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i criticize the tech industry

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they’re even paying off gen z tiktokers to push NATO now 🫠

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oh no someone let egg head near a keyboard again. i guess i’m going to have to tear this bullshit apart in a newsletter soon. they’re so desperate to pretend they’re still david, not goliath.

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*i’m sure

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there are so many books on the same topic and i’m you’d have a different way of approaching it though!

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one of the upsides of bad weather systems in canada is getting to see environment canada’s senior climatologist on tv

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Since 2007, Google has been buying cheap carbon offsets to say it’s carbon neutral. Now, as generative AI has cause its emissions to soar, it’s stopped buying those offsets and no longer claims carbon neutrality.

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reading through some old issues of processed world from the 1980s and enjoyed this dig at steve jobs’ personal computer revolution

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“The extraordinary pace of China’s green energy investment in recent years may trigger defensive reactions in the west. But it is our best hope of actually achieving climate stabilisation in time to stave off planetary disaster.”

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In this week’s Disconnect Roundup, a new project gives voice to the data workers behind AI you’ll never hear the tech CEOs talk about. Plus, recommended reads, labor updates, and other tech news you might have missed.

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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

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We can either have the Earth or we can have capitalism, but we can't have both.

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The Australian government is partnering with Amazon for a system of “high-security” data centers, effectively locking in Australia’s dependence on Amazon well into the future.

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I live in the “Data Center capital of the world” and tech companies are trying to develop on historic Black cemeteries. This increased demand for computing power is a climate justice as well as a racial Justice issue.

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This is a nice piece to keep at hand as it deftly lays out the ravages of AI on the environment. Even easier to digest for those of us seeing data centers (almost literally) gobble up our backyards.

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But without those data centres how will I learn the wrong answers to my questions??

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"[T]he fight against data centers and the generative AI tools they power is gearing up to be essential to determine who gets to chart our social and technological future." Fellow educators and students, let's develop a Luddite praxis and join this fight!

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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

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I’ve been loving @jasonkoebler.bsky.social’s reporting about Shrimp Jesus and the other wild AI-generated images he’s finding on Facebook. We don’t pay enough attention to that social network anymore, but it still has a massive impact. I was thrilled to have Jason back on the show!

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can you citizen’s arrest a douche

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who would i even get to cohost such an adventure?

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what if i made a podcast reading through the history of middle earth

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canada is the only commonwealth countries with two tombs of the unknown soldier — one in ottawa, another in st. john’s — because newfoundland was its own country until 1949. july 1 is both canada day and memorial day in NL. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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watching the unknown solider being buried in newfoundland and labrador’s national war memorial the other day, i was struck by how NL has things called “national” because it was its own country, but quebec has things called “national” so it can cosplay as one

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in french of course, so it was still practice

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i just spent an hour talking to my french teacher about data centers and newfoundland, and i think that was what i needed today

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i keep seeing “hawk tuah” everywhere and i have no idea what it is and i’m not sure i even care to find out

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I’ve been loving @jasonkoebler.bsky.social’s reporting about Shrimp Jesus and the other wild AI-generated images he’s finding on Facebook. We don’t pay enough attention to that social network anymore, but it still has a massive impact. I was thrilled to have Jason back on the show!

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The United States won’t allow a global tax treaty to move forward and now it’s threatening countries that tax multinational tech companies anyway. “US lawmakers and government officials view the tax as unfair and have threatened to retaliate if Canada moved forward with it.”

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lol of course they are, until the bubble bursts

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part of me can’t handle hearing this but another part of me wants that shirt for fun

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also I will never get my head round Nvidia being at the center of this bullshit. I fully understand the hows and whys it’s them - in more detail then you can imagine - but every time I see their branding it’s like finding out Logitech or MadKatz are suddenly the most powerful company in the world

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who knew all it would take was a hot sith to make me interested in star wars again

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A total ban is the only sane policy for Airbnb. There obviously needs to be accommodation in cities for visitors, but that shouldn’t be at the expense of housing units for people who actually live there. More governments should follow Barcelona’s lead.

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The story is always the same: major tech companies tell us they care about the environment to silence criticism, then never actually follow through. Google’s emissions are up ~50% in 5 years, following similar news Microsoft is also blowing past its climate commitments.

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“Acquisitions are not the only way for large tech companies to access start-ups’ intangibles and talent while keeping potential rivals at bay. A more hidden yet prevalent form of domination involves the use of corporate venture capital to get preferential access.”

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When I was in Copenhagen last month, I spoke with Information editor Rune Lykkeberg about why AI is overrated, the geopolitics of the tech industry, and what that means as the US tries to assert the dominance of Silicon Valley.

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Uber is racking up victories against drivers fighting for their rights and even opposing things like wheelchair accessibility in Ireland. It’s still a horrible company. More on that, plus labor updates and other tech news in the Disconnect Roundup.

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“If these groups [like EFF] had focused more on protecting communities and their needs from the beginning, would they have been more likely to notice that people are not only harmed by government data collection but by corporate data collection, as well?”

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Because Amazon benefits from it even more than they do. The de minimis threshold was raised from $200 to $800 in 2016 and most of what Amazon brings in from China falls under it. David Dayen says it was known in policy circles as the “Amazon loophole.”

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The funny thing about this is Amazon would have to *significantly improve* the quality of the shit they sell if they were planning to actually emulate Temu. :d

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I haven't bought anything from amazon in months. There's so much garbage and risk of counterfeit shit that I'd rather pay 10% more and buy from a more trustworthy company.

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Every service wants to be worse in case it makes line go up in the short term. And most think they can because there is no reasonable competition left.

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