Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

“Creative Good: AI isn’t meant for us”

https://creativegood.com/blog/24/ai-isnt-meant-for-us.html

> How did we enter into an economy drenched in AI investments with (so far) little or no appreciable payoff for us, the citizens and students and customers? Because the AIs weren’t developed for us. They were never meant for us.

Unions raise wages for ALL workers, by the way.

In the 10 states with the strongest union density in 2020, the average median weekly wages were $1,121.70 — that’s almost $180 more a week than workers in the states with the lowest union densities.

#France:

Car parks with space for 80 cars or more are now required by law to be covered with solar panels.

- Parks between 80-400 spaces have 5 years to comply
- Parks with spaces of 400+ have 3 years to comply

This will result in about 11 gigawatts of power.

This should be required everywhere!

#ClimateCrisis #Mitigation #Electrification

One of the most exciting possibilities of distributed protocols are networks where all participating devices are powered down most of the time.

e.g. distant friends syncing data over a solar powered server which is only on when the sun is up.