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@xpub @kazcKaa @actinomy Some updates on my XPUB Special issue that explores Gossips. Some of you may have heard about it already but we've been visiting a datacenter, with wonderful duo of guest @l03s (active in the north holland datacenter fight) and Anti from @lenuageetaitsousnospiedsLe Nuage était sous nos pieds (active in marseille datacenter fight). The session was title Gossiping in and around a datacenter, in this case the Van Nelles one in Rotterdam.

Even with the kind tour guide arguing for european digital sovereignty quoting "so we don't depend on trump administration" we quickly answered him that there catchline is "a gateway to the world" and that we can see the logo of amazon web service, microsoft azure and google cloud on their website... showing clearly how even "smaller and more local" datacenter only make sense as part of a bigger extractive and destructive system. We got a looot of other gossips to tell you all including diesel energy consumption, unesco protected architecture, hot corridor of server rack that you open with your fingerprint, corporations that seemingly own each others in a cycle to remove tracability, a feminist sculpture and a prison, but a zine may be in the making. As it was forbidden to take pictures, we've been drawing and mapping a bunch of things!

Some documentation here:
pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Gos

a screenshot of the smartdc website where we can read "your gateway to the world" and a bunch of logo included microsoft azure, amazon web service and google cloudcollage drawing of different elements mapped in the datacenter including fiber connetivity, water cooling, unesco heritage door, and a bunch of port and cablesA meme with a hand holding a RAM that reads: the reason RAM prices went up 4x is that a massive amount of not-yet-manufactured memory was bought with money that doesn't really exist to be put into GPUs that haven't been made yet, to be installed in data centers that haven't been built, powered by infrastructure that may never exist, to satisfy demand that isn’t actually there, in order to generate profits that are mathematically impossible.hands of the sudents making a big collage map of what they have been drawing in the datacenter while discussing about it
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@xpub @kazcKaa @actinomy @l03s @lenuageetaitsousnospiedsLe Nuage était sous nos pieds On a new episode of Xpub Gossips, this time with my lovely friend and perma-low-tech pop star @marieverdeil, for a session title Comp(h)osting (with) our phones. We had a lot of wonderful discussions about perma-low-tech (after watching the funky and radical video they made with @dashadasha ilina "the mission is degrowth"), from idea of scales, the danger of romanticising low-tech aesthetics, social practices of collectivising as a radical alternative (compared to constantly developing new optimisations as a form of "leftist techno-solutionism"), and many other rad ideas.

We then went full termux mode with phones brought by the students! Marie joked about how "retired phones" could be the new raspberry pi, they are optimised for transport and battery, and we have an inherent intimate familiarity with them, i add that they understand other protocols like SMS (making them extra gossipy in many way because of the cross-protocol possibility)

There are much more links and images to explore (including the video by Marie and Dasha and her crazy nice guide on comp(h)osting) there: pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Com

Watching the mission is degrowth by marie and Dasha in xpub classroomThe classic ssh is like astral projection but with a phone insteadActivating the flashlight from the terminalExecuting the command tree over a phone to look what's there
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