Escaping the Trap of ‘Realism’ and ‘Utopianism’: Towards Programmatic Synthesis
Escaping the Trap of ‘Realism’ and ‘Utopianism’: Towards Programmatic Synthesis - resilience
Organizing our communities horizontally and managing to draft collectively our own programmatic agendas helps us break the supposed juxtaposition between political visions of a better society and what is politically feasible in the meantime.Resilience (Resilience.org)
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.
Fight Climate Change - Klima
Klima combines the most effective actions an individual can take to fight climate change today.Klima
Kubicki fürchtet um Existenz der FDP
FDP-Vize: Kubicki fürchtet um die Existenz der FDP
Sollte seine Partei den Einzug ins Parlament verfehlen, dann werde sie »über kurz oder lang aufhören zu existieren«: FDP-Vize Wolfgang Kubicki sieht die Zukunft der Liberalen in Gefahr. Wichtig sei, »keine weiteren Fehler« zu machen.DER SPIEGEL
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.
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
Hahaha. I think they sorta acknowledge the existence of an equilibrium by saying that the 'collapse' wouldn't happen overnight but over several decades
Bibliambule cargobike
Une bibliothèque mobile qui déploie des hamacs !
La Bibliambule, une bibliothèque originale qui offre la possiblité de lire allongé dans des hamacs. Le bonheur !les-zambules
Vater von Hanauer Terroropfer erstattet Anzeige gegen Polizei und Behörden
Vater von Hanauer Terroropfer erstattet Anzeige gegen Polizei und Behörden
Armin Kurtovic macht Offizielle, Politiker, Vater des Täters und Barbetreiber mitverantwortlich für den Tod seines Sohnes im Februar 2020.www.fr.de
People often mention Murray Bookchin as the patron philosopher of Solarpunk. Here is his life's work summarized in a 5 minute rap
- 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
Yet another bit about Musk's delusions of grandeur
“The Elon”: How a Nazi Rocket Scientist Invented the World’s Richest Man
Errol Musk named his son after a character in a sci-fi book by the inventor of the V-2 Rocket, Wernher von BraunJim Stewartson (MindWar: The Psychological War on Democracy)
a) how do I keep discovering accounts of people I admire on this platform,
b) I fucking LOVE Accelerando and the Eschaton series,
c) that... really comforts me in a strange way. I always thought Veppers was supposed to be Bezos, but this is even better.
And lastly I am sorry for the loss of your friend.
"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.
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?
How to remove Copilot AI from your Office 365 subscription: hit ‘cancel’
How to remove Copilot AI from your Office 365 subscription: hit ‘cancel’
Here in the UK, Microsoft is now helpfully updating your Office/Microsoft/Copilot 365 subscription to charge you for the Copilot AI slop generator! Being Microsoft, they’re making the opt-out stupi…Pivot to AI
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
Seems like a fair summary, yes 👍
Is there a source for that image, or did you make it yourself by the way? Just wondering if it was part of an article or so.
did you make it yourself
yep, mine u.u (sory for the 10MB lol)
Andrewism: What is Solarpunk? (2025 Edition)
- 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.youtube.com
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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.
and animals rape each other all the time ....
Mot stupid things ever said ....
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.
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 )
Consent to be loved, and protected from predators and disease? Or their consent for me taking a margin of their labor?
I’ve got both contracts I’m just checking which one I need to get out
Social Web at FOSDEM
Social Web After Hours at FOSDEM 2025
The Social Web Foundation and Hackerspace Brussels (HSBXL) are co-hosting an off-site event at FOSDEM 2025 in Brussels, Belgium on Sunday, February 2, 2025 from 19:00 to 21:00 local time. Social We…Social Web Foundation
"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
"Anything threatening to be a subculture is commodified before it can walk"
William Gibson offers a future where technology has enabled a socially-cleansed London. Gibson's earlier prescience has Justin McGuirk a little worried.Justin McGuirk (Dezeen)
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Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution | Meaningness
How muggles and sociopaths invade and undermine creative subcultures; and how to stop them.Meaningness
6mm scale Warhound titan pack painted
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Vertical solar panels have been shown to be surprisingly efficient.
solarwa.org/vertical_bifacial_…
The plants also have a cooling effect on the panels, which further increases efficiency.
Long-formers Activate!
Among the fediverse there are microblogs (your Mastodons, Misskeys(+forks), etc.
Then there are the long form peeps. We managed to all find each other at FOSDEM 2025.
Pictured is @matt@writing.exchange (Write freely), @pfefferle@mastodon.social (WordPress), and yours truly (NodeBB). We also had some good conversations with @johnonolan@mastodon.xyz (Ghost), but I wasn't quick enough with my camera 😩
Let's move the state of long-form text on the open social web, forward!
The open-source solar panel that passively tracks the sun using nothing but water & gravity:
I thought this ingenious invention might interest some folk on here:
The SunSaluter is a solar panel rotator designed for the developing world. Using only the power of gravity with a water clock, the SunSaluter enables a solar panel to passively follow the sun throughout the day, boosting energy output by 30% and producing four liters of clean drinking water.
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Principle: water clock, see-saw balance. Water drips from a bottle through a mechanical filter, reducing its weight and continuously swaying the solar panel. Needs to be refilled in the morning of course.
By the way, the thumbnail pic shows a misadjusted one, that solar panel is very much not facing the sun.
»Heute wollen doch alle eine Diagnose!« oder »Heute haben doch alle eine Diagnose!« Wer sich in seinem Umfeld als Mensch mit XYZ outet, bekommt meistens – und meistens ungefragt – solche Sätze um die Ohren gehauen. Als ob sich eins um jeden Preis ein neues Label um den Hals hängen wollte! Wollen wir gar nicht, aber verstehen wollen wir.
Wie sicher bin ich denn, dass ich im […]
Lemmy Development Update 2025-01-24
Add media filter setting by flamingo-cant-draw · Pull Request #5325 · LemmyNet/lemmy
Adds a user setting to filter out posts where the url_content_type starts with either image or video. ref #4988GitHub
Kriminelle schmuggeln 1,5 Milliarden Zigaretten
Zoll ermittelt über Jahre: Kriminelle schmuggeln 1,5 Milliarden Zigaretten
Über Jahre ist der Zoll einem Schmugglerring auf der Spur. Die Kriminellen sollen insgesamt 1,5 Milliarden Zigaretten in die EU geschleust haben. Jetzt gibt es zehn Festnahmen.n-tv NACHRICHTEN
Mmmmmmhhhhhhhhh .......
Ist der Schmuggel von Zigaretten nicht Kleinkriminalität im Verhältnis zu dem Verbrechen, Zigaretten herzustellen?
AfD-Verbot: Bundestag debattiert am Donnerstag
AfD-Verbot: Bundestag debattiert am Donnerstag
Sowohl der so genannte Wanderwitz-Antrag als auch ein Gruppenantrag aus den Reihen der Grünen beschäftigen sich mit einem AfD-Verbot. Am Donnerstag soll abgestimmt werden.Nicole Diekmann (ZDFheute)
Wenn die CDU/CSU unter die 30% rutscht, kann sich Merz schon mal nach einer Anschlussverwendung umsehen. Dann singt er Rio Reisers Text: "Der Traum ist aus".
See you at FOSDEM!
NodeBB will be making an appearance at this year's FOSDEM!
I'll likely be present at the Social Web dev room during FOSDEM itself, and will be presenting a talk at the Social Web After Hours event alongside @darius@friend.camp, @pfefferle@mastodon.social, and @j12t@j12t.social at Hackerspace Brussels (HSBXL), on Sunday evening.
I'll be talking up the SWICG Forum and Threaded Discussions Task Force, and what we're working on to solve one of fedi's hard problems: combating the notion that "the fediverse is quiet". Come and listen!
Thank you to the great folks at @ngizero@mastodon.xyz, who have kindly funded my way there this year.
Social Web After Hours at FOSDEM 2025
The Social Web Foundation and Hackerspace Brussels (HSBXL) are co-hosting an off-site event at FOSDEM 2025 in Brussels, Belgium on Sunday, February 2, 2025 from 19:00 to 21:00 local time. Social We…Social Web Foundation
Darren Aronofsky, Brendan Fraser – „The Whale“ (2022)
Jetzt mal ehrlich: Dieser Film war ein Monster. Auch wenn es „nur“ drei Oscars dafür gab, hat dieses kleine Kammerspiel für mich 22/23 die Saison als größte Überraschung dominiert. Es war schlicht unglaublich, was Arronofsky und Fraser aus einem Theaterstück extrahiert und auf die Leinwand gebracht haben. (ARD)
Mediathekperlen | Darren Aronofsky, Brendan Fraser - „The Whale“ (2022)
Jetzt mal ehrlich: Dieser Film war ein Monster. Auch wenn es „nur“ drei Oscars dafür gab, hat dieses kleine Kammerspiel für mich 22/23 die Saison als größte…Mediathekperlen (NexxtPress)
Ich habe den Film erst vor zwei oder drei Stunden mit der kostenfreien Software "MediathekView" heruntergeladen. In die Suchezeile "The Whale" und zack gefunden.
Baden-Württemberg: Linken-Abgeordnete Akbulut in Zug angegriffen
Baden-Württemberg: Linken-Abgeordnete Akbulut in Zug angegriffen
Auf einer Zugfahrt von Heidelberg nach Stuttgart ist die Linken-Bundestagsabgeordnete Akbulut nach eigenen Angaben angegriffen worden. Sie sei dabei rassistisch beleidigt und sexuell belästigt worden.tagesschau.de
Die Idee, dass man Hass/Aggression einfach nur einen Raum geben muss, dann geht er schon weg.
Das ist nicht nur eine Idee. Menschen haben Aggressionen aus verschiedenen Gründen. Natürlich sollte man Gründe für Aggressionen reduzieren (soziökonomische Situationen verbessern tut da eine Menge), aber damit kann man Aggressionen nicht auf null reduzieren. Das heißt, man muss zusätzlich auch Gelegenheiten und Rahmen schaffen, die es erlauben, Aggression auf einem gesunden Weg abzubauen.
Deine Idee wurde einst in dem Roman "Ökotopia" durchgespielt. Ist schon lange her, dass ich den gelesen habe, aber aus der Erinnerung gab es zur Aggressions-Kanalisierung eine populäre, gefährliche und blutige (Mannschafts-)Sportart.
A single post is somehow creating multiple topics with no replies
to: @devnullcc: @angus
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Any idea what's going on here? It seems to be a different bug than the one where Discourse generates duplicate posts for a Create that later gets Announced back at it.
Conversation support to the Discourse plugin when I get a spare mo this week.
So I’m stuck in a weird place. I’d like to play much more but I can’t bring me to make it work. And the worst part: I’ve got so much done and dusted!
Every week I play Battletech with a friend of mine. All my Battletech minis are painted. All!
I’d like to revisit Star Wars: Legion. I’ve painted almost everything that FFG/AMG have released for Empire and Rebels. It’s a lot! And terrain. A […]
Sacramento, CA. I am not involved yet but I’d like to connect with them and see if I can support in any way. I’m an arborist so maybe they could use some free tree services.
Sacramento Community Land Trust
Sacramento Community Land Trust prevents displacement and builds historically discriminated neighborhood power to combat deterioration and market speculation by fostering equitable development...Sacramento Community Land Trust
RAD Housing
Explore About RAD HousingWhat does it mean to retrofit and decommodify housing? T2S ModelThe Transition to Stewardship model is a legal/financial approach to transition housing away from being a financial commodity Brassica CollectiveThe Brassica Col…radhousing.org
FEP-9967: Polls
FEP-9967: Polls
Link: codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src…
Summary
How to make polls in ActivityPub network.
NodeBB v4.0.0 — Federate good times, come on!
Welcome to the fediverse: Your guide to Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky and more | TechCrunch
What is the fediverse? Here's everything you need to know about Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky and others.Haje Jan Kamps (TechCrunch)
Dustin Hoffman – „Marathon Man“ (1976)
Wie oft ich diesen Film gesehen habe, weiß ich wirklich nicht mehr. In fast 50 Jahren hat er allerdings nichts von seinem Eindruck auf mich eingebüßt. Ein richtig harter Thriller. Ein großartiger New-York-City-Film, der sich lange in ihrem Unterbewusstsein einnisten wird. Joggen gehen ist vermutlich eine gute Therapie. Zum Zahnarzt gehen Sie danach aber freiwillig nie wieder. (3Sat)
Notes Towards a Solarpunk Game Design - Overview
Notes Towards a Solarpunk Game Design - Overview
Solarpunk Game Design Sketch by Scan101 I've always been interested in game design and how subtly it can teach and influence us.alxd - solarpunk hacker
I think we should write more about solarpunk itself so I’m glad for your post, thank you
Said that, I would have added at least one disclaimer about solarpunk games intended as games produced in a more solarpunk way: stuff like no DRM, avoiding dark patterns, being a cooperative or being owned by a foundation and much more.
Let me underline the “just a disclaimer”, I know you wanted to focus on the content and what I said would need basically another full post
Again, love your initiative and I hope more people will follow you 🙏
idk if ''should'' but if they do would be nice
hardware shouldn't become ''old'' in the first place, putting the heavy weight on the game devs solely seems unlikely to bring change
software libraries, frameworks, game engines, operating systems, recycling hardware... It's a lot before arriving to the people that wanna focus on the game
I was thinking about a separate blogpost on accessibility and licensing.
Some games, like Daybreak, proclaim to use open source manufacturing methods to be more sustainable and not pollute, but at the same time the game itself is licensed and copyrighted with no (known to me) invitation to hack or fan-translate, which vastly decreases its educational potential.
On the other hand, making an ambitious game takes money and markets rarely pay for fully open projects.
Open source (nor foss) doesn't really assure protection from the capital and/or consumerism...
On the other hand, making an ambitious game takes money and markets rarely pay for fully open projects
yep, hence why imo is better to not be fully open from day 0. The free software movement reached his peak, now it's time to evolve into something better. A software made by squeezing the open libraries and then the devs and then the consumers to then have most of the earnings kept in the company bank to get numbers going up for the capital is totally doable even while having the most free license.
As you say tho, it can help with accessibility and longevity.
I just would like to not see ''solarpunk99'' in some years made in the worst possible way. I'd rather have toxic games but made in a solarpunk way than ''solarpunk'' games made by the capital to sell us another commodified idea
should run on older hardware
How old are we talking?
Better yet, what minimum system requirements should the game be able to run on?
Steam collects hardware info (that people opt-in for) over the years. Here is the searchable database.
One of the recommendations in this list, Half Earth Socialism, pretty easily stole half my day by being a wonderful distraction.
I think it's a little bleak though. It takes a few tries to get it right. And it assumes a worldwide revolution against capital happened 3 years ago, a process that would probably take half a decade, and we haven't even really started in real life.
It is fun though, and it's nice that it teaches you some stuff along the way.
Half-Earth Socialism: The Game
Play as a planetary planner and decide what we should do about the climate, biodiversity, and human welfare. Can you bring the world safely to a better place?Half-Earth Socialism
Really inspiring Presentation about the future of Building materials using mycelium.
Lemmy Development Update 2025-01-10
Community post tags (part 1) by phiresky · Pull Request #4997 · LemmyNet/lemmy
This is the first part of an implementation of post tags based on LemmyNet/rfcs#4. It implements the following: The necessary DB tables Fetching the post tags while reading PostView (list and sing...GitHub
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