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Silicon Dreams and Carbon Nightmares: The Wide Boundary Impacts of AI(natehagens.substack.com)
2 points by ambientenv 2y ago|1 comments
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by ambientenv 2y ago
There's some further thought-provoking discussion in a recent conversation with Daniel Scmachtenberger [1] talking about what you suggest. [1] Moving from Naive to Authentic Progress: A Vision for Betterment - https://youtu.
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From naïve to authentic progress: "A Vision for Betterment" [video](youtube.com)
2 points by ambientenv 2y ago|0 comments
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by ambientenv 2y ago
And who manufacture[d,s] that desire?
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by ambientenv 3y ago
Canada, like most other global north countries (regions), cannot maintain its economy - at least in the expected way, that is of ever-increasing GDP as has been the trend for the last 75+ years - based upon birth rate alone. We are below th
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by ambientenv 3y ago
'nuff said: "This is about the things you do, the products of your creativity, your expressions of joy and anger and pain and love and beauty. It’s about a company who used to claim to support writers and other creators deciding t
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Sorry, I still want to build technology(redeem-tomorrow.com)
2 points by ambientenv 3y ago|0 comments
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When Empires Die(consciousnessofsheep.co.uk)
3 points by ambientenv 3y ago|0 comments
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by ambientenv 3y ago
Because it's all about, and only about, you. Yes?
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by ambientenv 3y ago
This feels true to me. So my question is - and I don't know the answer yet, though I continue to seek such - when do we, as a humanity, break this cycle? When, and how, do we override the greed impulse, the impulse for power and contro
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'Fire Weather' Author John Vaillant: What I Told Parliament(thetyee.ca)
1 points by ambientenv 3y ago|0 comments
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by ambientenv 3y ago
So, the technocracy can use its billions (trillions?) of dollars (in aggregate) of influence to continue to perpetuate technology which buries us in distraction and dopamine hits and furthers the capitalist agenda, yet we are unable to amas
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Robert Sapolsky: “The Brain, Determinism, and Cultural Implications”(thegreatsimplification.com)
1 points by ambientenv 3y ago|0 comments
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by ambientenv 3y ago
This is wonderful! I had no idea the museum, nor the Telecommunications History Group, existed. Having worked in Bell Canada for many years I had the pleasure of working on many kinds of switches including DMS-10s and also DMS-100, DMS-200&
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by ambientenv 3y ago
I don't know. We seem to get down right giddy, wallowing in our cleverness to create solutions to problems we, ourselves, have created, without addressing the root cause or making any changes which will negate the need for our so-calle
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Our Fragile Energy Economy(natehagens.substack.com)
1 points by ambientenv 3y ago|1 comments
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Effective June 7, 2026, Autodesk will no longer sell nor support EAGLE(autodesk.com)
267 points by ambientenv 3y ago|202 comments
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by ambientenv 3y ago
Wow. Spoken like someone who hopes (believes they deserve to) profit from the evolving technology, who views anyone not like them with bemusement and detached curiosity or, more likely, derision. Why do we - humans - feel it is so damn well
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Artificial Intelligence and the Superorganism(thegreatsimplification.com)
2 points by ambientenv 3y ago|0 comments
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by ambientenv 3y ago
Wonderful! Had similar experiences, too. My dad and I built the AR1500 receiver together on top of the ping pong table in the basement. My first "transistor radio" as a kid was also a Heathkit. I can recall test equipment like a
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America’s Empire Is Bankrupt(unherd.com)
8 points by ambientenv 3y ago|5 comments
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by ambientenv 3y ago
When you step back and look objectively and in an unbiased manner, you see that we (humans) are a species of dominance rather than collaborative partnership. It is a world where individuals must earn the privilege of survival, and by earn I
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by ambientenv 3y ago
"is not providing value to society" ... are we talking only the core values today of profit and growth?
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by ambientenv 3y ago
My suspicion is that his talent lies in financial engineering - though, perhaps, not in the formal definition - i.e. creating enough of a reality distortion field to attract and leverage other peoples money. I continue to question his value
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by ambientenv 4y ago
We somehow have this belief that the "market" is some immutable law of nature like say, gravity. The "market" is based on behaviour, albeit behaviour that is heavily manipulated and controlled (somewhat invisibly - compl
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by ambientenv 4y ago
Exactly. Democracies, it turns out, are actually very difficult to fully implement for a plethora of reasons. We, for the most part in the "west" live in a technocracy to which governing bodies are subservient and acquiescent. My
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by ambientenv 4y ago
I think the substack article linked here [0] is pretty good at addressing what you need to know. It used to be that money - capital - was used for value creation like a better product or service or some public good in the commons. Now the m
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Hydrogen – The Decarbonization Problem(youtube.com)
2 points by ambientenv 4y ago|1 comments
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by ambientenv 4y ago
"You can pollinate crops using bees kept in captivity. Many crops are pollinated this way." ... as much as I may appreciate the sentiment, it seems to me that we - the global we - have become adept at finding band-aid solutions (e
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by ambientenv 4y ago
I was in telecom and IT for 35+ years (Bell Canada, NorTel) and worked with on-prem and CO-located step-by-step and crossbar switches at the tail end of their prevalence. It was a joy to be able to take the time to properly lace cable harne

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