Would be very interested to know if Meta (listed as a "partner" organization) is providing financial support, like how fellow partner the Ford Foundation lists a $50k grant[1] in February 2024 to the Exchange Point Institute, which is the "fiscal sponsor" of the Social Web Foundation[2]
Not to mention that their napkin math is wrong by a factor of 12
No replies yet so I'll give it a try - feel free to ignore if you solved this already
Are you using pipewire? I would think that either helvum or qpwgraph would be able to route the audio from youtube into bitwig but I haven't tried to do this.
You may want to double-check that math ;)
Did no one in the replies happen to notice that this is a loan
Corporations and surveillance?
Yep absolutely, and even those numbers likely represent raw emissions figures vastly lower than the true impact these data centres are having on global emissions.
For example, that Google report talks about EACs - here's a great podcast episode that explains why these kinds of accounting methods are a complete disaster:
Reveal: It's Not Easy Going Green
https://revealnews.org/podcast/its-not-easy-going-green-update-2023/
This move, at least on the face of it, seems to privilege the cloud giants over say, a company that maintains its own servers. That's effectively a handout of public resources to those already fabulously wealthy and powerful corporations.
That's where I drew the conclusion from
Isn't technofeudalism great?
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Very cool! Yeah I will definitely need to crack open some more of these tools and just keep playing, I haven't even tried most of them yet, will have to explore that select-4 module first though
Also that strip on your controller looks like fun to use!
I don't have a video to share but one of the things I discovered was, if I use the note expressions to randomize velocity a bit, and then map velocity to the likelihood of transposing notes up an octave.... now every time a midi chord plays, I can get a different voicing. Got a feeling I'll be using that technique a lot
Unfortunately, Meta is listed as one of their partners