Andy Masley
@andymasley.bsky.social
When the going gets weird the weird turn pro.
Director of Effective Altruism DC linktr.ee/andymasley
Director of Effective Altruism DC linktr.ee/andymasley
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Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
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Out of curiosity I decided to try and run the numbers on how much Netflix you can watch for the energy cost of a ChatGPT prompt
As far as I can tell it's between 5.1 and 10.2 seconds, depending on which end of the 2019 IEA Netflix energy usage estimate you use
simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/29/...
As far as I can tell it's between 5.1 and 10.2 seconds, depending on which end of the 2019 IEA Netflix energy usage estimate you use
simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/29/...
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Out of curiosity I decided to try and run the numbers on how much Netflix you can watch for the energy cost of a ChatGPT prompt
As far as I can tell it's between 5.1 and 10.2 seconds, depending on which end of the 2019 IEA Netflix energy usage estimate you use
simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/29/...
As far as I can tell it's between 5.1 and 10.2 seconds, depending on which end of the 2019 IEA Netflix energy usage estimate you use
simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/29/...
Reposted by Andy Masley
There's this complete inability for anyone in the press to conceptualize people involved with food as being bad people or even just doing bad things so we have more and more of these ridiculously stupid stories blaming randos instead of someone involved in food.
You absolutely need to change this headline. It's unacceptable and disrespectful to the people harmed by the pollution.
This article itself makes it clear that the water pollution linked to cancer and miscarriages is coming entirely from nitrate pollution from farms.
This article itself makes it clear that the water pollution linked to cancer and miscarriages is coming entirely from nitrate pollution from farms.
November 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
There's this complete inability for anyone in the press to conceptualize people involved with food as being bad people or even just doing bad things so we have more and more of these ridiculously stupid stories blaming randos instead of someone involved in food.
Two great paragraphs to internalize
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Two great paragraphs to internalize
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Giant utility refuses to build out capacity to address growth, instead collects greater fees at lower costs until things come to a head; blames bogeyman. News at 11
big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor
The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.
www.utilitydive.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Giant utility refuses to build out capacity to address growth, instead collects greater fees at lower costs until things come to a head; blames bogeyman. News at 11
Exhibit 9821 in "It is actually very bad to lie to environmentalists because this will always cause worse environmental choices to be made"
here's what's gonna happen w/AI:
• normies are gonna demand fast, free AI BUT also no datacenters.
• the consumer model shifts to home AI rigs.
• electricity usage ⬆️⬆️⬆️. grid still struggles.
• Dems are forced to tax individual consumers or eat the political cost of infinite electric bills, forever.
• normies are gonna demand fast, free AI BUT also no datacenters.
• the consumer model shifts to home AI rigs.
• electricity usage ⬆️⬆️⬆️. grid still struggles.
• Dems are forced to tax individual consumers or eat the political cost of infinite electric bills, forever.
November 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Exhibit 9821 in "It is actually very bad to lie to environmentalists because this will always cause worse environmental choices to be made"
Getting swarmed by communists is honestly kind of really funny. Like oh yeah you guys are still around.
I was never really convinced of the stats about American illiteracy until I read the replies to this post
Some people are drawing an inference that because I'm an EA I'm also a capitalist who believes large private companies should be able to purchase water from utilities, so I'm going to come right out and say that yes to all that.
November 27, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Getting swarmed by communists is honestly kind of really funny. Like oh yeah you guys are still around.
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water use would be more efficient if rightsholders internalized the opportunity costs of their marginal water use. bigcorps, especially those with lucrative use cases, revealing their water valuations would be a helpful step in this direction.
November 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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One day all turkeys will be pardoned
November 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
One day all turkeys will be pardoned
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Sometimes I feel jealous of people who haven’t used LLMs at all. Imagine the first LLM you talk to being like Opus 6 and you get the full impact of progress at once
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Sometimes I feel jealous of people who haven’t used LLMs at all. Imagine the first LLM you talk to being like Opus 6 and you get the full impact of progress at once
Some people are drawing an inference that because I'm an EA I'm also a capitalist who believes large private companies should be able to purchase water from utilities, so I'm going to come right out and say that yes to all that.
November 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Some people are drawing an inference that because I'm an EA I'm also a capitalist who believes large private companies should be able to purchase water from utilities, so I'm going to come right out and say that yes to all that.
This one’s real yeah. Putting it in my bio
He hates farmers, unless they are server farmers
November 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This one’s real yeah. Putting it in my bio
Some people have noticed that I’m involved with effective altruism. I was really trying to keep that hidden!
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Some people have noticed that I’m involved with effective altruism. I was really trying to keep that hidden!
The Straussian undercurrent of all my writing is "Farmers: not always great"
A bipartisan problem is America's fetishistic worshipping of farming and farmers so even when the farms are the clear bad guys here, the editors decided the blame must be placed somewhere else.
You absolutely need to change this headline. It's unacceptable and disrespectful to the people harmed by the pollution.
This article itself makes it clear that the water pollution linked to cancer and miscarriages is coming entirely from nitrate pollution from farms.
This article itself makes it clear that the water pollution linked to cancer and miscarriages is coming entirely from nitrate pollution from farms.
November 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
The Straussian undercurrent of all my writing is "Farmers: not always great"
Just one of those nights www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cce...
My Sources, My Data, and Me
YouTube video by Andy's AI Songs
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Just one of those nights www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cce...
Rolling Stone recently ran a really terrible headline that lets a huge environmental bad guy off the hook for giving people cancer. I'm already ratioing them on Twitter but would appreciate some eyes here as well
You absolutely need to change this headline. It's unacceptable and disrespectful to the people harmed by the pollution.
This article itself makes it clear that the water pollution linked to cancer and miscarriages is coming entirely from nitrate pollution from farms.
This article itself makes it clear that the water pollution linked to cancer and miscarriages is coming entirely from nitrate pollution from farms.
November 25, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Rolling Stone recently ran a really terrible headline that lets a huge environmental bad guy off the hook for giving people cancer. I'm already ratioing them on Twitter but would appreciate some eyes here as well
Crazy who you bump into at the airport
November 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Crazy who you bump into at the airport
If you don't want to go to bat for AI but would like a data center like issue to be driven crazy about, look no further than: grid batteries www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...
November 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
If you don't want to go to bat for AI but would like a data center like issue to be driven crazy about, look no further than: grid batteries www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...
AOC NO NOT THE MIT STUDY
Trump's economy is being held up by a massive AI bubble.
A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments.
We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.
A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments.
We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.
November 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
AOC NO NOT THE MIT STUDY
I think this incident reflects badly on the broader institutions currently covering AI and the environment. I should absolutely not have been the first person to notice this. From the end of the post:
November 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I think this incident reflects badly on the broader institutions currently covering AI and the environment. I should absolutely not have been the first person to notice this. From the end of the post:
The author of Empire of AI got back to me, which I’m very grateful for, but unfortunately her response 100% confirmed that the central claim I call a mistake is wrong, and even showed me how it happened: her source mistyped meters cubed as liters. Kind of a wild discovery to make. Link below
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 AM
The author of Empire of AI got back to me, which I’m very grateful for, but unfortunately her response 100% confirmed that the central claim I call a mistake is wrong, and even showed me how it happened: her source mistyped meters cubed as liters. Kind of a wild discovery to make. Link below
I'm so confused about this
November 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I'm so confused about this
This is the single most massive factual error in a major book I've ever personally noticed on my own, and I think I'm the first person to catch it? Empire of AI asserts that a data center is using 1000x as much water as a city. In reality, it's 22% of the city's water.
November 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
This is the single most massive factual error in a major book I've ever personally noticed on my own, and I think I'm the first person to catch it? Empire of AI asserts that a data center is using 1000x as much water as a city. In reality, it's 22% of the city's water.