Wrote something about a workplace I am still recovering from. By the responses from former colleagues it seems I’m not alone. https://melgregg.com/2024/12/31/gelsingers-fall/
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Professor of Digital Futures at University of Bristol. Consulting on #sustainability and #circularity in #tech. #Writing about #UX #AI #climate #silicon #hardware #software and #workplace #cultures they give rise to.
Watch all of it. But especially 12 minutes in. https://vimeo.com/1021878659
Time, place, and values
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Labor Tech Research NetworkMicrosoft is building a data center in a tiny Indian village. Locals allege it’s dumping industrial waste
https://restofworld.org/2024/microsoft-data-center-india-mekaguda-industrial-waste/
Thanks for this excellent analysis @adrianco - all of us who have been inside large tech companies and now speak from outside should be pushing for transparency on sustainability claims and standards https://thenewstack.io/sustainability-how-did-amazon-azure-google-perform-in-2023/
"we have been persuaded to use the word 'growth' to describe what has now become primarily a process of breakdown" https://www.jasonhickel.org/less-is-more
Irony: not being able to see Macbeth in a Portland park tonight because of thunder, lightning and rain
Sam ButlerThe Internet Can Run Without Data Centers 🔊
Any people on the East Coast want to set-up a Garage cluster and start serving pages? Get in touch, for real! (Mainly looking for people in Virginia for now!)
Garage: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/
Togepage: https://tog.page
Community Media: https://communitymedia.video (@ajroach42)
Undeniable: https://undeniablenetwork.com
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“Criticizing Silicon Valley is like punching a pillow. You punch hard, and the pillow gives way and absorbs the punch, and then takes its shape again” — Fred Turner in conversation with Toby Miller https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/culturalstudies/id385240141?i=1000659423452
Jason WilsonNew from Ali Winston and I in The Guardian: Under Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX allegedly funneled $4.9m to a Longtermist nonprofit that now owns a hotel in Berkeley, which plays host events featuring eugencists. Unfortunately FTX's trustees want the money back. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/16/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-eugenics-scientific-racism
Another politics of AI is possible https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/rp212_aradau-bunz.pdf