Matt Parker

You and whose army? bbc.com/news/world-us-…

I know this is likely to be a primitive take on the energy crisis we are facing. But more data definitely doesn't mean less energy. More electric cars doesn't mean less energy. More iPhones don't mean less energy. It's a broken and false narrative.

Trying to meet this half way, which is the current ambition, is a poisoned well. The more end user products require charging, the deeper you have to dig to offer that remote power source.

A New Surge in Power Use Is Threatening U.S. Climate Goals nytimes.com/interactive/20… Main headline in New York Times app today.

Personally I'm really looking forward to the first Thom Yorke AI voice generated album. I'm hoping it's metal.

My latest for @Nature: AI's environmental costs are soaring. The new energy-hungry models for video, text, and image could create an energy crisis - and impact drinking water reserves. We urgently need action from industry, researchers, and legislators. nature.com/articles/d4158…

@hanhopk Oooo. I have to wait until I hear back on a funding application but I would love to do this.

@sunilchandy This is great to see. Congratulations my friend.

It is done.

@SureAsMel Huge sympathy to a fellow sufferer of @AirbnbHelp right now. They refunded my initial payment after I moved in on a long term let without telling me or explaining why and threatened that if I didn't pay again they would cancel the entire reservation. My bank rejected the refund!

The GOP and its allies are attempting to suppress freedom to teach, conduct research, learn, and engage in political dissent at universities and colleges across the US. thenation.com/article/societ…

@BonnaconsOfDoom Can't wait to find out Bob Holness' side-project

Avant-Calendar #4. Michael Barrymore - Echo Stacks (arduino controlled shipping containers). Margate NOW 2019.

Avant-Calendar #1 - Matthew Kelly, Dronelord sessions, Norfolk 2012.

In the Field 2 | Call for Proposals now open Dates: 5 and 6 Jul 2024 Deadline for proposals:  6 Feb 2024 After over 10 years, In the Field returns - bringing together the latest research and artistic explorations in the practice of field recording. tinyurl.com/bdz36vm3

Call to sound studies and ethnomusicologists. Are Singing Bowls several thousand years old traditional instruments or food bowls that Americans picked up in the 70s whilst backpacking and took home?

@citiesandmemory did you get any of the vortex suction of air kind of sounds that I've heard? I don't have any recordings of my own of it

Recording one of the most incredible sounds (and sights!) in nature this week - tens of thousands of mumurating starlings 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛ Can't wait to share the recordings with you all!