KrautPress Website Club


[url=https://dewp.space/@simon]@simon[/url] hatte eine Idee: Wir starten Ende Februar eine neue kleine Veranstaltungsreihe: den KrautPress Website Club. Gemeinsam mit Matthias Pfefferle werden wir uns einmal im Monat treffen und ganz im Sinne des WordPres

Revolutionary Paris Apartment is the Ultimate Experiment in Eco City Living! - YouTube


I just watched this video and found it awesome. I am not sure if this is the best community for it. Please, feel free to post it elsewhere! The more people that see it, the better!
Als Antwort auf beSyl

I'm glad this got shared! I also watched this (long time fan of this channel) and immediately thought that is solarpunk as fuck!

People will (understandably) have some reservations about the crickets, but there are some really awesome ideas being put into practice here.

I like it that they are growing their own mushrooms and utilizing the substrate byproducts.

It's cool to see all of their inspirations they've collected from different places they've gone to and all of their experiments (like the arid desert climate one especially).

I really like their mechanical contraptions that combine exercise and functional necessities for energy saving purposes.

Their space is really cool and inspirational.

The state of conversational contexts (February 2025)


Open Web Conversations


Ich habe einen neuen Podcast! 🎉 ...naja, nicht ganz ☺️ Aber ich darf (neben Courtney Robertson, Dave Lockie und Robert Jacobi) eine Show auf [url=https://dothewoo.io/@dothewoo.io]@dothewoo.io[/url] hosten! Knapp 17 Jahre nach der ersten und fast 14 Jahre
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So I got an email from GamesQuest Fulfilment Tuesday afternoon stating:

Good news!

Dear Tim [redacted],

Your QML Catalyst order has been shipped!

Your parcel should be with you within the next 4 – 7 working days.

Please allow up to 5 working days for your tracking to activate.

2 x Salvage Box: Mercenaries

[Individual]GQCAT36016

1 x Mercenaries box set (Limited […]

warmonger.de/battletech-mercen…

FEP 7888 serving up an OrderedCollection


Unbekannter Ursprungsbeitrag

unkn - Link zum Originalbeitrag

julian

Re: FEP 7888 serving up an OrderedCollection


@jesseplusplus@mastodon.social @pfefferle@mastodon.social I fixed up NodeBB's janky handling of collections and now I am able to import an entire Frequency conversation via its context :tada:

I think @silverpill@mitra.social is right though, your context.first needs an id. I worked around it but it's better to have it so it can be referenced against by another page's prev.

Als Antwort auf DaseinPickle

We do know a lot from archeology and so on, yes. But the same is true for ancient egypt.

But at least to my knowledge, there is next to no continous practise of these traditions anywhere in Europe for many generations now.

I mean if historical reenactment is a hobby this guy enjoys doing, fine with me. But I see very little point in trying to revive a tradition that is that long dead and forgotten.

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Als Antwort auf poVoq

He is a scholar with a phd in history and religion. The point is that are in a time where we need to reconnect with nature. A bit like we are trying to do with solar punk. And you can’t do that with Christianity. You could even argue that the Abrahamic religions are an indirect cause of the climate crisis, because it makes human the most important species with the right to rule over nature.

A lot of native people have an animist religion with a deep connection to nature and the western world need to rediscover that. At least that’s what a lot of modern animist believe. I think it’s worth exploring.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025


Borrowing e-books in the EU just became a lot more complicated as libraries move to closed ecosystems


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Als Antwort auf Xander

FEP-efda: Followable objects


Als Antwort auf a

Multi-typing is not necessary, it can be an Application without a second type, or an object with a non-standard type but duck-typed as actor.

Anyway, there is a bigger problem. This FEP doesn't explain what "following" means if Follow.object is not an actor. ActivityPub spec says that Follow is used to subscribe to actor's activities, but what follower is supposed to receive from an object? Objects don't perform activities.

Regarding topic subscriptions, I already talked about my preferred solution in another thread. Now there is a formal proposal: codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src…

Als Antwort auf silverpill

If we don’t know where we want to go, it makes little difference that we make great progress - Envisioning a Sustainable World


Vision is the most vital step in the policy process. If we don’t know where we want to go, it makes little difference that we make great progress. Yet vision is not only missing almost entirely from policy discussions; it is missing from our whole culture. We talk about our fears, frustrations, and doubts endlessly, but we talk only rarely and with embarrassment about our dreams. Environmentalists have been especially ineffective in creating any shared vision of the world they are working toward — a sustainable world in which people live within nature in a way that meets human needs while not degrading natural systems. Hardly anyone can imagine that world, especially not as a world they’d actively like to live in. The process of building a responsible vision of a sustainable world is not a rational one. It comes from values, not logic. Envisioning is a skill that can be developed, like any other human skill. This paper indicates how.
Als Antwort auf Rimu

Thanks for sharing. It has some good thoughts and indeed we need think about what we want to actually achieve and not be shy about it.

But maybe it is better to not think of it as a future goal but rather as reminder of the possibilities. All too often we restrict our thinking to what we think is realistic and that then becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy by itself.

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So there is this little weird YouTube channel „Yellow Belly Tabletop“ who in their weekly live streams ask really important and weird questions or discuss odd topics like:

Wargaming’s hidden secret: Communal hobby

Now, is communal hobby a „hidden secret“?

No, I don’t think it’s hidden and it’s no secret but it is an aspect of our wargaming hobby that might not be very apparent to new […]

warmonger.de/communal-hobby-a-…

FediDEM


Ich war dieses Jahr zum ersten Mal auf der #FOSDEM, hauptsächlich weil [url=https://cosocial.ca/@evan]@evan[/url] und [url=https://macaw.social/@andypiper]@andypiper[/url] (im Dunstkreis der Social Web Foundation) mehrere Fediverse-(Sub-)Events organisier

I'm a solarpunk writer; here's my smallweb site with free stories and novels!


Hey solarpunks!

I'm Clockwork, an Italian solarpunk physicist, juggler and writer. I would like share my website with you; I've set it up two years ago with zero html knowledge and I have given it a new revamp recently. Since I write in English but the publishing system is extremely walled, I want to make myself known among likeminded people without selling my soul.

I write mostly solarpunk (you can check out the short story page and the Meteorina "saga" (three long stories, with a fourth one coming soon), but you can also find some Neolithic fantasy and scifi with community and resistance themes. All stories are FREE TO DOWNLOAD; there are no Amazon links and most files are interoperable and freely accessible. There is a donation button but I'd rather you enjoy these stories in a non-transactional way.

I hope you will find them interesting and possibly get inspired!

EDIT: I'm an idiot, here's the link! Thank you for pointing it out 😅

EDIT2: Here's the Telegram channel if you want to receive bi-weekly updates!

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Als Antwort auf Clockwork

Where have you been hiding! I just checked out one of your solarpunk short stories (Martedì // Tuesday, thank you for writing and translating). I loved how much dialogue there was. I don't usually think of more "technical" minded people (like physicists) as being so focused on characters (we often focus on technology or systems), but that shows my prejudice I guess!

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with next. :)

Als Antwort auf grrgyle

That's so flattering, thank you! 🥹

Your prejudice was half-right actually: tech and systems are what I really want to explore, but I use shorter stories as "experiment" to practice other aspect of storytelling too. After all, characters are the most powerful illusion spell on the reader!

What's going to be next:
- More Meteorina adventures (surely one on Elba, maybe one on Albanian shores considering the shitshow going on with the Italian govt nowadays? Some good old satire, why not)
- Kanteletar, the stories of a public digital library founded in 2067 across four centuries of climate, geopolitical and cultural upheavals

Solarpunk Island


You are one of the passengers on a ship that has crashed onto an uninhabited island and have been given a section of the island to turn into your habitat. You have to start from scratch and build it in a way that respects nature and keeps all your necessities within a 15-minute walking distance.

Escaping the Trap of ‘Realism’ and ‘Utopianism’: Towards Programmatic Synthesis


Crosspost because asksolarpunk is small


cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/25383874

Whats a good tool for tracking my emissions?

I tried apps like Klima and Earth Hero. Earth Hero is especially good but I would like to play with the numbers myself for specific scenarios like snapshots of my emissions, planning my next year, logging my specific air travel, hobbies, etc.

If anyone has a spreadsheet model I would be grateful. Otherwise I can build one. Earth Hero gives a lot of references to their source models.

Kubicki fürchtet um Existenz der FDP


Das ganze ist natürlich durch ein durchschaubarer Trick, sich mit unentschlossenen Wählern doch noch über die 5% Grenze zu hieven. Die FDP wird nicht aufhören zu existieren bloß weil man aus dem Bundestag fliegt, wie beim letzten Mal. Dazu sind ihre Unterstützer zu mächtig. Womöglich werden wir aber dann ein weiteres anstrengendes Logo-Redesign ertragen müssen.
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Als Antwort auf SubArcticTundra

Even though I mostly agree with the conclusion of this article, it is a pretty bad take otherwise. They even partially contradict themselves and in general seem to think that there is no such thing as an equilibrium, but only boom or bust (and yes reaching and maintaining an equilibrium is hard work).

If I had time and motivation I would write an parody on this article from the view of the late Roman empire where a person complains about how society can not survive without slave labor and how everything is build on it and so on. Yes, the Roman empire did eventually collapse, but not because of a lack of cheap slave labor.

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Yet another bit about Musk's delusions of grandeur


Als Antwort auf Charlie Stross

"Veppers... is based on Musk"

If this is true, then it's a remarkable bit of SF foresight, because in 2010, Musk was nowhere near what he is now. He wasn't even in the top 100 richest. He was rich, but not even a billionaire. It was such a different time that even Jeff Bezos was just #43 in the world (this is from Forbes 2010). We didn't yet have our current technofeudalism centered on Internet tycoons; the tech tycoons in the top 10 were Bill Gates and Larry Ellison.

Regarding the main topic of this thread, I too had wondered if the name is a clue that Elon was the golden child of some secret cult of upper-class Space Nazis, their anointed one destined to realize the Iron Dream. But if one is to entertain such thoughts, you should be aware that it was also the middle name of a maternal great-grandfather, John Elon Haldeman, who was apparently a Minnesota school teacher who emigrated to Canada with his chiropractor wife.

Als Antwort auf Mitchell_Porter

Musk was already a famous multi-millionaire with a dot-com history, a rocket program, and IIRC an electric car company. Musk was playing at James Bond villainy back in the 00s. (And I used to go to the pub with Iain.)

As for the name I thought it was well known that the Musk family were involved in the Technocracy movement?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocr…

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Solarpunk Trinity to clear confusion


I think that often the confusion when talking about solarpunk happens because solarpunk as per now it's a term that includes different subset of its characteristics without being necessarily superimposable with each other

2 examples:
- can have solarpunk aesthetic produced in a non solarpunk way
- can have solarpunk movements not relying on the solarpunk aesthethic

yellow trinity triangle with forest background. on the 3 angles of the triangle there are ''the art'', ''the movement'' and ''the utopia''. In the center of the triangle there is ''solarpunk''. The angles are connected by ''is not'' lines. The angles are all connected to the center with ''is'' lines.
Als Antwort auf dumnezero

I mean, animals are exploited by other animals all the time... The relationships can be mutually beneficial though or at least commensal (one species benefits while the other neither benefits nor is harmed)

There are wasps that mimic bees and take over their hives for their own breeding purposes.

Some prairie dogs use bird calls as a predator warning system, which the bird exploits to steal the prairie dog's food.

Cuckoo birds lay their eggs in the nests of other birds to be raised by them

Some ants farm aphids for their sugary secretions

People were able to live side by side with so many animals over millennia without destroying entire populations. So I'd say that humans using animals instead of machines can be quite solarpunk.

Als Antwort auf kozy138

I haven't seen the video yet. Solarpunk imagines a future where machines serve humans and animals and not the other way around. Animals have a role of mutually beneficial collaboration but not of unilateral exploitation by humanity. Humanity finally becomes what it should be: a responsible custodian of planet Earth and understands and studies the needs and wants of all beings that live on it.
Als Antwort auf kozy138

I know you mean well, but the first part of your comment is an appeal to nature - the assertion that because some thing is natural, that it is good, or at least unavoidable. In reality it sidesteps the question: is animal exploitation part of solarpunk?

I believe in harm reduction and imperfect solutions, so I would say yes, to a certain degree.

But I don't want to be all negative (doomerism is the antithesis of solarpunk after all). You raise some good examples, and for my part, if we can show that animal suffering under human care is less than if they were left totally free, then I would feel a lot less gross about it.

Als Antwort auf grrgyle

I never said that animal exploitation is good, just that it is 'natural' in the world. Solarpunk, as an idea, has everything to do with nature. Coexisting and living with it, rather than against it.

Is it wrong to use ladybugs as a form of pest control instead of harmful chemicals?

It's it wrong to ride a horse around a farm instead of an ATV or even an electric UTV?

Additionally, the definition of exploitation can vary wildly from person to person, and even moreso between cultures. So imo, pretty much everything that happens in the animal kingdom is party of solarpunk. The "good" and the "bad." As nothing is all good or all bad. Even murder can be justified in the most extreme cases (i.e. Hitler, Stalin, Trump, billionaire CEOs, etc )

The Fediverse is Quiet — Let's Fix That! (Slides + Recording)


For those who were unable to attend this past weekend's Social Web After Hours event held at HackerSpace Brussels (@hsbxl@mastodon.online), I've uploaded a re-recording of my presentation, which you can check out here! Sadly, there was no live recording of the rather lively session, so you'll just have to take my word for it :smile_cat:

spectra.video/w/xwCSYfZh1mJY64…

If you're looking for just the slides, you can get them here as well :point_down:

Thank you @deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org for the PeerTube instance!

"Anything threatening to be a subculture is commodified before it can walk"


I think this reasoning applies well to solarpunk. It’s true that ethical consumerism doesn’t scale etc but we have to resist the urge to give money to the people who will commodify solarpunk just for cheap merch and media.

For example:
game full of bad messages but made by a workers coop and ethically distributed > game with solarpunk aesthethic made by limited liability company that took or wants to take VCs money and run in the capital race

Als Antwort auf ex_06

The corporations seize control of any youth cultures with frightening efficiency nowadays. You’ve got stuff like Fortnite dances, where kids are copying them on Tiktok - another corporate platform - and then that’s referenced in corporate superhero films. Basically a big corporate human centipede eating its own anus. And you’ve got situations like Billie Eilish, who’d barely had a viral video before being groomed by a team into a carefully manicured chimera of every youth culture going. Grassroots is ripped out and added to the machine.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025