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Tech’s emissions may be way higher than disclosed due to ‘creative accounting’ of carbon
Tech’s emissions may be way higher than disclosed due to ‘creative accounting’ of carbon
Accounting for the emissions of a global tech empire is not a simple task, and what industry standards we do have for disclosure may allow tech companies to systematically understate their carbon footprint. A Guardian report compares official declarations…
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September 16, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Tech’s emissions may be way higher than disclosed due to ‘creative accounting’ of carbon
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On a Labor Day weekend 10 years ago, I stumbled onto a journal article about the Luddites that transformed my perspective. These weren’t idiots who smashed what they didn’t understand, but a labor movement that saw exactly how bosses used tech to exploit them—and fought back.
September 2, 2024 at 8:07 PM
On a Labor Day weekend 10 years ago, I stumbled onto a journal article about the Luddites that transformed my perspective. These weren’t idiots who smashed what they didn’t understand, but a labor movement that saw exactly how bosses used tech to exploit them—and fought back.
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Generative ai monetizes a certain kind of individual hopelessness in society that is a result of neoliberalism destroying the social safety net and reliable jobs that give us the ability to pursue things in our spare time, or even have dreams. Most don't fall for the con, but some do, hard.
There's entitlement to GenAI stuff that baffles & infuriates me
I love musical theatre, but I do not have a good singing voice. Am I sad about this? Sure! But I am not ENTITLED to a starring role in Les Mis, and burning down rainforests for a voice-stealing robot wouldn't "level the playing field"
I love musical theatre, but I do not have a good singing voice. Am I sad about this? Sure! But I am not ENTITLED to a starring role in Les Mis, and burning down rainforests for a voice-stealing robot wouldn't "level the playing field"
Entirely aside from the absurd and deeply incorrect idea that machine-generated text and images are somehow "leveling the playing field" for marginalized groups, I think we need to interrogate the base assumption that acknowledging how people have different abilities is abelist/discriminatory.
September 3, 2024 at 12:06 AM
Generative ai monetizes a certain kind of individual hopelessness in society that is a result of neoliberalism destroying the social safety net and reliable jobs that give us the ability to pursue things in our spare time, or even have dreams. Most don't fall for the con, but some do, hard.