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2023-08-05

• Listened: [[Entropy and the Capitalist System with Robert Biel]]

  • A treasure trove of info, this podcast.

• 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.

• 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."

• Writing: Reclaim Roundup: August 2023

  • Probably need another name - Reclaim Hosting uses ‘Reclaim roundup’.
  • I changed it to: [[Reclaiming the stacks: August 2023 roundup]]

• Read: [[How an eccentric English tech guru helped guide Allende’s socialist Chile]]

  • Short article on Chile, [[Project Cybersyn]], [[Stafford Beer]], and [[Evgeny Morozov]]‘s new podcast series on the topic, [[The Santiago Boys]].

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Read: [[ICT: A top horizontal priority in sustainable product policy]]

• Previously on [[2023-08-04]]
  • Some bloody Terraforming hellscapes at https://mau.dev:ajhalili2006-experiments/infra/tf-configs (see commits up to this day)
• Mostly just me chilling, doing household chores while digging through Tumblr and play some games on https://crazygames.com.

• I’m starting to get kinda stir crazy. I’m in this weird limbo where I’m not in proper housing and I’m not on the street. I’m learning how to have patience and trust the process. Having mental illnes makes it frustrating where I can’t just get up and get  job and house. I feel like after I make it through this process I will probably be setup for stability for the future. We’ll see.
• I’m trying to create a routine again. Now that I’m not on the street my day is totally different and I need to figure out a way to keep me sane while I’m in this holding pattern