Tonight, I’m going to talk about the environment that we find drones in. We are going see plenty of drones this evening, in James Bridle’s presentation, so my job is to begin with the natural history piece, and place drones in the wider context of their ecology. So to start, I want to refer to the title of the symposium. Because when you say look up in the air at the sky, I immediately see this:
Today Facebook launched two public dashboards that report continuous, near-real-time data for key efficiency metrics – specifically, PUE and WUE – for our data centers in Prineville, OR and Forest City, NC. These dashboards include both a granular look at the past 24 hours of data and a historical view of the past year’s values. In the historical view, trends within each data set and correlations between different metrics become visible. Once our data center in Luleå, Sweden, comes online, we’ll begin publishing for that site as well.
Full Article on the opencompute blog
Prineville, OR Dashboard
Forest City, NC Dashboard
”..we suspect the wearable technology market will rise in fragments: An iWatch on your wrist, Google Glasses on your face, a Bluetooth bud in your ear, a throat mic on your neck.” (via core77)
graph from google ngrams
War in Heaven (Griffith, 1988) - OOP :: See notes on the chapter “Elementals”.
Are you fucking kidding me?
“refers to a policy of cutting resource use and consumption via a reduction in carbon dioxide equivalent emissions and resources provided/available. asperity policies are often used by governments to try to reduce the emissions of a defined population, system or activity.”
(I re-appropriated a word and coin a phrase) - from an as yet unpublished piece/post on the dangers of eco-fascism
US Army Colonel Issues Warning About Remorseless “Killer Robots” (.mil link to PDF)
