Renewable Energy Approach with Indonesian Regulation Guide Uses Blockchain-BIM to Green Cost Performance

Climate change is a threat and crisis that hit the world today; one of them is causing drought, rising sea levels, melting polar ice, and heat waves; therefore, the target towards Net Zero Emission (NZE) in 2060 must be an obligation in all countries. Green Building (GB) is a building that meets Building Technical Standards, and has demonstrated demonstrable success in conserving resources such as water, energy, and other resources. The application of GB principles following the function and classification in every stage of their implementation is expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This research aims to analyze the cost of improvement work based on GB assessment in applying the Technical Guidelines from Minister of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) No. 1 of 2022, which is the latest regulation in Indonesia. The blockchain-BIM method and the implementation of the GB component will be analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling-Partial Least Squares (SEM-PLS) to find the most influential factors. The results of this study show that by applying Blockchain-BIM to overcome the cost constraints, it is proven to be able to increase the cost performance of GB in modern shopping center buildings by 3–3.8% in the Basic rating, while for other ratings, it is 0.5–2.1% higher, where the selection of a renewable energy model is very influential. Doi: 10.28991/CEJ-2023-09-10-09 Full Text: PD

Chemical Information Bulletin

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LookBook: pioneering Inclusive beauty with artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms

Technology's imperfections and biases inherited from historical norms are crucial to acknowledge. Rapid perpetuation and amplification of these biases necessitate transparency and proactive measures to mitigate their impact. The online visual culture reinforces Eurocentric beauty ideals through prioritized algorithms and augmented reality filters, distorting reality and perpetuating unrealistic standards of beauty. Narrow beauty standards in technology pose a significant challenge to overcome. Algorithms personalize content, creating "filter bubbles" that reinforce these ideals and limit exposure to diverse representations of beauty. This cycle compels individuals to conform, hindering the embrace of their unique features and alternative definitions of beauty. LookBook counters prevalent narrow beauty standards in technology. It promotes inclusivity and representation through self-expression, community engagement, and diverse visibility. LookBook comprises three core sections: Dash, Books, and Community. In Dash, users curate their experience through personalization algorithms. Books allow users to collect curated content for inspiration and creativity, while Community fosters connections with like-minded individuals. Through LookBook, users create a reality aligned with their unique vision. They control consumed content, nurturing individualism through preferences and creativity. This personalization empowers individuals to break free from narrow beauty standards and embrace their distinctiveness. LookBook stands out with its algorithmic training and data representation. It offers transparency on how personalization algorithms operate and ensures a balanced and diverse representation of physicalities and ethnicities. By addressing biases and embracing a wide range of identities, LookBook sparks a conversation for a technology landscape that amplifies all voices, fostering an environment celebrating diversity and prioritizing inclusivity

The ambivalences of piracy : BitTorrent media piracy and anti-capitalism

This thesis argues that a more nuanced study of online media piracy is necessary in order to augment the dominant focus on piracy's relationship to copyright. Copyright as a frame for understanding piracy's relationship to capitalism has left potentially more crucial areas of study neglected. An approach to understanding the relationship of media piracy to anticapitalist projects must engage with forms of media piracy in their specificity and not as a homogeneous field. The thesis argues that it is possible and necessary to push beyond the constraints of copyright activism and intellectual property and in so doing opens up new areas of inquiry into online media piracy's potential to challenge logics of property and commodification. Original research is presented in the form of a highly detailed description and analysis of private BitTorrent filesharing sites. These sites are secretive and yet to receive scholarly attention in such a detailed and systematic way. This research finds both public and private variants of BitTorrent media piracy to be highly ambivalent with regards to their transformative potentials in relation to capital and thus tempers more extreme views of piracy as wholly revolutionary and emancipatory, and those that see pirate as a 'simple' form of theft. Public and private BitTorrent filesharing are theorised through the lens of Autonomist Marxism, a perspective that has a novel view of technology both as a tool of domination and a force for potential emancipation. Piracy is analysed for its capacity to refuse the valorisation of the enjoyment of music or film via the surveillance and tracking of audiences, which has become typical for contemporary legal online distribution venues. The thesis further analyses BitTorrent piracy's relationship to the 'common', the shared capacities for creating knowledge, ideas, affects. The thesis concludes that further scholarly research must move beyond concerns for creators' remuneration and its focus on reforming existing copyright policy and instead engage with the emergent institutional structures of organised media piracy. Though publicly accessible BitTorrent piracy has contributed to a broadening of awareness about issues of access to information, such an awareness often leaves in place logics of private property and capitalist accumulation. Finally, the thesis argues that the richness and complexity of private sites' organisational valences carry with them greater potential for radically destabilising capitalist social relations with regard to the distribution of cultural production