#chokepoint — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #chokepoint, aggregated by home.social.
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A realistic ‘energy transition’ is to get better at using less of it
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Astra Taylor on AI Data Center Resistance & Fighting "Billionaire Big Tech Agenda" (/Democracy Now!)
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Astra Taylor on AI Data Center Resistance & Fighting "Billionaire Big Tech Agenda" (/Democracy Now!)
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Astra Taylor on AI Data Center Resistance & Fighting "Billionaire Big Tech Agenda" (/Democracy Now!)
As the “supercharged” construction of new data centers to power artificial intelligence blankets the country, a growing resistance movement to these massive corporate projects amid a lack of public oversight is not far behind. As organizer Astra Taylor explains, local fights across the country are leveraging this “industry chokepoint” to force important questions, from the distribution of land, water and energy resources to democratic governance over an industry currently driven by a “billionaire Big Tech agenda.” While AI boosters frame the technology as inevitable, Taylor says, “I think that many people are more skeptical than that. … That’s part of what it means to have democratic governance over AI, to say, ’No, we don’t need this technology to take over every facet of our existence.’”
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Astra Taylor on AI Data Center Resistance & Fighting "Billionaire Big Tech Agenda" (/Democracy Now!)
As the “supercharged” construction of new data centers to power artificial intelligence blankets the country, a growing resistance movement to these massive corporate projects amid a lack of public oversight is not far behind. As organizer Astra Taylor explains, local fights across the country are leveraging this “industry chokepoint” to force important questions, from the distribution of land, water and energy resources to democratic governance over an industry currently driven by a “billionaire Big Tech agenda.” While AI boosters frame the technology as inevitable, Taylor says, “I think that many people are more skeptical than that. … That’s part of what it means to have democratic governance over AI, to say, ’No, we don’t need this technology to take over every facet of our existence.’”
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Astra Taylor on AI Data Center Resistance & Fighting "Billionaire Big Tech Agenda" (/Democracy Now!)
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/93841/ Hormuz Shock Swallows US Exports #a #again #and #as #chokepoint #closure #Critical #decisive #energy #equation #escalate #even #exporter #exports #factor #Global #gulf #has #Hormuz #in #Islam #key #looms #market #most #net #Now #of #Oil #once #Persian #PersianGulf #prices #prospect #raced #reality #remains #shock #Single #spike #States’ #strait #strategic #Swallows #tensions #the #this #thresholds #Times #toward #underscores #United #US #with
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The 2026 energy crisis and our Wile E. Coyote moment
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What to expect from the first Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels
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https://www.europesays.com/it/435304/ L’intero sistema energetico mondiale dipende unicamente da sette stretti marittimi #chokepoint #commercio #Cronaca #DalMondo #DalMondo #energia #hormuz #mare #Mondo #navi #News #Notizie #petrolio #stretti #UltimeNotizie #UltimeNotizieDiMondo #UltimeNotizie #UltimeNotizieDiMondo #World #WorldNews #WorldNews
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/37438/ Trump insists Iran is ‘begging to make a deal’ after Tehran dismisses ceasefire plan | National News #2026IranWar #AliKhamenei #Business #ChokePoint #DonaldTrump #GeneralNews #Hezbollah #Houthis #InternationalRelations #Iran #IranIsraelUsLatestMarch262026 #IranWar #Israel #Lebanon #MarcoRubio #PersianGulf #Politics #PoliticsOfTheMiddleEast #PriceOfOil #Religion #SteveWitkoff #StraitOfHormuz #Tehran #USNews #Uganda #WarAndUnrest #WashingtonNews #Wire #WorldNews
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Gaulab Chakrabarti, the CEO of a Texas-based sustainable chemistry company, Solugen, said this rather important thing on X a couple days ago: "The Strait of Hormuz has been closed for 8 days. Everyone thinks this is about oil. This is about what oil becomes. {more} #oil #IranWar #Iran #chokepoint
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/7672/ Only nine commercial ships detected crossing Hormuz Strait since Monday | Nation #afp #ChokePoint #FreightTransport #Hormuz #LiquefiedNaturalGas #MaritimeTransport #MerchantShips #PersianGulf #ship #Shipping #ships #StraitOfHormuz #Tanker(ship) #WaterTransport
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/?p=6124 Heavy attacks hit Tehran as Israel says war in ‘new phase’ | Nation #afp #AliKhamenei #Arab–israeliConflict #ChokePoint #conflicts #DroneWarfare #ForeignRelationsOfIran #Hezbollah #InternationalRelations #Iran #IslamicRevolutionaryGuardCorps #Israel #Lebanon #MiddleEast #Military #PersianGulf #PoliticsOfTheMiddleEast #Tehran #UnitedStatesCentralCommand #UnmannedCombatAerialVehicle #War #warfare
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/2159/ US says 2,000 targets hit as Iran retaliates across Gulf | National #afp #AliKhamenei #Arab–israeliConflict #ChokePoint #conflicts #ForeignRelationsOfIran #GovernmentOfIran #Hezbollah #InternationalRelations #Iran #Israel #MiddleEast #PersianGulf #PoliticsOfIran #PoliticsOfTheMiddleEast #StraitOfHormuz #Tehran #UnitedStatesCentralCommand
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/2047/ US says 2,000 targets hit as Iran retaliates across Gulf | National #afp #AliKhamenei #Arab–israeliConflict #ChokePoint #conflicts #ForeignRelationsOfIran #GovernmentOfIran #Hezbollah #InternationalRelations #Iran #Israel #MiddleEast #Military #PersianGulf #PoliticsOfIran #PoliticsOfTheMiddleEast #StraitOfHormuz #UnitedStatesCentralCommand #War
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#Cloudflare is a #censorship #chokepoint , a kill-switch in the hands of evil corps.
Do not use Cloudflare!
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hilo sobre puntos q controlan la economía mundial
Un #chokepoint es un estrecho marítimo q concentra tráfico entre dos masas de agua. Piénsalo como una autopista de un solo carril en medio del océano. “Quien controla los choke points, controla el flujo del comercio mundial” ¿Qué hace estratégico a un punto?
✓ Alto volumen de tráfico
✓ Sin alternativas viables
✓ Transporta recursos críticos (petróleo, gas)
✓ Los desvíos cuestan millones y añaden semanas
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> there’s been an impression that going after the crypto industry is something that democratic constituencies would cheer on
> But if you talk to young people, people from communities of color who disproportionately participate in crypto, … they view an attack on crypto as an attack on them
https://thehill.com/business/4766890-biden-admin-opens-line-with-crypto-industry-amid-icy-relations/
#garyGensler #elizabethWarren #chokepoint #sec #biden #crypto #bitcoin #cryptocurrency #btc #democrats #election2024 #politics #uspolitics #democracy #gensler #warren
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question, why did #dnscurve never take off? @bert_hubert or maybe someone else knows? is the reason it kills - a certain kind of - #surveillance #capitalism, while dns over http still enables it in a much more concentrated - #chokepoint #capitalist - way? is this a reason? not? are there other reasons?
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Bitcoin investor sentiment slumps to a new low, even as macro and equities show improvement - Three key Bitcoin price indicators explain why BTC price continue... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-investor-sentiment-slumps-to-a-new-low-even-as-macro-and-equities-show-improvement #chokepoint #dominance #lawsuits #markets #onchain #skew
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CW: Chokepoint Capitalism, reformism, the administrative state, and democratic power
Begun reading #Chokepoint #Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin and @pluralistic and it's interesting to see a very identifiable political thread in its blurb people- Adam Conover, Lawrence Lessig, Zephyr Teachout, Jimmy Wales.
These people, who I would, personally, characterize as left-liberals much of the time, provide an interesting anchor point in the political and economic movement for #socialjustice. Some of them have gained an amount of reach and are viewed as experts or at the very least accessible communicators.
In the introduction we see a point of tension in the dialectic between "the minimum demand" (mild, almost performative reform) and "the maximum demand" (#revolution from the root to a different system). #Trotsky is known for the transitional program, but *Reform and Revolution* by #Luxemburg, a bunch of #Kautsky. It's a very long current in the camp of people that want to replace the relations of society and production.
Fascists obviously have used critiques of capitalism in order to gain a political audience, but Germany during the Third Reich reminds one a lot of the kind of incestuous relationship of dominant industry and the political elite.
The question is basically, can what is in many ways a deep overhaul of the #administrative state, something everyone thinks of when they think of Sen. Elizabeth #Warren, really possible? There has to be enough "democracy in the system" to get to the end point, and the US in particular has both issues of #federalism and a federal judiciary that despises the administrative state. Also changes such as relate to monopoly, monopsony, and competition, may in some cases lack what I think is the core way that #reformism can be built upon- stickiness.
I mean essentially that universal benefit programs, well funded, are the most difficult to reverse from the free-market right. They have a very large supportive population that melds the poor, working class, and aspects of the petty bourgeoisie and professionals together in common interests.
Targeting, as is done in neoliberalism, creates inter-class conflict among those not in the elite, and can be stoked additionally by #race, #citizenship, and other factors. Neoliberalism by design when it does #welfare makes programs extremely brittle and easy to defund.
So even though the Tories have had two decade and a half long reigns in power since 1979, and Tony Blair was thoroughly a center-right New Labour PM, the #NHS has stubbornly stuck around even in its crisis state. It has resiliency.
But having enough #democracy in the system is difficult. We can look at Castillo in #Peru and #Boric in Chile, who both rode into power promising a fundamentally new, inclusive, and anti-neoliberal constitution. Actually getting through entrenched power structures, a right-wing #media apparatus, and the eternal riddle of many aspects of a #constitution being popular but at a referendum it adds up to less.
The phrase "#Chile will be the tomb of #neoliberalism imagines an end to neoliberalism- #AMLO talks about this a lot whatever you might think of his time in power. But how do you get over the hump? How do you dispatch it, and make sure it doesn't return? How do you hold sustained power so the capitalists can't just reverse all that can be done? How can genuine democracy and social justice come to fruition?
I don't have a lot of answers, but I appreciate how much was sparked just in the introduction of Chokepoint Capitalism
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#Chokepoint #Capitalism is an important concept for all of us to understand, whether we are creators or consumers https://www.theverge.com/23547877/decoder-chokepoint-capitalism-cory-doctorow-rebecca-giblin-spotify-ticketmaster-antitrust
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CW: on Chokepoint Capitalism
The Wire talked with Cory @Doctorow (@[email protected]) about #Copyright Scams, #Surveillance Capitalism, the Lies of Big #Tech; and what #chokepoint capitalism means for creators and consumers, its prevalence in the #cultural industries, and how to #fight against it.
#xp
https://thewire.in/tech/interview-on-copyright-scams-surveillance-capitalism-and-the-lies-of-big-tech