Notices by neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop), page 20

On the one hand...

"How AI is helping make the world greener"

https://www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk/2019/05/31/how-ai-is-helping-make-the-world-greener/

"Microsoft empowering more sustainable planet through AI"

On the other...

"How Google, Microsoft, and Big Tech Are Automating the Climate Crisis"

https://gizmodo.com/how-google-microsoft-and-big-tech-are-automating-the-1832790799

- sold machine vision software to Shell
- help BP build an AI tool to help determine how much oil in a given reserve is recoverable
- help subsidiary of Exxon gain insights into future drilling possibilities
- etc

Hmmmmmmm

"Ema" by Loscil

https://loscil.bandcamp.com/track/ema

One of my favourite ambient tracks ever.  Well worth a $1...

#NowPlaying

Some days are just 'mark all as read' days.

Some days are just ‘mark all as read’ days.

https://archive.org/details/s27-059PabloRibot-UrbanMetaphor/05KitschScience.mp3

Kitsch Science by Pablo Ribot

#NowPlaying #FreeCulture

More from Kali Akuno on some requirements of a GND, specifically around zero waste. Making things last longer; local collective ownership; producer responsibility.

"The program should also require the elimination of the planned obsolescence built into the life cycle of all modern consumer products from cars to cell phones, a practice that both enriches corporations and drives the need to extract more resources and expend more fossil fuels to make more products."

https://cooperationjackson.org/blog/greennewdealmusthaveazerowastepolicy

Good discussion about the nuances of a Green New Deal with Cooperation Jackson.

"We have to articulate a program that concretely addresses the class’s immediate and medium-term need for jobs and stable income around the expansion of existing “green” industries and the development of new ones, like digital fabrication or what we call community production, that will enable a comprehensive energy and consumption transition."

https://cooperationjackson.org/blog/ecosocialismordeath

I feel like the IndieWeb is a great example of commons-based peer production, as per Benkler’s definition:

"radically decentralized, collaborative, and nonproprietary; based on sharing resources and outputs among widely distributed, loosely connected individuals who cooperate with each other without relying on either market signals or managerial commands."

link that actually works: https://qz.com/1615237/plntnet-is-the-worlds-best-social-network/

I am loving Pl@ntNet.  Take a picture of a plant, upload it, it suggests what the plant might be and shows you photos to help you identify it. qz.com/1615237/plntnet-is-the-worlds-best-social-network/

I like this concept of “local-first software”. This is a very comprehensive survey.

https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html

Foundational part of it are Conflict-free Replicated Data Types. Can’t say I know a thing about the details, but they sound pretty good:

"general-purpose data structures, like hash maps and lists, but multi-user from the ground up.

"we think CRDTs may be the foundation for collaborative software that gives users full ownership of their data"

@voidspace @AnnaBalade I really enjoyed Walkaway. After the awful direction the MEP results last night are taking us in the UK, it's also feeling pretty prescient right now. And tempting..

@voidspace @AnnaBalade I really enjoyed Walkaway. After the awful direction the MEP results last night are taking us in, it's also feeling pretty prescient right now. And tempting..

Motherfucking Brexit Party.  What the fucking fuckity fuck.

Communication is vital for refugees.

Mobile Refugee Support are an amazing org providing charging stations, wi-fi access, and device repairs for refugees in Calais and Dunkirk in Northern France.

You can donate old phones, cables, power banks to them if you have any going spare.  (Probably easiest if you're in the UK, but you can post them I think.)

https://www.mobilerefugeesupport.org/aid-we-provide

Thinking about privacy, and what we choose to reveal and not reveal on online, following a session in Utrecht. Made me remember ‘gevulot’ from The Quantum Thief.

"Gevulot is a form of privacy practised in the Oubliette. It involved complex cryptography and the exchange of public and private keys, to ensure that individuals only shared that information or sensory data that they wished to. Gevulot was disabled in agoras."

Gevulot comes from Hebrew meaning “boundary”.

https://exomemory.fandom.com/wiki/Gevulot

Keep your spirits up

#London #StreetArt

Honestly using NewPipe to download mixes by Helena Hauff is all I need for an offline listening experience.

#FreeCulture