Bookmarks - programming, politics, ai, rust

These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 not doing To reduce the resource use and waste generated by technology, embracing ‘not doing’ aka ‘refusal’ is essential for achieving degrowth. Refusal suggests a starting point of resistance and a deliberate move towards reimagining more just futures. With computing’s potential to be employed in violent and oppressive ways, refusal and collective resistance and interconnected tools that need to go beyond simply turning abstract notions of justice and fairness by creating opportunities to re-evauluate foundational assumptions of technical projects and thus allowing for active re-imagination of just futures. By refusing technological inevitablility we enable forms of resistance to emerge and alternative techno-futures to be considered. computing permacomputing politics 🔖 Writing Uncanny Fiction: Writing Advice from Jeff VanderMeer In this episode of our podcast for writers (who take craft too seriously), take a journey…

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