‘New data centres?
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‘New data centres? No thanks’
A new logo for the Danish campaign against data centres. Lovely work by @snittegodskontoret - a lovely, clever counterpart to the ‘Nuclear Power? No Thanks’ logo. (Also a Danish design)
Den Smilende Sol - Den Sure Sky
The Smiling Sun - The Cross Cloud
The angry, real cloud. The water. The electricity. Nice layers to it.
www.datacenterinfo.dk/
@CiaraNi @snittegodskontoret huh, I wonder if this inspired the branding for the British nationalist campaign against Scottish independence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Together_(campaign)#/media/File:Better_Together_campaigning_at_Kinross_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4160846.jpg -
‘New data centres? No thanks’
A new logo for the Danish campaign against data centres. Lovely work by @snittegodskontoret - a lovely, clever counterpart to the ‘Nuclear Power? No Thanks’ logo. (Also a Danish design)
Den Smilende Sol - Den Sure Sky
The Smiling Sun - The Cross Cloud
The angry, real cloud. The water. The electricity. Nice layers to it.
www.datacenterinfo.dk/
@CiaraNi I didn't know that the anti-nuclear stickers were a Danish design. It was unforgettable! I once had a yellow rain-jacket (against police water canons) with a huge sticker on my back for protests.
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@CiaraNi @snittegodskontoret huh, I wonder if this inspired the branding for the British nationalist campaign against Scottish independence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Together_(campaign)#/media/File:Better_Together_campaigning_at_Kinross_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4160846.jpg@jackeric Ugh: "In June 2014, Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling, who is a friend and former neighbour of Darling, made a £1,000,000 (US$1,694,000) donation to Better Together."
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‘New data centres? No thanks’
A new logo for the Danish campaign against data centres. Lovely work by @snittegodskontoret - a lovely, clever counterpart to the ‘Nuclear Power? No Thanks’ logo. (Also a Danish design)
Den Smilende Sol - Den Sure Sky
The Smiling Sun - The Cross Cloud
The angry, real cloud. The water. The electricity. Nice layers to it.
www.datacenterinfo.dk/
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@CiaraNi I didn't know that the anti-nuclear stickers were a Danish design. It was unforgettable! I once had a yellow rain-jacket (against police water canons) with a huge sticker on my back for protests.
@NatureMC @CiaraNi @snittegodskontoret I always thought the design was German - atom Kraft nein danke - not that I have much to back up this. Except the first ones I ever saw were so.
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@NatureMC @CiaraNi @snittegodskontoret I always thought the design was German - atom Kraft nein danke - not that I have much to back up this. Except the first ones I ever saw were so.
@capnthommo @NatureMC @CiaraNi @snittegodskontoret
Me too. I had a German one on the rear window of my car in the early 80s. -
@jackeric Ugh: "In June 2014, Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling, who is a friend and former neighbour of Darling, made a £1,000,000 (US$1,694,000) donation to Better Together."
@ahltorp yeah... although there are rich transphobes on both sides of the constitutional question here, unfortunately. I think Brian and Ann Souter donated a similar amount to the Yes campaign
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@CiaraNi @snittegodskontoret Ik snap beide bezwaren maar ook geldt voor beide: wat is het alternatief? Een datacenter net over de grens in Duitsland met een mooie kolencentrale ernaast?
@MaSiKa69 @CiaraNi @snittegodskontoret The alternative is no new data centers. We have enough for basic and critical stuff already. The data center build-out is about "Gen AI", and serves no purpose for humans what so ever.
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@NatureMC @RickGaehl @capnthommo
The Smiling Sun was designed on the back of an envelope by 21-year-old activist Anne Lund in Aarhus. It's commemorated to this day in a landmark mural in the city centre.
Funny you mention wearing the logo on a rain-jacket. That usage was in her thinking. She's quoted in this article:
“It needed to be pretty enough for women to wear it on their overcoats to indicate a kind, but firm ‘no thanks’. No clenched fists, no scary images."
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@MaSiKa69 @CiaraNi @snittegodskontoret The alternative is no new data centers. We have enough for basic and critical stuff already. The data center build-out is about "Gen AI", and serves no purpose for humans what so ever.
@stjerneskov @MaSiKa69 @snittegodskontoret Well put and well said. This is exactly it.
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@NatureMC @RickGaehl @capnthommo
The Smiling Sun was designed on the back of an envelope by 21-year-old activist Anne Lund in Aarhus. It's commemorated to this day in a landmark mural in the city centre.
Funny you mention wearing the logo on a rain-jacket. That usage was in her thinking. She's quoted in this article:
“It needed to be pretty enough for women to wear it on their overcoats to indicate a kind, but firm ‘no thanks’. No clenched fists, no scary images."
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@NatureMC
I was wondering, too, but it checks out:
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@CiaraNi @snittegodskontoret huh, I wonder if this inspired the branding for the British nationalist campaign against Scottish independence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Together_(campaign)#/media/File:Better_Together_campaigning_at_Kinross_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4160846.jpg@jackeric Perhaps! The 'No, thanks' works intuitively in this context, I think, even if probably younger people don't immediately know the original source.
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@NatureMC Well yes I know it became famous and used worldwide. It's famous for being used in multiple languages.
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‘New data centres? No thanks’
A new logo for the Danish campaign against data centres. Lovely work by @snittegodskontoret - a lovely, clever counterpart to the ‘Nuclear Power? No Thanks’ logo. (Also a Danish design)
Den Smilende Sol - Den Sure Sky
The Smiling Sun - The Cross Cloud
The angry, real cloud. The water. The electricity. Nice layers to it.
www.datacenterinfo.dk/
@CiaraNi @snittegodskontoret Is Atomkraft a danish word?
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@CiaraNi @snittegodskontoret Is Atomkraft a danish word?
@bjo 'Atomkraft' is Danish for 'nuclear power'
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@bjo 'Atomkraft' is Danish for 'nuclear power'
@CiaraNi thanks, just wondering as it's the same as in Germany and I thought the "Atomkraft nein danke" stickers are a German thing.
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@CiaraNi thanks, just wondering as it's the same as in Germany and I thought the "Atomkraft nein danke" stickers are a German thing.
@bjo A young woman in Aarhus designed it in the early 1970s. Part of the genius of her design was precisely that it travelled so well - it worked easily in multiple languages.
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@MaSiKa69 @CiaraNi @snittegodskontoret The alternative is no new data centers. We have enough for basic and critical stuff already. The data center build-out is about "Gen AI", and serves no purpose for humans what so ever.
@stjerneskov @CiaraNi @snittegodskontoret Partly agree. The general growth of the internet also needs his place and gen-ai has useful usecases. Also a lot of rubbish for fun and social media.
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@stjerneskov @CiaraNi @snittegodskontoret Partly agree. The general growth of the internet also needs his place and gen-ai has useful usecases. Also a lot of rubbish for fun and social media.
@MaSiKa69 Generative AI is unethical and built on stolen data. The oligarchs profiting from it fund a US government that is disappearing people into camps. Environmentally, we might as well drive around the neighbourhood in fossil-fuel cars throwing leaking AA batteries into compost bins as use generative AI and draw on data centres. I have yet to hear of a use case that is so critical for humanity that we should pay that high price.
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