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Suswati Basu (巴苏) 
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What does it take to belong in a society that doesn’t want you? This is one of the hardest essays I’ve ever written, in the wake of yet more violence on this small island.
https://open.substack.com/pub/suswatibasu/p/persona-non-grata?r=5rxnp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
#essays #writing #diversity #immigration #Belfast #uk_politics
It hurt because it mattered. And knowing how it ended, I would still choose to have lived it.
“The promise that ‘AI will save the planet’ is a paradox when the AI [data center] itself requires boiling oceans to operate.”
The Hidden Environmental Toll of Data Centers - I spoke to a bunch of experts who shared their concerns
https://www.techopedia.com/environmental-toll-ai-data-centers
So, I've read 200 books this year so far, and some of my 5 star reads include:
I recently watched Backrooms and was inspired by its eerie concept of endless, uncanny spaces. This poem is my interpretation of that atmosphere
The state of Florida has sued OpenAI, alleging that its marketing and its chatbot's persona lead users to place more trust in it than is warranted, while its bias toward agreeing with the user has led it to encourage dangerous or illegal behaviour that should have been discouraged.
#Fotomontag one of the best kept secrets in my opinion. This is Bohinj Valley and Vintgar Gorge in Slovenia.
Lake Bohinj lies in the heart of the Triglav National Park, one of the oldest national parks in Europe, and is the largest Slovenian natural lake. Whilst the 1.6km Vintgar Gorge is housed in the same area. #Slovenia
This is probably relevant for every platform, but I can’t be the only one dying a death trying to keep up with social media...
Well, it wouldn’t be Halloween if we didn’t have something related to the season. But I’ve been thinking about the idea of witches for a while and what women have endured for centuries when accused.
This is for all marginalised communities that have been hurt by hate.
CW: emotional manipulation, extremist communities, trauma.
I came across my old journals from more than ten years ago, and they read like some kind of Shakespearean tragedy. But it got me thinking about alternate realities.
I haven’t written in a while, but this was written in memory of a friend who recently passed.
Following on from my previous post, this is one of the side effects...
“To be sick is to suffer in the hands of the living.”
— Emily Dickinson
Inspired by Van Gogh’s Irises, painted during his time at Saint-Rémy. The poem reflects on the body as another kind of study.
CW: self-harm, mental health.
Inspired by the strength of Virginia Giuffre’s memoir, Nobody’s Girl. There's a content warning with this as a result.
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@ralf@r2.do as a journalist for national news, I would love this! We're desperate to stop misinformation.
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@securopean@infosec.exchange ah wonderful! Isn't the water colour just spectacular and so pristine!
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@Mr_Briney@universeodon.com I wish! There's just not enough platforms like this unfortunately that happens to have the post function.
A special poem for International Women's Day.
A short poem in response to our current climate, with a subtle nod to a classic dystopian novel. This has a content warning related to war and state violence.
I wrote this poem for a magazine that had the theme of ‘devour’ this month. I think I was inspired reading Hekate.
#poetry #IWD #motherhood #MothersDay
https://open.substack.com/pub/suswatibasu/p/erasure?r=5rxnp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
I need your help! I’ve had major writer’s block for a while, and I need your opinion on this. I have to read it at an open mic this weekend, and the theme is the 90s. I wrote this in 10 minutes.
I'm working on some tech news every week on the side.
Elon Musk's case against Sam Altman and OpenAI was rejected on procedural grounds by a federal jury that found he'd waited too long to file. But the world's richest man doesn't appear to be done fighting quite yet.
https://www.techopedia.com/musk-loses-openai-battle-ipo-github-hack-google-ai-search
As I watch more riots unfold across the UK, I have been thinking a lot about identity.
If medication alleviates distress but also mutes emotional access, what happens to the creative process that depends on that access?
This poem examines the difference between shared origin and shared care.
Content Warning: abusive family dynamics
If AIs are trained on content produced by themselves (or other AIs), they can eventually "collapse," losing the ability to identify edge cases, reinforcing their own errors, and finally spouting gibberish. I spoke to some experts to see if LLMs are actually degrading.
#TechNews #Technology #Tech #AI
https://www.techopedia.com/ai-model-collapse-theory-reality
Latest tech roundup this week focuses on Microsoft's creepy new AI personal agent and Instagram's hack.
https://www.techopedia.com/microsoft-scout-instagram-data-hack-suno-valuation-anthropic-ipo
“It supplies the content, it supplies the certainty, and it repeats both. That is almost the exact opposite of how a trained therapist works.”
I spoke to a handful of mental health experts to understand the idea behind "AI psychosis".
My latest for Techopedia
"Like moths to an artificial intelligence flame, researchers, analysts, infrastructure nerds, and anyone fascinated by the increasingly absurd economics of the generative AI arms race came flying in. Because while Silicon Valley spent the past few years telling the public the future was about algorithms, it turns out the real battle may simply be over who can hoard the most chips before everyone else does."
#ai #Technology #tech #anthropic
https://www.techopedia.com/anthropics-ai-compute-elon-musk-gpu-spacex-xai
It's been a while since I wrote something rather tongue-in-cheek…
"The highest form of belonging is invisibility." Inspired by conversations with people who spoke to me as though I were not a person of colour.
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@Mr_Briney@universeodon.com technically Mastodon is federated! But you can't do the type of writing that you can on Substack because it doesn't have the post / newsletter feature here.
Another short poem to untangle something in my head. Apologies, as always, for the lack of filter.