it has been pretty easy to convince people that proof of work crypto's resource use is A Problem because it concentrates wealth toward a legible discrete group of people w/o broader benefit but I think tech that 1) mostly is killing creative jobs and 2) at best diffuses profits to CEOs and shareholders is not really that different!
still testing this out/trying to figure out how to phrase it: maybe we should just focus on the electricity and water use of computation instead of extrapolating to carbon because 1) companies flimflam with offsets/power purchase agreements and 2) a future of net zero carbon electricity sources will necessarily be constrained
State of the mesh presentation from yesterday- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P3nR-kI0Xs
Join us this Saturday, 5/27 at 8 p.m. for a screening of 'Machines in Flames' (2022, 50min), a film about a clandestine group of French computer workers in the 1980s. We'll have a virtual Q&A with the filmmakers afterward. Presented by the South Philly Autonomous Cinema Association. https://iffybooks.net/event/machines-in-flames/
academic/tech gripe
you do not, under any circumstances, gotta make kin with the large language model
Google really fired Timnit Gebru only for its CEO to recycle her warnings as talking points every two weeks a few years later.
https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-21/ this week in sentences: underwear and a cowboy hat, a kiss between brothers, bowls or thrones, staph seeks
“Oh, you want to ‘participate in society’? Take it indoors! I wish I could!” https://hellgatenyc.com/parking-spots-are-historic-nyc-outdoor-dining