Marie-Cécile Paccard

@mcpaccard
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Every day we get up to fight for your right to privacy by improving Tutanota. Fight along with us by leaving #Google behind. Here's a quick guide how to take back your privacy online: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/how-to-leave-google-gmail
How to leave Google behind: Quick guide to take back your privacy online.

Stop privacy-intrusive services from exploiting your data. Now is the time to leave Google, Facebook & Co. This guide recommends privacy-friendly alternatives so that you can #deGoogle your life.

Tutanota

Universal Basic Income is Silicon Valley’s latest scam...
The plan is no gift to the masses, but a tool for our further enslavement.

UBI is not the patch we need. A weekly handout doesn’t promote economic equality — much less empowerment. The only meaningful change we can make to the economic operating system is to distribute ownership, control, and governance of the real world to the people who live in it.

https://medium.com/s/powertrip/universal-basic-income-is-silicon-valleys-latest-scam-fd3e130b69a0

Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam

In 2016, I was invited to Uber’s headquarters (then in San Francisco) to talk about the failings of the digital economy and what could be done about it. Silicon Valley firms are the only corporations…

#Bitcoin must die

BRUH.

If Bitcoin were to cease trading tomorrow, 0.5% of the world’s electricity demand would simply disappear. This is roughly equivalent to the output of ten coal-fired power plants, emitting 50 million tonnes of CO2 per year – which would cover one year’s worth of the carbon emission cuts required to limit temperature rises this century to 2C.

https://sluggerotoole.com/2018/10/12/bitcoin-must-die/

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-global-co2-emissions-set-to-rise-2-percent-in-2017-following-three-year-plateau

#ClimateChange #CryptoCurrency

Bitcoin must die

The UN this week released a report urging world governments to take immediate action to mitigate the effects of the coming climate catastrophe. It is no longer a case of whether catastrophe is comi…

Slugger O&#039;Toole
pour ceux qui s'intéressent aux ratés de la techologie et à l'envers de ses promesses, je recommande le magazine "Logic", avec par exemple un très bon article qui revient sur la promesse de faire disparaitre les jobs (https://logicmag.io/05-the-automation-charade/) ou sur les limites de l'IA (https://logicmag.io/01-interview-with-an-anonymous-data-scientist/) https://logicmag.io/
The Automation Charade

The rise of the robots has been greatly exaggerated. Whose interests does that serve?

@mcpaccard and finally, I muted group conversations with 2+friends : those are usually not important. The only notifications remaining are one-to-one chats with close ones (and even with this limited case, I find myself checking my phone more than I should...).
@mcpaccard I realized that nothing was as urgent as what I'm living in the instant, and I feel like I'm not less reliable than before : I still check my phone several times an hour so I can just call back usually

RT de Emily Angelopoulos :

Philippe Bihouix
"Une civilisation durable ne peut pas être une civilisation de la voiture"
[L'Humanité - 12/10/2018]
Cc @APEnvironnement ;-)

It’s important that I pause and analyse my feelings towards the tools I use and how they impact my life. I’ve tried to notice when I was feeling stressed because of notifications or social media pressure and how I could soothe this stress down with a few tweaks.

The only remaining sound notifications are: phone, Whatsapp and Signal. Mail is silent but still shows the number of undread ones, even if I’m thinking about disabling that soon. All other apps are silent / not showing anything.

#socialmedia #surveillanceCapitalism #transition #resilience
A quiet Saturday morning = perfect time to rearrange my homescreen. Got rid of Twitter and Instagram, they are now hidden in a folder on page 2. May delete them someday soon. I noticed that I‘ve not used them much lately, Twitter is an endless pit of anxiety and bad news anyway, and Instagram is just ads now. Amaroq stays, Headspace is back. The only app to still show notifications is Mail. I got rid of my Gmail account on here too.