Charles , fuck all GenAI

A few years ago I was at a Purim Spiel that was a spoof of Frozen and one of the repeating songs had the bad guys singing "Do you want to kill a snowman?"

Every single time, one woman in the audience just fell over laughing.

Anyway, after spending a week hearing a six year old singing 'Hakuna Matata', I have somewhat greater context to understand why this was so funny.

Permacomputing is a beautiful fantasy about making computer systems that are sustainable, helpful and widely available. It's a goal to work for, rather than a thing to exists.

Digital sovereignty is equally a fantasy . . ..

If somebody replies to your post to say you've said something antisemitic, the best way to respond is to argue. Nobody likes an antisemite, so don't let your self be counted among them.

Things that emit a lot of carbon collectively that are not solved by eating the rich:

• Eating meat, especially cows.

• Fast fashion.

Yeah, rich people do eat more beef than normal people, but they don't eat enough by themselves to account for the emissions or deforestation. Chicken-eating, not a luxury food, has been climbing steadily for decades and it also has a cost in global heating.

Fast fashion makes owners rich, but its normal people who are wearing it. There's a lot of the Sam Vines boot problem in here, but, like the number of chickens we eat, the number of clothes a typical person owns has massively increased since the 60s. We have vast wardrobes full of rags.