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Free: Download the The Anarchist’s Tool Chest, The Anarchist’s Design Book, The Anarchist’s Workbench & Other Woodworking Texts
https://www.openculture.com/2024/04/free-download-the-the-anarchists-tool-chest.html
For Christopher Schwarz, American anarchism isn’t 'about bombs and leather jackets; it's about being an independent designer.' It's about working outside 'massive and dehumanizing institutions' (like corporations) and designing beautiful objects that last. He writes:
As a legally blind person touchscreens or touch buttons on every device are the bane of my existence.
The iPhone is very accessible, Android phones are reasonably accessible to the blind. But hardly anyone makes the touch screen on an appliance screen reader accessible.(apart from very expensive products made especially for the blind).
Why does the espresso machine at work need touch sensitive buttons? I've learned that I need the second button from the top. But since I can't touch the top of the machine to feel where the buttons are without instantly activating any other button on the way I find it very difficult to make a cup of coffee .
Touch screens are worse. and when some company does make them accessible for legal reasons (ATMs for example), they do such a shitty job you may as well ask for sighted assistance anyway.
„Salve, soldiers of the 9th Legion!
Today is a difficult day. [W]e have decided to decimate the 9th.
Many of you have already asked me why the legion finds itself in this situation given our many victories in recent years.“
Rob Zacny does an excellent job in satirising the messaging ahead of layoffs in the face of record profits.
The thing driving the need for the bigger more power and water hungry data centres is AI. Sparkling autocarrot. Where as a machine in a rack full of hard disks might consume a couple of hundred watts. A machine loaded up with a typical load of 8 "AI accelerators" can be pulling in the region of 5kw. Over an order of magnitude more power than the energy needed to store the lifes photos of hundreds of people.
And why ? To what end?
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