I’m glad you said something. I don’t mind so much when pieces that are critical of solarpunk or a corruption of the aesthetic are occasionally posted here because it gives the community an opportunity to define itself against those representations. I tend to skip over them myself though. I think introspection and criticism are core to the Solarpunk ideal, and I’m glad this essay was a fresh carafe of that tea.

!enshitification@slrpnk.net !fuck_AI@lemmy.world

Dick Cheney lied about walking so that JD Vance could lie about running.

Monoculture is a terrible idea, even in a robotic vertical farm with sterilization. Decentralization is key, but brexit tyrants like Dyson will never share their automation technology or research with the public. Open source sharing is the only way to bring the price down to the point it can be decentralized.

Also, his vertical farm would not be profitable without his biodigesting power plant that gets free high-quality fuel from his non-vertical farm empire.

The video on seattletimes is the same video from the dailyuw site, and it’s still available as far as I can tell.

I was looking at the vfairs.com site, where they host content from 2024 and 2023. I guess they started using their own domain exclusively. I expected them to update the vfairs site for 2025.

I think it’s not immediately obvious what Donut Economics is about. It is a category of degrowth, and !degrowth is a fairly active community. Posting about DE there will help spread the word.

Produced and consumed in Morocco, replaces another energy reclamation method, no mention of quickly approaching peak phosphorus.

It’s strange they haven’t announced for 2025. Did they lose their funding?

Harlan County, USA

The Party of Donald Trump wrote the emancipation proclamation in the 1800s. Who cares?

Correction – SLRPNK.net’s admins are all anarchists, but the server is not ‘for’ anarchists. Limiting our membership to anarchists for one means we would have to precisely define what an anarchist is, and then enforce that definition on our membership. In spaces where someone can be ejected for not being anarchist, this leads to attempts by people to censor others by trying to narrow the definition so the people they argue with fall on the wrong side of the line.

We’re looking for people who believe in the value of scientific consensus. We’re building a community that wants society to change to better meet the challenges of resource scarcity, ecological collapse, and increasing authoritarian influence in politics. We celebrate good faith discussion, and discourage trolling and bad rhetoric. We don’t tolerate hate speech and spamming. We believe a diverse set of ideas and approaches are more likely to solve complex problems than adhering to a strict party line. As anarchists and adminstrators, we approach revolution through prefiguration, believe that means and ends are inseparable, and want our server to reflect the society of the future we’d like to live in – one where diversity of thought is foundational in finding creative answers, and people with varying goals and ideals are able to work together to solve shared problems.

Yes, China does have a higher literacy rate than the United States and many English speaking countries. More of the population will be able to read and benefit from it there.

Mulberry pie, delicious.

Table saws are dangerous, and to cut accurately and straight, you need to build an appropriate sled. You can get better safety and more bang for your buck cutting it over-dimension with a jigsaw or hacksaw, and then making a wooden jig to finish the end with a router.

You’re off to a great start! Working with adjustable aluminum extrusions is smart.

!nolawns@slrpnk.net

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

– Mikhail Bakunin

They lived their life relaxing in a hot-tub. Now that their greed has made it a boiling pot, they’re tossing their children in to burn and gaslighting them that they have a legacy.

Ziq should be more famous for the history of toxic behavior they’ve displayed in every anarchist space they’ve participated in, including in their role as the ruler of Raddle․me. Their use of sockpuppets to manipulate and bully has discredited and disgraced Raddle․me and should be the primary reason for their notoriety. Any notoriety as a source of anarchist theory is due to their own tireless self-promotion rather than the strength of their ideas. Their writing is intentionally obtuse, relying on idiosyncratic re-definition of words to create clickbait titles. They make poorly supported claims that are either wrong or communicated more clearly by better people.

When I encounter someone sincerely recommending their writing, I suspect more sockpuppetry.

JudgeSabo has decent receipts. Since Anarchism101 is unmoderated, I’ve posted it in AnarchismVsMarxism.