Reading through the most recent issue of "Solarpunk Magazine" and wanted to highlight how much I enjoyed the story "Once and Future Kilowatts" by @susankayequinn. One theme I really like in many #Solarpunk stories is a reckoning with history and the need to remember the past as a ground to move forward. And the village in this story reminds me of communities where I grew up struggling with deindustrialization.
Worth reading (and subscribing if you haven't already)
«Will consumers perhaps come to see the phrase "AI-Powered System" in the same light as "Diesel-Powered SUV".»
Well, not yet it would seem.
In The Elements of AI Ethics from June of last year I build on The Elements of Digital Ethics from 2021. Which itself was the output of reading about digital harms for many years.
Seeing all of the categories of harms just get worse year on year is disheartening.
What goal is worth all this? I tend to fall back on a sentiment I use in my talks and teaching:
When a privileged group benefits from a technology, the more inclined they will be to ignore the harms done unto others by the same technology. Because drawing attention to the harm would suggest they should give up their personal gain to help someone else.
This appears to be true for the short term. In the long term the beneficiaries of technology will happily also ignore harm done unto themselves, as long as they get the experience boost in the moment.
What hope is there?
In my June 11 session for Ambition Empower I will be talking about how to champion technologies of compassion, drawing on work related to nature connectedness by P. Wesley Schultz, Marianne E. Krasny, F. Stephan Mayer and Cynthia M Frantz.
Technologies of compassion work in unison with an acknowledgement of our connection not only to each other but also to nature. Technology tends to separate us from nature, making us value it less - and causing us to increasingly worsen our own living conditions, and the conditions of all other species, over time.
But we can choose to design technology that takes nature into account.. Technology that works with, not against, nature. I believe this is what all schools must start teaching. Now.
Expect me to write more about this over the next year.
Ich suche utopische Kurzgeschichten oder Romane, die in einer Nachhaltigen und Postfossilen Gesellschaft spielen, welche auch wir zeitnah erreichen könnten. Gerne Teilen! #solarpunk#scifi
kim stanley robinson’s Red Mars still stands out to me as the finest piece of science fiction i have ever read
recently found out that he had written another trilogy set in a post-nuclear california, and i was skeptical. i’ve had enough derivative mad max crap to last me six lifetimes.
i am very happy to be proven wrong. this decidedly turned out to not be fallout apocalypse porn. robinson spends his time imagining the human joys and freedoms found in inhabiting a world turned into wildlife and wild country. no idiotic fights over gasoline or nukes. instead a concern with fishing, building community, repairing old railroads, and figuring out who else lives beyond the village boundaries.
@vga256 for a long time I didn't read Red Moon because I confused it with that other --rugose-- scratch that, let's go with ruddy planetoid, but it's good too! TIL rugose means wrinkled
This one hit me harder than I expected. 😭 Beautiful short #solarpunk story by @naomikritzer about a neighborhood learning to cooperate after disaster hits.
A rare moment when a video title is not clickbait. Great report from DW Planet A on energy system inefficiencies. I've wonder whether talking more about efficiency and waste to climate skeptics might bring them on board with green policies. Personally, I don't care how we do it, as long as we get to the same end result of a more sustainable world.
Včera jsme se v komerční zóně u Algeciras potkali s dalším opozdilcem závodu #thesuntrip Miguelem a současně rozpustili Českou solární výpravu do Maroka. @cobic poslal svoje kolo domů náklaďákem partnerské firmy a přenechal mi svoje panely jako externí. Já uvidím, jak se mi bude dařit sólově a jak rychle se vrátím domů. Těším se hlavně do Pyrenejí a do Alp.
Der #Lebensraum für Menschen wird durch die Klimakatastrophe knapper. Selbiger wird mit Waffengewalt verteidigt.
Kein schöner Gedanke.
Es gibt pazifistische Menschen und Gruppen weltweit. Sie können sich nur unter den Schutzschirmen der Waffenführer flüchten, oder, wie die #Fremen in #Dune versuchen in den unwirtlichsten Gegenden dieses Planeten zu überleben.
Das ganze Spiel mit den Energien (was z.B. unter den Begriffen Karma, Chakren und Kundalini bekannt ist) ist für mich dabei irgendwie nicht mehr so wichtig geworden.
Aber ich kann absolut nachvollziehen, warum das für Andere wichtig ist.
Und ich mag das Wort "Friedensenergien" sehr, weil es sehr treffend ist.
Happy one-year birthday to ANOTHER LIFE, my #solarpunk novella about reincarnation! @StelliformPress brought this to life one year ago today. Many thanks to everyone who has bought, read, or reviewed it!
A Spanish translation is coming soon from Crononauta, and a Catalan translation from SF Fábula. 🥳
Hey did you guys know that if you miscategorize a modern rules-light RPG as "Other OSR Games" you can make RPG fans very upset?
Our bad. Thank you all for the grace of forgiveness. We are humbly reclassifying our game as "Other d10 System" and sincerely apologize for any distress we've caused. It was not our intention, and we'll be more careful in the future.
@rivetgeek@alxd That was my reasoning, but after consulting Reddit I learned that my definition doesn't match what most people in DriveThruRPG are expecting. So we fixed it.