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]]