Timo Tiuraniemi / is on Nostr

Husband and father, activist for the commons (digital & environmental), programmer and philosopher. He/him

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2024-07-06 10:17:32

2000: If we switch to EVs, we can build enough renewable energy to both replace fossils and power the EVs.
2010: Oh, we also need more renewables to give everyone 4K videos. That's tricky but we can do it!
2019: Right, also we need energy for these cool crypto currencies. Totally doable, lemme just double the wind mills.
2023: AI is fun! Sure, we can build new solar panels, but the replacing fossil fuels part can wait a bit. AI surely is the last power hungry tech we'll get, right?

2024-03-11 15:33:37

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@npub1qg4…augv
"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say."
-- Edward Snowden

2024-02-10 08:16:13

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#Netanyahu wants to "evacuate" more than 1.3 million people, including 610,000 children from #Rafah. He knows there is nowhere left for civilians to go.
Make no mistake, this is not an evacuation plan. It's a liquidation plan.
#CeasefireNow #StopGenocideInGaza

2024-02-10 08:11:04

"A ground operation in #Rafah, which is under intense bombardment, will also have a disastrous impact on the entire humanitarian aid system in #Gaza which is already overwhelmed and struggling to provide support to a population facing the real and imminent risk of genocide."
-- Amnesty International

2024-01-31 10:14:50

@npub1hyk…3p33 on "isn't 'enshittification' the same as 'capitalism'":
"The capitalism of 20 years ago made space for a wild and wooly internet, a space where people with disfavored views could find each other, offer mutual aid, and organize."
I find this answer weak. A much simpler explanation is that capitalism 20 years ago wasn't "better", but corporations just hadn't yet had enough time to capture all web traffic to their walled gardens.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/30/go-nuts-meine-kerle/

2024-01-14 14:32:55

"The world is changed by average everyday ordinary people who have had enough and are willing to stand up for a country and a planet that is more humane, peaceful and just.
If you are a human being, stand up for your planet before it's too late."
-- Tom Morello
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=I1_v_CILgp0

2023-12-10 11:16:48

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@npub1qh6…7gez @npub1qg4…augv
I don't believe this is true.
We are heterotrophs and need to consume other life to survive. However, that doesn't mean we must consume more than what nature can regenerate. There are hundreds of millions of people living in harmony with nature, doing good things, right now.
In fact, we can also feed 10 billion people sustainably:
https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/how-feed-10-billion-people
The problem ofc is that our societies, especially in the Global North, actively prevent this.
Let's change them.

2023-09-27 14:09:25

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@npub1knz…c73p @npub1xxe…zxth
Many of us use "degrowth" deliberately even though we know of many more amicable options.
For me, the most important reason I use it is that "degrowth" is the only term that has been able to resist being co-opted by the hegemony. Practically every other positive sounding term has been lost to now mean just another spin on continued capital accumulation.
P.s. The growth of cancer cells doesn't sound good.
P.p.s. Parrique has more points:
https://timotheeparrique.com/fear-and-loathing-in-degrowth/

2023-08-26 15:25:08

Important post on #ClimateAnxiety by Päivi Antila:
"[S]haring painful feelings with others energizes, nourishes and invigorates the participants – and brings to life humor and a sense of togetherness.
[W]hen people open up to the flow of their emotional experiences, which can include despair, sadness, guilt, rage, and fear, they feel as if a burden has been lifted from their shoulders. When we dare to test the depth of our pain, we realize that it is not bottomless."
https://blogi.elokapina.fi/avaimet-ekologisen-kriisin-ratkaisemiseen-ovat-sisallamme/

2023-08-25 18:39:19

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@npub1qzc…yetl "Bur there was that one time in 2015 when I drove on a gravel road for many miles!"

2023-08-19 09:29:47

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@npub1vfa…pg2d
To those hopeful that #BlueSky is the answer, Jack Dorsey in full agreement with Musk's plan to remove blocking is crucial to know.
Jumping from one billionaire's playground to another is not the way – especially when the two billionaires are good chums.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/110/915/070/476/936/522/original/ab7d80c3334ca310.png

2023-08-04 13:06:50

Reading about #LK99, I keep seeing people believing these discoveries happen because of #capitalism.
That's just false.
We have accumulating knowledge because many different kinds of societies in history decided that seeking truth is valuable.
Our capacity to make new discoveries is in no way dependent on (neoliberal) capitalism. If anything, in capitalism the pursuit of truth has been hindered by nearsighted focus on STEM.
We can celebrate #science without celebrating capitalism.

2023-08-02 08:04:04

Today is #EarthOvershootDay , the day when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services for 2023 exceeds what Earth can regenerate.
While especially today it's tempting to draw attention to #overconsumption, in this blog post I argue that it's both ineffective to target individuals but also not the way the economy works.
Our focus should be on #overproduction.
https://tiuraniemi.org/blog/overproduction

2023-07-26 14:00:21

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@npub1qzc…yetl In general, I've dubbed this kind of climate delay masqueraded as serious statistics "brute pacifying optimism":
https://tiuraniemi.org/blog/optimism

2023-07-26 13:53:16

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@npub1qzc…yetl Great article!
In addition to the problems listed, the IPCC scenarios also require that the Global South remains signficantly poorer than the Global North until 2100:
"On average, existing scenarios maintain the Global North's energy privilege at a per capita level 2·3 times higher than in the Global South. Even the more equitable scenarios perpetuate large energy inequalities for the rest of the century."
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(22)00092-4/fulltext

2023-07-08 11:05:11

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@npub1qzc…yetl Exactly.
This recent Nature Communications paper, that used London as an urban case study, quantifies how terrible these plans to just electrify cars, without also reducing the total number of cars, truly are.
"Electrification, including moving the phase out date forward, results in cumulative emissions 7 times greater than the Tyndall carbon budget for the 'well below 2 °C and pursuing 1.5 °C' global temperature target."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-37728-x