floatingmetalsphere

i apologize, i have compiler brain worms

this would be great for garbage collection in a dyson swarm

A cyborg girl with a shirt showing the cross-section of a Nerf gun with the caption "BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD" , she has an arm of exposed metal and she's wearing blue jeans with a pair of large square glasses on

/s

calling my adhd meds "prole pills" from now on

florian's substack is great, unlike most people i've come across who do research on civilizational collapse, he isn't overly pessimistic and defeatist

The people's history of collapse How dominance hierarchies doom societies

you might like: existentialcrunch.substack.com/p/the-people...

signalis appreciation post

wait what? 😭

was wondering if your username was a reference to the eye of gyges or something else and came across it

paas (panopticon as a service)

if we ever get cheap mechanosynthesis style nanotech, everyone will lose their shit

i think these types of projects are still largely limited by funding but there's good reason to believe a lot more can be done with what we currently have

it's not all perfect but there's a lot of success stories that make me hopeful:

@spritelyinst.bsky.social just crowdfunded over $80,000 to build the future of p2p software

@crowdsupply.bsky.social has been funding open source hardware projects with a near hundred percent success rate

money is a huge factor but the cost of getting involved in developing technology has been dropping drastically mostly in software but also in hardware

the best writing i've seen collecting these sort of ideas is @kevincarson1.bsky.social's "homebrew industrial revolution" and "the desktop regulatory state"

i think there's a lot of people working on this intentionally and unintentionally, making it easier for people to see what's been done and connect with others doing similar stuff (i think) could have a huge impact

i've been thinking of making something like www.gap-map.org but for cool leftist tech ideas. it would have a description of an idea and link to good research on the idea and past/existing implementations

bsky.app/profile/mutu...

you can actually shape how technology is developed in positive ways. you can. i know people who have. you don't have to wait for a revolution. you can just do it. you might not succeed. but its better than waiting around and complaining.

@mutual-a.bsky.social is writing a lot of good stuff on this: wedontagree.net/the-party-of...

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yup

a watercolor showing a downtown lit up with warm orange neon lights, the building have elegant curves

sci-fi always looks better with curves

like the original concept art for blade runner

a white space-ship curved like a boat, it's steel internals are peeking through the gaps in it's hull almost growing out organically

i forgot how beautiful the ships in lgoh are

long march through the youtube recommends

Although she had hoped to be allowed to transition on the job, IBM fired Conway in 1968 after she revealed her intention to transition.[15] In 2020, IBM publicly apologized to Conway for firing her at a public event with Diane Gherson, then IBM's senior vice president of human relations. At the event, Conway was awarded the IBM Lifetime Achievement Award for her work at IBM and later work.[16][17]

also fuck ibm

a while back someone demoed something like this on twitter and the projected the datasheet on any nearby surface using ar

yes

Cover of the book "Laced With Love: A Family Memoir With Recipes and Games" by Sheila Walker

A Tesla Roadster floating in the void of space with Earth in the rear-view, there's a SpaceX space suit in the driver seat leaning it's arm on the door of the Roadster.

he needs to recreate this with the helmet off