#sociallicense — Public Fediverse posts

@jcrabapple
Thanks for posting about this issue: “the best [AI] model in the world is useless if you can't power it.” It gets so little attention! Everyone acting as if there is tonnes & tonnes of surplus energy in the world instead of admiring the elegance of doing so much with so little (ha ha, my little joke). 😹🙏🏻

Might add: “the best model in the world is useless if” it has no social licence, another prerequisite that’s not in surplus. 🤔

#AI #poweringAI #energyEfficiency #surplusEnergy #SocialLicense #elegance #DoingSoMuchWithSoLittle

@KatCopseyGreens
Beautiful illustrations! 🙏🏻 Good to see some facts… on data centre consumption of land, water, power… all leading to a suggested reasonable course of action.
Friends are shocked at the no. of data centres already in place & proposed. They say there’s been no discussion & it’s hard to get even basic information… The social license for these things is very thin. In popular culture the outcomes they enable are universally negative (eg 2 current programs: The Capture (ABC) - on the misapplication of surveillance, & Vigil (SBS) on the use of AI targeting & kill programs & mistakes). Less secrecy & more open dialogue might help. But when govts are secretive there’s often corruption behind it - how many & large are the lobbyist-purchased lunches & how big the donations into party coffers? 🤔

#AusPol #dataCentres #hyperscalers #AITargeting #AIKillPrograms #secrecy #lobbyists #politicalPartyDonations #TheCapture #Vigil #SocialLicense #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

RE: https://aus.social/@mojo/116453455095944748

Corporate energy giants (mostly foreign not Australian): “endless funding for lobbying and spin, but resistance when asked to pay a fair return on public resources.”
WHY? IS? IT? SO? 🤔

#AusPol #energyCompanies #lobbying #notPayingFairTaxes #AustralianResources #socialLicense #advertising #arrogance

Revealed: the bumper profits taken by English private nursery chains | Childcare | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/mar/12/private-nursery-chains-profits-england

#England
#Childcare
#Nurseries
#Profits
#Pay
#Wages
#ValueForMoney
#JosephRowntreeFoundation
#Hunt
#JRF
#SocialLicense
#Unison

"The single most important effect of #divestment isn’t about the money at all, but something stranger and more diffuse: It takes away the “#SocialLicense” of the #FossilFuel industry.

It makes extractive companies seem socially irresponsible and unworthy of public investment. It makes people think twice about working for such firms. It helps pressure corporate financiers to take #climate seriously, something that really will keep the planet livable."

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/10/climate-change-divestment-fossil-fuels/675635/

"More that 1,300 #offshore workers are to stage a 48-hour #strike in a dispute over pay.
The scale of corporate greed in the offshore sector has to be challenged.
This is not exclusively about #pay but also working rotas, #holidays, and offshore #safety."

Does the #FossilFuel industry deserve to keep its #SocialLicense to operate?

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Offshore-Oil-Workers-To-Stage-Biggest-Strike-In-A-Generation.html

Maar goed. Deze quote is waar het om draait. Dit is de ware kanteling. #SocialLicense