This kinopio space is serving extremely well as a personal page for me now. Today I was able to finish this little project I've been thinking about doing for a while and craft my little personal online space, I plan to keep it updated: https://kinopio.club/ana-luisa-figueiredo-personal-page-zo6_3wXV6ou5aKbiv_2j0 🧄
Didn't have time to post yesterday, but this week's newsletter is out 😉 🥒 I'm talking a little bit about my short 2-day trip to Amsterdam. https://buttondown.email/cucumbersalad/archive/weekly-cucumber-salad-6/
limits 22 papers
Calculating the Carbon Footprint of Streaming Media: Beyond the Myth of Efficiency findings
* 90% of the energy used for a device is spent in producing it i.e. before you touch it
* 1 hour netflix is equiv. to burning 200g coal
* or driving ~2km (1.4-1.8)
* 0.8kWh in energy use per (video) stream seems to be a useful metric to measure against
* energy use for a laptop is roughly 30x less demanding than a desktop pc?! incl. manufacturing energy
Imagine if YouTube was shut down.
It would be a literal tragedy for the human race. Billions of hours worth of creativity would disappear in an instant.
"That would never happen!" some believe.
But it already has.
Remember Google+? All of it's gone forever.
Or remember all that media stored on MySpace? It's vanished.
We must stop depending on Big Tech to archive our data. Their mandate is to profit off our data, not preserve it.
Didn’t miss that energy of big cities where the cars are competing aggressively against pedestrians to see who gets to the crossing line first lol car drivers here are sooooooo disrespectful
This week's newsletter is out! 🥒 I didn't have a lot of time this week so I've done some double feature recommendations, including Moonlight and 1953 short documentary Statues Also Die: https://buttondown.email/cucumbersalad/archive/weekly-cucumber-salad-5/
The 4th edition of my Cucumber Salad Weekly 🥒 newsletter is out! On this edition I'm discussing the 1962 animation Bathhouse, adapted from a play by Vladmir Mayakovsky. Here's the link: https://buttondown.email/cucumbersalad/archive/weekly-cucumber-salad-4/
Had a dream about having a tamagotchi last night. I was very happy, excited about naming it… the interface was super cute… it pooped a lot lol and I was looking forward to wearing it as necklace because of “turning red” lol shame
“To us, it looks like one big pot of soup out there,” said Karen Osborn, a zoologist and curator of marine worms and crustaceans at the museum. “You can put a sensor down in the water and pick up millimeter-thick layers in the ocean, and there are animals that are keyed in on that layer,”? Nice article on zooplankton, inspiring little creatures http://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2022/02/24/an-ode-to-zooplankton-the-hidden-heroes-of-the-sea/ . Also some very Y2K specimens…
trying to make the best out of my life whilst trapped inside a graphic designer's body