Corporations and surveillance?

Yep absolutely, and even those numbers likely represent raw emissions figures vastly lower than the true impact these data centres are having on global emissions.

For example, that Google report talks about EACs - here’s a great podcast episode that explains why these kinds of accounting methods are a complete disaster:

Reveal: It’s Not Easy Going Green

https://revealnews.org/podcast/its-not-easy-going-green-update-2023/

This move, at least on the face of it, seems to privilege the cloud giants over say, a company that maintains its own servers. That’s effectively a handout of public resources to those already fabulously wealthy and powerful corporations.

That’s where I drew the conclusion from

Isn’t technofeudalism great?

1 Ape = 1 Ape

What’s strange about defending people’s freedom to be themselves?

Why not do both?

What’s the problem with drag queens reading to kids, exactly?

Very cool! Yeah I will definitely need to crack open some more of these tools and just keep playing, I haven’t even tried most of them yet, will have to explore that select-4 module first though

Also that strip on your controller looks like fun to use!

I don’t have a video to share but one of the things I discovered was, if I use the note expressions to randomize velocity a bit, and then map velocity to the likelihood of transposing notes up an octave… now every time a midi chord plays, I can get a different voicing. Got a feeling I’ll be using that technique a lot

Like it or not, things sometimes become symbols for other things, and especially given the political climate, it makes sense for people to get their guard up if they see something that looks like one of those symbols that represents, say, an utterly toxic ideology.

Not wanting to make others navigate that stuff unnecessarily is a sign of thoughtfulness and pro-social tendencies, not weakness.

With energy companies, you mean? Like, we’ve seen federal governments of various countries cancel (or re-approve) pipelines all the time - Keystone XL comes to mind, for instance

finally got around to watching this one today - fantastic

I recently read a super weird essay written in 2017 2007 by the other Palantir founder, Peter Thiel, called ‘The Straussian Moment’ - and it’s wild how they’re still talking about some of the exact same things.

For anyone wanting insight into the particular brand of fascism coming out of silicon valley these days, it’s worth a read.

This is very similar to my story - end of support for win7 meant putting Mint on the HTPC.

Soon after that, it was the old laptop my spouse was about to chuck out. Cinnamon was a little sluggish, so I eventually landed on Debian + XFCE

And when I discovered I could get my desktop’s audio interface working on Linux (it’s firewire, and by most people’s standards, ancient), it was game over for Windows.

I don’t know what Freetrack is but I hope it gets implemented for you :)

I’ve yet to read it, but Racecraft by Karen E Fields and Barbara J Fields was highly recommended by the Why Theory podcast

I’ll be honest, I have zero sympathy for any landlord here. Rent control is necessary to (hopefully) make sure there is housing that people can afford to live in - and acts as a kind of limit to the extraction of an ever-increasing portion of the paychecks of the working class by the landlord class.

If the renter loses the ability to pay for a home, they become homeless. If a landlord loses the ability to pay for a property, they become a renter. Economic conditions changed? How about this: these landlords should sell, and make property prices drop a little, instead of having renters getting kicked onto the street.

Thanks, yeah admittedly I hadn’t read the entire article before posting - and quickly realized the answer to my question when I did! I should really know better than to do that :)

Anyway, maybe the question I should have asked is more like, “why the heck did they give arbitrators so much latitude” - which it sounds like we agree on!

Ex Machina might fit the bill

How on earth is it possible for an arbitrator to just override legislation like this?

Ok yeah that’s super interesting, and maybe kinda sums up the whole thing: the devs make tech that reduces the opportunity for thought and engagement, and that frictionless experience results in worse outcomes for users, but better outcomes for profits.

And yet, paradoxically, there are probably plenty more folks like yourself that would prefer to use a different kind of app!