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Listened: [[Entropy and the Capitalist System with Robert Biel]]
- A treasure trove of info, this podcast.
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Listened: [[Microdose: Californian Capitalism]]
- Interesting interview with Malcolm Harris about his Palo Alto book.
- In one part he questions some of the narrative of [[The Californian Ideology]], would be interesting to follow up on that.
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Bookmarked: [[Class Warfare in the Information Age]]
- Written in 1998, but looks pretty prescient…
- "In the future, Perelman argues, it will still become a class-based privilege to access and afford information, and the rights of individuals will disintegrate as the power of the corporate sector grows."
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Writing: Reclaim Roundup: August 2023
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Read: [[How an eccentric English tech guru helped guide Allende’s socialist Chile]]
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Read: [[ChatGPT Will Command More Than 30,000 Nvidia GPUs: Report]]
- AI driving the manufacture of a shit-ton of hardware. And the negative environmental impact associated with that.
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Read: [[The Generative AI Race Has a Dirty Secret]]
- Not really a secret - they use a vast amount of energy. And this is set to increase as they get integrated into search engines.
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Read: [[Big win for right to repair with new EU rules for batteries - but legislators must get the implementation right]]
- Good right to repair news - progress on battery removability and availability. Though still lacking on the affordability of repair.
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Read: [[Meta report shows the company causes far more emissions than it can cover with renewable energy]]
- Similarly to Microsoft ([[Microsoft’s dirty supply chain is holding back its climate ambitions]]), Meta has huge emissions, most of which are scope 3 (i.e. from it’s ecosystem and supply chain), and apparently it doesn’t know what to do about them. Couple of ideas: (a) consider degrowth; (b) use your considerable clout on your supply chain, rather than pretending that you are helpless to do anything about it.
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Read: [[ICT: A top horizontal priority in sustainable product policy]]