Notices by Linda Woodrow (lindawoodrow@mastodon.social), page 4

A key issue with AI is that transition to degrowth or doughnut economies *requires* structural transition towards low-carbon, labour intensive economic sectors - an economy built on production of art, knowledge, education, care of people, environmental restoration, energy transition. AI is exactly the opposite - high carbon, low human labour. Ie a high growth economy with big emissions and high labour productivity aka unemployment.

Front yard veggie garden this midsummer morning. #retrosuburbia #permaculture

@mackayim2022 Mine booked for Tuesday.

@sarajhammer I got to the point of enough follows who post enough to lure me into doom scrolling, so I started using lists. Whenever I find myself boosting or favoriting someone a lot, I add them to a "besties" list. The scroll though the besties is a lot shorter.

@Eve My sister-in-law would have been really happy had her mother been able to get rubella vaccination. She might have told you but she never learned to talk, or walk or feed herself, or toilet herself, in her short life.

@sarajhammer Less performative yes - I find this space much more authentic. But low-key didn't last long for me (in a good way). It was relatively quiet and low-key for a little while, while I found follows and got to know people. Now it's about as stimulating as I can stand!

The violent response to #BrianThompson, a CEO who profits obscenely from the torment and suffering of millions of customers.

It didn't need to happen. Those CEOs have had plenty of warning that oppressed people will be pushed only so far before seeking a violent response.

The title short story from collection _Radicalized_, by @pluralistic, details how people are corralled by the physical suffering of family members, exploited by an insurance industry deliberately designed to extract wealth while denying health care, and finally resort to violent terrorism in the absence of any other effective option.

CEOs have had this, and for decades many other, warnings that they must stop the ghoulish practice of denying health care to those who need it, while extracting wealth. A reckoning is coming.

https://craphound.com/radicalized/

#EndWealthCare #HealthCareIsAHumanRight #PolicyFailure #Radicalized

@werdahias @North Have you come across this account? @permacomputer

@JazzyKindaFella The People's Voice. It's a very fake news site. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People%27s_Voice_(website)

@jussi_og We tried spelling, but she can spell "park" and "beach" and "walk" and quite a few other key words now.

@inthehands @Npars01 I think the word is secular stagnation - too much investment money in an economy with too little demand creating too little growth for "real" places to put it. We need a better word though. I think it's a key concept for our times - we just don't need any more "stuff" - and secular stagnation has no riz.

@futurebird Plus quality of life, and a little bit of sense of reduced vulnerability to a very brittle system.

@futurebird Self sufficiency is dumb but there are huge efficiencies in closing loops - making, using, recycling as close to source as possible. If I have a worm farm, feed household scraps to it, use the worm casts to grow herbs in pots, collect rainwater to water them = dozens of tiny efficiencies - garbage bins, trucks, landfill sites, farmland, cold transport, cold storage, supermarket space, car use, water filtering, chlorine- all tiny, but same goes for so many aspects of life.

@permacomputer Can I suggest dropping the "70s" from the "What is"? (As a Board member of Permaculture Australia, very much 2020s and looking forward).

@permacomputer I went some of the way into this in '470'. My characters settled on peer to peer networks via ham radio internet.

@Radical_EgoCom @FisherPeter "Corporate" is shells within shells financialised to the point where the ownership is derivatives of derivatives. "Means of production" gets wierd when applied to things like orbital space for satellites or attention (media) or the cultural heritage as digitalised, that AI is comandeering, or the limited atmospheric landfill space for greenhouse gases. And supply and demand theory gets wierd when people have so much crap that op shops won't take donations of it. 2/2

@Radical_EgoCom @FisherPeter I think those terms are all classic economic theory, & mean something very different in classic theory to what we have now. We don't have anything like marketplace competition except perhaps in very small businesses. We have corporate ownership of most means of production, and both "corporate" and "means of production" signify different things to what they did in Adam Smith's time, & classic theory falls over when "profit" is is speculative, not surplus value. 1/2

@FisherPeter @Radical_EgoCom The essence is: I answered yes, but I hovered for a moment over no, because I think what we have now is not capitalism, not in any sense that makes sense of economic theory. It's a kind of neo-feudal-colonialist looting with no real name we all recognise. What we need is a version of very small business capitalism with aspects of socialism, distributism and collectively owned stewardship of natural resources, but it has no name we all recognise either.

@FisherPeter @Radical_EgoCom This is my current project. Writing it as a novel.

@Gargron Thank you for making this. I love it.