children and young people and their parents following the imposition of a UK-wide ban on puberty blockers for this group. The consequences of this...
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 18/06/2025
Utilizing new streamlined permitting process, California approves world’s largest solar-plus-storage project www.renewableenergyworld.com/energy-stora... Giant 1.15 GW / 4.6 GWh battery + 1.15 GW solar project in Fresno County is first permitted under California expedited process. #Upshift 🔌💡
The California Energy Commission (CEC) has approved the Darden Clean Energy Project (DCEP), the first to be permitted under the state’s Opt-In Certification program. Once constructed, the DCEP will boast the world’s biggest battery energy storage system (BESS), which, by default, makes it the largest solar-plus-storage project on the planet. Proposed by IP Darden I, LLC, a subsidiary of Intersect Power, the project will be built on 9,500 acres of land in western Fresno County that is no longer suitable for agricultural production.

Authorized under Assembly Bill 205, California’s Opt-In Certification program provides a consolidated state permitting option for eligible clean energy undertakings, aiming to streamline the process for bringing large power projects online. Under statute, the environmental review for a project must be completed within 270 days from the point the project application is deemed complete, unless significant project changes arise.Details on the Darden Clean Energy Project (DCEP):

The DCEP includes a 1,150 megawatt (MW) solar facility comprised of approximately 3.1 million panels alongside up to 1,150 MW/4,600 megawatt-hours (MWh) of battery storage, enough to power 850,000 homes for four hours.

Projects seeking approval through the Opt-In Certification program are required to provide community and economic benefits. The DCEP includes:

$2 million in community investments over the next decade starting with a $320,000 commitment to Centro La Familia Advocacy Services, a nonprofit supporting crime victims, family wellness, and civic engagement in rural communities.
More than 2,000 prevailing-wage construction jobs to support the local workforce throughout the construction period, which will last from 1.5 to 3 years.
An estimated $169 million in economic benefits to the local area over the project’s lifetime, estimated at 35 years.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 12/06/2025
🎉 Big update! The #InternetArchive has launched a new version of GifCities, our search engine for vintage GeoCities GIFs. Search better. Blink more! Check it out ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/k... 🧵
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
As usual with these dust-ups she is retreating to the ‘compromise’ position that sporting bodies should make standards about transition. The problem is that THIS HAS ALREADY HAPPENED. Standards have been in place for years. Lia Thomas met them! The bigots don’t care.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
A message from Carl Sagan from 1995—some of his last prophetic words.
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
i know it's just advertisement but it still pisses me off when tech CEOs claim AGI will solve humanity's problems with its vast intelligence. for a lot of problems we already know the solutions, what prevents them being solved is not a lack of intelligence, but that the solutions are unprofitable
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I get tired of people who take themselves too seriously. We are all little dumb dumbs doing the best we can, just get a grip
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
We made this episode public so everyone could hear us live-react to the White House's berserk conspiracy website www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-tru...
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 09/06/2025
Why is the AI company Nvidia pushing for a 10-year ban that'd stop states from putting in safeguards around AI? Because they want to shape the rules so they can make more money. This is just one more example of Nvidia putting its profits over consumers and national security.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/06/2025
Immigrants who are forced toward the United States by economic and political forces governed by colonialism and imperialism live their entire lives full of heartache about what they left behind and what they contended with when they got here
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Jane @jane.meangirls.online · 09/06/2025
this is such a good representation of American Christianity
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onion person @junlper.beer · 08/06/2025
it really doesn’t matter if someone is in america illegally or not. who cares, grow up
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
We don’t need to guess what tariffs will do. We've seen this movie. Bush tried steel tariffs in 2002. Trump did it again in 2018. Both times, same plot: a handful of steel jobs saved, tens of thousands of downstream jobs destroyed.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Yes every conservative social media site becomes a tropical rainforest of school shooters and Ponzi schemes but did you know that there is a left-wing social media site where people are rude to the nation’s center-right political pundits
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
ICE is a much greater threat to this country than illegal immigrants. The current administration ia by far the greatest threat this country faces. The problem is not st our borders. It is in the White House.
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NEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Staff who are being terminated from the National Endowment for the Humanities this coming week received their last full paycheck this weekend. A reminder that appropriations for full staff salaries were made through September 30, 2025. Terminating us now was never necessary, just cruel. #NEH
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Katy's Shit Cartoons @cartoons.katymontgomerie.com · 07/06/2025
Next time transphobes call trans healthcare "experimental" you can show them this
Hysterectomy for trans men 1917
 Vaginoplasty for trans women 1923
 HRT for cis women 1935
 Chemotherapy 1946
 HRT for trans people 1949
 Phalloplasty for trans men 1951
 Birth control pill 1957
 Hip replacement  1962
 IUD 1964
 Heart transplant 1967
 MMR vaccine 1971
 Puberty blockers for cis kids 1980
 Hepatitis A vaccine 1992
 Puberty blockers for trans kids 1994
 HPV vaccine 2006
 Uterus transplant 2011
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Mónica C. Camacho @mc2x.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Mexico has only one gun store in the entire country. Almost all criminal guns come from a handful of dealers in the 4 US border states, and the US gov fights tooth and nail for Americans to keep selling guns to cartels and buying their drugs, but somehow we’re the criminals
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Emma Strubell @strubell.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Division by weight/strength/size is the obvious answer here. We already do this in dog sports where sex of the competitors is not tied up in weird gender norms. Are male border collies larger on average than female? Yes. Does that matter when considering an individual competitor? No.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 07/06/2025
Okay listen... i am not at all angry when i say this because a lot of people who say this and mean well but are really clueless because the media narrative on this is so disconnected with reality. A trans only category would not work in any sport, anywhere. There are not enough trans athletes.
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Emma Strubell @strubell.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Hallmark of an AI-written paper review
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