Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

We need to decarbonise not manipulate clouds. Solar geoengineering is a hubristic & technocentric response to climate change & uncertainty. Climate engineering off US coast could increase heatwaves in Europe #ClimateChange #ClimateDiary #SolarGeoengineering https://t.co/Fw8OWtW9BO

"The tech giants say they buy enough wind, solar or geothermal power every time a big data center comes online to cancel out its emissions. But critics see a shell game with these contracts: The companies are operating off the same power grid as everyone else, while claiming for themselves much of the finite amount of green energy. Utilities are then backfilling those purchases with fossil fuel expansions, regulatory filings show."

Microsoft? Shell game? Surely, you jest.

"Data centers, the nondescript warehouses packed with racks of servers that power the modern internet, have been around for decades. But the amount of electricity they need now is soaring because of AI. Training artificial intelligence models and using AI to execute even simple tasks involves ever more complicated, faster and voluminous computations that are straining the electricity system."

Totally worth it for all the misinformation and bad art we're churning out though, right?...right?!?

Tech people out there, can you please reign in your brethren and sisthren? If you don't, someone else is going to have to, otherwise these morons are going to drive us to a bad end EVEN FASTER than we were already heading there. The stupidity of this BS is sooo depressing. And pretty depressing to realize how many people will both buy the marketing hype and stick their head in the sand about the massive, overwhelmingly negative byproducts of their gee-whiz toys.

https://archive.ph/ePJPm

Pretty sure funding, training, and providing cover for Neo-Nazis is, uh...bad.

"Junge Welt reports that since 2017, the National Militia “had been practicing brutal vigilante justice” throughout Ukraine, including “tyrannizing the LGBTQ scene.” Centuria was subsequently blamed for a terrifying November 2021 attack on a gay nightclub in Kiev, in which its operatives assaulted revelers with truncheons and pepper spray."

https://thegrayzone.com/2024/04/07/centuria-ukraines-western-neo-nazi-army/

The right-wing brigading of Amazon reviews of the essential new book by @Noupside is about the best evidence you'll see of why her work has been so important. We shouldn't countenance the supremely bad-faith attacks that have cost her -- and all of us in the end -- so much.

https://mastodon.social/@Noupside@saturation.social/112654991007362111

Apparently Orbea bikes has been a worker owned co-op for 55 years and I had no idea until just now! I'm very curious about how they're structured and how they handle employee ownership. If anyone in my co-op or bicycle circles has a contact there, I'd love to chat with them.

#bicycles #cooperatives #coop

"But what if they don't deserve that money?" is somehow only a question raised about poor people.

Summer's just starting and the climate records are already being shattered. https://brianmcfadden.org/2024/06/14/2024s-climate-records/

Check out the ongoing Purism Differentiator Series! From Our Operating System to baked-in Convergence, Purism has its own way of doing things. Stay tuned as we explore the diverse facets of Purism's unique offerings! #DifferentiatorSeries #PureOS #Purism #Librem5
https://puri.sm/posts/purism-differentiator-series-part-1-summary/

Microsoft knows I'm turning 53 in two weeks and is really committed to getting a little payback for all the comics. :-D

‘It felt like bad news after bad news’: why record numbers are leaving #NewZealand - https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/21/it-felt-like-bad-news-after-bad-news-why-record-numbers-are-leaving-new-zealand amazing: used to be regarded as some kind of paradise...

Britain’s millionaires are fleeing. Good night and good luck, I say - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/21/britain-millionaires-leave-tax-havens-uk good riddance, I say: if all you care about is maximising your wealth through tax avoidance, you poison our society, rather than enhancing it...

This take, by @timbray
on Wikipedia, reliability, and sourcing is excellent.

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/06/15/Wikipedia-Pain

It turns out that a five sentence letter to the editor published by the New England Journal of Medicine back in 1980 helped fuel the #Opioid crisis. https://www.truthdig.com/articles/how-a-letter-to-the-editor-enabled-the-opioid-crisis/