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Rebel Cities: Radical Municipalism in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Thanks, this looks great! I heard last year that Łódź, Poland was looking to do some interesting things across the city, too.

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Commercial Building Sustainability Recommendations (slrpnk.net)
 

Does anyone have any recommendations for books, websites, podcasts, and/or videos regarding sustainability solutions for commercial buildings?

I've got some general ideas but want to research more in case there are solutions that I've missed.

Thanks!

Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'm curious to hear people's takes on small modular reactors.

Large, conventional reactor: 700+MR(e); Small modular reactor: up to 300 MW(e); Microreactor: up to ~10 MW(e)

Part One: Kissinger - Behind the Bastards in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Spencer Ackerman's piece in Rolling Stone is worth a read.

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The "3.5% rule" needs protesting (www.theneweuropean.co.uk)
 

A note of caution about the 3.5% rule that has received a lot of focus in recent years:

People will, of course, find reasons to explain away why one or the other of the protest movements don’t count – but what’s important is that both show there is nothing magical about a 3.5% threshold, even in exactly the context to which it was originally applied.

The animating theory of modern protest, then, has been extended well out of the context of its original research, and doesn’t hold up even in its original context when we look at the biggest non-violent protest movements of the last decade. And yet this goes entirely unexamined.

An Old Idea or a Bad Idea? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Those are great points, too. I know a few sellers and have noticed their complaints about Amazon have increased in recent years at the same time my satisfaction with the platform as a buyer has been going down. You have all given me a lot ot think through. Greatly appreciated!

An Old Idea or a Bad Idea? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, @[email protected] raised some good points about potential problems. But it's no impossible in theory. Like you say, I'd love to see something from the FOSS world that could take on Amazon. Amazon is a bully and a design thief.

An Old Idea or a Bad Idea? in c/[email protected]
An Old Idea or a Bad Idea? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sorry for the delay, my wife gave birth and it's been a busy few weeks. These are all great questions/points. Thank you for such a great reply!

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An Old Idea or a Bad Idea? (slrpnk.net)
 

I am working off not enough sleep, so this may already exist or be a bad idea, but this thread got me thinking and so I posted this idea on Mastodon:

What if there was an interoperability commerce-focused protocol (built like ActivityPub does for content) where sellers could connect their single listing/post/etc. to many websites without having to manage the item individually on each website and the websites made money by commissions through a sort of affiliate program if the purchase was made through them?

I'm not a tech/programmer person, I'm more of a systems person, so I'm a bit out of my element.

Maybe building a better internet means going backwards in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

anything on reddit gets shit on by 13 year olds who don't know anything besides constant adaption to change.

That comment and this thread reminds me of this line from Cory Doctorow's book Walkaway:

Anything invented before you were eighteen was there all along. Anything invented before you're 30 is exciting and will change the world forever. Anything invented after that is an abomination and should be banned.

The tracking, the crap algorithms—they're bad for user experience and they're bad for society as a whole. But there is good stuff, too. I think that things like RSS (something old that is still amazingly supported but not consciously used enough), ActivityPub, and others can empower us to break free from the bad stuff while embracing the good.

Separate the content from how the content is viewed and we'll change the incentives for (and power held by) for those who have turned it to such garbage.

Maybe building a better internet means going backwards in c/[email protected]
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will give a speech this week in which he is expected to delay some of the government's policies to reach net zero emissions by 2050 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly. I'm a dual national. The problem here in the UK is Middle England and other fuddy-duddies. They're myopic more than conspiratorial, although immigration is an area where they can sometimes venture into fantasy. The MAGA cult in the US is thoroughly unhinged.

Technology to Manage a New Society in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's not about automating the decision making, but making the tools available for when the will is present.

What are y'all's critique of Bookchin? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of something I heard someone say a few years ago (I can't remember who said it): Build statues of ideas, not people.

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CBD Oil in UK (slrpnk.net)
 

Does anyone have any recommendations for CBD oil (for sublingual use, not vaping) in the UK? I want to pick up something, but I know that quality/accuracy can be an issue with the stuff you can get in shops without a prescription.

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Children's Book Recommendation (slrpnk.net)
 

Just sharing a book recommendation for explaining the topic to kids. I highly recommend the book Climate Change and How We'll Fix It by Alice Harman. I got it last year for my 8-year-old and was very impressed with it. I'd even say its approach would work well for explaining things to adults who aren't very informed on or engaged with the topic.

My 8-year-old was inspired by it to write and design a flyer to hand out to his classmates about climate change with 10 simple things that they could do. We heard from several parents that their kids came home telling them to change some things they were doing at home.

For anyone curious about the book's content, here is the table of contents:

  • Part 1: What We Know
    • The greenhouse effect
    • Energy and fuel
    • Food and farming
    • Too much stuff
    • Evidence of climate change
    • Impact of climate change
  • Part 2: The Problems
    • Why aren't we fixing it?
    • The 'Just one more cookie' problem
    • The 'That's not fair' problem
    • The 'Would I lie to you' problem
    • The 'Smelt it, dealt it' problem
    • The 'You always take their side' problem
    • The 'They made me do it' problem
    • The 'Goody-two-shoes' problem
    • The 'Magical homework machine' problem
    • The 'La la la, I can't hear you' problem
    • The 'I won't until you do' problem
    • The 'Why should I?' problem
  • Part 3: The Solutions
    • What we have to do
    • Do your best
    • Think BIG
    • Ask questions
    • Try to understand
    • Make things fair
    • Listen carefully
    • Use your imagination
    • Keep it simple
    • Work together
  • Glossary
  • Index
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Technology to Manage a New Society (slrpnk.net)
 

I just finished listening to The Santiago Boys podcast about the attempts to use cybernetics to run the Chilean economy under Allende in the early 70s. It was very interesting and got me wondering what kinds of technology (hardware or software) that you have come across that you think would be good for managing resources/efforts and democratising society.

What tools do you think could empower people?

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Introduction to Bookchin's Writings/Philosophy (slrpnk.net)
 

What would you folks recommend as a good introduction to Murray Bookchin's ideas?

I saw a post from a couple of months ago recommending Make Rojava Green Again by his daughter, but I think that's focused on how it has been implemented in Rojava and based on Öcalan's works, as well. I'd like something focused on Murray Bookchin's writing, either by him or by someone else about his ideas.

Thanks!

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