WhatsApp is the worst app on your Windows 11 PC right now, eating 1.2GB of RAM doing nothing
4d 33m ago in technology from www.windowslatest.comHow Do We Pay for Universal Basic Income? Tax Stock the Way Companies Already Issue It.
9d 4h ago in ubi@leminal.space from scottsantens.substack.comTo complete its green transition, Europe should mine its own trash
11d 6h ago in zerowaste@lemmy.ml from www.anthropocenemagazine.orgAI: just one big trade
11d 9h ago in economy from thenextrecession.wordpress.com‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival
13d 4h ago in economy from www.theguardian.comCapitalists Are Dispensable, Laborers Are Not
22d 6h ago in economics@lemmy.ml from www.paecon.net“The contradiction between socialized production and capitalistic appropriation manifested itself as the antagonism of proletariat and bourgeoisie.” – Frederick Engels: Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Universal Basic Income: Why We Need it Now More than Ever
4mon 8d ago in ubi@leminal.space from josephcornett.substack.comCapitalism Kills: Chemical pollution drives prostate cancer, falling sperm counts | Climate & Capitalism
4mon 24d ago in latestagecapitalism from climateandcapitalism.comMicrosoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch
4mon 25d ago in technology from techcrunch.comMy source was my own experience that my Windows 11 volume is encrypted and I have never been asked about key upload. So I assumed this happens automatically. I guess I am mistaken. I did not consider that my installation has no online Microsoft account. But since Windows is closed source no one knows for sure what gets uploaded.
There is no recommendation that a user can decline. Windows uploads the keys without asking, without consent.
Grid storage is increasing so rapidly that China and some other countries may be able to meet all their electricity needs from renewables as soon as 2030.
4mon 25d ago in futurology@futurology.today from reneweconomy.com.auRealistically, there is no transition yet, there is only addition. The world is adopting new energy sources, but it is not exiting the old ones. Oil consumption keeps growing.
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4mon 26d ago in nextcloudDanish researchers say that a tiny protein tweak could unlock nitrogen-fixing super-crops that slash global fertilizer demand.
4mon 1d ago in futurology@futurology.today from www.nature.comTechnological solutions tend to cause just more and bigger problems. Why not change the processes that need to change anyway to transform agriculture into a sustainable activity? Like producing and distributing food locally, vegan, around the year, outside, and without fossil fuel based fertilizer. Furthermore, nitrogen being obtained by the plants themselves does nothing to solve the broken nitrogen cycle as long as nitrogen gets still flushed into waters instead of being collected and returned to the farmlands. You can't fix an ecologically flawed process by attaching high-tech gimmicks.
What would the communist solution to climate change look like?
5mon 5h ago in climate@slrpnk.net from marxist.comThe Authoritarian Stack
7mon 15d ago in technology from www.authoritarian-stack.infoThe root cause of everything bad, the error of errors, is to have private property of the means of production. Without it, we'd have a wealthy, technologically advanced civilization within planetary boundaries. Socialism first!
Google removes Gemma models from AI Studio after GOP senator’s complaint
7mon 16d ago in technology from arstechnica.comLLMs make stuff up. How shocking!!! And Republican big brain Marsha from Tennessee figured it all out. Award to her nothing less than the Nobel physics prize. The US need more geniuses like her to speed up its decline. It is so brave of her to violate the first amendment of her nation's constitution to interfere with this nasty free speech. Truly suitable behavior for a representative of a failed state.
Is it cheaper to end poverty than to maintain it? Research says yes
7mon 20d ago in economics@lemmy.ml from www.abc.net.auI don't buy this. You wrote, “It's not really cheaper for those who matter (the bourgeoisie).” and then “Cheaper for government isn't the point that drives policy.” Yes, it is! Because the government is the government of the bourgeoisie. It is the ruling assembly for their capitalist economy. Ultimately, it is the working class who funds the government because it is the class which does all work. So, you could pretend that costs do not matter for the capitalists. But the working class can only pay in taxes what they got in wages. This means higher costs for government lower the profits of capitalists. (And we know that capitalists want to slash government spending wherever possible.) And that is why it is a cost to everybody in society when politicians decide to punish the poor for what is not their fault, when, for example, they maintain a homeless population at great costs while it is cheaper to house them in existing empty housing. This hurts the homeless the most, at the expense of everyone.











