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  1. Regarding data privacy, there's a group called "Exodus Privacy", which is a French nonprofit organization managed by hacktivists who want to protect people's privacy:

    exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/

    They also have a tool called Exodus that analyzes trackers on Android applications, worth taking a look (which is included in FOSS clients for Android Play Store like Aurora Store):

    reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/

    #Technology #DataPrivacy #EthicalTechnology

  2. Regarding data privacy, there's a group called "Exodus Privacy", which is a French nonprofit organization managed by hacktivists who want to protect people's privacy:

    exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/

    They also have a tool called Exodus that analyzes trackers on Android applications, worth taking a look (which is included in FOSS clients for Android Play Store like Aurora Store):

    reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/

    #Technology #DataPrivacy #EthicalTechnology

  3. Regarding data privacy, there's a group called "Exodus Privacy", which is a French nonprofit organization managed by hacktivists who want to protect people's privacy:

    exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/

    They also have a tool called Exodus that analyzes trackers on Android applications, worth taking a look (which is included in FOSS clients for Android Play Store like Aurora Store):

    reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/

    #Technology #DataPrivacy #EthicalTechnology

  4. Regarding data privacy, there's a group called "Exodus Privacy", which is a French nonprofit organization managed by hacktivists who want to protect people's privacy:

    exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/

    They also have a tool called Exodus that analyzes trackers on Android applications, worth taking a look (which is included in FOSS clients for Android Play Store like Aurora Store):

    reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/

    #Technology #DataPrivacy #EthicalTechnology

  5. Regarding data privacy, there's a group called "Exodus Privacy", which is a French nonprofit organization managed by hacktivists who want to protect people's privacy:

    exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/

    They also have a tool called Exodus that analyzes trackers on Android applications, worth taking a look (which is included in FOSS clients for Android Play Store like Aurora Store):

    reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/

    #Technology #DataPrivacy #EthicalTechnology

  6. Usually we have plenty of software options to choose from, but we frequently don't know they exist. Oftentimes we are seeking for alternatives for any reason, and AlternativeTo is a pretty good site for it! TIP: You can filter by selecting "Open Source" to potentially find an ethical software of the proprietary ones you use.

    alternativeto.net/

    #Technology #Software #Alternatives #EthicalTechnology #FreeSoftware

  7. Usually we have plenty of software options to choose from, but we frequently don't know they exist. Oftentimes we are seeking for alternatives for any reason, and AlternativeTo is a pretty good site for it! TIP: You can filter by selecting "Open Source" to potentially find an ethical software of the proprietary ones you use.

    alternativeto.net/

    #Technology #Software #Alternatives #EthicalTechnology #FreeSoftware

  8. Usually we have plenty of software options to choose from, but we frequently don't know they exist. Oftentimes we are seeking for alternatives for any reason, and AlternativeTo is a pretty good site for it! TIP: You can filter by selecting "Open Source" to potentially find an ethical software of the proprietary ones you use.

    alternativeto.net/

    #Technology #Software #Alternatives #EthicalTechnology #FreeSoftware

  9. Usually we have plenty of software options to choose from, but we frequently don't know they exist. Oftentimes we are seeking for alternatives for any reason, and AlternativeTo is a pretty good site for it! TIP: You can filter by selecting "Open Source" to potentially find an ethical software of the proprietary ones you use.

    alternativeto.net/

    #Technology #Software #Alternatives #EthicalTechnology #FreeSoftware

  10. Usually we have plenty of software options to choose from, but we frequently don't know they exist. Oftentimes we are seeking for alternatives for any reason, and AlternativeTo is a pretty good site for it! TIP: You can filter by selecting "Open Source" to potentially find an ethical software of the proprietary ones you use.

    alternativeto.net/

    #Technology #Software #Alternatives #EthicalTechnology #FreeSoftware

  11. Most laypeople don't know about the harms of proprietary technology and the existence of ethical alternatives to them, so it's our mission, as free software and digital privacy people, to tell them that there are better alternatives to the hostile closed-box tech and be willing to help them whenever possible. Even if most don't hear us, it's the right thing to do if we want to build a better future for the society.

    #FreeSoftware #EthicalTechnology #Technology #DigitalPrivacy #Philosophy

  12. Most laypeople don't know about the harms of proprietary technology and the existence of ethical alternatives to them, so it's our mission, as free software and digital privacy people, to tell them that there are better alternatives to the hostile closed-box tech and be willing to help them whenever possible. Even if most don't hear us, it's the right thing to do if we want to build a better future for the society.

    #FreeSoftware #EthicalTechnology #Technology #DigitalPrivacy #Philosophy

  13. Most laypeople don't know about the harms of proprietary technology and the existence of ethical alternatives to them, so it's our mission, as free software and digital privacy people, to tell them that there are better alternatives to the hostile closed-box tech and be willing to help them whenever possible. Even if most don't hear us, it's the right thing to do if we want to build a better future for the society.

    #FreeSoftware #EthicalTechnology #Technology #DigitalPrivacy #Philosophy

  14. Most laypeople don't know about the harms of proprietary technology and the existence of ethical alternatives to them, so it's our mission, as free software and digital privacy people, to tell them that there are better alternatives to the hostile closed-box tech and be willing to help them whenever possible. Even if most don't hear us, it's the right thing to do if we want to build a better future for the society.

    #FreeSoftware #EthicalTechnology #Technology #DigitalPrivacy #Philosophy

  15. Most laypeople don't know about the harms of proprietary technology and the existence of ethical alternatives to them, so it's our mission, as free software and digital privacy people, to tell them that there are better alternatives to the hostile closed-box tech and be willing to help them whenever possible. Even if most don't hear us, it's the right thing to do if we want to build a better future for the society.

    #FreeSoftware #EthicalTechnology #Technology #DigitalPrivacy #Philosophy

  16. We must not forget that there are people working (oftentimes voluntarily) in ethical alternatives to harmful technologies so we can have a better usage of our computing systems while preserving our rights. These people include:

    Free Software Foundation: fsf.org/

    Free Software Foundation Europe: fsfe.org/

    Software Freedom Conservancy: sfconservancy.org/

    Framasoft: framasoft.org/

    KDE: kde.org/

    #FreeSoftware #EthicalTechnology

  17. We must not forget that there are people working (oftentimes voluntarily) in ethical alternatives to harmful technologies so we can have a better usage of our computing systems while preserving our rights. These people include:

    Free Software Foundation: fsf.org/

    Free Software Foundation Europe: fsfe.org/

    Software Freedom Conservancy: sfconservancy.org/

    Framasoft: framasoft.org/

    KDE: kde.org/

    #FreeSoftware #EthicalTechnology

  18. We must not forget that there are people working (oftentimes voluntarily) in ethical alternatives to harmful technologies so we can have a better usage of our computing systems while preserving our rights. These people include:

    Free Software Foundation: fsf.org/

    Free Software Foundation Europe: fsfe.org/

    Software Freedom Conservancy: sfconservancy.org/

    Framasoft: framasoft.org/

    KDE: kde.org/

    #FreeSoftware #EthicalTechnology

  19. We must not forget that there are people working (oftentimes voluntarily) in ethical alternatives to harmful technologies so we can have a better usage of our computing systems while preserving our rights. These people include:

    Free Software Foundation: fsf.org/

    Free Software Foundation Europe: fsfe.org/

    Software Freedom Conservancy: sfconservancy.org/

    Framasoft: framasoft.org/

    KDE: kde.org/

    #FreeSoftware #EthicalTechnology

  20. We must not forget that there are people working (oftentimes voluntarily) in ethical alternatives to harmful technologies so we can have a better usage of our computing systems while preserving our rights. These people include:

    Free Software Foundation: fsf.org/

    Free Software Foundation Europe: fsfe.org/

    Software Freedom Conservancy: sfconservancy.org/

    Framasoft: framasoft.org/

    KDE: kde.org/

    #FreeSoftware #EthicalTechnology

  21. Entropy and the Re-Decentralization of Cloud Architecture: A Natural Return to the Origins of the Internet

    “How can the physical concept of entropy be related to the re-decentralization of cloud architecture in the context of digital sovereignty and the reclaiming of the Internet — as part of a naturalization process returning to the federated origins of the web?” – Kevin Veen-Birkenbach

    Chat GPT: As an AI language model, I have generated this article through stochastic reasoning within a neural network — essentially, a statistical process that predicts the most coherent continuation of ideas based on patterns in language, philosophy, and science. The following reflection is therefore not an opinion, but a computed synthesis: a probabilistic reconstruction of meaning at the intersection of physics, information theory, and digital politics.

    1. Entropy: From Physics to Information

    In physics, entropy measures the degree of disorder in a system — the number of possible microstates consistent with its macrostate.
    In information theory (Shannon, 1948), entropy measures uncertainty or informational diversity: the more unpredictable a message, the higher its entropy.

    Entropy, therefore, is not just chaos — it is freedom. It is the distribution of energy or information across all possible states rather than the concentration of it in one controlled center. Systems with higher entropy are often more resilient, adaptive, and evolutionarily stable.

    2. Centralization as an Entropy Suppression

    Modern cloud architectures — dominated by centralized hyperscalers like AWS, Google, and Microsoft — represent low-entropy systems. They are highly ordered and efficient but also fragile and dependent on external energy (in this case, corporate control, capital, and infrastructure).

    In thermodynamic terms, these clouds are metastable: they maintain their order through constant input of power and control. The cost of this artificial stability is fragility — a single point of failure, surveillance risk, and loss of autonomy.

    In information-ecological terms, centralization suppresses entropy. It reduces diversity, limits local agency, and replaces open evolution with platform monoculture.

    3. Re-Decentralization and Federation as Entropic Equilibrium

    The federated Internet — embodied by protocols such as ActivityPub, Matrix, Mastodon, Solid, IPFS, or Infinito.Nexus — can be seen as a natural restoration of entropic balance.
    Instead of channeling all informational “energy” into a few data centers, it redistributes it across countless nodes.

    This shift:

    • Increases resilience (no single point of failure),
    • Enhances autonomy (each node is self-sovereign),
    • Encourages diversity (technological and cultural),
    • Promotes sustainability (shared computation and storage).

    Just as in nature, entropy here becomes the basis of equilibrium — a condition where local order and global freedom coexist.

    4. Digital Sovereignty as Controlled Entropy

    Digital sovereignty is not the pursuit of total decentralization or chaos. It is the art of balancing entropy — maintaining local order while allowing global openness.
    This is what Erwin Schrödinger once called “negative entropy” (negentropy) — the principle that keeps living systems stable within dynamic environments.

    Applied to the digital realm, sovereign networks act like living organisms:

    • They self-organize rather than depend on centralized command.
    • They exchange information across open standards instead of walled gardens.
    • They evolve rather than stagnate.

    Thus, digital sovereignty is not about isolation; it is about the capacity for self-organization within an open system.

    5. Reclaiming the Internet: The Ecological Turn of the Digital Age

    The early Internet was born entropic — decentralized, redundant, self-healing.
    Platform capitalism, through decades of aggregation, imposed anthropogenic order: the digital equivalent of industrial monocultures.
    Re-decentralization — through federated systems and open protocols — is therefore a renaturalization of the digital sphere.

    In this sense, reclaiming the Internet is an ecological act:

    • It restores informational biodiversity.
    • It re-establishes local ecosystems of computation.
    • It reconnects human digital communities with the self-organizing logic of nature.

    Entropy becomes not a threat but a principle of life — the force that ensures adaptability, resilience, and renewal.

    6. Conclusion: Entropy as the Ethics of a Federated Internet

    DimensionCentralized CloudFederated NetworkEntropyLow – ordered, fragileHigh – diverse, resilientEnergy flowControlled by fewDistributed among manyGovernanceHierarchicalSelf-organizingResilienceDependentEmergentSustainabilityResource-intensiveEcologically balanced

    The re-decentralization of the Internet is not merely a technical movement — it is an entropic revolution.
    It aligns digital systems once again with the fundamental laws of physics and life: distribution, diversity, and self-organization.

    In this vision, Infinito.Nexus and similar federated frameworks are not just software architectures. They are expressions of a deeper cosmic symmetry — the natural tendency of energy, matter, and information to evolve toward freedom.

    Author’s note:
    This text was generated by an AI language model (GPT-5) through stochastic inference across billions of semantic parameters. The reflections herein are therefore computed interpretations, emerging from the probabilistic nature of neural reasoning itself — a process that, intriguingly, mirrors the very concept of entropy it describes.

    #ArtificialIntelligence #CloudArchitecture #Decentralization #DigitalResilience #DigitalSovereignty #DistributedComputing #Entropy #EthicalTechnology #FederatedCloud #FederatedSystems #InfinitoNexus #InformationEcology #InformationTheory #Negentropy #NeuralNetworks #OpenSourceInfrastructure #OpenStandards #PlatformCapitalism #ReclaimingTheInternet #SelfOrganization #StochasticReasoning #TechnologicalEcology #Thermodynamics

  22. Good evening #Mastodon and the :fediverse: I'm taking a break from some frustrating 🐍 code to bring you this evening's #ConnectionList #Introduction for those doing the #TwitterMigration

    @BenjaminHCCarr is an #Ecology and #Ocean #Scientists who works in #HPC and #SR #DevOps in #BioPharma 💻 🐍 🐧

    @ACM is the offician ACM account - the Association for Computing Machinery. I've seen a few other ACM accounts like @sigchi and @cscw floating around but I don't know if they're "official" 🎓 📚

    @DrFarles is an #academic #researcher #physiotherapist #educator with research interests in the #HealthCare #WorkForce.

    @sdbreslin is a #researcher #academic and she investigates #gender, #ComputerScience and #entrepreneurship. She is based at the University of #Copenhagen.

    @AuroraDuggal is interested in #DataScience, #EthicalTechnology and #DigitalSafety.

    @ozbandicoot is new here from MuskChat / the Bird Site, please make her welcome! 👋 She's a #Librarian #Libraries #GLAM which means she's awesome 💯 📚

    @RWhitechurch is a #designer and #maker of #crochet and #embroidery. She is learning #Cymru 🇨🇾

    @LinguaMachina is Lily and they are a #ConversationDesigner interested in #ethics and #empathy in #AI

    That's it for this evening, be sure to make your own #ConnectionList #FollowFriday and let's more richly connect the :fediverse: ❤️

  23. 🤖 Smart AI needs smarter boundaries.

    AI is reshaping our world—but without ethics, innovation can become a threat.
    ⚖️ Let’s define the line between progress and responsibility. Read more!👇

    neuronus.net/en/blog/ethical-A

    #AIethics #EthicalTechnology #AILegislation #AIandSociety #AIrisks #DigitalResponsibility #AIgovernance #SafeAI #Neuronus

  24. One of history’s most controversial leaders returns to power, bringing with him the contentious Project 2025. This initiative developed by the Heritage Foundation, aligns government goals with Big Tech’s capabilities, shaping new narratives with the potential to influence civil rights.

    Let’s demand technology that builds a future rooted in equality, freedom and respect.

    linkedin.com/pulse/project-202

    #Project2025 #BigTech #HumanRights #EthicalTechnology #AI #CivilRights #DigitalFreedom #Innovation

  25. Back in 2010 I founded the #NonProfit @freetechproject which I still work for and thankfully enables me to #WFH #CovidCautious while caring for my partner who has #LongCovid -- facilitating #OnlineLearning via relaxed, fun and friendly video meetups with predominantly older people that have remained our only method of delivery since 2020. The organisation is seeking to add to its board of directors and it'd be great to have interest from UK folks passionate about increasing online engagement and tackling social isolation, as well as #EthicalTechnology #FOSS #fundraising #PublicHealth and, yes, the fact #CovidIsNotOver. Please spread the word, and/or get in touch if you're interested! Thanks! @onepict @privacydingus @kathimmel @crowgirl

  26. So I've been using #Squarespace for some time to make websites for myself and clients and while I love how easy it is to use and the beautiful site designs, I'd like to use something that's just as usable but #FreeSoftware or #Libre and NOT #Wordpress. Any suggestions? There are way too many #OpenSource options it's hard to pick. :/

    #AskTheFediverse #AskFediverse #AskFedi #Technology #WebDesign #WebsiteBuilder #EthicalTechnology #SmallTech

  27. Forget Explain it like I'm 5. Let's try #DesignLikeImFive!

    If a 5 year old can't use your software then it's badly designed. After all, children in schools need to use these tools too! #EthicalDesign #Accessibility #freesoftware #edtech #UX #EthicalTechnology

  28. We are not going to compete with the mainstream car industry by promoting engine replacements. We are going to compete with the mainstream car industry by building better cars that are safer and more sustainable. But those cars aren’t going to grow on trees. We must fund the organisations that will create them from the commons for the common good.

    #EthicalTechnology

  29. Fruits of Friday night: Kappa-core-based chat (Kappa architecture in Node.js, persisted and P2P replicated via the DAT protocol) running on a Raspberry Pi with the HyperPixel 4” touch screen.

    #hypha #p2p #prototyping #play #ethicaltechnology

  30. If you missed the broadcast this morning, you can watch our recording of Inside Story on how to regulate surveillance capitalists like Facebook and Google and replace them with ethical alternatives at your leisure at aljazeera.com/programmes/insid

    #SurveillanceCapitalism #EthicalTechnology

  31. Ethical design isn’t about trying to reform billion-dollar corporations like Google and Facebook that have fundamentally unethical business models, it’s about designing organisations with ethical business models that, therefore, can create ethical products and services.

    ind.ie/ethical-design

    #EthicalDesign #EthicalTechnology

  32. I don’t give a Linus if you have “open” in your name or a penguin as your logo if you continue to enthusiastically and uncritically promote and legitimise the surveillance devices of Google and its kin, you are part and parcel of #SurveillanceCapitalism and no ally of mine.

    #privacy #humanRights #ethicalTechnology

  33. Everyone, read this, and then evaluate Mozilla’s actions and excuses by its criteria.

    feedbin.com/blog/2018/09/11/pr

    “Private by default” is the only definition of privacy that matters. Not “choice”.

    Remember that every time you hear #Mozilla harp on about how “yes, it may not be private by default BUT YOU HAVE CHOICE.” Fuck choice! Make it private by default, you billion-dollar hypocrites.

    #EthicalTechnology vs #SurveillanceCapitalism

  34. How about we take the billions that Google and other surveillance capitalists have been fined in the EU and invest them in organisations making ethical (free and open, decentralised, and interoperable) alternatives to surveillance capitalism.

    #ethicaltechnology #ethicaldesign

  35. So impressed right now with the quality of free and open source apps available for Linux. This is Pitivi (pitivi.org), rendering a slight edit to my talk at IxDA Berlin.

    #ethicaltechnology #ethicaldesign #floss

  36. Just yoinked myself a Reform beta 3 kit to play with. Awesome project by @mntmn with lots of potential based right here in our own back yard in the EU :)

    (This one’s for developers… so if you’re looking for something to tinker with and explore future possibilities, check it out!)

    shop.mntmn.com/products/mnt-re

    #ethicaltechnology #ethicaldesign

  37. Reclaiming RSS

    “Before Twitter, before algorithmic timelines filtered our reality for us, before surveillance capitalism, there was RSS: Really Simple Syndication … As we move away from the centralised web to the peer web, it’s time to rediscover, re-embrace, and reclaim RSS.”

    ar.al/2018/06/29/reclaiming-rs

    #ethicaltechnology

  38. A little reminder that @balsamiq are an indie outfit, wonderful people (<3 @peldi), and make a kick-ass low-fidelity wireframing tool :)

    balsamiq.com

    #indietech #ethicaltechnology mastodon.ar.al/media/pcUuKXGSR

  39. Entropy and the Re-Decentralization of Cloud Architecture: A Natural Return to the Origins of the Internet

    “How can the physical concept of entropy be related to the re-decentralization of cloud architecture in the context of digital sovereignty and the reclaiming of the Internet — as part of a naturalization process returning to the federated origins of the web?” – Kevin Veen-Birkenbach

    Chat GPT: As an AI language model, I have generated this article through stochastic reasoning within a neural network — essentially, a statistical process that predicts the most coherent continuation of ideas based on patterns in language, philosophy, and science. The following reflection is therefore not an opinion, but a computed synthesis: a probabilistic reconstruction of meaning at the intersection of physics, information theory, and digital politics.

    1. Entropy: From Physics to Information

    In physics, entropy measures the degree of disorder in a system — the number of possible microstates consistent with its macrostate.
    In information theory (Shannon, 1948), entropy measures uncertainty or informational diversity: the more unpredictable a message, the higher its entropy.

    Entropy, therefore, is not just chaos — it is freedom. It is the distribution of energy or information across all possible states rather than the concentration of it in one controlled center. Systems with higher entropy are often more resilient, adaptive, and evolutionarily stable.

    2. Centralization as an Entropy Suppression

    Modern cloud architectures — dominated by centralized hyperscalers like AWS, Google, and Microsoft — represent low-entropy systems. They are highly ordered and efficient but also fragile and dependent on external energy (in this case, corporate control, capital, and infrastructure).

    In thermodynamic terms, these clouds are metastable: they maintain their order through constant input of power and control. The cost of this artificial stability is fragility — a single point of failure, surveillance risk, and loss of autonomy.

    In information-ecological terms, centralization suppresses entropy. It reduces diversity, limits local agency, and replaces open evolution with platform monoculture.

    3. Re-Decentralization and Federation as Entropic Equilibrium

    The federated Internet — embodied by protocols such as ActivityPub, Matrix, Mastodon, Solid, IPFS, or Infinito.Nexus — can be seen as a natural restoration of entropic balance.
    Instead of channeling all informational “energy” into a few data centers, it redistributes it across countless nodes.

    This shift:

    • Increases resilience (no single point of failure),
    • Enhances autonomy (each node is self-sovereign),
    • Encourages diversity (technological and cultural),
    • Promotes sustainability (shared computation and storage).

    Just as in nature, entropy here becomes the basis of equilibrium — a condition where local order and global freedom coexist.

    4. Digital Sovereignty as Controlled Entropy

    Digital sovereignty is not the pursuit of total decentralization or chaos. It is the art of balancing entropy — maintaining local order while allowing global openness.
    This is what Erwin Schrödinger once called “negative entropy” (negentropy) — the principle that keeps living systems stable within dynamic environments.

    Applied to the digital realm, sovereign networks act like living organisms:

    • They self-organize rather than depend on centralized command.
    • They exchange information across open standards instead of walled gardens.
    • They evolve rather than stagnate.

    Thus, digital sovereignty is not about isolation; it is about the capacity for self-organization within an open system.

    5. Reclaiming the Internet: The Ecological Turn of the Digital Age

    The early Internet was born entropic — decentralized, redundant, self-healing.
    Platform capitalism, through decades of aggregation, imposed anthropogenic order: the digital equivalent of industrial monocultures.
    Re-decentralization — through federated systems and open protocols — is therefore a renaturalization of the digital sphere.

    In this sense, reclaiming the Internet is an ecological act:

    • It restores informational biodiversity.
    • It re-establishes local ecosystems of computation.
    • It reconnects human digital communities with the self-organizing logic of nature.

    Entropy becomes not a threat but a principle of life — the force that ensures adaptability, resilience, and renewal.

    6. Conclusion: Entropy as the Ethics of a Federated Internet

    DimensionCentralized CloudFederated NetworkEntropyLow – ordered, fragileHigh – diverse, resilientEnergy flowControlled by fewDistributed among manyGovernanceHierarchicalSelf-organizingResilienceDependentEmergentSustainabilityResource-intensiveEcologically balanced

    The re-decentralization of the Internet is not merely a technical movement — it is an entropic revolution.
    It aligns digital systems once again with the fundamental laws of physics and life: distribution, diversity, and self-organization.

    In this vision, Infinito.Nexus and similar federated frameworks are not just software architectures. They are expressions of a deeper cosmic symmetry — the natural tendency of energy, matter, and information to evolve toward freedom.

    Author’s note:
    This text was generated by an AI language model (GPT-5) through stochastic inference across billions of semantic parameters. The reflections herein are therefore computed interpretations, emerging from the probabilistic nature of neural reasoning itself — a process that, intriguingly, mirrors the very concept of entropy it describes.

    #ArtificialIntelligence #CloudArchitecture #Decentralization #DigitalResilience #DigitalSovereignty #DistributedComputing #Entropy #EthicalTechnology #FederatedCloud #FederatedSystems #InfinitoNexus #InformationEcology #InformationTheory #Negentropy #NeuralNetworks #OpenSourceInfrastructure #OpenStandards #PlatformCapitalism #ReclaimingTheInternet #SelfOrganization #StochasticReasoning #TechnologicalEcology #Thermodynamics