French protesters storm an industrial port aboard a catamaran
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Anyone else excited for / played Earthborne Rangers?
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Solarpunk games?
drivethrurpg.com/en/product/48…
Eta: posted too quickly, meant to say not video games but maybe worth a mention. I see fully automated on this community sometimes but I dont think I've seen coyote and crow talked about here.
Welcome To Coyote & Crow Games - Coyote & Crow
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TIL of the text "bolo'bolo"
Has anyone attempted the bike setup from the Monk and Robot series?
The Monk and Robot books by Becky Chambers take place in a very solar punk setting where significant rewilding has taken place. The main character is a travelling tea monk (you don’t need to know what that is) who travels with what is called an ox-bike. Essentially the setup is an e-bike-driven lightweight campervan or possibly wagon. My impression from the book is that the front bike does not detach from the back.
I’ve done some literal back of the envelope calculations and I think it would be possible to make something like that in real life with our current technology. But I’ve not been able to find any prior art, except for the Wide path bicycle camper, which is more like a trailer than a campervan. My guess is you could improve on the if you made the bike built in, not least because it’s easier to stop without the damned bike falling over.
Have you ever heard of or seen anyone make something like this? Do you think it could work?
Bicycle Camper | Light Weight Bike Campers | Widepathcamper
Discover new places and escape the hustle and bustle of city life with the ultimate bicycle camper from Wide Path Camper.Thomas Møller Pedersen ApS
There was this very cool handmade bike trailer wagon thing: slrpnk.net/post/1833883
For the artist's experiences living out of it: theaimlesslywanderingartist.bl…
But that's a trailer. It sounds like you're describing something closer to a Bicycle Rickshaw, possibly on a tricycle frame.
You could even do a recumbent bike:
It seems like either could be enclosed using techniques learned from popup campers for a fairly comfortable living space.
(I think a lot about all the crazy contraptions people would make if the roads weren't exclusively the domain of giant trucks and SUVs, and if cargo bikes didn't have to fit themselves into narrow bike lanes and roadsides. I think people would come up with some really cool and weird stuff. Add solar panels and ebike parts, and they'd get really interesting.)
WINTER COMES TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
It's 2 AM...what am I doing up writing this blog? I shall get to that in a minute, but first I must apologize for being a bit lax in my blo...theaimlesslywanderingartist.blogspot.com
Solar PV on the roof of the Brighton Whitehawk public library
Simon Jay (@simonjay@climatejustice.social)
Attached: 1 image Visited the #Brighton #Whitehawk public #Library From the top floor you can look out across their #GreenRoof. One day all public buildings may be kitted out like this 👇🏻Climate Justice Social
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It's fascinating to see the difference in reaction in the post here, vs. the post it links to where they're saying exactly the same thing that you and I are saying.
No idea what the difference might be.
Prevents a shaded panel from affecting the entire string. Pretty standard on Australian residential setups these days.
Panel-Level Optimisation (PLO) - The Good Solar Guide
Panel-Level Optimisation uses smart electronics to optimise the power output of each solar panel in a string independently - learn more about PLO optionsSolarQuotes
"Growth capitalism is a deranged fantasy for lunatics" - an amazing rant on the "brutally efficient machine" of capitalist economics and the government policies facilitating it
Anarchist Meme Collective
Growth capitalism is a deranged fantasy for lunatics. Year 1, your business makes a million dollars in profit. Great start! Year 2, you make another million. Oh no! Your business is failing because…Tumblr
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Canvas 2024 is live! - Shall we try to draw the solarpunk logo?
What’s Canvas? Canvas is a collaborative pixel canvas similar to
Reddit’s r/place, except it is open to (almost) the entire Fediverse!
The event is going on from July 12th 4am UTC to July 15th @ 4am UTC (72 hours)
We could try creating a template toast.ooo/post/3987393
UPDATE: I think I manged to create a template to follow. Click here and check if you see the solarpunk logo to the left of the big german lemmy. Help me draw it! 🌱 LINK TO TEMPLATE 🌱
The Vaccine Test
The Vaccine Test
My professional, political, and social circles are defined by folks who are hyper-focused on sustainability.open.substack.com
I initially thought this was about anti-vaxxers, which is also a kind of test to weed out people prone to group-think and irrational believes.
But yeah, making and distributing vaccines is a reasonably complex tasks that requires some level of global coordination. However, classic vaccines are actually not all that hard to make, a lot of the complexity comes from the regulatory requirements. Early into the Covid-19 pandemic some people actually made their own nasal spray vaccines, that probably were not that much worse than some other early options.
Do We Love Our Children
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The current state of context resolution
Topic backfill via resolvable `context` · Issue #12647 · NodeBB/NodeBB
As a proof-of-concept implementation with Discourse, NodeBB will enable topic backfill via a resolvable context property. Each post (typically of type as:Note) will contain a context property that ...GitHub
Wau Holland – Alles ist eins, ausser der 0 (2021)
Am Anfang der Hacker-Kultur stand Deutschlands erster digitaler Bürgerrechtler: Wau Holland ist der Visionär einer demokratischen digitalen Kultur. 1981 gründete er mit einer Handvoll Mitstreitern den Chaos Computer Club (CCC), der durch spektakuläre Hacks und später durch Verstrickungen mit den Geheimdiensten weltbekannt wurde. (ARD)
@Streams
Announcing version 24.7.8 from the streams repository. "The best fediverse server you never heard of."
In this release:
nomadic identity over ActivityPub
nomadic content over all supported protocols
json-ld webpage metadata ("fediverse:creator" can rot in hell - we use and promote open standards here).
...and much more
@StreamsAnnouncing version 24.7.8 from the streams repository. "The best fediverse server you never heard of."
In this release:
nomadic identity over ActivityPub
nomadic content over all supported protocols
json-ld webpage metadata ("fediverse:creator" can rot in hell - we use and promote open standards here)....and much more
streams
Public domain federated communications server. Provides a feature rich ActivityPub and Nomad communication node.Codeberg.org
Actual comedians try to use LLM in a writing room. Result: “cruise ship comedy material from the 1950s, but a bit less racist”
A Robot Walks into a Bar: Can Language Models Serve as Creativity Support Tools for Comedy? An Evaluation of LLMs' Humour Alignment with Comedians
We interviewed twenty professional comedians who perform live shows in front of audiences and who use artificial intelligence in their artistic process as part of 3-hour workshops on ``AI x Comedy'' conducted at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Augus…arXiv.org
At the same time, most participants felt the LLMs did not succeed as a creativity support tool, by producing bland and biased comedy tropes, akin to ``cruise ship comedy material from the 1950s, but a bit less racist''.
holy shit that’s a direct quote from the paper
AI art steals from the poor and has no place in modern society
In a post-scarcity solarpunk future, I could imagine some reasonable uses, but that’s not the world we’re living in yet.
AI art has already poisoned the creative environment. I commissioned an artist for my latest solarpunk novel, and they used AI without telling me. I had to scrap that illustration. Then the next person I tried to hire claimed they could do the work without AI but in fact they could not.
All that is to say, fuck generative AI and fuck capitalism!
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"Ummm then we're not an AI company"
Land Value Taxes are better for this in literally every way.
I like my idea because it will discourage greedy wasteful destructive nonsense and at least get something for public benefit.
Unlike extraction enterprises.
Money is what they listen to and worship. That's where it hurts.
You're right. Don't tax entities that have massive sales but work out of a small office, like an AI powered company might
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what I'm saying is that if the artwork is viewable in public, I have given the public license to hold that information in their brain and use it to influence their own output.
If a member of the public makes too similar of a replica then I can sue. We do not regulate the intake of public information into human storage/retrieval systems (brains) so why should we do that for synthetic ones?
We should only regulate the output to not reproduce art or an actors likeness etc.
the reason they have to use specific licensed material is because they are charging rhe art student and therefore must pay for the materials they provide to the student.
But as a student, you can look at any public art you want and allow it to inform your work as long as you don't copy. So that's another example of the same principle: you must pay to reproduce/distribute someone else's art for money. So we come to the same point: no reproduction, but intake is allowed.
let's look at writing computer code. LLMs used public copyrighted code to get really good at writing code blocks. That's like 85% of my job, but I don't care that they are making me obsolete because that means I can now spend more time figuring out how to do better science.
Artists should do the same. Anything that could be adequately created by thinking of a good text prompt should be done in 10 s and spend the rest of the time on hard creative stuff 🤷♀️
This is a terrible one to one comparison. I can't even begin to tear this apart it's so bad. LLM'S aren't even good at writing code which is like half the reason people have to go back and fix the code they generate.
Artists don't do art because it's work. They do art because they like to create things. You code because it's work which is why you don't care.
ok, this is just insulting. I write code ONLY because I want to create things. I have dozens of open source projects that I've built over the years. But I don't care about writing the code even though it's fun sometimes.
I write the code to create the thing. And if artists cared about creation they'd use whatever tool they could. The only reason to not want an AI alternative tool is to create a moat to keep getting paid for work that could be made cheaper.
You started with the insults when you basically claimed that artists should feel the way you do about writing code about making art. You know that's not how that works. If it makes things quicker for you, that's great. But making it "quicker" for the artist to make a piece isn't the same thing and it was disingenuous of you to claim otherwise. It's especially egregious considering that what's actually happening is non-artists are making "art" using LLM's and companies are buying that art because it's cheap thereby pushing real artists who actually are doing work out of the market entirely.
A cabinet maker might use a band saw to make his life easier but just having the band saw make the whole cabinet because it's faster? That's not how that works.
so you said it right here: "...can’t just get a copy of the training materials used by Julliard and reproduce those exactly."
They can't reproduce, but if Juliard posted their materials online for free, then the professor at the community college could look at those materials and use that to inform their own material selection.
You are muddling up a bunch of random side issues rather than addressing the principle issue: anyone at any company can view public information.
You seem to think for free means just take it and use it to generate revenue. That's not what it means to have something be posted on the Internet. An artist's online portfolio isn't free. That's not how that's supposed to work and you know it.
If it were these LLM'S wouldn't shy away from using music on the Internet to train their LLM's. At least one of these firms has literally said they don't do this specifically because they don't want to get into trouble with any record labels. But sure. LLM'S can steal from Getty images and the NYT and be fine. That totally makes sense.
So don’t strengthen IP laws. Strengthen labor and antitrust laws.
Say: “You can’t use someone’s own creative work to compete against them in the same market”
Creators get a modicum of protection. The power-grab by the ultra-rich faces a major setback. FOSS models keep on truckin.
Say: “You can’t use someone’s own creative work to compete against them in the same market”
So just IP laws then? Also would this not literally ban learning
I don't care if it's harmful to artists. "Artist" is not a real job, it's something you nepo-babies can do in your free time outside of cooking McRibs or mining Lithium like the rest of working class folks.
I've never paid for digital content and I ain't about to start.
This is a joke. It has to be.
"Didn't you know the proletariat is supposed to be miserable?"
A Rare Cross-Section Illustration Reveals the Infamous Happenings of Kowloon Walled City — Colossal
Kowloon was built as a small military fort around the turn of the 20th century. When the Chinese and English governments abandoned it after World War II, the area attracted refugees and people in search of affordable housing. With no single architect, the urban center continued to grow as people stacked buildings on top of one another and tucked new structures in between existing ones to accommodate the growing population without expanding beyond the original fort’s border.
With only a small pocket of community space at the center, Kowloon quickly morphed into a labyrinth of shops, services, and apartments connected by narrow stairs and passageways through the buildings. Rather than navigate the city through alleys and streets, residents traversed the structures using slim corridors that always seemed to morph, an experience that caused many to refer to Kowloon as “a living organism.”
A Rare Cross-Section Illustration Reveals the Infamous Happenings of Kowloon Walled City — Colossal
The rare panorama peers into the compact neighborhood, glimpsing narrow dance halls and entire factories tucked inside cramped quarters.Grace Ebert (Colossal)
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Nordcon Logo
Foto von Woody.
Solarpunk Pioneers Fund - The Idea
The Solarpunk Pioneers Fund is a private funding initiative with the goal to kickstart and fund solarpunk projects that develop solutions for a good and sustainable livestyle within the planetary boundaries.We do this with private money that our family wants to invest into a better future, and we do this in our free time next to our day jobs. Hence, we want this project to develop organically, step by step, in exchange with the broader community.
Solarpunk Pioneers Fund - The Idea
The SPF is a non-commercial, private funding initiative with the goal to kickstart and fund solarpunk projects for a good and sustainable livestyle within the planetary boundaries.Solarpunk Pioneers Fund
In the first pilot project 2024, the funding is only available to students of the Technische Hochschule Augsburg in the MSc program
It's great to hear that "every outcome is open science / open source" with permissive licenses for the common good instead of a patent.
Continuing this theme, Liberapay would make sense as an option for contributing.
Naomi Klein: 'Let Them Drown: the violence of othering in a warming world'
n her 2016 Edward W. Said lecture, Naomi Klein examines how Said's ideas of racial hierarchy, including Orientalism, have been the silent partners to climate change since the earliest days of the steam engine, continuing to present day decisions to let entire nations drown and others warm to lethal levels. The lecture looks at how Said’s bold universalist vision might form the basis for a response to climate change grounded in radical inclusion, belonging and restorative justice.
Naomi Klein: 'Let Them Drown: the violence of othering in a warming world'
Read the lecture: http://lrb.me/290In her 2016 Edward W. Said lecture, Naomi Klein examines how Said's ideas of racial hierarchy, including Orientalism, have...YouTube
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We regret to inform you that Ray Kurzweil is back on his bullshit
AI scientist Ray Kurzweil: ‘We are going to expand intelligence a millionfold by 2045’
The Google futurist talks nanobots and avatars, deepfakes and elections – and why he is so optimistic about a future where we merge with computersZoë Corbyn (The Guardian)
What Does a Solarpunk City Look Like?
What Does a Solarpunk City Look Like?
Compare news coverage. Spot media bias. Avoid algorithms. Try Ground News today and get 30% off your subscription by going to https://ground.news/occHelp me ...YouTube
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A little.like.Utrecht?
A 'Fully Charged' City Built Around Bicycles? | Fully Charged LIVE is coming to Europe!
Robert recently made a road trip to visit the inspirational city of Utrecht where they do things a little differently. This is the first of four Dutch based ...YouTube
How this remote Indigenous community has reduced every resident's power bill by 70 per cent
How every resident in the remote community of Marlinja has reduced their power bill by 70 per cent
An Indigenous-owned solar farm, the first to be connected to a power grid, has been opened in the Northern Territory remote community of Marlinja.Jane Bardon (ABC News)
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Activism, Lowtech, Transhumanism and Sprouting: Links from the Solarpunk Camp 2024
Activism, Lowtech, Transhumanism and Sprouting: Links from the Solarpunk Camp 2024
Software engineer, artist and musicianRafael Epplée
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I get your concern (this is the first time I'm hearing about it and oof). I would however point out that the core of transhumanism is the idea that we should have the freedom to modify our own bodies however we want. This is how I've always heard it used and how I'm going to keep using it.
I do understand where those people are coming from, though. If you have the technology to e.g. eliminate sickle cell anemia and choose not to do it, that's as much eugenics as choosing to do so. I don't know how to square that with individual liberty. Having parents decide is....not necessarily a great solution. Having society decide is also not a good solution, but probably the one we'll have to end up doing.
SolarPunk Cities: Our Last Hope? [18:34 Youtube vid]
Piped mirror: piped.video/watch?v=UVlBmdvIC6…
This channel is about architecture, and this video (from Nov 2023*) is about Solar Punk and covers some of the history and real-life attempts.
I was amused that shortly after talking about Solar Punk's rejection of consumerism she did the sponsor section, but that's Youtube for you.
* it's been posted elsewhere on Lemmy but not here that I can see
SolarPunk Cities: Our Last Hope?
Check Out The HP Elitebook 1040 G10 here: https://bit.ly/3Qy7PO5Dear Alice is made by THE LINE Animation Studiohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Ng5ZvrDm4My...YouTube
Biomimicry: Hoax or Genius?
Go to https://drinkag1.com/damilee to get started on your first purchase and receive a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D3+K2 and 5 travel packs. Thanks to AG1 ...YouTube
Your Houseplants Can Think with Zoë Schlanger [Factually podcast with Adam Conover]
Adam's podcast is just straight-up low-key solarpunk at this point. Like half the videos feel relevant.
Here is the audio-only version, too: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/…
ah yes, flashbacks to when they bought pocket and instantly forced it on everyone
where you had to remove the ui icon, untick shit in settings, and then STILL go into about:config to kill even more things there. which I just wanted to share, but then found that apparently at some point my old settings got nuked? or decommissioned or something? and others reinstated/introduced? because none of my changes for that are there anymore
sigh
also, their push to telemetry, to labs, to getting people to cohort into running things, them pushing selective bans on plugins because of legal pressure in countries, their absolutely fucking awful track record in spending their cashflow on utter and complete bullshit instead of actually improving the browser, ...
go into about:config to kill even more things there. which I just wanted to share
Well, looks like my custom pocket settings are preserved, if they're useful to anyone:
browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.section.highlights.includePocket false
extensions.pocket.api 0.0.0.0
extensions.pocket.enabled false
extensions.pocket.onSaveRecs false
extensions.pocket.settings.test.panelSignUp v1
extensions.pocket.showHome false
extensions.pocket.site 0.0.0.0
services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.section.highlights.includePocket false
The Solarpunk Conference is coming up
2040 a hopeful and realistic Solarpunk movie about our future
I especially also like the focus to be on kids, because those are the people that will be living in and shaping the future.
So watch this movie, show it to your kids and anyone who could benefit from a little more hope and Ideas!!
"In 2040, I'll reminisce about the 20th century,
When we still wrote on pads of paper, humans still did all the cleaning." - 2040, Spymob
EU-Gesetz gegen Kindesmissbrauchsinhalte - Chatkontrolle "nicht mit Menschenrechten vereinbar"
Die Pläne der EU im Kampf gegen Kindesmissbrauchsinhalte stoßen auf Kritik. Mail- und Messenger-Dienste sollen künftig die Nachrichten aller Nutzerinnen und Nutzer anlasslos nach verbotenen Inhalten durchsuchen.Deutschlandfunk
Michaela hat dies geteilt.
lemmylommy
Als Antwort auf ElCanut • • •pseudo
Als Antwort auf lemmylommy • • •The mouvement has its own french wikipédia article . You can use a translator to learn more about it there.
Mouvements d'opposition aux méga-bassines en France — Wikipédia
Contributeurs aux projets Wikimedia (Fondation Wikimedia, Inc.)Armok: God of Blood
Als Antwort auf ElCanut • • •1985 covert attack by French foreign intelligence service on a Greenpeace ship
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)