In my experience, the technical teams that move forward rapidly right now aren't asking "do we have the right people?" but rather "have we built conditions where people can show us what they can do? Where people can be their best selves?"
In The Psychology of Software Teams, I unpack empirical evidence behind why and how all of this works; you can get your copy now! 🚀
RE: https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/116866846666195007
Water cooling systems are not so closed.
"Microsoft and Nvidia market sealed liquid loops as a near-zero-water alternative to evaporative cooling... Microsoft describes cooling systems that are filled once during construction and then recirculate the same water, while Nvidia's Rubin platform runs a coolant that is 75% water and 25% propylene glycol. That one-time fill, however, is the step that produces a discharge, and the flush water leaves the site before the loop is sealed"
Turkije verbiedt Amerikaans lhbtqia+-cruiseschip om aan te meren
Turkse autoriteiten hebben donderdag een cruiseschip met lhbtqia+-mensen aan boord verboden aan te meren. Het land draagt "morele normen" en "familiewaarden" op als reden voor de ontzegging.
https://www.nu.nl/buitenland/6401967/turkije-verbiedt-amerikaans-lhbtqia-cruiseschip-om-aan-te-meren.html #nieuws #nunl #buitenland
This is well done and eye opening: the scope for CCS is just too big to bet on …
https://projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-capture-cant-solve-climate-change/
Hitze und Dürre, Stürme und Borkenkäfer: Allein im Harz sind in den vergangenen Jahren Tausende Hektar Wald zerstört worden. Beim "Bergwaldprojekt" helfen Freiwillige, neue Bäume zu pflanzen - weg von der Fichten-Monokultur hin zum klimastabileren Mischwald.
Oh dear, the media finally seem to be digging a little deeper into the finances of the Fascist Frog... and he does not like it.
He may be saying that rumours of his departure from UK politics are 'wishful thinking' but few can think that the revelations of impropriety are going to stop any time soon...
Of course, the real Q. is why have the Right media mow turned on him; we can expect they have a replacement in mind.
Wikimedia is expanding its human rights team, a division of the legal department that safeguards volunteers from digital and physical threats. The foundation recently deployed an anti-doxxing initiative offering contributors more anonymity; it has also connected Wikipedians to local evacuation and extraction services.
Defending volunteers and projects consumes 32 percent of the foundation’s budget. Wikimedia’s litigation costs have doubled since 2020, in part because there are more cases, which new privacy and speech regulations are making more complex.
Never mind AI threats. This is a more worrying global trend to me.
RE: https://flipboard.com/users/thenewsdesk/statuses/jskLMpkhQsuh5iPrU7R-QQ:a:43591897
@chu the gap between scientists and the public is what governments and businesses capitalize and manipulate
The Schleswig-Holstein paper used "muss" (must) throughout its 12 principles - creating binding requirements for open source implementation.
The federal concept shifted to "sollen" (should) - moving toward recommendations rather than mandates.
Also announcing the Autonomous Stack. It's a weekly blog series documenting my migration from proprietary services to self-hosted infrastructure, published every Tuesday on your favourite local fediverse! Not a tutorial. An honest reflection on what happens when you try to practice sovereignitymaxxing.
Another internet is possible. Here's me putting that to the test.
https://tarakiyee.com/welcome-to-do-flamingos-know-theyre-pink/
Audre Lorde's "master's tools" speech was not about tech platforms. So why does tech discourse keep citing it as if it were? I write about what happens when a Black feminist theorist's words get borrowed, stripped of context, and made to do work they were never meant to do.
https://tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshittification-of-audre-lorde-the-masters-tools-in-tech-discourse/ #enshittification #AudreLorde #techpolicy
“I Get No Ideas Inside the Machine”
https://tarakiyee.com/i-get-no-ideas-inside-the-machine/
> If we as technologists really believe technology can make people's lives better, then it isn't enough to refuse the bad tools, and it isn't enough to find kinder ways of relating to one another. There is no innocent ground under the Machine waiting to be built on. It has to be given back first.
Who would have thought?
I mean who would have thought that the way to save the environment is to flood the world with giant batteries.
Batteries are among the most toxic, environment-destroying products in human history.
How have we come to this state where batteries have become clean and green and renewable?
The Growth Death Cult.
The bottom line is that when it comes to saving our lifestyles or saving the environment, we choose to save our lifestyles, save capitalism.
Wachtlijsten in de GGZ en voor transgenderzorg kosten mensenlevens.
Toch gaat het hier nauwelijks over in de Kamer.
Vandaag was ik bij de manifestatie van Stichting Recht op GGZ in Utrecht, samen met lotgenoten, behandelaren en nabestaanden.
Want een ander beleid is nodig!
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Als we nou eens ongeveer dagelijks het goede voorbeeld geven vóórdat ze jongere worden? Kwartiertje autovrij bij school als absoluut minimum om te beginnen. #autoblij kan dan doorrijden, maar vroeger.
https://www.nu.nl/nujij/6401784/hoe-krijgen-we-jongeren-in-beweging-niet-met-wijzend-vingertje.html
"Als het aan het kabinet ligt, is het wel duidelijk. Met helmplicht, fatbikevrije zones en een minimumleeftijd moet het fatbikegebruik zoveel mogelijk aan banden worden gelegd. De fatbike verbieden of het gebruik ervan ontmoedigen klinkt makkelijk, maar is geen oplossing."
"Hij herhaalde dat hij alleen "echte Amerikanen" wil laten stemmen en riep op tot patriottisme. [...]
Trump waarschuwde verder dat het communisme "weer de kop opsteekt" in de VS. De president beweert dat vaker als hij het over zijn politieke rivalen heeft. "Het is als kanker, je moet het wegsnijden", zei hij."
Hartelijk #DoeiDag allemaal!
Vandaag zetten we weer stappen om digitaal onafhankelijker te worden van big tech. Wat wil jij aanpakken vandaag? Een andere navigatie app uitproberen? Een andere browser op je laptop installeren? Een plan maken voor het verhuizen van je Microsoft/Google e-mail? Een mail aan je manager schrijven dat je je zorgen maakt? We horen graag waar je aan werkt en welke stappen je afgelopen maand hebt gezet.
What the fuck happened to us? We used to be the sharpest knives in the drawer. We didn't need an ocean of fresh water and an entire nuclear power plant to pretend to do our jobs, we just did them.
“… a new disruptive transport technology is rapidly changing cities across the rich world. It is highly energy-efficient, costs almost nothing, reduces congestion and pollution, and obviates the need for huge car parks. Yet it is not the self-driving electric car, as tech moguls and car industry executives imagined. Rather, it is the humble bicycle.”