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(DIR) Post #AzrEwfTZiza36OXMDA by JulianOliver@mastodon.social
2025-11-03T03:37:41Z
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It is great to see increasing momentum to get off US BigTech and onto alternatives. It is however important to zoom out a bit and check where the alternative is actually hosted - and I don't just mean geographically. Many BigTech alternatives, even if non-US owned, run atop Amazon AWS or MS Azure datacenters anyway. So you're leaving the room but staying in the building.To disempower the deep capture US corporations have over tech globally, we're going to need to be rigorous, & act on it.
(DIR) Post #AzrEwlrC062MtNdIrA by JulianOliver@mastodon.social
2025-11-03T03:48:39Z
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I will say it's totally fair enough to mail a service in advance of signing up and asking "where would my stuff be stored?" and push for detail. Keep them on their toes, turn up the heat.We would want to know the same with any item of ours that is precious. And just as we might also not want to participate in, or contribute to, markets or regimes that we're ethically opposed to.
(DIR) Post #Azt7nXlGj9olCrR1sm by dormouse759@mas.to
2025-11-03T04:05:37Z
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@JulianOliverPeople have been psychologically massaged into believing their data don't matter, that their actions get lost into chaos immediately to never return and that all their given-up agency is in the hands of good people.This must stop.I can't even see astronomy picture of the day, because NASA doesn't have the money to run properly.We are nearing two digit population count in billions. We need to get off this planet.Yesterday.And safe.
(DIR) Post #Azt7nYweKKW0sRldGC by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-04T02:37:21Z
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@dormouse759> We are nearing two digit population count in billions. We need to get off this planetSpoken like a tumour confined to one organ. What we need to do is learn to stop our population growing endlessly and harming the biosphere our lives and health depend on. If we can't do that, we don't deserve to spread beyond one planet.@JulianOliver
(DIR) Post #Azt7tbOE9MncCHXwAa by dormouse759@mas.to
2025-11-04T02:38:26Z
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@strypey @JulianOliver no, you are wrong.We need both.
(DIR) Post #Azt8Cmw1RxJbVPVDQ8 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-04T02:41:56Z
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@JulianOliver > To disempower the deep capture US corporations have over tech globally, we're going to need to be rigorous, & act on itThere are many layers to this. I tried to sketch them out here, along with projects that are working on them;https://disintermedia.net.nz/re-democratising-the-internet/I updated the examples when I reposted it last year, but even if the it's now a bit out of date, it's still useful as an 8overview.
(DIR) Post #Azt8Fm74xf5DpH69q4 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-04T02:42:09Z
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@JulianOliver > To disempower the deep capture US corporations have over tech globally, we're going to need to be rigorous, & act on itThere are many layers to this. I tried to sketch them out here, along with projects that are working on them;https://disintermedia.net.nz/re-democratising-the-internet/I updated the examples when I reposted it last year, but even if the it's now a bit out of date, it's still useful as an 8overview.
(DIR) Post #AztHqvqybpXMKxMKkC by JulianOliver@mastodon.social
2025-11-04T04:29:58Z
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@strypey @dormouse759 Getting pretty OT, but the global population is not the problem. Our grotesque consumption habits are, especially in rich countries like ours Strypey. Looking at warming alone, the per-capita CO2e emissions of a single adult here in Aotearoa are equivocal to 12 in Nigeria (7.22 vs 0.58).https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capitaWe could easily quadruple the population if we were to switch to plant centered diets, and a renewable centered energy system, stopped our binge-consumption.
(DIR) Post #AztI6k8Zw9uqdL8EEq by JulianOliver@mastodon.social
2025-11-04T04:32:50Z
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@strypey @dormouse759 Getting pretty OT, but the global population is not the problem. Our grotesque consumption habits are, especially in rich countries like ours Strypey. Looking at warming alone, the per-capita CO2e emissions of one adult here in Aotearoa are equivocal to 12 in Nigeria (7.22 vs 0.58).https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capitaWe could 4x the population if we were to switch to plant centered diets, and a renewable centered energy system, stopped our binge-consumption. And yes, a loaded "if"
(DIR) Post #AztVzBV7iMnsXey0Ia by JulianOliver@mastodon.social
2025-11-04T07:08:15Z
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@strypey Good words.
(DIR) Post #Aztftf3PvHo20H0pRQ by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-04T08:59:26Z
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Thanks @JulianOliver : )
(DIR) Post #AztgrJd4i1cEvk8WQq by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-04T09:10:13Z
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@JulianOliver> the global population is not the problem. Our grotesque consumption habits areIt's pretty clearly both. Even with every human living the most regenerative lifestyle imaginable, the Earth still has a finite carrying capacity. The closer to carrying capacity we get, the more constrained and flawless our practices have to be to survive. So never ending population growth is both unsustainable, and undesirable. @dormouse759
(DIR) Post #AzthFgj0UXAdVhX5xQ by dormouse759@mas.to
2025-11-04T04:39:39Z
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@JulianOliver @strypey maybe stopping the wars would be a good idea?I don't think you can find true numbers on how much oil that stupidity burns.Shoot with airsoft guns and in videogames.Real life is for fucking around and finding out.(Also I am long term minimizing my consumption beyond what is healthy for me. Lend me a hand here, greedy assholes?)
(DIR) Post #AzthFiH4jM14JeTohM by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-04T09:14:37Z
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@dormouse759> maybe stopping the wars would be a good idea?100%.> I don't think you can find true numbers on how much oil that stupidity burnsMilitaries around the world are very concerned about climate change, because it has both geo-strategic and logistical implications for what they do. I think you'll find they track their fossil fuel use pretty carefully and report on it. If your govt is transparent about passing on the reports it receives, you can read just how much.@JulianOliver
(DIR) Post #AzthO4cbWn1XwQXKAi by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-04T09:16:09Z
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@dormouse759> no, you are wrong.Which bit and why?@JulianOliver
(DIR) Post #AztxAQQXG3IAmXPBnk by dormouse759@mas.to
2025-11-04T12:12:27Z
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@strypey @JulianOliver "we need both"Because Earth is finite and time is not.
(DIR) Post #AztyijxHG8LX9Be9Jo by dormouse759@mas.to
2025-11-04T12:30:17Z
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@strypey @JulianOliver How do you publicly report oil costs of transporting something nobody must know has moved?
(DIR) Post #AzvQard9pVfYVhEDUe by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-05T05:17:24Z
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@dormouse759> How do you publicly report oil costs of transporting something nobody must know has moved?You report the oil use in general terms (eg 'oil used in Iraq in 2003'), and you report the specifics once they're declassified. As long as sufficiently detailed records are kept - and militaries are among the best in the world at that - they can be reported.@JulianOliver
(DIR) Post #AzvQsPtlfxQViHMqR6 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-05T05:20:34Z
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@dormouse759> Because Earth is finite and time is notWell, it is according to most cosmologists. They just disagree on whether it ends with a Big Cruch or heat death of the universe when it reaches maximum entropy. Read The Three Body Problem trilogy for a full exploration of the futility of trying to keep a species alive forever.@JulianOliver
(DIR) Post #AzvRS2t6hqRmlv30am by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-11-05T05:27:00Z
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@michaelgraaf > within a decade or two of people facing lower infant mortality and social safety netsSure. Amartya Sen has a great chapter on this in Development as Freedom. Where he compares the outcomes of China's One Child Policy and India's approach in the same time period. What this shows is that the problem can be solved, with universal healthcare, guaranteed minimum incomes, etc. But the problem still exists, and without those, it's an existential one.@JulianOliver @dormouse759