Hin und wieder überraschen mich Hersteller von Hobbykram ja doch mal. Dieses mal ist es Micro Art Studio. Die machen eine Menge nettes MDF Gelände und vertreiben die offiziellen Scheibenwelt Minis.
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Death and the Gorgon - Greg Egan
Begrudgingly Yeast (@begrudginglyyeast.bsky.social) on bsky informed me that I should read this short story called 'Death and the Gorgon' by Greg Egan as he has a good handle on the subjects/subjects we talk about. We have talked about Greg before on Reddit.
I was glad I did, so going to suggest that more people he do it. The only complaint you can have is that it gives no real 'steelman' airtime to the subjects/subjects it is being negative about. But well, he doesn't have to, he isn't the guardian. Anyway, not going to spoil it, best to just give it a read.
And if you are wondering, did the lesswrongers also read it? Of course: lesswrong.com/posts/hx5EkHFH5h… (Warning, spoilers for the story)
(Note im not sure this pdf was intended to be public, I did find it on google, but might not be meant to be accessible this way).
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(some plot spoilers) • There's something distinctly uncomfortable about reading Greg Egan in the 2020s. Besides telling gripping tales with insightfu…Zack_M_Davis (www.lesswrong.com)
City.Climate.Sustainability. - Arte
The German - French TV Broadcaster is doing a documentary series about sustainability of cities.
The Audio is only in German and French, but English Subtitles are available. It is nice to watch.
City. Climate. Sustainability - Culture | ARTE in English
The construction sector is the world's biggest polluter, responsible for 40% of CO2 emissions and 60% of waste. In the battle against climate change sustainable solutions need to be found to build the cities of tomorrow.ARTE
Best tool for creating a basic business website
I'm starting a NonProfit Fediverse powered business called BT Free. I was thinking of making my homepage built on Ghost, but due to some of it's choices, I'm looking for something else.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a self hosted, possibly fediverse powered, software for creating a simple clean efficient business website landing page that explains who we are, what we're doing, etc. I am NOT a designer so something with templates or can hold my hand would be wildly helpful.
I was thinking maybe a static site generator maybe?
Anyone have ANY thoughts or suggestions? Remember there are no such things as bad ideas or comments!
If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?
If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?
You can hardly get online these days without hearing some AI booster talk about how AI coding is going to replace human programmers. AI code is absolutely up to production quality! Also, you’re all…Pivot to AI
Hot take, people will look back on anyone who currently codes, as we look back on the NASA programmers who got the equipment and people to the moon.
They won't understand how they did so much with so little. You're all gourmet chefs in a future of McDonalds.
Nah, we're plumbers in an age where everyone has decided to DIY their septic system.
Please, by all means, keep it up.
Automatic category/community assignment on received object
I'm wondering how content on threadiverse is automatically assigned its community when received by the software (e.g. PieFed, Lemmy, Mbin).
The answer I am expecting is "if the community is addressed (to, cc, audience), then it is slotted into that community".
However that causes issues for compatibility with microblogs... for example, silverpill@mitra.social recently authored a post that mentioned [swf@socialwebfoundation.org](https://community.nodebb.org/category/swf@socialwebfoundation.org) and it got slotted into that community on NodeBB, which isn't correct since that group is private.
Better practice would be to only trust the addressed community if it is Announce'd by the community directly, but would fall short if my instance does not receive the Announce (say, if nobody follows the community), in which case we'd fall back to "uncategorized", which is where all microblog posts currently go. Then it's neither correct nor incorrect, I suppose.
I think this might be an issue where NodeBB tries to be too many things at once (microblog and threadiverse compatible).
Lloyd’s offers corporate insurance against AI chatbot errors! Now try to get a payout
Lloyd’s offers corporate insurance against AI chatbot errors! Now try to get a payout
You’ve replaced those annoying human employees with a website chatbot. Unfortunately, it keeps hallucinating discounts for your customers or swearing at them and badmouthing your company What if we…Pivot to AI
Robots to build Canada’s 9-story timber tower in just 90 days
Mass timer buildings are prefabricated structures made of (hopefully renewable) wood. The pieces are made in a factory and then able to be quickly constructed together on-site.
This can hopefully greatly reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere from producing a building. The cost of producing buildings in this method is also going down. Additionally, these mass timer buildings are typically more dense than single family homes, which can lead to more sustainable communities.
Robots, AI to build Canada’s 9-story timber tower in just 90 days
Intelligent City will begin on-site installation at Toronto's 230 Royal York Drive, assembling the structure and façade in under 90 days.Kaif Shaikh (Interesting Engineering)
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Ministerin Bas: Beamte sollen in die Rentenversicherung einzahlen
Ministerin Bas: Beamte sollen in die Rentenversicherung einzahlen
Immer weniger Beschäftigte finanzieren immer mehr Rentnerinnen und Rentner. Mit diesem Problem muss sich die neue Arbeitsministerin Bas auseinandersetzen. Sie schlägt vor: Auch Beamte sollten in die Rentenversicherung einzahlen.tagesschau.de
In diesem Thread: verbeamtete Fedditeure fahren die Krallen aus. :)
Dabei ist gerade vor dem Hinblick der Probleme im Rentensystem eine Zwei-Klassen-Gesellschaft nur mehr schwer zu vermitteln. Soweit ich weiß, wird das in Österreich seit 20 Jahren auch schon so gemacht, warum also nicht auch bei uns?
🐌 Slow Software for a Burning World 🔥
🐌 Slow Software for a Burning World 🔥
In a world of “move fast and break things,” we’ve chosen a different tempo — one rooted in care, deep listening, and collective stewardship.bonfirenetworks.org
the website is clear as mud, for sure. maybe it's like lemmy? or mastodon? can't be sure, and the public demo doesn't make it any clearer.
we all need to agree on a standard for 'about' pages so we can collectively reject those that look like that.
''about'' is usually always ''about us'' innit?
btw on the homepage you also got screenshots
the thing is, bonfire is not a single software like mastodon or lemmy, ideally is more like wordpress for platforms
Igor Levit über Margot Friedländer
Der Mitschnitt der improvisierten und bewegenden Rede von Igor Levit während der Gala zum Deutschen Filmpreis, kurz nachdem er vom Tod seiner Freundin, Margot Friedländer erfahren hat, verdient es absolut, für sich zu stehen und gesehen und gehört zu werden. Es war ein besonderer Moment der Würdigung des Lebens einer ganz besonderen Frau. (Video & Transkript) #NiemalsVergessen
Kurzperlen | Igor Levit über Margot Friedländer
Der Mitschnitt der improvisierten und bewegenden Rede von Igor Levit während der Gala zum Deutschen Filmpreis, kurz nachdem er vom Tod seiner Freundin…Die (Medien-) Kurzperlen (NexxtPress)
Pleroma Webfinger compatibility
Does anybody know what exactly Pleroma needs for a valid Webfinger check? I'm attempting to figure out why [jmtd@pleroma.debian.social](https://community.nodebb.org/user/jmtd%40pleroma.debian.social) won't resolve in NodeBB, and it's because the webfinger call returns 400 Bad Request.
NodeBB is calling https://pleroma.debian.social/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct%3Ajmtd%40pleroma.debian.social with User-Agent and Content-Type headers (curiously, it's not sending Accept, but it also fails if that header is set, so that's irrelevant.)
Navigating to that webfinger url in the browser returns XML, which is :grimacing: but I'm not even getting that when NodeBB makes the call.
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Stellar, a very convincing vision of how we can move towards a Solar Punk world.
Just finished the stellarbook, by James Arbib and Tony Seba (from RethinkX). They make a very interesting case on how we can move from our current extractive societies to one of abundance. It touches on many themes that are well known in the solar punk community, still it brought together a clear overview and model of where we are now and how to get to a better world.
I was wondering if anyone here has read it as well. And what your take is.
Discover a Stellar World
Discover Stellar, a groundbreaking book that redefines how we see the world and our future. Explore the path to a future of abundance, human flourishing, and boundless freedom. Join the movement today.stellarworld.com
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If I understand you correctly in the part you talk about labor, robotics and AI, it reminds me of what was said by capitalists when automations started being employed in factories, meaning many, many decades ago.
At the time the capitalist narrative was saying to workers stuff like "we know you work hard, but thanks to the technological advancements in automations your children will work less and have a better life". We very well know this never happened, only the rich got richer, to the detriment of everybody else and the planet as a whole.
So, allow me to say, this approach is not new.
„Klimastadtteil“ Duisburg-Neuenkamp: Bürgertreff eskaliert
„Klimastadtteil“ Duisburg-Neuenkamp: Bürgertreff eskaliert
Was gibt es Schöneres auf der Welt, als Neuenkamp und Kaßlerfeld? In Duisburg-Neuenkamp jedenfalls liegen die Nerven blank, wie ein Bürgertreff zum Projekt „Prima.Klima.Neuenkamp“ jetzt zeigte.Jonas Schlömer (Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung)
that ship has sailed.
Institutions want to reach mass audiences. They will not find them here.
I have been around the #fediverse long enough to remember that mastodon communities have seriously questioned whether mass adoption is even a desirable objective.
Choices have consequences.
This is not the end for the #activitypub universe, it just means it needs to forget about emulating twitter (somebody else is nowadays doing it much better) and focus on the unique qualities.
How the Friends Plugin Turns Your WordPress Site into a Decentralized Social Hub
Friends
Your own WordPress at the center of your online activity. Follow friends and other websites and establish friendship relationships between blogs.WordPress.org
"With software it (as far as I can tell) is also quickly that bigger projects need bigger teams, and that adds a lot of communication problems, and as a non-stacking process you can’t just add more programmers to make stuff go faster"
I bought two copies of that Fred Brooks book so I could read it twice as fast
AfD raus aus den Schulen!
Kundgebung für eine bunte, solidarische Gesellschaft
am Samstag, 17. Mai vor dem Erich-Gutenberg-Berufskolleg, Beuthener Straße, Köln Mülheim
"Am 17. Mai 2025 trifft sich die AfD, eine rechtsextreme Partei, für eine Mitgliederversammlung am Erich-Gutenberg-Berufskolleg in Köln Mülheim. Das wollen wir als Anwohner*innen und Zivilgesellschaft nicht hinnehmen! Deshalb treffen wir uns an diesem Tag vor dem Berufskolleg und tragen unseren Protest gemeinsam, bunt und solidarisch auf die Straße.
Mit Konzerten, Redebeiträgen und weiteren kreativen Formen der Meinungsäußerung zeigen wir der Stadtverwaltung, die die Versammlung bis heute offiziell genehmigt, was wir davon halten, wenn rechtsextremen Parteien Räume geöffnet werden, die für Bildung und Demokratie stehen.
Wir fordern: AfD raus aus den Schulen!
Kommt vorbei mit euren Kindern, Freund*innen und Nachbar*innen, packt eine Decke und Spiele für draußen ein, führt eure Topfpflanzen aus – lasst uns gemeinsam zeigen, dass wir als bunte, kreative und offene Gesellschaft keinen Platz für rechte Hetze und Rassismus haben!
Wir freuen uns auf euch!"
Quelle: koelngegenrechts.org/2025/05/a…
#Köln #NoAfd #Demo
Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks – „Die Verlegerin“ (2017)
Im englischen Original heißt der Film „The Post“ und trifft damit den eigentlichen Kern der Geschichte viel mehr, als sein deutscher Titel. Doch konnte die Bedeutung der größten Lokalzeitung der Vereinigten Staaten eigentlich kaum besser personalisiert werden, als durch seine Verlegerin, Katharine Graham, die es verstand, aus dem Lokalblatt einen nationalen Medienkonzern und eine globale Institution der freien Presse zu formen. Bis Jeff Bezos das Steuer übernahm. (ARTE)
Sod as a building material - Wikipedia
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You can now limit who can PM you
At piefed.social/user/settings you can now choose who is allowed to PM you.
The default value is "This instance" which will cut you off from PMs from all other instances. We're currently dealing with a bit of gore spam but once a more long-term solution is found a more relaxed default should be possible.
Moving communities between instances
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You can now embed PieFed posts in blog posts, etc
Click the 3 dot icon on any post, then choose 'Get embed code' from the menu.
You can see the result at join.piefed.social/test-piefed… where I embedded two posts.
mi moku e sitelen pi toki pona
OC by: @janNatan@lemmy.ml
I made myself a wallpaper to force myself to study toki pona. Maybe someone else will like it too.
nanpa wan la, ona li suwi mute a
nanpa tu la, nimi meli en nimi mije li lon toki tutsi tan seme
First solar project! Any tips?
Hello! I wanted to do my first project with solar panels and I don't know where to start.
I was thinking of make some transportable solar panel with a couple of outlets where it will be capable of charging cellphones or laptops, not sure if with a battery or not.
Any recommendations of easy to follow guides?
Edit:
Also, what do I need to do a standard plug "type I" (10 A, 220V)
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If you want to charge cellphones and laptops, getting foldable solar panels to charge a battery bank, like a Jackery, should be pretty simple and wouldn’t require much, if anything, in terms of doing your own electrical work.
If you want something bigger, or to do your own electrical work, that can get a lot more involved, depending on the scope of your project.
Zoning Hacking?
I don't know much about the US, but many places don't have any of that zoning stuff. Ecuador seems to be famous for the lack of zoning regulations, but I imagine that any tropical rainforest country would probably be similar.
In the US, I remember hearing that some people in Arkansas were able to get away with starting up an intentional community and doing all sorts of permaculture things due to the lax zoning regulations. You might research how Arkansas does things.
NodeBB v4.3.0 — Remote Categories are a go!
Andrewism's Solarpunk Art Collab 2025 is open!
Welcome to the 2025 edition of the collaborative solarpunk art project! This year’s theme is Life of Learning, focusing on education, teaching, mentorship and research in a better climate future!
The goal of the project is to welcome everyone to collaborate together, share ideas and get inspired by each others’ works! This is not a contest - there are no prizes and no winners, outside of everything we learn from each other and the visions of a better world we create!
Art Collab 2025: Life of Learning
A library of Solarpunk art and story seeds, visions of an optimistic climate future.Story Seed Library
UK must grow more of its own wood to meet climate goals – new research
UK must grow more of its own wood to meet climate goals – new research
New research warns the UK must grow more of its own wood to meet climate targets.The Conversation
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UK forestry (as far as I've seen) mostly consists of felling sitka spruce and lodgepole pine monocultures that were planted right after WW2 and never taken care of again. As a result the wood is shit quality and mostly goes for pulp/chipboard or biomass.
Higher grades of timber need to have straight grain and less knots, so that is achieved by selectively thinning out the forest maybe every 10 years, and pruning off lower branches. But this adds a lot of man-hours and cost, so I've never seen anyone doing that in UK. Tbf I haven't been around the industry at all since COVID, and the price of timber went up so much maybe things are changing.
You're not wrong.
Source: grew up near pine Monoculture forestry land. Is grim, dead pines underfoot and little light. Few to no flowers. Sterile(ised) feeling "forests".
You're not wrong.
Source: grew up near sikta pine Monoculture forestry land. Is grim, dead pines underfoot and little light. Few to no flowers. Sterile(ised) feeling "forests".
places.pub
GitHub - swicg/geosocial: Geosocial Taskforce
Geosocial Taskforce. Contribute to swicg/geosocial development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Story Seed Library - a place for copyleft Solarpunk art and writing prompts!
Welcome to Story Seed Library!
A library of Solarpunk art and story seeds helping you imagine a better climate future!Story Seed Library
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Great idea and you actually built it!
I wonder if ‘marketing’ this site to journalists artists or writers who have tried in good faith to represent solarpunk would help it get momentum?
I am quite sick of the the trees-on-buildings trope as a symbol for solarpunk ideas. The world we want to build is so much richer than that!
Paris Mayor: I want a city with less cars. Perhaps it's controversial, but I think I'm on the right side of history. I had lobbyists from car companies threaten me in my own office.
Anne Hidalgo dit avoir été "menacée dans son bureau" par des lobbies automobiles
La maire PS de Paris, invitée lundi de franceinfo, a assumé sa politique urbaine visant à diminuer la circulation automobile, malgré dit-elle, les pressions de lobbies.France Info
Georg Restle, Mareike Wilms – „Wie mit Verbrechen Politik gemacht wird“ (ARD, 2025)
„Irgendwas läuft richtig, bei der ARD.“ Das können wir ja auch mal festhalten, nach all dem verdienten Bashing, die vor allem „Das Erste“ zuletzt einstecken musste. Für mich ist diese Reportage von @georgrestle und Mareike Wilms auch deshalb ein Anlass dazu, den Journalismus im ÖRR mal wieder zu loben. Denn wo sonst hätte dieser Beitrag etwa gesendet werden können? Die wahrscheinlich wichtigsten 30 Minuten im Programm der ARD in der letzten Woche…:
Mediathekperlen | Georg Restle, Mareike Wilms - Wie mit Verbrechen Politik gemacht wird (ARD, 2025)
„Irgendwas läuft richtig, bei der ARD.“ Das können wir ja auch mal festhalten, nach all dem verdienten Bashing, die vor allem „Das Erste“ zuletzt einstecken…Mediathekperlen (NexxtPress)
Are “AI” systems really tools?
- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
Finally A Right-to-Repair Small Affordable Electric Utility Vehicle
The best daily transportation isn't a car/truck at all, but there is still some need for freight/hauling to be done.
I'm posting because this truck feels like the opposite of modern trucks. I mean the CyberTruck (literally the icon of Cyberpunk dystopia) and other trucks like Rivian are:
- extremely anti-right to repair
- brag about their 0-60 (instead of practicality/efficiency)
- a privacy nightmare
- massive in size
- have high prices across the board
- are absolutely crammed with manadory luxury features like air conditioned seats or motorized trunks
This truck, with manual roll-up windows, seems to be about getting work done. Its not trying to be the biggest baddest fastest most-techo-advanced thing money can buy.
I bet, in less than 1 year, hobbyists will have solar panel array mounted on the back of these.
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Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
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UK MPs support solar farms? biodiversity benefits
UK MPs support solar farms? biodiversity benefits
The latest report from trade association Solar Energy UK, Solar Habitat 2025, has reaffirmed the conclusions of its predecessors, finding that solar farms are providing ecological re...Renewable Energy Magazine, at the heart of clean energy journalism
Sugarcrete: An open access, eco-friendly and remarkably effective building material
This School Was Built from Sugarcane Waste. It Might Change Construction Forever
Bricks made from sugarcane waste have constructed a school in India — and are building new vision for construction.Alexandra Gerea (ZME Science)
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To add to this. If a company builds with this new material and it turns out there's some unexpected issue with the material, the company will be held liable for the damage. They can shove that liability back on the product manufacturer, but only so many can do that before the manufacturer just shuts down. Then the construction company has to foot the bill of a new building, which they can't afford, and thus shut down.
I absolutely hate how conservative the building industry is, but it's a culture that's been born out of harsh lessons and loss of livelyhoods.
Amoeba_Girl
Als Antwort auf Soyweiser • • •Ben Curthoys
Als Antwort auf Amoeba_Girl • • •I read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutat… and found something about it seemed deeply wrong in ways that I had trouble articulating.
It's like when you see a bogus mathematical proof of a statement that you know to be false, but the mistake is hidden deep and you can't tell where it has gone wrong, you just know it has.
1994 novel by Greg Egan
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Charlie Stross
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