@AnneleiseHall wonderful!
Started from the bottom now we blep https://everything.happens.horse/@ingrid/110765472955473019
@ranjit Ozzy, sweet prince!
When I was a teenager I did weird video art summer camp where we watched experimental films all day, no ambition just vibes
Absolutely terrified by the notion of a teenager with enough conviction to say "yes, I will do investigative journalism summer camp at the snootiest newspaper in the land"
Would I prefer Bernie Sanders hold the mantle of most cantankerous "give me a break" president? Sure. But the Biden "give me a break" is undeniable
USB-C is so eco friendly, it stops all of those chargers ending up in landfills don't you know!
Meanwhile: People are filling landfills with otherwise perfectly fine laptops and Nintendo Switches and phones because said USB-C ports aren't on flyleads internally and require advanced level soldering skills and a fuck-ton of equipment and countless different ports to hand to use as replacement because they're only the same connector externally.
This is one of my biggest greenwashing tech grumbles
Another reason to call and email your reps. They need to hear from us now that trans rights are not a bargaining chip.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/national-anti-trans-bans-loom-will
@SarahBreau totally not meant as a scold and sorry it came across that way! The comparison is more based in observing that capitalist corporations are basically a form of sentient AI that already do harm and AGI is more likely than not a hypothetical talked up by rich tech people who want to draw attention away from practical regulatory issues. It's not one is "worse" so much as one isn't real.
Organised atoms: electronics from the earth ⛏️
We're really excited to have received a Flamm commission for a brand new project that is all about grounded approaches to exploring technology. This project has come about in response to a growth in a kind of tech mysticism, fuelled by a belief that the solution to our problems is to relinquish understanding to imagined higher powers.
https://thentrythis.org/notes/2023/07/20/organised-atoms-electronics-from-the-earth/
https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/25/germany_climate_fund/ feeling some kind of way about money from a state climate fund being diverted toward building out a manufacturing sector reliant on petrochemicals, heavy metals, and lots of water!!