crow_lands
@carlcarlisle.bsky.social
interested in critical tech and cloud/AI, labour, wider concepts of security, edutech, municipal socialisms, degrowth
tech oligarchs bad, but worse is the 'can do' mentality in tech... 'well, as a software engineer I have to help make the system of ICE/deportations/concentration camps work...'
November 26, 2025 at 8:33 AM
tech oligarchs bad, but worse is the 'can do' mentality in tech... 'well, as a software engineer I have to help make the system of ICE/deportations/concentration camps work...'
I think the fact he won the leadership with an extremely bogus set of promises has cursed the whole enterprise. It has seeped and dripped into public consciousness even amongst those who care little for the leftists who were purged/lied to
But the personal animus that he himself attracts, that I encounter whenever I travel the country, I don't really understand how people have such strong feelings about a person who has so little presence TBH.
October 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I think the fact he won the leadership with an extremely bogus set of promises has cursed the whole enterprise. It has seeped and dripped into public consciousness even amongst those who care little for the leftists who were purged/lied to
JR article by UK liberal Timothy Garton-Ash- v poor & demonstrates what a limp & inert grasp most older commentators have. The fact: in West, South & North Europe, the left exists. We might not always like it, but it exists. not true of Eastern Europe with the exception of fmr YU
October 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
JR article by UK liberal Timothy Garton-Ash- v poor & demonstrates what a limp & inert grasp most older commentators have. The fact: in West, South & North Europe, the left exists. We might not always like it, but it exists. not true of Eastern Europe with the exception of fmr YU
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Amazon's big server might be down but that doesn't mean I can't post my charts showing how fundamentally bonkers their energy consumption and associated emissions are :)
Fun fact: 2 years ago they stopped sharing their total electrical energy consumption, cool!!!
ketanjoshi.co/data-sharing/
Fun fact: 2 years ago they stopped sharing their total electrical energy consumption, cool!!!
ketanjoshi.co/data-sharing/
October 20, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Amazon's big server might be down but that doesn't mean I can't post my charts showing how fundamentally bonkers their energy consumption and associated emissions are :)
Fun fact: 2 years ago they stopped sharing their total electrical energy consumption, cool!!!
ketanjoshi.co/data-sharing/
Fun fact: 2 years ago they stopped sharing their total electrical energy consumption, cool!!!
ketanjoshi.co/data-sharing/
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Come and join an open house meeting to further shape these and work out what to do next. We need a collective hopeful tech vision if we have any chance of putting out the current ridiculous bin fire fuelled by hype, power & billionaire egos. Booking links in this post buttondown.com/society-of-h...
#3: A Hopeful Charter and First Events
Our draft charter, the first SoHoT community events, and a Hopeful Tech Reading Group with Empire of AI author Karen Hao
buttondown.com
October 19, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Come and join an open house meeting to further shape these and work out what to do next. We need a collective hopeful tech vision if we have any chance of putting out the current ridiculous bin fire fuelled by hype, power & billionaire egos. Booking links in this post buttondown.com/society-of-h...
well, maybe it's not important that 'NER' ie the HU govt, owns the single big converged ISP before next years critical election. Maybe!
October 19, 2025 at 7:09 AM
well, maybe it's not important that 'NER' ie the HU govt, owns the single big converged ISP before next years critical election. Maybe!
part of the issue with YourParty is that what's needed in the UK is /massive/ rebuilding effort on many different levels, especially in everyday life, and it isn't clear that the resources are anything like enough.
October 19, 2025 at 7:07 AM
part of the issue with YourParty is that what's needed in the UK is /massive/ rebuilding effort on many different levels, especially in everyday life, and it isn't clear that the resources are anything like enough.
Someone called Zarah Sultana 'the people's princess' on Instagram, which she then shared. Please no
October 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Someone called Zarah Sultana 'the people's princess' on Instagram, which she then shared. Please no
Krasznahorkai is a sort of modern gothic author, ultimately maybe a fancy Lovecraft with a big debt to Kafka. Whether you like that rolling in at you, for a long time, well
October 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Krasznahorkai is a sort of modern gothic author, ultimately maybe a fancy Lovecraft with a big debt to Kafka. Whether you like that rolling in at you, for a long time, well
So Slovakia is always the bad boy of CEE politics which neglects the way that Czechia is *incredibly* right-wing, almost without pause. Non stop Rightism
October 5, 2025 at 5:58 AM
So Slovakia is always the bad boy of CEE politics which neglects the way that Czechia is *incredibly* right-wing, almost without pause. Non stop Rightism
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I’m convinced that people generally want much more intellectually interesting content than most media producers want to provide
Fascinated that In Our Time is one of the BBC’s most popular podcasts among under 35s. The young people demand three academics and a peer discussing Demosthenes, apparently. And they’re right to do so.
September 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I’m convinced that people generally want much more intellectually interesting content than most media producers want to provide
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Nowhere near enough is being made of Google taking a clear, intentional and planned step into the techno-fascist position on energy and climate
It literally came with its own PDF white paper. This is clear and intentional and thought-through.
www.desmog.com/2025/08/19/g...
It literally came with its own PDF white paper. This is clear and intentional and thought-through.
www.desmog.com/2025/08/19/g...
Google President Praised MAGA Speech Slamming ‘Climate Extremist Agenda’
Interior Sec. Doug Burgum told an AI conference that data centers should be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear. Ruth Porat called his comments "fantastic.”
www.desmog.com
August 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Nowhere near enough is being made of Google taking a clear, intentional and planned step into the techno-fascist position on energy and climate
It literally came with its own PDF white paper. This is clear and intentional and thought-through.
www.desmog.com/2025/08/19/g...
It literally came with its own PDF white paper. This is clear and intentional and thought-through.
www.desmog.com/2025/08/19/g...
this is an old story now - the girl in the Union Jack dress - but I really have a problem with how the school set this up, really. Firstly, culture is always 'made', there is no 'fixed' culture in countries. Secondly, it emphasises differences which might not be good.
August 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
this is an old story now - the girl in the Union Jack dress - but I really have a problem with how the school set this up, really. Firstly, culture is always 'made', there is no 'fixed' culture in countries. Secondly, it emphasises differences which might not be good.
2010: here's a fun app and it shows all your friends pictures and
2025: here's an app that tells you when your family members are taking a shit and when they have pornthoughts and
2025: here's an app that tells you when your family members are taking a shit and when they have pornthoughts and
August 22, 2025 at 3:19 PM
2010: here's a fun app and it shows all your friends pictures and
2025: here's an app that tells you when your family members are taking a shit and when they have pornthoughts and
2025: here's an app that tells you when your family members are taking a shit and when they have pornthoughts and
it needs stating that the nu/alt-right is predicated on 'Low Taxes' (ie taxes levied regressively) and therefore cannot *help* but have neoliberal-type outcomes (even tho maybe it isnt neoliberalism as such)
July 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
it needs stating that the nu/alt-right is predicated on 'Low Taxes' (ie taxes levied regressively) and therefore cannot *help* but have neoliberal-type outcomes (even tho maybe it isnt neoliberalism as such)
the Data (Use and Access) Bill is *equally bad* and ill-thought, but only one LibDem MP has bothered to challenge it. I don't know what other rubbish they are ramming through!
This is the kind of mess you expect from a Major-style government that's lost its majority and is dying on its arse.
It's not about the theatre of it. It's just a terrible, indefensible way to go about making policy. And it has terrified thousands of disabled people in the process.
It's not about the theatre of it. It's just a terrible, indefensible way to go about making policy. And it has terrified thousands of disabled people in the process.
July 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
the Data (Use and Access) Bill is *equally bad* and ill-thought, but only one LibDem MP has bothered to challenge it. I don't know what other rubbish they are ramming through!
Adam Curtis doc: there was a path through, perhaps, to a post-Wilsonite left modernisation for the UK, of which the AES was an initial potshot; which appears in things like the GLC economic strategy, but it was a thin path, and almost nobody else (scandinavia? a bit?) did it
June 30, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Adam Curtis doc: there was a path through, perhaps, to a post-Wilsonite left modernisation for the UK, of which the AES was an initial potshot; which appears in things like the GLC economic strategy, but it was a thin path, and almost nobody else (scandinavia? a bit?) did it
In economic terms, Labour's default is & was extremely basic. The first 6 years of the Blair govt had big jobs announcements by *Tescos* *Sainsburys* and *Asda*. They're trying to reproduce this with AI. It's that basic! (and yes, those out-of-town malls killed your High St ofc)
June 15, 2025 at 8:02 AM
In economic terms, Labour's default is & was extremely basic. The first 6 years of the Blair govt had big jobs announcements by *Tescos* *Sainsburys* and *Asda*. They're trying to reproduce this with AI. It's that basic! (and yes, those out-of-town malls killed your High St ofc)
this is excellent but I suspect impact of gen AI on jobs is already being felt @emilymbender.bsky.social - not necessarily straight swaps, but using AI as ram to enable outsourcing to other countries (as jobs are deskilled)
New podcast! Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna are the authors of The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want, just out from Harper Collins. The Guardian calls it “refreshingly sarcastic” and Business Insider calls it a “funny and irreverent deconstruction of AI.”
Taking on the AI Con | TechPolicy.Press
Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna are the authors of The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want, just out from Harper Collins.
techpolicy.press
June 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
this is excellent but I suspect impact of gen AI on jobs is already being felt @emilymbender.bsky.social - not necessarily straight swaps, but using AI as ram to enable outsourcing to other countries (as jobs are deskilled)
Major Partigaz from Andor 🤝 the Philip Gould New Labourite from The Project (2002)
June 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Major Partigaz from Andor 🤝 the Philip Gould New Labourite from The Project (2002)
some thoughts on the Viner Guardian Jacinda Ardern interview:
- she's *likeable enough* and *nice*
- she rode a (odd) wave of popularity
- her own politics have always been early-stage Blairite
- this was always going to be inadequate to any of the challenges esp health, housing
- she's *likeable enough* and *nice*
- she rode a (odd) wave of popularity
- her own politics have always been early-stage Blairite
- this was always going to be inadequate to any of the challenges esp health, housing
May 31, 2025 at 7:00 AM
some thoughts on the Viner Guardian Jacinda Ardern interview:
- she's *likeable enough* and *nice*
- she rode a (odd) wave of popularity
- her own politics have always been early-stage Blairite
- this was always going to be inadequate to any of the challenges esp health, housing
- she's *likeable enough* and *nice*
- she rode a (odd) wave of popularity
- her own politics have always been early-stage Blairite
- this was always going to be inadequate to any of the challenges esp health, housing
but there is discomfort, if not panic! the tech industry was *tiny* by comparison then... and incapable of combining AI with outsourcing to eg Bangalore, or the Philippines
May 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
but there is discomfort, if not panic! the tech industry was *tiny* by comparison then... and incapable of combining AI with outsourcing to eg Bangalore, or the Philippines
I spent some of this morning looking at the passage of the Data (Usage and access) Bill and all I can say is: very strange times, where it is literally one (1) Liberal Democrat MP providing any serious scrutiny, the Lords all single-mindedly obsessing about sex/gender
May 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I spent some of this morning looking at the passage of the Data (Usage and access) Bill and all I can say is: very strange times, where it is literally one (1) Liberal Democrat MP providing any serious scrutiny, the Lords all single-mindedly obsessing about sex/gender
AI generated videos are 'end-of-pier' peephole content, and I suspect that is *the* niche.
May 26, 2025 at 4:43 AM
AI generated videos are 'end-of-pier' peephole content, and I suspect that is *the* niche.
yes but it's going to be very much 2007-10 isn't it?
May 25, 2025 at 9:25 AM
yes but it's going to be very much 2007-10 isn't it?