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"It's not like the "computer industry" did this" - no, e-mail did (and there was usenet as well, though e-mail was the killer app that got everyone online initially), and wasn't invented by any of them (e-mail and usenet both invented by University people), and ever since then the industry has been trying to regain their power, largely successfully (though we still have bastions like the Fediverse). -
@glyph Same thing happened with post before. Anarchists were calling it a savior for humanity bridging gaps between countries and social movements, and then it was used to send death threats, organize illegal activity, and facilitate scams... In other words, everything was back to normal.
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@glyph I think, for us at least, the feeling is more that it 'COULD' have been great. and for a brief moment there, it was.
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@glyph A thing that I take lot of encouragement from is knowing that for every famous moment of change and famous change maker (eg Rosa Parks) there were dozens, if not hundreds of earlier attempts that paved the way for the one time it was successful. I don't need people to visit the house I was born in in 50 years or ask me for advice on unrelated stuff. I am completely happy to be part of one of the hundred earlier attempts that paves the way.
@baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone @glyph@mastodon.social while this is a beautiful sentiment, it of course begs the question, why is any of it necessary to begin with? why do we consistently recognize pain and suffering and then collectively act against our own best interests?
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@glyph
It was a TAZ. Temporary Autonomous Zones happen naturally in spaces where there is no clear social hierarchy for a long enough period, like the Wild West, or the Occupy encampments.They cannot last, as power abhors a vacuum, but while they do, every one that took part is forever changed by that glimpse of freedom and will yearn for the rest of their life, to feel it just one more time.
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@garrwolfdog @glyph True, but the difference is in how far we take the argument of "the man with technology is like an alcoholic with a barrel of wine". The printing press is a Kaczynski style example, while the post is a modern left example (notably, used by Graeber in his internet critique).
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@glyph Well, one of those "few promising ideas" is Free Software, and the continued existence and thriving of the Debian project is a humongous thing we don't need to re-run from scratch.
Back in the 1980s, Free Software was partly a theoretical - there wasn't a fully functional Free OS yet. We have that now, and much more. Debian's software repositories are easily the biggest and most comprehensive software eco-system bar none. Commercial software can't even come close.
This is something that
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@glyph Well, one of those "few promising ideas" is Free Software, and the continued existence and thriving of the Debian project is a humongous thing we don't need to re-run from scratch.
Back in the 1980s, Free Software was partly a theoretical - there wasn't a fully functional Free OS yet. We have that now, and much more. Debian's software repositories are easily the biggest and most comprehensive software eco-system bar none. Commercial software can't even come close.
This is something that
@glyph the big commercial computing corporations are trying to undo. They're trying to force us into closed gardens of iOS and Android, and Microsoft has also been trying to figure out how to force everyone into some sort of closed garden.
But so far, these efforts have not yet succeeded.
So, we've got a much better starting point than 1978.
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Similarly the music industry will never go back to a time when a record contract was the only path to success. That doesn't mean that the record industry no longer exists. It just means that the internet, email, etc. give musicians options.
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@baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone @glyph@mastodon.social while this is a beautiful sentiment, it of course begs the question, why is any of it necessary to begin with? why do we consistently recognize pain and suffering and then collectively act against our own best interests?
@etsyy @glyph I guess I'm not sure that we do "collectively act against our own best interests?" I think people reliably act in their own best interests but that we don't all agree on what interests we should prioritize for ourselves or our community. I think that privacy is important and others may think that safety and convenience are more important.
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@etsyy @glyph I guess I'm not sure that we do "collectively act against our own best interests?" I think people reliably act in their own best interests but that we don't all agree on what interests we should prioritize for ourselves or our community. I think that privacy is important and others may think that safety and convenience are more important.
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@etsyy @glyph Having a listening device in my house that connects to one company and knows about all my shopping and health needs sounds Orwellian to me, but if I were physically disabled and there was not a "no surveillance option" then I can't say I would not choose convenience. People can only choose better options when there are better options for them to choose.
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@baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone @glyph@mastodon.social while this is a beautiful sentiment, it of course begs the question, why is any of it necessary to begin with? why do we consistently recognize pain and suffering and then collectively act against our own best interests?
@etsyy @baconandcoconut @glyph Trying to figure out human nature from analyzing the arc of computer development, even in a social context, would be extremely difficult. While there are some sociological and philosophical constructs to explain it, suffice it to say that this is something human beings just do. -
@etsyy @baconandcoconut @glyph Trying to figure out human nature from analyzing the arc of computer development, even in a social context, would be extremely difficult. While there are some sociological and philosophical constructs to explain it, suffice it to say that this is something human beings just do.
@scooter @baconandcoconut @etsyy when thinking of indifference to suffering in big abstract sociological terms I am often reminded of the discordian sermon on ethics and love:
mal-2: Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices …
eris: WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THAT, IF IT IS WHAT YOU WANT TO DO?
mal-2: But nobody Wants it! Everybody hates it.
eris: OH. WELL, THEN STOP.
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@scooter @baconandcoconut @etsyy when thinking of indifference to suffering in big abstract sociological terms I am often reminded of the discordian sermon on ethics and love:
mal-2: Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices …
eris: WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THAT, IF IT IS WHAT YOU WANT TO DO?
mal-2: But nobody Wants it! Everybody hates it.
eris: OH. WELL, THEN STOP.
@glyph @baconandcoconut @etsyy Or perhaps Alfred's "Some men just want to watch the world burn" speech from Batman... -
Has happened over and over. Printing press, newspaper, steam, diesel, radio, TV, home recording...
The PTB will always use legislation and brute force to defend their privileged place at the top.
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@baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone @glyph@mastodon.social while this is a beautiful sentiment, it of course begs the question, why is any of it necessary to begin with? why do we consistently recognize pain and suffering and then collectively act against our own best interests?
@etsyy @baconandcoconut @glyph The powerful are excellent at putting us in Nash equilibria that make it very hard for us to escape them.
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@glyph I like to think about it as an alternate future that we veered off the path of. Like we had this idea that computing was going to empower the masses, democratize access to information and power over the discourse. We didn't quite get it, but we tried a lot of times. I still have hope for our timeline.
we have context on this; our activism has allowed us to meet relatively senior people in the industry, in passing (they mostly didn't become lasting relationships because we're too critical of capital)
lots and lots of people up and down the org charts of all the big companies, have sincerely believed in that ideal
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@hipsterelectron have you tried amphetamines
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The MOST Effective Thermal Mass Works Like a Sunburn
Way, way back in the days when men wore beards and wide-lapelled suits in exotic colors, only NASA had access to photovoltaics and ‘solar’ meant solar thermal. In those days of appropriate technology, it was thought that the ultimate in thermal mass was a phase-change material– a salt or wax that in melting and re-freezing could hold far more heat than plain rock or water, which were more often used. Well, now that it’s the 21st century, we’ve got something even better. As Ars Technica reports about a recent paper in Science Magazine, Molecular Solar Thermal (MOST) energy storage can blow that old stuff right out of the water.
Molecular energy storage? That’s where the sunburn comes in. A sunburn occurs because proteins in your skin are denatured– kinked, twisted, and knocked out of shape– by ultraviolet light. The researchers realized that those kinky proteins are pretty energetic: like a spring, they’re storing energy in their distorted structure. Even better, certain chemicals, like the pyrimidone in the study, don’t ‘relax’ the way a phase change material does. It’s not a matter of warming up and giving up the energy stored in the molecular structure when cooling down– the energy needs coaxed out, in this case by an acidic solution.
That poses problems for a closed-loop system, since you’d be continuously diluting the pyrimidone with heat-releasing acid and neutralizing base. On the other hand, 1.65 MJ/kg of energy storage is nothing to sneeze at, especially when you’re collecting it with nothing more technically advanced than a fluid running through clear tubing. Conveniently enough, researchers found a way to make this stuff liquid at room temperature.
Comparing the heat in this MOST storage material to electrical potential in a battery is a case of apples and oranges, but in terms of pure energy density the pyrimidone cooked up for the paper is in the same range as Li-Ion batteries. There is some self-discharge, in that the altered “dewar” state of the pyrimidone decays naturally, but with a half-life of upto 481 days, you could imagine storing up a tankful UV-altered pyrimidone all year round to provide your winter’s heat.
There’s not much power making it to surface in the UV, but lower energy photons cannot effect the transition.
It’s not perfect. Right now you get about 20 “charge cycles” before the molecules break down, but then, if you’re using this for seasonal load-spreading, a two-decade service life is nothing to shake a stick at. It’s only collecting energy from the UV range of the spectrum, which is a tiny fraction of the energy from our sun. The quantum efficiency of the molecule is rather poor as well– it takes a lot of photons to get a dewar transition.With solar photovaltaics being as cheap as they are, thermal builds are few and far between– even solar water heaters are powered by PV these days. Of course if you’re somewhere that doesn’t get much sun, you could always go for wind power instead.
Thanks to [zit] for the tip! If you’ve seen a bright idea in the wild, or have one yourself, our tips line is open rain or shine.
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Coppa America – Ennesima speculazione. Campi Flegrei – autogranizzazione e libertà per la difesa dei territori
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La grande manifestazione che gli abitanti dei Campi Flegrei, insieme a* solidali , a* compagn* e a* cittadin* di Napoli, hanno realizzato sabato 7 Febbraio, dopo mesi di mobilitazione e di lotte, ha visto una
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At the Fediverse meetup in Foulab. About 20 people here. Love it!
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Russian media are treating Conti like national heroes
