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Saw a VW add last night that pissed me off. It used a cover of Malvina Reynold’s Little Boxes… to sell SUVs. And when I looked it up, turns out it was AI.

Digital solidarity will be essential as we move forward. We will need both social solutions which facilitate community technical support and engineered solutions which make that support more effective. I like to imagine systems of distributed sever management where we build upon the computational capacity of those around us and the human capacity of those that care for them. I want to rely on people I love instead of opaque tech firms that only care about money. Compute power must not defeat humanity.

The important difference is that the power is allocated to a specific small subset of very public buildings rather than a municipality or even a neighborhood.

In defence of this argument: I’ve thought the same thing about projects in my city. Like say there’s capacity for new solar. The power company could build it and make a small impact on the power mix, or they could earmark it for a project/building and let them say they’re “100% renewable.”

Mostly just politics bs, but still feel like this could be somewhat deceptive in the wrong context.