Notices by neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop), page 40

Digital technology’s effect on the environment.

https://neweconomics.org/2018/11/disrupting-the-climate

It uses a lot of raw materials; produces a lot of CO2 in manufacture; and the ‘cloud’ uses a vast amount of energy in use.

"Throwing away a product early and getting the latest one is hugely wasteful, with a high environmental and social impact."

Things we should do: use materials more efficiently; make things more repairable; use renewable energy.

I guess I'd probably also add ‘abolish capitalism’ to the list.

My keyboard is about 15 years old – a classic and still going strong!

The mouse has stopped working though. Hope I can fix it.

""We can do better, Astra Taylor insists. The online world does offer a unique opportunity, but a democratic culture that supports work of lasting value will not spring up from technology alone. If we want the Internet to truly be a people’s platform, we will have to make it so."

"Online, just as off-line, attention and influence largely accrue to those who already have plenty of both. A handful of giant companies remain the gatekeepers, while the worst habits of the old media model — the pressure to seek easy celebrity, to be quick and sensational above all — have proliferated in the ad-driven system."

I’d like to read The People’s Platform by Astra Taylor. Looks pretty on point to me.

"The Internet has been hailed as an unprecedented democratizing force. A place where all can participate equally. But how true is this claim? In a seminal dismantling of techno-utopian visions, The People’s Platform argues that the Internet in fact amplifies real-world inequities at least as much as it ameliorates them."

@ohhelloana Hello, Ana!

Glitches -N- Clicks by Herre Jorna

A nice album of glitchy minimal techno. If you like clicks'n'cuts, hums and static and grooves, check it out!

https://archive.org/details/HerreJorna_942/5.HerreJorna-ClickPlay.mp3

#music #freeCulture

@anaulin These are great!

I heard you like posts so I wrote a post about my posts

https://doubleloop.net/2018/12/16/two-spikes-in-my-posting-history/

#indieweb

Enjoying it greatly so far. It’s a lot lighter than I remember Banks’ books being (maybe I’m just thinking of The Wasp Factory…). I came back to it after a recommendation from a friend, of science fiction with some thought experiments around a socialist society. The Culture, a race within the novel, are I believe what one podcast I listened to recently called ‘space communists’, warts and all, so it should be interesting to see how they’re explored.

My book at the moment is Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks. I’m fairly certain I’ve read it before, many years ago (my Mum had most of his books when I was growing up) – long enough ago to remember only brief flashes of it.

With Microsub and indie readers with built in reply capability, the indieweb is starting to feel a lot more social for me. This is great!

#IndieWeb

A very nice Christmas Homebrew Website Club in London this eve.

Blog posts were written, h-feeds were unmunged, replies were sent, ideas were discussed and mince pies were consumed.

Back in the New Year!

#indieweb

We did some protesting in Brussels today for the right to repair, and against the watering down of repairability legislation https://therestartproject.org/restart-project/first-ever-protest/

#RightToRepair

✔️ federation
✔️ renewable energy
✔️ cooperatives

Sounds good to me.. anyone know more about ii?

"REScoop.eu is the European federation of renewable energy cooperatives. We are a growing network of 1,250 European energy cooperatives and their 1.000.000 citizens who are active in the energy transition."

https://www.rescoop.eu/

Upcoming HWC London on Wednesday 12th December:

https://hwclondon.co.uk/meetups/20181212

This will be the last one before Christmas! 🤶🎅 (… AKA Ho Ho Homebrew Website Club) Mince pies may be on the agenda...

Finish that blog post you’ve been working on. Demo personal websites and technology. Discuss the independent web. Join a community with like-minded interests. Bring friends that want a personal site!

#london #indieweb

I learned all about the latest in gaming graphics, including real-time raytracing, and deep learning co-processors that will predict part of what needs rendering in the next frame, from the guy who cut my hair at the barber's today. Pretty wild and completely unnecessary stuff. Apparently he's going to drop £1,500 on a new graphics card. Also this is how I learn about new technology these days.