I get the critique of the left re: #labour in #Britian.
The obvious danger is that an unpopular government, made complacent by its grossly disproportionate majority, systematically imposes an agenda that the majority don’t want, and which will make most people worse off. newleftreview.org/sidecar/p…
Yet this is a sort of win (incl. strategic lessons). Think “The Shock of Victory” srslywrong.com/podcast/3…
“Coal plants are being reinvigorated because of the AI boom. This should be alarming to anyone who cares about the environment.
And workers. Life. This is obvious when checking the financial markets, and you feel #AI here in SEA and #Vietnam, with new #coal #energy records, and #airpollution records, amid an alleged chip rush and new factories.
Discussed extensively by This Machine Kills.
Liminal Excavations
A zine that explores alternative visions, ideas and critiques on the topic of #sustainability and #ICT
We’re proud to be of this project. Our 6 pages discuss the Good Data Centre w/ interview material. Graphic novel-style.
#Putin is next door. Spicy for many reasons.
Russia has a significant stake in Vietnam’s lucrative oil and gas sector. Vietsovpetro, a joint venture run by Russia’s Zarubezhneft and Vietnam’s state-owned PetroVietnam, operates Vietnam’s largest oil field.
The profits from Vietsovpetro have generated millions of dollars for both #Russia and #Vietnam.
Why Is Putin Traveling to Vietnam? www.nytimes.com/2024/06/1…
Listening to this splash of an episode:
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society: danah #boyd on Digital Technology and Everyday Life
Episode webpage: newbooksnetwork.com
Media file: traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK26082…
#tech #sts #ethnography
More #climatechange can mean more #fossilfuels, see the case of #Vietnam:
The reduced output from hydro and gas plants has helped cement coal’s status as the leading power source in Vietnam, especially during the recent heat wave across Asia that boosted demand for air conditioning throughout the region.
You can feel and see it. It’s a constant stream of air pollution, grey daylight.
As young parents you love to send and receive
digger pics
#children #urbanwildlife
#streetphotography from #Hanoi. I find this coffee shop rather cute.
Two of my Canadian #sts friends just popped up in my #podcast feed.
Listen to Mél Hogan and her discussion with Lee Vinsel. Wishful worries and future making. And then there’s the #Solarpunk presents feature with Anne Pasek on Low-Carbon Methods. Yes! 🥌
climatejustice.rocks/@solarpun…
We, the @rustlab@assemblag.es, have written about reading. Academia as reading culture. #academicchatter@a.gup.pe
Please Go Away…We’re Reading. A Practice Approach to a Taken-for-Granted Academic Craft 🤳On.Culture
#Modi lost the absolute majority, the #BJP needs a coalition. #India.
Modi basically controls the national media and has an imperium of (social media) support that is unknown of. And still.
✨Surprise✨
Perhaps prior news commentary was riding a criti-hype.
HEPA filter, old/new.
When I’m thinking about good (somewhere between low- and high) #tech, I’m also thinking HEPA. Randomly fabricated fibers that randomise and trick the movements of particles.
Air purifiers are part of the #solarpunk future. Not only to be equipped for #wildwires. #airpollution
What’s the backend of #Solarpunk?
I’m thinking low and high #tech, digital in particular. What are the sites where this is discussed?
Collecting.
solarpunks.net solar.lowtechmagazine.com paleofuture.com www.notechmagazine.com grist.org #Mastodon in general?
This post is GOLD.
Engineering for the slow internet (an Antarctica story).
Through the comments on Hacker News, we see who’s affected. Everyone moving, VPN users, folks on a limit, you.
brr.fyi/posts/eng… hackerweb.app
#degrowth #tech #it
#DieZeit bietet ein interaktives Feature zu gesellschaftlichen Problemen – und Lösungen. Natürlich eine große Nummer: #Müll.
Natürlich im Fokus nahezu aller Lösungen: individuelle Aktionen und Verantwortung.
Hauptsache keine Produktion antasten. Nachhaltigkeit ist im Griff der industriellen PR.
One theme in my research about chip value chains is that #semiconductor firms invest a lot of R&D and money into lowering the ecological impact. Chemicals, energy, water.
Big customers want it.
And then we study our university #IT systems and find no #sustainability pressure. Strange blind spot
It’s #linux time. Since Windows and Mac OS are moving in a questionable direction and my laptop was getting slower, I tried #popos.
A truly magnificent system. All the modern apps are there. Smooth. Sleek. Nothing compared to Ubuntu a few years ago, or Arch tinkering, or my dust-craving Cubes OS.
#ICQ will turn off soon. I grew up with it’s weird aoooo and still know my quite long ID by heart. It was sensational, in contrast to the other, hacky (also cool) #IRC.
It was the first DM app I and everyone around me used and loved. #WhatsApp never came close.
What’s a hot and useful technique in network #dataviz?
I am fiddling around with a graph that represents extractive practices around a #datacenter. Work in progress in #Obsidian. #sts
Going minimal? Staying with the trouble of dots and lines, but with style? Or: layers, an infographic, …?
A wild read with many interesting graphs. The lack of social theory is part of the argument, but it really shows. #degrowth
efficiency is a catalyst for technological sprawl [everywhere]