"Slide" Brombek @brombek@social.privacytools.io

After my talk at the European Parliament today, I asked a question at the end of the second panel (03:35:47) and a corporate lobbyist attempted to tone police me (03:44:50). This was my response (03:45:06). If I’d been any younger he’d have heard “OK Boomer” :)

https://web-greensefa.streamovations.be/index.php/event/stream/the-future-internet-regulation

Python: We made this really great programming language, you should use it!

Me: Okay, hooray!

Python: We made a bunch of minor improvements, please rewrite all your scripts to use this new version!

Me: Uh, why? My stuff works. I'm busy. Leave me be.

Python: Use our new thing or we break your computer.

Me: Fuck you, I'm going back to writing C code.

@deshipu For me, it's not that I'm technophobic but that I don't get pulled by in as much by the tech industry's marketting or "hype". I understand technology, leading me to know how empty (or worse dangerous) most of that is and how much better computers can trivially be if everyone wasn't chasing lock-in.

Unfortunately saying that technology has to serve an actual purpose can look like technophobia.

"oh a computer could definitely be conscious for sure. a pity that would require at least a millenium of sustained, cumulative effort and we're gonna lose all progress and/or die in the next century"

"In my work with mature students, I have found that inviting them to consider collapse as inevitable, catastrophe as probable and extinction as possible, has not led to apathy or depression."

http://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf

"Ethical advertising" is an oxymoron

Essays: The Eternal Value of Privacy - Schneier on Security #privacy #human #rights https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2006/05/the_eternal_value_of.html

an thought:
if you reject all the imperfect in the present, you won't have the stepping stones to reach the gradually more perfect in the future

life hack:

you can just say "websearch" instead of "google"

there is more than one search engine

don't internalize the brands' language

Losing my mind reading an article about how AI can "solve" climate change. As if ExxonMobil execs are sitting around going "gosh we WISH we could do something about climate change but we just haven't found the right tech yet."

I wrote a short story about love and loss and networks: Rogue Processes https://dustycloud.org/misc/rogue-processes.pdf

(CW: story is not about suicide, but it is mentioned)

"global #nuclear power has prevented an average of 1.84 million air pollution-related deaths and 64 gigatonnes of CO2-equivalent (GtCO2-eq) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that would have resulted from fossil fuel burning" co-authori is J. Hansen, one of the top global warming scientists https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es3051197

5 stages of data privacy grief

#rust destroys you as a programmer.