alex-esc's old account @alexesc@librem.one

"realtime area lighting"
published 2008

#greencapitalism is no solution. The #COP25 is discussion concepts like the carbon offset market which will never lead to more #ClimateJustice.
We need to ask different question: In what kind of world do we want to live? How can we arrange a good life for everybody?

What if there was a gamergate for chess

The Marketplace of Ideas
The Food Court of Beliefs
The JC Penney's of Conspiracy Theories
The Spirit Halloween Store of Sexy Thoughts

ad blocking is ethical

im sorry but liking Disneyland is not a personality

Buy less shit, use your stuff longer, give away what you don't need, don't talk so much, do something nice for someone here and there and don't be a dick.

Chumbawamba is better than the beatles

I wrote a guide on how to optimize your site to emit less carbon and get top marks on web speed tests.

GreenGeeks helps me get high scores as they run on sustainable energy and their servers are very responsive so have fast first byte time.

https://markosaric.com/speed-up-wordpress/

I once heard the term 'dry drunk' used to describe someone who is sober but still repeats their abusive/harmful behaviors and it has stuck with me

@natecull The failure of "tech" (that is: infotech and especially Silicon Valley / venture-funded Web-centric / adjacent start-ups) to address major real world concerns strikes me as among the biggest of the #BigProblems.

The "whys" of that are complex and interesting.

@zensaiyuki

@zensaiyuki @dredmorbius

By direct analogy:

'Design' of a car should refer to how the engine works, how toxic it is, whether it kills people when it crashes, can it brake in time, etc.

Not 'how does it make people feel in the showroom'.

But words have drifted and we now use 'engineering' to mean 'the important parts of a system that matter enormously, which we don't want to talk about anymore, mostly because we can't/won't change them for business reasons'.

My son texted me this and I said "I am not a Boomer"

omfg this washroom graffiti at my uni has made my day

im gonna need a bigger ass