Alex Cendre 🌋 @alxcndr@mastodon.social

every time i see anything about the carbon footprint of anything computer-related... just focus on capitalism. it's the direct cause that makes the tools bad.

e-mail waste energy exclusively because of spam, which is a consequence of capitalism.
proof-of-work waste energy directly for capitalism.
most of the rest is either wasted to profit from large scale concurrency and markets, or tracking users and advertising.

e-mail is extremely energy-efficient, it's just used badly

Moi, en CE1 : Jules est un camarade de classe et…

Karl Marx, hochant de la tête : hmhm, continue

"Mining Cryptocurrencies Is More Energy Intensive Than Actual Mining, Researchers Say"

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/mining-cryptocurrencies-energy-mining-metals

Remember folks, there are more of us than there are of them. We can do this! 👍​

'Just 100 companies have been the source of more than 70% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions since 1988, according to a new report.'

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10/100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change

"No faps while defending Western culture"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuenOIS0Py8

An excellent video from Angie Speaks on "eternal fascism", free speech and the dangers of forgetting the past!

#Anarchy #Anarchism #Antifa

https://youtu.be/L6ZrgYVmT6M

Gay communism memes

FL/OSS is a deeply utopian practice, post-scarcity to its bones, which is part of why and how it has been used against workers: by offloading training and QA labor to semi-public works and infrastructure. the problem here isn't FL/OSS, but the bosses who control what pays our rent.

"Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization."
--Peter Kropotkin

Collectivist tram service, run by the Anarchist Union the CNT. (Colourised) #SpanishRevolution #Anarchism #FullCommunism https://mastodon.social/media/l1s_ZG2_YhdpOr4hLlM

the awkward future where AI unionize before sw devs do

@alxcndr I guess certain medical equipment. Treating patients has an obvious inherent value, but private medical companies under capitalism are reluctant to treat conditions that aren't profitable.

@alxcndr the regulatory costs to qualify wearable brain-computer interfaces for insurance coverage is somewhere around 20M USD (see: wolpaw and wolpaw), so the fraction of the population with locked-in syndrome will never justify the cost

so instead they're working on it for interrogation and military use

@alxcndr Modern news/reporting would be one thing, where the actual journalism is just a loss-leader and the income results from running ads alongside it

Why PayPal’s crackdown on ASMR creators should worry you
https://www.engadget.com/2018/09/14/paypal-ban-asmr-sound-art-therapy/

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand it's live at https://black.af/