I started rebuilding my #website using a #StaticSiteGenerator and aim at relaunching it this year. It will consolidate the contents of services I deployed to establish a #wiki and a #blog, for example. As a #FLOSS#musician I'd like to share not only the finished music, but also the #sources of it and those of my #infrastructure available via a #VersionControlSystem in order to make the whole process transparent and inspire you to follow this #philosophy.
The critics are right, rather than have seasonal chaos during to #engineerng works, the #railways & other #infrastructure could be repaired in the first week of January... the UK could have a state-defined #workingfromhome week, with those required to attend the workplace having subsidised travel laid on to avoid the disruption(s), and the whole thing co-ordinated by an active Govt. in the public interest...
Sorry, don't know what happened there, I think I'm hallucinating or something.... sorry
Again, I agree, except that the blood is already of insufficient distance now.
The cloud, corporate, and marketing #infrastructure still subsidizes / enables all of this independent #shortwave radio.
I struggle to grok a vision of the open-source #Fediverse as a place which demonstrates its values to those who most need to see, hear, and read anything about it…by defederating.
A true 1950s banality, charcaterizing the problem(s) as one of omnipotent machines vs. omnipotent humans. That machines, like all tools and tech #infrastructure, create preferences, necessities, and practical constraints that contribute to and determine the options human beings have in their decisions, in fact, the human-machine symbiosis that is in existence since the Palaeolithic, is conveniently ignored in favour of a conception of man of free agency. That is rubbish. Not only with regard to man-in-environment constraints, but also with regard to an underlying scientism that relies heavily in its naïvety on a primitive 19th and 20th century Empricism.
«The International Energy Agency now projects oil, gas, and coal use will all peak this decade. This constitutes a dramatic shift from the last 150 years when the thirst for fossil fuels persistently rose. But now this growth is nearing its end sooner than many expected, driven in part by a surge in renewables.
This significant event, however, masks a more striking possible future: One in which total global energy use peaks and energy’s weight in world affairs diminishes. [...]
In a broader sense, just as history has included the stone, bronze and iron ages, we have been living since the Industrial Revolution in an energy age. But this age, during which energy has dominated so many economic, geopolitical and other dimensions, may be coming to an end with peak energy.»
A bit confusing is the author's talk of "energy peak" which seems to lumb together energy and electricity demands. Thus, whereas I can see a decline in energy demands, I don't see them with regard to electricity demands. (Esp. with all the decarbonisation of industries necessary to accomplish mitigation with climate change.)
Anyway, an interesting piece with a lot of interesting links. Surely countering my musings on #peakrenewables with #peakenergy as the broader concept.
Per Minna Ruckerstein via Rob Horning, the infrastructure of oppression (for instance, algorithms, but also, cars) is proffered and accepted as infrastructure of support or even comfort. We gaslight, and gas, ourselves. In re algorithms, we sell ourselves and give to billionaires.
#DistrictCooling and other #infrastructure and #archtectural changes can help increase the efficiency of #cooling#systems and radically reduce the #energy such systems use even as exponentially more people in more places are finally able to access the lifesaving benefits of artificially and more naturally cooled air.
Damaging or destroying #ecosystems and natural #environments is NOT part of, and is directly antithetical to, a solid Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation strategy.
We must make all things better, not sacrifice one part to benefit another as that merely keeps us treading water.
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simsa03The main reasons I switched in my political leanings from left to rather conservative: I saw how in the U.S. the Bernie Sanders Left enabled Trump; and I saw how in Germany the Left abolished #nuclear energy while complaining about climate change. Plus a bit of thinking about infrastructure's tenacity towards change and the increasing conviction that most "world changing" or "world saving", if it is to be more than chatter, is the change of #infrastructure. And as the #history of infrastructures tells us: the outlook is bleak.The last aspect: That the Left's (and Green's etc.) critique of capitalism and modern societies, if it is to make sense at all, presupposes the very full-fledged functioning of this extractivist, oppressive, and exploitative system it is out to abolish. In fact, this system is the lesser evil. Strange journey that brought me to this point. But the interesting question is: What's the next stop?
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