mlg @mlg@mastodon.sdf.org

If you require someone else to be on the grid so you can be off the grid you're not off the grid

semi hauls ass through your corporate parking lot and a datacenter slides off a ramp, ready for three-phase power and fiber drops

1 pound of coal to create, package, store and move 2 megabytes of data 😱

explorer.pkt.cash API server processes just under 100,000 http requests per day, which (modulo some caching) corresponds to roughly the same amount of SQL queries. And it's hosted on a laptop at my house.

When the code is good, you don't need big iron to run it!

@praxeology @entreprecariat i see that as endemic to the microblog format. idk if this makes sense, but feels like there is a technosocial ecosystem along some kind of axis consisting of a combination of response time & message length:
* realtime chat
* microblogs (you are here)
* forum threads
* blog discourse

i think the healthiest option is to foster a mix of all of the above; whereas the bottom two categories fell out of favor (to some degree) as the 2010s progressed

And I do totally understand that blockchain is power hungry, but AGAIN, emissions wouldn't be a problem if REAL socioeconomic investment was made into renewable energy.

Also, EVERYTHING we do and use is dirty. Silicon, lithium, aluminum, etc manufacturing is horribly dirty and a lot of it flat out unethical. That's not going to make 99% of people protest against their phones, but rightly the awful systems in place that surround global production.

Bookchin argues against the ideology of futurism and for ecological utopianism. In the Q&A session, he points out that he is not against technology itself, he is against technocracy

Utopia, not futurism: Why doing the impossible is the most rational thing we can do – Uneven Earth

On August 24, 1978, Murray Bookchin gave a lecture at the Toward Tomorrow Fair in Amherst, Massachusetts. Also speaking at that year’s gathering were several prominent thinkers, including R. Buckminster Fuller and Ralph Nader.

The ride today was quite challenging on the very uneven snowy paths... #unicycling

‘I will not suffer Q people’: Alex Jones wins MSM plaudits for venting fury at QAnon in viral clip

Right-wing commentator Alex Jones has blasted the QAnon conspiracy theory in his own characteristic style, creating a viral clip that quickly racked up over one million views and won the controversial pundit some unlikely praise. Read Full Article at RT.com

https://www.rt.com/usa/512080-alex-jones-qanon-msm-capitol/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS

An interview I did with R.U. Sirius a few years back was linked to from HN and upon further investigation I found this was because someone posted The Guy I Almost Was (1998). It's a great comic and worth a read (or reread) if you've never seen it, http://www.electricsheepcomix.com/almostguy/

It'd look something... like this!

Oh my god. Look at this 1947 ad in Life magazine for the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing company.

Future Farmers 2004

~Algae = Hydrogen ~

Materials: water, algae, oxygen Exhibition History: University of the Pacific, California 2004 Technology: Photosynthesis Dimensions: 5 ' x 4' x 3' DIY Algae/Hydrogen Kit was a first time collaboration between Amy Franceschini and Jonathan Meuser. Currently scientists are testing and generating strains of algae to determine which one most...