Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 32

@publius I think you're kind of missing the point of UBI. If you peg it to the Cost of Living and increase taxes on the wealthy every time the UBI payment has to go up, there's a strong class disincentive to keep the CoL from rising too fast, to prevent it from driving inflation (which hits those with largest savings the most). The whole point of making it universal is to prevent the punitive creep of means-tested welfare benefits. Everybody gets it, no matter what. Period.
@dsfgs

@tagomago did you read the whole thread?

@wizard at the risk of being pedantic, hackers have mainly been advocating not for moving to GitLab.com, but moving to community-hosting of #GitLab (or other code forge software like #Gogs, #Gitea, #Kallithea etc):
http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/List_of_Community-Hosted_Code_Forge_Instances

@jamey ah, OK, I must have missed the link when I first looked at your post. Fascinating discussion. One thing I'd add is that in some countries, like #NZ, solidarity strikes are illegal, so trade union members doing different jobs in the same workplaces can't legally support each others' strikes. The #NZ union movement was traditionally organized by trade unions, but has been moving to a more industrial strategy to deal with this, led by newer unions like #Unite.

#HatTip to @jamesmullarkey for drawing my attention to the website carbon footprint calculator, which in turn drew my attention to the Nature article:
https://www.websitecarbon.com/how-does-it-work/

@jamey good question. Here's my take. An #IndustrialUnion covers all workers in a given industry, regardless of what they do. Whereas a #TradeUnion covers all workers doing a particular kind of work. So an industrial union covering the aviation industry would include the secretaries, whereas trade unions covering the same workplaces would have mechanics in an engineers union, secretaries in a clerical union etc.

Coal (and nuclear) power plants are an environmentally destructive way to produce heat, to turn water into steam, to produce electricity. Servers produce heat as waste, and run on electricity. What if servers could be cooled by turning water into steam, generating electricity, that could be fed back to the servers? There would still be some energy cost even with the closed loop, but it would remove the need for electricity-guzzling AC to cool datacentres.

This 2018 article in #Nature examines the energy costs and environmental effects of the net:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06610-y

Yup, got that @bhaugen. I was doing the same :)
@richdecibels @nicksellen @wu_lee @mike_hales @protean

@jamesmullarkey thanks a lot!

In fact I would say that the Tumblr policy changes were an even earlier sign of the same chilling effects.

@nicksellen all power to you. I've been a professional volunteer for 20 years, living a life of voluntary simplicity, funded by a drip-feed of social welfare benefits. I admire anyone willing to do stuff like this. But the results are in. There aren't enough of us willing or able to do this stuff for the digital commons to outcompete the corporate #datafarms. New strategies are needed for supporting the commons tech workforce.

@bhaugen @wu_lee @mike_hales @protean

"Ships that sail the seas of meaning must be: collaborative; creative; improvised; intimate; disposable; beautiful; and spiritual."
- Chapman again

"Twitter, like GTD [#GettingThingsDone], fails to provides tools for fitting meaning-morsels together into creative assemblages of higher value."
- #DavidChapman
https://vividness.live/2013/03/06/meanwhile-back-at-the-charnel-ground/#future

What might those tools look like? What exactly would they allow us to do that current social media tools don't? How could they work to help us make meaning together?

Instead the #NZ plastics industry is promoting recyclable plastics, which can only be recycled so many times before ending up in landfill anyway. That's even if every single piece is successfully collected, not littered into the environment. #Compostable packaging is a no-brainer.

"Countdown [supermarkets] has ruled out compostable plastics because they can't be disposed of properly"
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018725998/chief-science-advisor-recommends-plan-to-phase-out-plastic

Umm ... compost them?

How will drug driving will be controlled on New Zealand streets if cannabis is *not* legalised in next year's #referendum? There are irresponsible people driving while impaired now (often by more dangerous drugs like alcohol), and that's likely to continue whether cannabis is legalized or not.
#MakeItLegal

"Critics of the #cannabis legalisation bill are concerned about how drug driving will be controlled on New Zealand streets if the drug is legalised in next year's referendum":
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018726011/oregon-police-sergeant-on-how-to-find-drugged-drivers