#scarcity — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #scarcity, aggregated by home.social.
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The Enlightenment has driven the West down a dead-end alley, but they haven't quite yet sussed this out.
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/post-survival-same-road?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
#enlightenment #psychology #philosophy #history #society #artificialintelligence #economics #ecomomy #scarcity #society #culture #humanity #technology #automation #healthcare #survival -
New paper: "Beyond scarcity? Why abundance matters in a turbulent & unequal world". While both scarcity and abundance can be socially and politically constructed, scarcity has received far more attention in social and political thought. It asks if abundance can provide powerful challenges to conventional environmental governance practices as well as the logic of ‘Homo economicus’ that are increasing structural inequalities, vulnerabilities, scarcities and poor responses to climate and environmental crises, and while also highlighting non-material values such as care, time, love and wellbeing. While abundance may not always be a panacea, given huge inequalities and environment and climate breakdown, we urgently need to advance alternative praxes and new ways of living and being with each other and the planet. A focus on abundance instead of scarcity is one way forward. #Scarcity #Abundance #ClimateChange #Care #Inequality
https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/140375/7/III-GJWE_Working_Paper_177.pdf
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Data centres can actually sharply reduce or even eliminate water consumption from cooling during normal operation, as evidenced by our analysis of the cooling strategies that big tech (NVIDIA, Microsoft, AWS) and startups Corintis and Submer are pursuing.
Do their claims hold up? Perhaps. But AI can never be fully waterless.
https://www.movetheneedle.news/brands/ai-s-infrastructure-boom-runs-into-a-water-constraint/
#AI #sustainability #technology #cooling #datacenter #water #scarcity
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#EngagedConnection is a self-describing #economics model that complements #scarcity-based economics with abundance-based balance.
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Register deprivation: spills and runtime under forced register scarcity
https://rjp.io/blog/2026-07-19-register-deprivation
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49109019
#HackerNews #registerdeprivation #spills #runtime #registers #scarcity #computerarchitecture #programming #research
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🔥 "AI #companies torch books like it’s their job. In a stunning display #of ingenuity, they’ve reimagined the #Library of #Alexandria as a #sustainable #business #model. 📚🔥 Who knew creating #digital #scarcity could be so on-trend?!" 📈🔍
https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/26422014.library-alexandria-burns-ai-companies-destroying-books-bulk/ #AI #innovation #HackerNews #ngated -
i wish my babies would just share 😢💙
two of "my" pigeons get into a slap fight over an inexhaustible supply of seeds
oh, the myth of scarcity 😉😁
#pidgydon #pigeonsky #pigeons #birds #birdsofmastodon #scarcity
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For those interested in #scarcity and #innovation, my thesis can be found here - ch. 6, the study about the #history of copper smelting and social construction of constraints I got published in #Technology and Culture is IMHO the best one. #histSciTech
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@TinJar/116632081075654830
In the #novel, I center the #people who are already getting displaced from their homes because of the effects of #climatechange. The #protagonist, Alia, is from Iran, a #country that is so severely affected by chronic #drought that relocating the entire #city of Tehran to a better location is actively under consideration. For #women, especially, the despair from #scarcity of #water sits on top of the immense #oppression they have faced for decades.
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“Microsoft is in the middle of a ‘hardware component crisis.’”
“Earlier this year it was reported that the #PlayStation 6 and the new #Xbox consoles could be delayed to 2029 due to #RAMmageddon, which is what some are calling the #scarcity and subsequent #price increase of #memory #chips that are being used in AI data centres.”
“When I joined as #CEO in February, the price we paid for #ConsoleStorage #components was over 2x as high as we paid last fall. These #costs have since doubled again. And as we plan for the 2027 holiday season, we expect another significant increase, taking us over 5x the prices we paid only two years earlier. #Memory costs have followed a broadly similar trajectory,” said Sharma.
“While the entire industry is facing a components crisis, we believe we have been impacted more greatly than many of our peers due to the choices we made over the last half decade.”
Think of finance as the slosh of water 🌊 in a very slow bath. The shortages occur when money has been moved deliberately to another industry. Guess which one?
#Microsoft / #AshaSharma / #manufacturing / #AI / #Computing / #externalities <https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/xbox-project-helix-affordable-hardware-crisis-release-date-3950204>
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Marketers Raise Concerns Over Scarcity As Cooking Gas Hits ₦1,500/Kg • Channels Television
Gas marketers have raised concerns about the scarcity of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), otherwise known as cooking gas, and rising prices, which have risen to as high as ₦1,500 per kg fro…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Cooking #cookinggas #lpg #Nigeria #prices #Scarcity
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2657225/marketers-raise-concerns-over-scarcity-as-cooking-gas-hits-%e2%82%a61500-kg-channels-television/ -
Marketers Raise Concerns Over Scarcity As Cooking Gas Hits ₦1,500/Kg • Channels Television https://www.diningandcooking.com/2657225/marketers-raise-concerns-over-scarcity-as-cooking-gas-hits-%e2%82%a61500-kg-channels-television/ #Cooking #CookingGas #lpg #Nigeria #prices #Scarcity
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2/ " #Investments in #social #infrastructure and #services yield the strongest conflict-mitigating impact. This relationship appears to be driven by two primary mechanisms involving the alleviation of #water #scarcity and the reduction of #fossilfuels dependence"
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14693062.2026.2645656
"greater volumes of #climate #finance significantly reduce #conflict incidence in recipient countries, with particularly pronounced effects on resource-related, small-scale, and intra-state conflicts. #Investments in #social #infrastructure and #services yield the strongest conflict-mitigating impact. This relationship appears to be driven by two primary mechanisms involving the alleviation of #water #scarcity and the reduction of #fossilfuels dependence"
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→ What is Roblox teaching children about capitalism?
https://psyche.co/ideas/what-is-roblox-teaching-children-about-capitalism“Roblox is unprecedented in scale and structure, and through play it habituates children to capitalism by normalising paywalls, status purchases, artificial scarcity, and unequal access under the guise of creative freedom.”
#play #Roblox #status #freedom #children #paywalls #scarcity #capitalism
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@bss It can't, by its very nature. #Capitalism depends on #economic & #demographic #growth - ever-increasing #production of #goods & #services, & #consumption of them, with consumption of the #materials & #energy needed to produce them, alongside more #workers & #consumers. The result is #resource #scarcity, #waste, #pollution, loss of #wildlife #Habitat & #biodiversity, #GHG #emissions & #climatechange. A crash is inevitable.
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The Beginning of Scarcity in AI
https://tomtunguz.com/ai-compute-crisis-2026/
#HackerNews #AI #Scarcity #AI #Crisis #Tech #Trends #Future #Innovation
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“ The #Scarcity ” scam, we’re not broke, we’re being robbed.
We are told the same story again and again. That #healthcare is too expensive. That #SocialSecurity is unsustainable. That we cannot afford to house the poor, raise wages, cancel student loan debt, or fix what is broken.
Across the entire #economy, money is not being reinvested in society. It is being funneled upward.”
#Capitalism
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When the Well’s dry, we know the Worth of Water.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1746 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/82…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichards #poorrichardsalmanac #lack #scarcity #shortage #supply #value #want #water
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if you do need new gear you have good reasons for screaming take my money, the price is not a huge barrier, it pays for itself maybe not in one job but eventually. when dc upgrades hit in waves prices are going to drop - supply will exceed pent up demand - that is my prediction, we are in a bubble #short squeeze #amortization #arb #pulls #refurb mkt #scarcity #urgency #fomo garbage
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The Water Knife "People are alone here in America. They’re all alone & they don’t trust anyone except themselves, and they don’t rely on anyone except themselves" Sale: $19 to $1.99 by Paolo Bacigalupi Rating: 4.2/5 (5177 Reviews) #Dystopia #Climate #Fiction #Thriller #Water #Scarcity #BookSky
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@ai6yr the big tech guy's are jumping into volcano of their own ego - predict economy will 10x in 10 years.
don't you think if you are talking to older folks they are going to be interested in longevity? it is all too weird but if he really ramps elec semi finally this time, 4 years late, then that is something;
mostly i am interested when mkts flip or asml starts selling more machines or something significant happens - more competition. They promise you the world but want a pound of flesh,
at some point open source crew is going to look in the mirror and run their own distributed inference and federated enclaves, repos, distributed models, not rely on big tech so much, the entire ai trend will hit smb sector,
I think quite a few people will go for local self hosted solutions - we will see how the mkt shakes out #hold the wheel#driving while blind #scarcity #urgency #fomo #holley efi
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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/07/uk-stockpile-food-climate-shocks-war. Prof. Tim Lang is absolutely right - from the selfish POV of this country. What worries me, however, is the impact this #stockpiling would have on other countries, especially those with less #money. I fear, in the context of #food #resource #scarcity, caused by #climatechange, etc., it would be a beggar-my-neighbour #policy. WE would be alright - other, poorer, people wouldn't.
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"…a theory on #thenewcool: You have to essentially pre-#deplatform yourself.
#Culture right now is determined not by #human teams of editors & producers picking & choosing what youth culture gets the spotlight, but, instead, by the #unthinkingalgorithms that power YouTube & TikTok. Which means the only things that have the level of #scarcity & #danger required to be seen as #cool by young people will, slowly, but surely, be whatever is unacceptable on those platforms."
https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-only-taboo-left-is-copyright-infringement
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dario says we are reaching the end of the exponential, i think we are just getting started, who's right? A: nobody knows what is going to happen - things could slow down for various reasons or black swan events but generally progress will continue and the pace of change will keep getting faster #fear #urgency #scarcity
