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All this talk of artificial general intelligence is a head fake to draw attention from the massive and real harms that can be caused by ML systems today.
Today's systems can:
* Issue a warrant for your arrest for a crime that you didn't even do based on facial recognition
* Decide that you are a pre-trial flight risk and deny you pre-trial release
* Give a false diagnosis at a hospital, deciding that you are not worth putting on life support
* Tell a car to run you over as you cross the street
The 5.5yo asked me how much a dime "costs" (what its value is) and then "how do I get money?"
I told him by working.
Instead of working he put a bag on his head labeled "Money!" and declared our hallway a toll highway where anybody passing his bedroom has to pay him.
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Reviving Chromebooks with Ubuntu: Autonomous Servers, Planned Obsolescence, and Permacomputing: Half tutorial, half manifesto.
Step-by-step instructions with additional commands and things to look out for. Along with steps toward a better future.
https://anarchosolarpunk.substack.com/p/chromebook-revive
Chromebooks reach end of life and stop getting updates. They tend to either be trashed or scrapped. Let's make them boot to an up-to-date and secure OS and give them out to anyone who needs them. Make them into portable webservers, make your own off-grid networks. I talk about the issues, but also steps we can take to reframe our relationship with technology by changing our social relations. This connects with the revolutionary vision of the early internet & computing and the cross-over of the counterculture.
https://anarchosolarpunk.substack.com/p/opensourcesocieties
In the face of climate collapse we can move away from profit driven and destructive practices in tech - and towards decommodified, interoperable, modular, and appropriate technology that is shaped by the people, and made to last with as little impact on the ecosystem as possible.
#permacomputing #solarpunk
A tutorial and slight manifesto on reviving end-of-life Chromebooks. How to make them into autonomous servers, and why we need to rethink computing in the age of climate collapse.