techno hippie
see c/UGEM for UnderGroundElectronicMusic. :) (I was going to set up something like that when saw someone else had already requested to make it. Good stuff. Populate it.)
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We were foolish to peg our power to our labour/servitude/slavery. No path to emancipation like that. Pegs us to our abuser driving us all to doom.
We were foolish to accept being called "ordinary people". That basically means we're ordinance. Cannon fodder.
"Worthless eaters" some in the ruling class call us.
We can still mend this.
Even the richest can be better off (and not join the extinct) with the clean emancipatory technology being de-secreted and utilised. As it shall, either sooner, in wise foresight, or later, in desperation.
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No "reverse physics" required.
One idea among many:
Restore cannabis.
It cleans air 7 times more than pine forests.
It's not just the carbon dioxide that comes into contact with the chlorophyll in the leaves. It's all the terpenes (and other aromatics and pollen) it pumps out too. Meaning it cleans the air high in the sky.
And atop that, it can replace many polluting technologies. Oil and deforestation (like for farming), for a couple hot examples.
Even making limecrete housing, instead of offgassing carbon dioxide and causing loads of carbon dioxide during production like concrete does, it's actually carbon negative, in production and throughout its lifetime, sucking up carbon, further hardening over time.
Similar gains with bioplastics, graphene, paper, fabric, rope, medicine, food, etc.
It can grow in a greater range of climates than any other useful plant. We could re-green e.g. the entire sahara, the australian outback and the southern half of north america. And it'd increase the soil quality readied for other vegetation within a year or two.
And that's just one idea.
Our problem is not physics, it's psycho-socio-economic.
If the new solid state battery from donutlabs is legit, that could indicate the trickle of cleaner technologies coming, perhaps even towards availing of the emancipatory technologies that have been suppressed for the past century or two. Many an untapped potential. Even just the more mundane better known, like thorium reactors. We have so much headroom without the crooks keeping us down and dirty.
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Sure... could take that impression. Or... consider:
Patent Office whistle blower Tom Valone revealed at energy conferences in the early 00's that by the year 2000 there had already been over 3000 free energy device patents secreted. (... That's abundant energy without pollution.)
- “We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.” ― Buckminster Fuller
Follow the tech arc from Michael Faraday through to Nikola Tesla (passing by the Sonora Aero Club and Charles Dellschau's drawings of what they had in 1850 (the early state of the art of what would become zero-inertia propulsion (like the foo-fighters and "the bell" ("die glocke") in (and before) WW2))), you may find many more examples of technologies we've been denied.
Consider even the lies they {Ed Bernays (who inspired Hitler), Harry J Anslinger and Randolf William Hearst} spread to convince us our most useful resource, Cannabis, was instead a demon called "Marijuana", depriving us of the most nutritionally complete and balanced food source for humans and livestock, that can be even eaten without processing and cooking, can last for many years, can be grown in the same soil for 20 years without rotation before depleting nutrients, cleans the air over 7 times more than a pine forest, makes 7 times as much paper as trees and the paper is stronger and lasts for hundreds and even thousands of years, makes fabrics more versatile than cotton with none of the pollution and easier and without slaves, and it even can produce oil fuels like diesel, alcohol fuels like petrol, and even cheap abundant easy graphene to help make solid state capacitors and photovoltaics etc, as well as making super strong limecrete and bioplastics and on and on it goes. And I haven't even mentioned medicine and spirituality and fun yet, which it's the best at and non-lethal. All unsurprising since humanity have been in co-evolution with it, cultivating it the longest. The first writing we still have on paper, was on hemp paper, about cannabis, as a medicine. It's the main ingredient in the holy anointing oil. Salvation's return is the restoration of cannabis/hemp. No wonder competing industries sought to eliminate the competition, keeping us dependent on their inferior products, and wage slavery.
Consider these two quotes together, and who said them:
- “We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity… anything you can imagine we already know how to do.” — Ben Rich, former Head of the Lockheed Skunk Works
- “It is easier for us to pay a private contractor to re-invent something so it will come out at a lower classification level, than to try to declassify it.” – Bennett Hart, then Deputy Director of the National Reconnaissance Organization
If we release all the emancipatory technologies the corporations have been sitting on to keep us hog-tied to their polluting and inferior technology for impoverishing rents, we'll have dispelled the circular argument that we need a cull of the human population (like the top line of the Georgia Guidestones or some interpretations of Bill Gates' reductive equation suggests).
It'd even avail all space to us (space, that's expanding, faster than we could fill it). And to populate Mars, Callisto, Ceres, etc. And to create vast spinning tube orbitals for 1G almost wherever we want. And it would let us build interconnected forest-arcologies, creating a vast forest arcology-scapes, allowing over 300 trillion humans to live here on earth, in abundant nature.
Not saying we should.
Just saying we have so much more headroom with proper resource management, without the crooks holding us down just so they have more than us. Egalitarian proliferation of the (currently suppressed) emancipatory technologies would have even the richest be better off.
Or we could just keep sabotaging ourselves, sabotaging the survival of the species, held under duress to be complicitly committing ecocide, pretending things are harder than they are, just to help maintain the billionaires' rigged game. :/
It's just a ride. And we can change it any time we want:
But don’t worry, someone recorded it for posterity.
Link?
(Was it in the article? I failed to find...)
[With the help of an LLM] Here's a few worthy quotes:
[Edit: Thanks Susaga for pointing out the LLM lied. Hah. LLMs. Can't trust 'em. Good lines, pity they're not true quotes.]
"To be my own master. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world." — Genie, Aladdin (1992)
"You think you’re so clever, but you’re just a cowardly, backstabbing, murderous lizard!" — Simba, The Lion King (1994)"A true hero isn’t measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart." — Zeus, Hercules (1997)
"I won’t be a pawn in someone else’s game!" — Pinocchio, Pinocchio (1940)"You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." — Christopher Robin, Winnie the Pooh (1966–1977)"I’d rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing freedom." — John Smith, Pocahontas (1995)"You can’t own a human being!" — Dr. David Q. Dawson, The Aristocats (1970)Klingon cuisine did not feature??
Oh, in that case, I'll point out the illogical emotional vulcans in brave new worlds.
"The economics of the future are somewhat different." -- Picard
Ow. XD lmao.
That's up there with 2 idiots 1 keyboard
There's a guy in one of the main irc chans I hang out in, who even after being there for a decade, still does not get it, still thinks we're "hackers" ... just because we run e.g.
eix-sync -q ; emerge -DuvaNqtg worlddoes not mean we're "hackers".Best laugh of the day so far.
Laughed too loud, scared the wildlife outside.
PS, just gotta look at lines above. Maybe rainbow delimiters can help.
I gotta get a cat again, and train it to sleep on my yoga ball, to get the same benefit.
The real rare gems are still hard to find, and require more ambitious exploring.
Most of the best, I get from suggestions from other people in irc or on the fediverse.
I hope all my fave autistic musicians are not mistaken for AI and deleted under a false-positive detection of being AI. At least my fave's album releases all pre-date AI music generators. Safe, for now.
I think safer would be to encourage all purely AI-generated be tagged as such, so it can be optionally toggled out of view, and then there's less incentive for the unscrupulous to simply hide that it's AI generated. Banning increases the "hide that it's AI" vibes, not the "don't do AI" vibes. Prohibition does not prevent. Prohibition makes the good things bad and the bad things worse.
521 user on #haskell on libera.chat
So logic suggests Haskell users don't give a shit about reddit. ;)
And, speaking of haskell humour... it has to be done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADqLBc1vFwI
Andor's the exception to the rule.
[Edit: oh, oops, I guess I still had other comments in my mind when I was replying to that. Was replying more to the general the new stuff's not as good as the old stuff vibe. Though still, under scrutiny, even the old Star Wars stuff has a lot of holes, and so it's hard to build something good on that. So I guess in the case of Andor, they've managed to improve(?) more.]
Y'all got a suitable amount of Illiteratophobia and ilithiophobia now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGex0kLgNok [Jam: Thick People ("Yes I know what a parking meters are."]
and they're armed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7w7_zStmIA [Idiocracy: Pepper Spray "What?"]
That’s like saying there’s no way a machine can replicate hand sewing.
Gets me thinking there's no way I could do sewing consistently. My adhd novelty seeking creative side (over powering my autism side) would be switching stiching types constantly, before I give up in the tedium of it. Could a machine do that?
Because of the microtubules and quantum effects, right?
They've not already. Maybe they never will.
They've got the poison, they've got the remedy.