Cloud Anthropologist 💻☁️; Fixing Futures Postdoc at Goethe University; SFFH Writer; Boricua 🇵🇷; He/Él
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the recording of yesterday’s episode of THE RIFT, a conversation with @cloudAnthro about the environmental politics of data centers and the cloud, is now online. really enjoyed this one: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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On April 8, at Cnam, the anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate (aka @cloudAnthro, @FixFutGoetheUni) will tell us more about his current book project, "Cloud Ecologies": an environmental ethnography of data centers in New England, Arizona, Puerto Rico and Singapore☁️
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There's lots of hype about Malaysia's new data centers, but "we do not have enough water and power," says the mayor of Johor Bahru. "While promoting investments is important, it should not come at the expense of the local and domestic needs of the people." restofworld.org/2024/malaysi…
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Octavia Butler’s novel PARABLE OF THE SOWER was published in 1993. The President whose win led to so much…destruction was named “Christopher Donner” (yes, DONNER) and his slogan was “Make America Great Again”. This novel need to stay a cautionary tale.
Octavia knew.
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"Equal" part of the Union? Ask Hawai'i how equal they are. You so gleefully serve the Empire that oppresses us, that you fail to notice how disposable we are to them🗑️. For years you went to Congress on our behalf, what did you achieve? Where was your 'Union' 🇺🇲 during 🌀 María?
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One last pre-election essay from me—with a simple demand:
Stop saying "Puerto Ricans are Americans!" when you want to defend us from Trump and racist jokes.
We are Puerto Rican, and our dignity does not depend on the citizenship of our colonizers. albertomedina.medium.com/pue…
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While Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 stands at the precipice of electing a pro Independence Governor for the 1st time in its 500+ year colonial history
*thanks to a progressive 2 party coalition
US 🇺🇸voters are choosing btw 2 pro genocide major party candidates for President
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Hoy salgan a votar con calma, convicción, esperanza y amor. De eso se trata, del amor por Puerto Rico.
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Amazing this election 🗳️ rally wasn’t for *either* US 🇺🇸political party
#LaAlianzaVa is coalition of progressive Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 based & focused parties ( MVC & PIP ) that acknowledge PR is a US colony & want that to *change*
& know PR ‘s global diaspora has a role to play …
🇵🇷 Eyes on Puerto Rico:
Tonight Puerto Ricans amassed the second largest political rally this ENTIRE cycle - behind only Harris’ 75k-person Ellipse speech.
Over 50,000 Boricuas rallying for the anti-Trump, anti-corruption Alianza movement & @juandalmauPR.
Political earthquake.
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"The cloud...is already broken, already breaking."
- From my latest piece in @WIRED on Big Tech's fundamental unsustainability (inspired by #iPres2022). Feels especially relevant given what's afoot w/ this bird app.
#RIPTwitter #datacenters #cop27egypt
wired.com/story/cloud-data-s…
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A month post-ep. 38: Apologized to a plant for not watering, then uploaded 100 pics to the cloud. 🌱💻
Are we nurturing the right things?
What if our digital habits were as mindful as our earthly ones?
Let's rethink our tech 😍.
Ep 38 with @cloudAnthro
open.spotify.com/episode/1Ba…
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As the tech industry pushes to build more massive, energy-hungry data centers, residents in some communities are trying to block the projects — and winning. In @washingtonpost, @ceodonovan chronicles one such fight in Peculiar, MO. washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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In two weeks, @juandalmauPR could become the first pro-independence governor in Puerto Rico's history.
That's emblematic of a seismic shift in the island's politics. And it could signal the beginning of the end for PR's 126-year-old colonial status. albertomedina.medium.com/pue…
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Looking for a good short story to read this Sunday?
We loved "Sibilance" by E. G. Condé / @cloudAnthro published in Interzone #299
Review by @Danaiwrites
(Links to the story and to more reviews in next posts so as not to upset the sibilant algorithm)
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Juan Dalmau agradeció las muestras de apoyo que han recibido él y su esposa Griselle Morales, que la situación de salud de ella sigue delicada, que está conciente de su "responsabilidad histórica" en la campaña y que evaluará "día a día" cuándo, y cómo, reintegrarse.
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@JDVance thinks it's 'divisive' to NOT celebrate a genocidal rapist & human trafficker because he is too much of a ❄️ to handle the brutal truth: Columbus was a villain. Fake news? Go read his diary, where he brags about murd3r, mutilation, kidnapping & enslaving 🪶 people.
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🚨I'm hiring!🚨 Join me in my new ERC-funded research project on the geopolitics of cloud computing, and get to live in the happiest country on Earth :)
Now hiring a postdoc with computational data collection skills: diesl.eu/open-position-postd… #GEOCLOUD #DIESL