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DEGROWTH Café #10 in 14 slides of notes🗒✊







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"4X Espresso, please"
DEGROWTH Café #10. This Thursday ♨️

Our next Degrowth Cafe tastes more like a triple Espresso☕☕☕ Come and join us 9th April 5.30-7.30pm + Community Dinner at Folkets Hus, 2200. Let's collectively inject some caffeine to the International Ecosocialist Agenda ✊❤

Join us for our next Degrowth Cafe 9th April 5.30-7.30pm FolketsHus✊
Members of grassroots are particularly welcomed 🧡
Bring a friend along!

Degrowth Café #9: Housing for Degrowth: Social, Economic and Spacial Implications

📆 12th March, 5.30-7.30pm + Community Dinner
📍Folkets Hus, 2200

BOYCOTT BLACK FRIDAY

🗓️15.30 - 17:00 Friday, November 28th
📍Illum Strøget (can we say more specifically)

According to UNEP, one truckload of textile waste is dumped every second.

‼️Say no to competitive consumerism and impulse buying‼️

Join Degrowth Copenhagen’s street action in one of Copenhagen’s fanciest shopping malls challenging overconsumption and the oppressive systems events like Black Friday uphold.

Through communal public actions and performances, we aim to highlight the environmental and social toll of consumerism while inspiring alternative ways to find joy, fulfilment, and community.

Let’s reclaim the streets, celebrate rather than consume, and remind ourselves that today as well as all days: we are humans, not consumers.

Bring friends, your voices and demanding energy!

This one needs to be adjusted but I think could be nice to be added:
If you have any clothes that you don’t longer want to wear: we’re organizing a small exchange during the action and then want to donate the leftover items.

☕Degrowth cafe #6: AI & degrowth: from critical perspectives to the case for Generative-ai abolition

📍Thursday 11th December , 17:30 - 19.30
+ Community dinner, 20:00

🔎About:

What is the prevailing stance of the Degrowth community on (generative) AI so far?

on his blog argues that “AI applications for the public good” should have a priority e.g. education, healthcare; Mariana Mazzucato - often cited in Degrowth circles - advocates for “AI under good public governance”; meanwhile the Draghi report predicts - in the EU alone -  a 28% AI-driven rise in energy demand from data centers by 2030 (currently accounting for almost 3% of EU electricity demand); but...

What do AI-scholars - with an intersectional perspectives - say on AI?  We have asked them to join us in conversation.

We will take it from the basics. We will cover the history of AI - its different types - its ethical issues, environmental and social costs, cultural and psychological consequences and implications for our daily lives starting from labor and workplace impact. We will also learn about potential “life-changing” application of AI in the realms of care, health and disability.

Panelists:

🧠Denise Utochkin
Postdoc in 'AI' abolition, radical novelty, and algorithmic fairness at the University of Copenhagen. Member of Academics for Palestine and Scientist Rebellion

🧠Vinit Ravinshakar
Postdoc in AI critique. Vinit works on critical analyses of the political economy of contemporary technology

🧠Kathrin Kirchner
Associate Professor at Technical University of Denmark. Kathrin researches on implementation of New Digital Technologies and the social and organizational implications of AI at the Workplace

📜Program attempt:

17:00-17:30 Arrival

17:35-17:40 Intro by Linda and Rita from Degrowth CPH 

17:40-18:10 10-min Presentation 3X Panelists

18:10-18:20 Short Break

18:20-19:30 Q&A and Discussion

20:00 - 21:30 Community Dinner

🧠🫂Bring your best neurons for discussion and a friend!