Plip Plop

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I collect articles on degrowth as an antidote to the crappy hellscape we are stuck with; I also collect articles on factory farms/wet markets (both of which I hope to live to see banned), mass incarceration, homelessness and other such cheery topics. Am mostly here because
I am a lazy animal activist in my spare time - feel bad about what non human animals have to put up with in the anthropocene.
The net is alright, but I find the idea of giving random bots training data gloomy making.
Ban factory farmingSixth Mass Extinction
DegrowthOverconsumption
Ecological EconomicsMass Incarceration
Surveillance Capitalism
Plip PlopJan 7, 2023
Al Jazeera (unofficial)Jan 7, 2023
Satellite monitoring detected 218.4 square km of forest cover destroyed in Brazil's share of the Amazon.
Brazilian Amazon deforestation up 150% in Bolsonaro’s last month
Brazilian Amazon deforestation up 150% in Bolsonaro’s last month

Satellite monitoring detected 218.4 square km of forest cover destroyed in Brazil’s share of the Amazon.

Al Jazeera
Plip PlopJan 7, 2023
This is possibly one of the worst articles I have read:
https://leightonwoodhouse.substack.com/p/the-dogma-of-harm-reduction
Unsurprisingly, the stupid creep is working on the Twitter Files. That guy's entire substack is filled with poisonous drivel.
The Dogma of Harm Reduction

Is Harm Reduction saving lives or costing them?

Social Studies
Plip PlopJan 7, 2023
I regretfully canceled my Current Affairs subscription. It was a wrench because I really do like Robinson. I think he does a great job of being as left as one can be without helping the right. But two pieces- a needlessly abrasive one on "trauma feminism" & another on "carceral feminism" made me switch to Jill Filipovic/Karakatsanis for this year. I agree with Robinson on most things and besides I like the guy, so I will support CA again (after the bad taste those articles left dissipates).
Plip PlopJan 7, 2023

Normally I am opposed to anything carceral but in the worst instances, I am not opposed to the criminalization of secret extraction of behavioral data. Shoshana Zuboff continues to be the sole person I trust. There is a lot I see in ai, datascience, social experimentation, other drivel that should be straight up banned as a warning:
https://orfamerica.org/recent-events/secret-extraction-of-behavioural-data-must-be-criminalized-shoshana-zuboff

I wish I had donated to NORML instead of DAIR. Any form of conflict is a last resort but I am not truly gullible-just trying to be civil.

Secret Extraction of Behavioral Data Must be Criminalized: Shoshana Zuboff — ORF America

Dr. Shoshana Zuboff, author of ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’ and Professor Emerita at Harvard Business School, is calling on lawmakers to criminalize Big Tech’s “secret extraction of behavioral data from our lives” and nix their immunity from “crackpot” versions of free speech that flourish o

ORF America
Plip PlopJan 7, 2023
As a rule I dislike Wired, but it would be nice if this were true:
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-surveillance-capitalism/
Shoshana Zuboff (whose book is my bible) is the only person in these wretched 11 years, who has given me any real hope. I hope Karakatsanis is a real person because he is the one other person I respect. But having only read his substack I gloomily suspect even he could be a chatgpt deepfake & that even real people's work is probably modified as a moronic social experiment by people who should get a life.
The Slow Death of Surveillance Capitalism Has Begun

A European Union ruling against Meta marks the beginning of the end of targeted ads.

WIRED
Plip PlopJan 7, 2023
https://www.noemamag.com/the-exploited-labor-behind-artificial-intelligence/
I am gullible. This article affirms again why one should go with one's gut. The whole article slobbers over the low paid gig workers in ai. Not one word about the people exploited by all workers in ai and data science. Not one word about the surveillance capitalism that from the low paid to the highly paid, all people in these unnecessary nuisance fields inflict on the rest of us. I really regret having donated to DAIR. This is faux left wing populism at its worst.
The Exploited Labor Behind Artificial Intelligence

Supporting transnational worker organizing should be at the center of the fight for “ethical AI.”

NOEMA
Plip PlopJan 6, 2023
In Gunda Farm animals' lives glow with poignant dignity:
https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Movies/2021/0415/In-Gunda-farm-animals-lives-glow-with-poignant-dignity
In ‘Gunda,’ farm animals’ lives glow with poignant dignity

Stripped of sentimentality, the documentary takes a rare look at farm animals and reveals the charms of their simple lives.

The Christian Science Monitor
Plip PlopJan 6, 2023
I will never be able to stand watching Gunda but I do respect Joaquin Phoenix for producing it:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jun/03/gunda-review-viktor-kossakovsky-farmyard-documentary-pigs
Gunda review – snuffling about in the secret life of pigs

In this quietly affecting documentary, the camera follows a sow and her piglets as life in the farmyard unfolds – and a sad ending inevitably looms

The Guardian
Plip PlopJan 6, 2023
anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖Jan 6, 2023

The #CongoRainforest is a #ClimateJustice Issue. The forest shrinks by, on average, 40,000 square kilometers every year. Only 11% of the land of the Congo Rainforest is legally protected from #logging. The rights of the indigenous peoples there - the Pygmy - have never been formally recognised.
75 million people rely on the rainforest for their lives, and their voice is barely heard.

#SaveCongoRainforest

In Solidarity with #VanessaNakate and #RemyZahiga

https://savecongorainforest.carrd.co/

SaveCongoRainforest

A carrd for an introduction to the campaign to save the second-largest rainforest in the world

SaveCongoRainforest
Plip PlopJan 6, 2023
Aspen ProposalJan 3, 2023

The idea that humans might move off this planet in large numbers is a staple of science fiction.

(We love science fiction!)

But in reality, there is no Planet B.

Millions of years of evolution have shaped us to fit this planet almost perfectly.

We are, in fact, expressions of the earth.

If we can’t fit in and flourish here, we aren’t going to do it anywhere else.

http://www.aspenproposal.org

#sustainability #Nature #futurology #biodiversity #ClimateChange #economics

Shifting the Paradigm | Aspen Proposal

The Aspen Proposal provides a description of a sustainable human civilization 200 - 500 years in the future. This is a goal that will focus our efforts, allow us to backcast and provide hope for those working for change.

Aspen Proposal