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Corporations and surveillance?

Yep absolutely, and even those numbers likely represent raw emissions figures vastly lower than the true impact these data centres are having on global emissions.

For example, that Google report talks about EACs - here's a great podcast episode that explains why these kinds of accounting methods are a complete disaster:

Reveal: It's Not Easy Going Green

https://revealnews.org/podcast/its-not-easy-going-green-update-2023/

This move, at least on the face of it, seems to privilege the cloud giants over say, a company that maintains its own servers. That's effectively a handout of public resources to those already fabulously wealthy and powerful corporations.

That's where I drew the conclusion from

Isn't technofeudalism great?

I would like to hear you say it

What's strange about defending people's freedom to be themselves?

Why not do both?

What's the problem with drag queens reading to kids, exactly?

Very cool! Yeah I will definitely need to crack open some more of these tools and just keep playing, I haven't even tried most of them yet, will have to explore that select-4 module first though

Also that strip on your controller looks like fun to use!

I don't have a video to share but one of the things I discovered was, if I use the note expressions to randomize velocity a bit, and then map velocity to the likelihood of transposing notes up an octave.... now every time a midi chord plays, I can get a different voicing. Got a feeling I'll be using that technique a lot

Like it or not, things sometimes become symbols for other things, and especially given the political climate, it makes sense for people to get their guard up if they see something that looks like one of those symbols that represents, say, an utterly toxic ideology.

Not wanting to make others navigate that stuff unnecessarily is a sign of thoughtfulness and pro-social tendencies, not weakness.

With energy companies, you mean? Like, we've seen federal governments of various countries cancel (or re-approve) pipelines all the time - Keystone XL comes to mind, for instance

finally got around to watching this one today - fantastic