Cloud Anthropologist 💻☁️; Fixing Futures Postdoc at Goethe University; SFFH Writer; Boricua 🇵🇷; He/Él
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People often ask me: "how can I reduce my tech environmental footprint 💻☁️?" My answer: demand regulation. Also my answer: STOP upgrading your phone📱. Go to repair shops. STOP funding $ planned obsolescence. Stop consuming conflict minerals 🇨🇩🩸💎👇
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the recording of yesterday’s episode of THE RIFT, a conversation with @cloudAnthro about the environmental politics of data centers and the cloud, is now online. really enjoyed this one: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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On April 8, at Cnam, the anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate (aka @cloudAnthro, @FixFutGoetheUni) will tell us more about his current book project, "Cloud Ecologies": an environmental ethnography of data centers in New England, Arizona, Puerto Rico and Singapore☁️
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There's lots of hype about Malaysia's new data centers, but "we do not have enough water and power," says the mayor of Johor Bahru. "While promoting investments is important, it should not come at the expense of the local and domestic needs of the people." restofworld.org/2024/malaysi…
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Octavia Butler’s novel PARABLE OF THE SOWER was published in 1993. The President whose win led to so much…destruction was named “Christopher Donner” (yes, DONNER) and his slogan was “Make America Great Again”. This novel need to stay a cautionary tale.
Octavia knew.
As governor, Jenniffer González promises to bring 🇵🇷 into the great Union of 🇺🇲...only Mitch McConnell just said Congress won't support statehood 🤔. It's almost like the Empire she serves thinks of her as nothing but 🗑️. Where was her beloved 'Union' during 🌀 María? 🧻#PNP
"Equal" part of the Union? Ask Hawai'i how equal they are. You so gleefully serve the Empire that oppresses us, that you fail to notice how disposable we are to them🗑️. For years you went to Congress on our behalf, what did you achieve? Where was your 'Union' 🇺🇲 during 🌀 María?
This HUD report spells out what transpired with searing detail. Please consider this before you proceed to further sell out our people to Washington.
hudoig.gov/sites/default/fil…
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"Equal" part of the Union? Ask Hawai'i how equal they are. You so gleefully serve the Empire that oppresses us, that you fail to notice how disposable we are to them🗑️. For years you went to Congress on our behalf, what did you achieve? Where was your 'Union' 🇺🇲 during 🌀 María?
Instead of harnessing a wave of youth activist energy unseen since the Vietnam war, the Democrats decided to appeal to moderate Republicans and double down on their support for Netanyahu's massacre. This is the price of their gamble. A far right leader with no guard rails.
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One last pre-election essay from me—with a simple demand:
Stop saying "Puerto Ricans are Americans!" when you want to defend us from Trump and racist jokes.
We are Puerto Rican, and our dignity does not depend on the citizenship of our colonizers. albertomedina.medium.com/pue…
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While Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 stands at the precipice of electing a pro Independence Governor for the 1st time in its 500+ year colonial history
*thanks to a progressive 2 party coalition
US 🇺🇸voters are choosing btw 2 pro genocide major party candidates for President
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Hoy salgan a votar con calma, convicción, esperanza y amor. De eso se trata, del amor por Puerto Rico.
Con orgullo, anuncio mi apoyo a la Alianza en 2024. @juandalmauPR es la mejor oportunidad para que los puertorriqueños vivamos con dignidad. Jennifer González representa la corrupción que ha sofocado a nuestro pueblo. 🇵🇷 merece un futuro con prosperidad. #Elecciones2024
I proudly announce support for la Alianza this election cycle. Juan Dalmau is our best chance to achieve dignity for Puerto Ricans. Jennifer González represents the corruption that has suffocated our people for decades. Her party, the PNP, is an accessory to American imper1al1sm.
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Amazing this election 🗳️ rally wasn’t for *either* US 🇺🇸political party
#LaAlianzaVa is coalition of progressive Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 based & focused parties ( MVC & PIP ) that acknowledge PR is a US colony & want that to *change*
& know PR ‘s global diaspora has a role to play …
🇵🇷 Eyes on Puerto Rico:
Tonight Puerto Ricans amassed the second largest political rally this ENTIRE cycle - behind only Harris’ 75k-person Ellipse speech.
Over 50,000 Boricuas rallying for the anti-Trump, anti-corruption Alianza movement & @juandalmauPR.
Political earthquake.
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"The cloud...is already broken, already breaking."
- From my latest piece in @WIRED on Big Tech's fundamental unsustainability (inspired by #iPres2022). Feels especially relevant given what's afoot w/ this bird app.
#RIPTwitter #datacenters #cop27egypt
wired.com/story/cloud-data-s…
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A month post-ep. 38: Apologized to a plant for not watering, then uploaded 100 pics to the cloud. 🌱💻
Are we nurturing the right things?
What if our digital habits were as mindful as our earthly ones?
Let's rethink our tech 😍.
Ep 38 with @cloudAnthro
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