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@cory@follow.coryd.dev🔗 This is a Conflict and there are Sides via @bruno #ai #politics #tech
A little over a week ago, on the night of the Brazilian election runoff, I spent several hours going slowly from despair, to cautious hope, to a sort of weary joy. I live, these days, in a downtown area of São Paulo. I generally hate crowds, but on that night I did walk the length of Avenida Paulista, the city's de facto public square, where people were...
@cory@follow.coryd.dev"I find the prospect of predicting the #future incredibly dismal – even offensive. A predictable future is set in stone, immune to human agency. A predictable future runs on rails, and we're the prisoners of #history, tied to the tracks...
My intention isn't to demoralize you into tying yourself to history's tracks – I'm here to show you how to grab the wheel and steer off the rails altogether."
- @pluralistic
@cory@follow.coryd.dev@cory@follow.coryd.dev📖 Hyperscale by Paris Marx (★★★★★) #business #politics #tech
An eye-opening account of how the data center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point Underlying our seamless access to AI, cryptocurrency, and unlimited cloud storage is a hulking, costly physical infrastructure. Massive data centers full of energy-hungry chips and processors power everything we do online. Scrambling to meet dubious market demand, the tech...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9781805227472/hyperscale
@cory@follow.coryd.dev🔗 disconnecting from feeling hopeless via reject complexity #politics
My family and I went to our neighborhood meeting tonight. It was maybe ~30 people but the mayor of Long Beach came anyway and gave his time to talk to people and answer questions. It was a mostly positive gathering with some hard questions about homelessness and funding cuts for our schools.
https://rejectcomplexity.com/posts/disconnecting-from-feeling-hopeless
@cory@follow.coryd.dev📖 When the Clock Broke by John Ganz (★★★★☆) #politics #history #nonfiction
One of The New York Times 's 100 Notable Books of 2024 Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award A Barack Obama summer reading pick One of Publishers Weekly 's ten best books of 2024 A revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era—and their dark legacy today. With the Soviet Union extinct, Saddam Hussein defeated,...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/1250390419/when-the-clock-broke
Dear American internet strangers, a subtle reminder to ignore the polls and to please (please) vote.
Sincerely,
A Canadian.
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#america #trump #maga #elections #election #uspol #uspolitics #politics
If you would like to increase the cost of energy, oil, gas and electricity, what would you do? It is really all a game of supply and demand.
1. Reduce production of electricity. Stop wind, solar, hydro through bans, tarifs and reduction of incentives.
2. Create bottlenecks in the distribution of energy.
3. Create uncertainty in the energy markets.
4. Reduce incentives for EVs.
IMHO we need to do the opposite. We need to invest in wind, solar, hydro and various new technologies and we need to do it quickly.
We need to continue to move towards EVs at pace. f you are not driving an EV, remember to be thankful for those that do, as that reduces your gas prices, through supply and demand.
Oil has been ruining our planet in more ways than one. The sooner we stop relying on oil, the better.
For a long time we have made our selves gradually more and more dependent on Big Tech. This applies when it comes to operating system, to browsers, to various services, to storage and now when it comes to AI.
More and more are realizing this was and is wrong.
You can take the first steps to be independent as a person or company. Obviously, given that you are here, you have already taken some steps. Here are some suggestions:
1. Switch browser... to Vivaldi. :)
2. Switch desktop OS. Personally I have switched to Linux. Currently running Kubuntu, Ubuntu and Zorin on different computers.
3. Switch mail service. Proton and Fastmail are good services, but there are others. Choose one that allows use of a mail client.
4. Switch calendar service. Most mail services also offer a calendar service.
5. Switch office package. Personally I use LibreOffice.
6. Switch Web conferencing software. Personally I use Whereby.
7. Switch search. Startpage, Ecosia, Qwant and DDG are great alternatives.
There are a lot of other great choices. The point is to start taking those steps away from Big Tech and Silicon Valley.
#Windows #Linux #Apple #MacOS #BigTech #Politics #Technology #Vivaldi
More and more sites are having to set up defenses from AI bots. It is costly to provide online services and they were not built for bots.
One can say that the AI companies are performing a global denial of service attack, which incurs costs to all of their competitors, as well as the rest of the Internet, while their own services can afford to withstand that load. The service owners are forced to perform costly operations to defend them selves, but also make the services worse for the users.
This is anti-competitive.
@cory@follow.coryd.dev📖 End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor (★★★★☆) #books #politics #science #nature
A scathing investigation into the apocalyptic thinking of the Christian nationalists, tech-bro reactionaries, and populist survivalists who increasingly define the contemporary right—and a recipe for how to fight them. As the planet burns and shared reality melts, a new iteration of the far right is on the march. How can we...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9780374621407/end-times-fascism
@cory@follow.coryd.dev"If these measures are enacted, the US could be writing its own losing ticket to this race, and the consequences would last generations." Don't threaten me with a good time. #uspol #ai #climate #politics #tech
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-local-communities-stop-defying-ai-data-centers
I am not a fan of gambling. Never have been. Personally I think most all gambling should be banned. Maybe with some limited exceptions.
What I am more than disgusted by is the so called prediction markets. That looks like the worst kind of gambling and marketed as just stats. TV channels, such as CNN, include gambling results from these companies as something equal to polling. Hidden marketing is a more accurate term.
There is also a lot of examples of people gambling on things they know the outcome of. Maybe not a big surprise with something like this.
Where are the regulators? Why is this allowed?
@cory@follow.coryd.dev📖 Against Tech Oligarchy by JS Tan & Clarissa Redwine (★★★★★) #politics #nonfiction #socialscience
As tech bosses fall in line with the right, tech workers are fighting back. This is the rousing inside story of their movement—and the way it spawned an anti-worker backlash now reshaping the industry. After Donald Trump’s election in 2016, the tech industry sprang into action to oppose his right-wing agenda, with...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9798888907573/against-tech-oligarchy
@cory@follow.coryd.dev📝 Become worthless (to tech companies) #ai #tech #politics #uspol
Tech companies and their executives have, broadly, moved to align themselves with investors and adopted a posture of, often, disdain or outright hostility towards their users and employees. If tech companies don't value you, why provide value to them? If they back political positions hostile to your interests, why not return that hostility?
https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2026/become-worthless-to-tech-companies
RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@brucelawson/117336112482208047
There is a choice for those that are fed up of Big Tech. There are great options out there. May I suggest you try @Vivaldi ?
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