Every question asked of ChatGPT—even those that produce non-answers or trivial facts—uses as much electricity as does one lightbulb shining for 20 minutes. The training process for a single AI model, such as a large language model, can consume thousands of megawatt hours of electricity and emit hundreds of tons of carbon.…
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To market, to market, juicy tomatoes, Home again, home again, don’t forget the potatoes!…
Fire Prevention Week is October 6-12, which coincides with the efforts of the National Fire Protection Association. This year’s theme, “Smoke Alarms: Make Them Work for You!,” underscores the vital role smoke alarms play in day-to-day fire safety.…
Your decision to publish the anti-American, anti-Israeli screed written by Wriley Nelson is appalling. [The Partial Observer by Wriley Nelson, October 3, 2024, “J’accuse: Every American Has Palestinian Blood on Their Hands.”]…
In a fashion similar to Zola’s, Wriley Nelson presented a panorama of troubling facts and realities that have resulted in deadly and seriously excessive injustice toward Palestinians. Tragically, all too many people, seemingly in the interest of being somehow “correct” and “empathic,” choose to overlook and/or deny those injustices, and they condemn those who might want to recognize and respond to them.…
We hear a good deal about bird-window collisions that occur in urban environments, because really, when you can show pictures of hundreds of bird deaths in a day during migration season, it becomes news. We read about it, we see pictures of it and, in response, we work to find solutions to prevent it from happening again.…
The big concern is with the new category, “age,” which includes minors, e.g., children. Passing this amendment could easily open the door to what the New York State legislature has already been trying to do: to allow children to make medical decisions for themselves, without parental knowledge or consent.…
Mr. Nelson may have stood opposed to the birth of Israel had he been alive in the year it was founded, but that is now history and cannot be undone. By continuing to hold this fanatic rejection of historical fact, Mr. Nelson places himself firmly in the company of the rapists and murderers of Hamas who attacked Israeli civilians one year ago.…
I want to thank the paper for publishing this brave piece [The Partial Observer by Wriley Nelson, October 3, 2024, “J’accuse: Every American Has Palestinian Blood on Their Hands.”]…
As a Vietnam veteran who has lived in Cooperstown the past 37 years, I, too, do not need or want to purchase—or pay for though taxes—a banner to hang on a pole with my dated photo to acknowledge my service.…
