Sam Easterby-Smith on Nostr: So the government is not wrong to say we should hoard less data to reduce water ...

So the government is not wrong to say we should hoard less data to reduce water consumption, but they are employing the classic move of saying it’s our *individual responsibility*. (waves at Michael E. Mann :verified: (npub1a9j…hq52))

The question has to be *why* are we hoarding all this data, and the answer to that is because the *systems* are set up to make us do that. Take a photo, up it goes. Deleting it is friction. 2/