Today's Articles (27/5/2025)
My lists are a reminder of what I’ve bought, not how much I’ve spent.
[see shopping] as a shortcut to feeling excited, confident or satisfied.
‘It’s a Weird Time to Be Rich Right Now’
Studies even show that wealthier people tend to be less compassionate; researchers postulate that it’s because their money insulates them from needing to cultivate and rely on (and care about) their communities.
Should we be eating three meals a day?
So, the science seems to say the healthiest way to eat throughout the day is to have two or three meals, with a long fasting window overnight, to not eat too early or too late in the day, and to consume more calories earlier on in the day.
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
From 2005 to 2017, the amount of electricity going to data centers remained quite flat thanks to increases in efficiency, despite the construction of armies of new data centers to serve the rise of cloud-based online services, from Facebook to Netflix.
In 2017, AI began to change everything. Data centers started getting built with energy-intensive hardware designed for AI, which led them to double their electricity consumption by 2023.
When you ask an AI model to write you a joke or generate a video of a puppy, that query comes with a small but measurable energy toll and an associated amount of emissions spewed into the atmosphere.
AI providers not transparent about energy uses, making it hard to have accurate numbers.
When using Uber, he provides an intersection near his house as his pickup or drop-off point. For food deliveries, he might give a random neighbor’s address and, after the order is accepted, message the driver, “Oops, I typed out the address wrong. Let me know when you’re here, and I’ll run out.”