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Amusing and interesting Kohei Saito's chapter about "Marx in the Anthropocene". Basically a neat speculation on what Marx could have said in his last years after his working notes on ecology and communal societies, and leaving behind Eurocentrism and productivism. According to Saito he would have enunciated "degrowth communism"!! Interesting, no doubt... Not sure though if it is an exercise in Marx-fiction --- but never mind, it might be an efficient fiction...
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#Books #SlowDown #degrowth

"#Microsoft has…effectively abandoned data center expansion equivalent to over 14% of its current capacity.

In plain English, Microsoft, which arguably has more data than anybody else about the health of the #generativeAI industry and its potential for growth, has decided that it needs to dramatically #slowdown its expansion. Expansion which, to hammer the point home, is absolutely necessary for generative AI to continue evolving and expanding."

wheresyoured.at/power-cut/

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At · Power CutA week ago, analyst TD Cowen revealed that Microsoft had canceled leases "totalling a couple hundred MWs," with "at least two private data center operators across multiple US markets." The report also details how Microsoft "pulled back on converting negotiated and signed Statement[s] of Qualifications (SQQs)," which it added
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In Wahrheit führt eine gerade Linie vom Hippietum und den LSD-Trips der ersten Gurus von SM zu Trump und Musk.

Und nun? Pörksen erzählt die Geschichte von Jenny Odell, die einen ganz eigenen Weg aus der Verzweiflung über den ersten Wahlsieg von Trump gefunden hat.

Zuhören. Und dann erst mal nichts machen. Warten, was sich entwickelt und Antennen dafür haben, wenn etwas passiert und dann da sein.

Deshalb poste ich in letzter Zeit immer wieder 'Erst mal innehalten'. #SlowDown

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