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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2w ago

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@ketan/117309631799402974 Before you use AI to "create" a song 🙄 or ask chatGPT for information you could track down yourself, spare a thought for the places where those data centers are. (And while you're at it, maybe also start thinking about the places where all of those minerals that make this go are being mined...)

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Ketan Joshi

@ketan@climatejustice.social

This is why tech companies only want voluntary and partial standards for clean energy. They keep talking about how they're "powering clean energy" and "driving the energy transition", but look what happens when you hold them to that claim https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/st-louis-data-center-lawsuit-b3052142.html

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Ketan Joshi: "This is why tech companies only want voluntary an…" - Climate Justice Social

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 1w ago

I keep looking at AI and thinking that it's promising the same things object oriented programming was "supposed" to do, only people are taking the claims much more seriously. People seem to have become more credulous over three decades, not more critical.

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 1mo ago

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@Catvalente@wandering.shop Remember that time you could search the web and find what you wanted?

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2w ago

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@YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world Is this a clever update over Iran-Contra, or more of a hack? Discuss!

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 3mo ago

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green I live in one of the greenest parts of Boston, and it's not unusual to hear loud birds at 3AM. My community garden is in another part of Boston, and we've made sure to plant such that we attract pollinators and birds. And it's working. I live in luxury because I have greenery in my life. Please, protect your existing forests and plant smaller things native to your area! 1/

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 3mo ago

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@MissConstrue@mefi.social What makes me want to scream is that this was predictable for months. Once that NYT story dropped--and that was hardly the first beat--I knew that there was more waiting to be dropped at the worst possible time. This didn't require being psychic, it required awareness of previous history. People showed their asses with this one. Outlets like @theprospect@mastodon.world that scolded us to respect realpolitik acted like they couldn't see what was coming. Once again, if it's about women--eh.

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

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@futurebird@sauropods.win I might be more of an extremist than most, but I took my books off of Amazon years ago, and I left Twitter and Facebook early on. And as much as the final straw was over ethics, the business terms on Amazon were increasingly predatory. (Same, I hear, for Facebook, but I never used it as such.) The "reach" that you might get on big platforms is not free, sooner or later.

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 1mo ago

'No one is prepared for the consequences' Would you people shut up already? I heard these lines uttered in bad 70s cop shows. You sound like dorks. But also: you're worried about "agents" blackmailing people? Wow, that's really specific, and not suspicious at all. As I said, dorks. https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-chief-scientist-ai-risks-slowdown-rogue-agents-consequences-safety-2026-9 #technology

businessinsider.com

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

My young adult son just chewed me out for starting to identify as an anarchist. He's also convinced that Newsom is our best shot. I need a moment.

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

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@afewbugs@social.coop So when are we doing up the science 'zines?

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

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@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social Okay, maybe. But they still make me sick. And screw them any way, because I doubt they've also suddenly developed empathy for the many, many people they've always been okay with having to scrap through life. I'm not going to stop people with stronger stomachs, but I'm not doing anything myself without a very good apology.

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 3mo ago

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green It is disheartening that people refuse to believe that the promises we have been sold about The Next Great Energy Revolution, the benefits of which are always just around the corner, five to ten years out, are not much better than vaporware. Because this has been going on for centuries! People, coal became popular as a way to "transition" away from wood. The result: we used more wood than ever--what do you think the struts that held up those coal mines were made of? 2/

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

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@zzt@mas.to Did he block you yet? Because you used his name, and well, it can't be used in vain.

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 3mo ago

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@futurebird@sauropods.win Weird how not creative fascists and totalitarians are @davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social @Pineywoozle@masto.ai @jredlund@social.linux.pizza

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 3mo ago

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@markhburton@mstdn.social The amateur historian in me keeps circling back to enclosure. An "If only" moment. @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

It's not available yet for everyone to read, but the Granillo v. State decision out of the Hawai'i Supreme Court is the forceful rebuttal to the predations of the Roberts' SCOTUS that a lot of us have been waiting for.

(I believe Todd Eddins wrote the opinion. Here's more about him https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_W._Eddins)

If nothing else, this case should be the basis for the "packing" of the court when we throw MAGA out, if not why we need to impeach Roberts et al.

#uspol

en.wikipedia.org

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

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@zzt@mas.to You are so much charitable than I am. You see cognitive surrender, I see...something else. I have no proof of anything, but I'd look at Framework, NewsBlur, that attempted BlackBerry redux, and Blue*Sky if I wanted to dig in. And now the LLMs. I'm bitter because he encouraged enthusiasm about the first two before they both had their WTF moment. Now I'm just entrenched in cynicism. He's also boosted some renewable bs--sodium batteries?--and I can only roll my eyes. Sorry, babbling.

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 1mo ago

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@jeninmass@disabled.social Same. I only read her because my oldest liked her, but never thought it was much. And the women my age who swooned made me a little ill. @BenRiceM@mastodon.social

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

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@YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world It's such a mind boggle to me that so many formerly colonized places depend on *sales* to the same people who savaged them. This won't end well. @Tarnport@mastodon.green

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

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@davidcelis@xoxo.zone I love how hypercapitalists/technofeudalists are selectively sensitive to the exploitation their industries are built on. @cratermoon@zirk.us

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 3mo ago

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@stefan@stefanbohacek.online What I'm hearing is that they'll be left with $100 billion.

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 3mo ago

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@paulk@writing.exchange And as the saying goes, it's intersectional, or it's bullshit. @aadschippers@mastodon.social

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

Replying to

re: Antisemitism; slur; KKK: don't let this shit creep into leftist spaces

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 3mo ago

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@MissConstrue@mefi.social Oh, dude, read the second one. I want to be sick (which I appreciate is not usually a good recommendation, but you know what I mean). I think the author does a good job of unpacking a lot of the misogyny. FTR, I don't think cheating has to exclude someone. If I could have voted in 1988, I would have voted for Hart. But we're past that, and Anthony Weiner is a more recent demonstration of why we have to be weary about lousy judgment. I need to drink some seltzer now.

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

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@zzt@mas.to And what? Sorry, but anyone who has had the privilege he has doesn't get to decide who's in and out of the progressive/leftist club.

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

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@Remittancegirl@mstdn.social I spent a decade being chilled by how many people didn't care about Syria as it was playing out in real-time. (They stopped counting casualties for a long time.) One explanation is that most human beings can't comprehend numbers after a certain point, and it becomes too abstract to care. Another explanation is that we don't talk about things enough because we want to focus on how much better everything is now.

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

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@YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world >>All of the breathtaking splendor is natural. The ruins are not. Damn. Very true. But I'm trying to conceive of a history of The Classics without ruins, and I've got nothing. Why do we glorify that? @Tarnport@mastodon.green

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

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@Linux@planet.moe Release the files

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

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@YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world Stephen Collins was on The Waltons?

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

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@YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world It's all connected...?

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

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@YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world Oh yeah. I hope the SOB got help since he didn't get any kind of legal penalty. And stayed away from children.

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

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@YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world Someone wrote a blog post several years ago that talked about a television actor who played the father on a popular show who brutally assaulted her as a young woman. Widely believed to be Waite.

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

I am not Wu's biggest booster, but screw Collins. -- Amid reelection fight, Southie state senator pitches rival property tax proposal | WBUR News https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/07/24/nick-collins-michelle-wu-property-tax-plans #Boston

wbur.org

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

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@universalhub@mastodon.online Math problem: at $300/hr, how many hours will attorneys need to bill before they spend down the billions that ICE was granted in the recent congressional budget? I just like math problems.

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

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@faithisleaping@anarres.family Genuine question: where do "coping mechanisms" fall into this? I think about the people I know who write things down, have automated reminders, use bullet journals, etc. Is this helping or hurting?

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

Does anyone else in the northeast feel sleepy and weak every time we have a bad air quality day?

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

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@Linux@planet.moe I will always vote for the lesser of two evils.

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

Replying to on planet.moe

@Linux@planet.moe I didn't say they were my friends. I said that in those elections, they were better than the GOP. Again, vote in the primaries so we increase our chances of getting good people.

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

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@Linux@planet.moe Clinton's victory in 1992 bought us three more decades of reproductive rights. The difference between a Trump win and an HRC win in 2016 is the SCOTUS we have today. I know all about how imperfect both Clintons are. I don't care. They were always better than their actual alternatives, not the ones I would have wished for.

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 3mo ago

#thursdayfivelist is #SciFiTunes today? How are we not just making the whole thing about #afrofuturist legend Sun Ra? Make it make sense! https://pods.link/us/i/1516023634

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

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@Linux@planet.moe Then everyone needs to vote in the primaries so we don't end up with these choices. But if we do, not voting ends up screwing us. Voting for the centrist in the general isn't making any changes, but it's buying us time that's keeping the right from sending us back to the 19th century.

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

There was a question about LLMs that dominated my feed. (I'm not avoiding the original thread to be passive aggressive; my filters are such that I don't see all of the posts, and replies might get weird. I'm not complaining.) I saw enough to understand that there is a suggestion to make artificial, ahem, intelligence less toxic in every way. What I didn't see: WHAT is the use case for these tools? WHY do we need these things? People are desperate for work now. Why is this the time? #tech

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

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@Linux@planet.moe I will vote for him if he wins the primary and it's him or the GOP. And then I'll vomit.

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

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@pip@infosec.exchange And he talked it up about a year after the story broke. I considered him a trusted source (even after Framework). @zzt@mas.to

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

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@pip@infosec.exchange I have to look it up, and it might take me a minute. And actually I meant Kagi! (But I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop with NewsBlur, which seems to be baiting and switching me so I buy their more expensive service.) @zzt@mas.to

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

Every time you use A*I-generated content, I lose respect for you. Eventually, I block you.

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

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@YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world He's so stupid and evil, he's annoying.

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

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@Linux@planet.moe I completely disagree. I would vote for Clinton, Gore, Obama, HRC, Biden, and Harris all over again. As imperfect as they were, they were better than Bush I, Dole, Bush II, McCain, Romney, and Trump, and the differences were real. I don't get to build candidates in a lab; I have to go with what's available. Yeah, it's terrible to have bad options, but not choosing is the worst option of all. I'm not going to let other people choose for me.

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Deb Nam-Krane @dnkboston@apobangpo.space

· 2mo ago

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@Tarnport@mastodon.green Yes, thank you. People I know with similar interests love going to be "ancient" spots in Europe, and I just cringe. I keep thinking about what Fanon said: every font of European grandeur was either built by people not from there, or with the spoils of conquest. Thanks, I'm good.

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