It is fun as a quirky hobby, but really, depending on it for information and entertainment was really bad. Radio and TV are what created mass culture, removed local dialects and accents.
It is a one-to-many channel where people in charge of the station have disproportionate power.
It is nice to have as a simple alternate way of communicating, but boy, how am I never giving up internet access to get back to those.
Not much to say, I love your work! Thank you for what you do and for existing!
Ah yes, maybe something: I think the fediverse suffers from a lack of recommendation/search system. We are a bit burned out from the terrible consequences of the for profit recommendations of Youtube and Twitter, but I think a system that would be actually controlled by the user would be a very precious discovery and adoption tool. Is there something like that being worked on somewhere?
I wont buy electric until they are analog and disconnected from any sort of internet.
I have this one:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_i_MiEV_-_Peugeot_iOn_-_Citroën_C-ZERO
As analog as you will get. Bought second hand for cheap. Only about 100 km range though so not for every use.
Most of the solarpunk crowd seems to equate anything LLM with Sam Altman and Elon Musk. They think it is a purely capitalistic endeavor that can’t run on anything else than methane-breathing datacenters. There needs to be some education about the real impact of it and the open source of it. To explain how it can fit into a post-capitalist society.
I do think that vibe-coding is one way to reappropriate tech yes, and is extremely solarpunk. It makes manipulating machines and designing system a far more inclusive capability, bringing it from the work of specialist into the political sphere.
But explaining that is an uphill battle. When I made a post about solarpunk AI a year ago, it was well received. I fear it would be downvoted into oblivion if I published the same thing today.
You should never have trusted images before generative AI either. Trace the source and only trust the image if the source is legitimate.
Ain’t humans cute by projecting their morality on everything they lay their eyes on?
That’s really interesting! It shows which communities share users. I am part of jlai.lu, a french-speaking community that is relatively isolated by also slrpnk.net that seems very spread out!
Would it make sense to compute the standard deviation of each instance’s communities? It would give an idea of which are islands and which are more extended. Not sure if it makes sense to compute it more on 2 dimensions or on the original 21934 though.
IIRC plastic waste in the ocean have a half life of about one year. In that case it mostly means that in a year, half of the waste are going to end up on a shore. Stop adding plastic and the patch will shrink x1024 in 10 years.
The big mystery is that this year it is not another story of breaking records like the year before. The rise has been intense and no climate change models, even the most pessimistic, account for this. Either this is due to another event (like the Hunga Tonga eruption, that sent a lot of steam in the upper atmosphere, for an effect that is not well understood) or the climate models are bad and we have no visibility over what will happen next.
Thank you for your kind words! 2023 has been a weird year for me as lifelong AI enthusiast. I saw people go from “it is impossible” to “we should not do it” very quickly and was sad that the utopian point of view, which has been the motor of most researchers, is almost never represented in the media. I almost feel that it is more important right now to take part of the public discussion than it is to code AI systems.
Why do you assume it is handwavy? AI will solve many problems and create many others. That’s the staple of sci-fi to explore these.
Suddenly workers are not necessary anymore => How does that change our urban organisation?
Wealth inequalities can’t really be used as a tool of oppression anymore => What oppression device remain and how do we get rid of it?
more akin to transhumanist narratives that claim that some imaginary and not yet invented technology will solve all of humanities problems.
Not “all”, but what type of utopian sci-fi does not rely on technology to solve some of our current problems?
It is not only corporations. Single governmental voices are bad too, and many non-profits have their own political biases.
The difference with influencers and podcasters is that you have the choice between thousands of them. Radio would be like having the choice only between the top 5 of youtube, and you would have to tune in at a precise time to get it.