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00Aaron

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Journalist, photographer, community organizer. I now work in climate-related communications.

Economic justice & people power.

Due to Microsoft's pseudo-monopoly power in many parts of the economy, many of my toots are simply me pointing out what a god-awful company they are.

All opinions belong to my employer, Osiris, Lord of the Dead.
Retweets != economic sanctions.

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The Onion is really nailing it these days

https://www.theonion.com/clarence-thomas-torn-over-case-where-both-sides-offer-c-1851566812

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Yeah MIT Technology Review, I'm sure that's all they "could" be used for and could never be used to kill brown families in the countrysides of those who live in areas that have always been subjected to violent colonial forces. 🙄

At this point, this type of omission (how this type of tech, specifically, is financially viable to research because of its violent military applications) is an egregious ethical lapse and journalists should be called out for it.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/05/30/1092988/ai-directed-drones-could-help-find-lost-hikers-faster/

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Damn. The US is absolutely an oligopoly, through and through

"Enter the Intercept’s general counsel David Bralow, who said he had problems with the article. He didn’t have legal concerns. Bralow instead thought it inopportune, saying that attacking Bezos might not sit well with the Intercept’s own billionaire donor, Pierre Omidyar, especially at a time when he was keeping the organization afloat."

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/why-im-resigning-from-the-intercept

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We live under fascism.

Imagine if the underlying principle here (that a person that organizes X can be prosecuted for unlawful actions of anyone that participates in X)
imagine if that principal was applied to let's say, the cops? Or the government? Or even corporations?

But no, it's applied to protests.

https://www.vox.com/scotus/24080080/supreme-court-mckesson-doe-first-amendment-protest-black-lives-matter

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"The core of #Ithaca's vision requires shifting its 6000 buildings away from natural gas.

Instead of fighting Ithaca's campaign to remove gas from buildings, NYSEG has subsidized the work. "

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/04/1230109356/climate-emissions-ithaca-new-york

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@CelloMomOnCars
I live in Ithaca and work in the climate space (the piece linked at the end of the NPR piece was written by me, as you may see) and this part of the article was a little too rosy and uncritical.

NYSEG has recently actually hiked electric rates at a higher rate than gas, making it less financially feasible to electrify buildings.

Second, if you look at NYSEG's public disclosures, you can see they are moving away from renewables increasing their use of toward natural gas

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@CelloMomOnCars

If you look at these two public disclosures, you can see that in 2016, NYSEG had a greater share of renewables like hydro power and wind than it does today. Over those years it has also increased its share of natural gas in its energy supply mix.

Tricking NPR reporters is part of NYSEG's PR to stay out of trouble.

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A screenshot of the 2016 public disclosure document New York State Electric & Gas Corp.—NYSEG Among other things: Hydroelectric 10% (down from 15%) Wind: 1% (down from 3%) Natural Gas: 55% (up from 43%)

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Well, NYSEG's parent company, Avangrid spent $21 million on a recent political campaign to keep the public's hands out of the utilities. (Where did all that money come from? Ratepayers.)

If beefing up the grid was the real priority, the money could have been found elsewhere. They're gouging locals and misusing the funds.

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As Cory Doctorow's post in @pluralistic mentioned this article, it's important to see that the neoliberal approach to addressing #Climate runs into the same problems everywhere.

Here in Ithaca, our city's contractor BlocPower did the same with heat pumps and has significantly underdelivered on initial promises.

Here in the US, most everything is just the financial industry in disguise. Airplanes? Finance Industry. Healthcare? Finance Industry.

#ClimateChange

https://time.com/6565415/rooftop-solar-industry-collapse/

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To me, the most frustrating thing about capitalism is not that it exploits everything and commodifies everything and then, ultimately, turns all those things into trash.

The most frustrating thing about capitalism is that it has created such intellectual decay among most humans, that it is deemed as normal to accept that if something cannot be solved by the market, then it cannot be solved at all.

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