Buckle up, it’s time to read KSR’s fanfic about world governments actually doing something for the common good. I like Stan but I don’t expect to love this. Should have some compelling characters at least.
@mycorrhiza I need to dig through my notifications because someone, a while back, was telling me to look out for some stuff. Was it you @skyfaller? Or maybe @adamgreenfield? Iirc you folks came away from the book with the opinion I expect to have. But it’s the next book on the stack on my nightstand, and duty calls.
"...for me, “Man or Bear” is not hypothetical. I’m literally a woman who left mankind behind to live in nature with bears. This is my actual life." https://bikepacking.com/plog/man-or-bear-debate/
> Making sure your electricity comes from wind, solar or nuclear power is a logical first step. Google itself, for example, says it has been running entirely on green electricity since 2015.
Story misses a crucial point:
👉 The goal isn't just to add green power. The goal is to emit less CO2!
New green capacity needs to replace old dirty stuff. Not be gobbled up by new data centers for AI.
@rysiek another thing to consider is that when Google (etc) builds a new data center, they go in and buy up all of the region’s renewable energy so that they can claim to be using renewable energy. All of the homes and industries that were already in that region are stuck using fossils instead of any new green power. This is one way that the percent of renewable energy can increase without a commensurate decrease in the total amount of fossils burned.
@rysiek I’m sorry about that! I scrolled through the thread after I replied (which was sloppy), and then I just figured “at least we’re on the same page” (which was lazy).
@yaxu on this broadcast you told a story about somebody running a tutorial and how they had great advice about following instructions and getting help from your neighbor? I wish I remembered the wording because I loved that so much.
@Binder those who don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do remember history are doomed to repeat it too. The first time they’ll be smug about it, but that will quickly give way to outrage, then horror, and finally just resigned acceptance.
Just a reminder that there's not a binary "we're doomed"/"we're not doomed." Every single thing you and I do to use less energy makes the future less shitty. Don't give up hope.
Don't write back to me with all the reasons to give up on the future. If you give up on making the future better, you are part of the problem.
Tell me something you're doing right now to make the future better, even if it's something small!
I saw a clip from fox I can't forget. It was shocking:
“We are being conquered,” Stephen Miller said a few days ago “This is a complete resettlement of America ... now we have millions of people coming in from different cultures and different ways of living and different belief systems ... a generation from now, people will not know the country that they are living in."
This kind of rhetoric hardly even makes waves it has become so common. This makes me extraordinarily uncomfortable. 1/
@futurebird@amazing_brush I think about this a lot. Any time my mind drifts toward punishment, I bring myself back to this thought: simply existing in my utopia — where all people are afforded lives of dignity, and nobody by virtue of status can expect to inflict their whims on others without reprisal — would be Hell on Earth for any member of the ruling class.
I still have a bona fide Linksys WRT54GL that I’m not using for anything. I thought it would be cool to set up a solar-powered captive portal ebook library to share public domain reading with my neighbors...
...but the secret anarchist agenda would be to host a forum that I could stand up in order to help my block coordinate supplies and such in case of an emergency.
Is there a turnkey solution for this usecase? If anyone has done this they're probably on Fedi, right?
open source is a methodology to me, like peer review only shittier because software development is a profoundly disorganized, immature discipline. it's better than the alternative of never showing or sharing your work, but it's not a panacea. it's just a tool.
@garbados First one: I like FOSS kinda like how I like unions. I want to abolish both copyright and the worker/owner dichotomy, and eventually the very notions of “ownership” built into our society. FOSS/unions are cool because they can potentially be tools to dismantle those systems of hierarchy, but ideally we eventually won’t need a GPL or an IWW.
Second one: it’s pretty fucked that, at the present, most jobs that “pay you to write open source” are for terrible companies, building bloated frameworks and infrastructure with the primary goal of extending surveillance capitalism. I’ve seen FOSS Bros dogpile solo indie devs who don’t want to open source their mobile apps and never call out developers at those FAANG companies, and those are some backwards priorities.