Daniela Pagenstecher 🇺🇦 🚴♂️ 📚
Lori Emersonfinally, Wendell Berry's standards for technological innovation--truly as relevant now as they were in 1987 #othernetworks
Aaro Koskinen@loriemerson 10. Never post an image/screenshot if you can type the same in plain text.
Red Oak@aakoskin @loriemerson hey, this reply sucks
Ricardo Harvin
Fishercat@ricardoharvin @redoak @[email protected]
Thanks for helping me feed my block list.
James@DrJLecter Thanks for advice, but none of my posts rely on the attached image content, so alt text is irrelevant for me and same for the reader.
Alistair K@aakoskin @DrJLecter Some of us struggle to know that without alt text to convey it, alas.
L'égrégore André ꕭꕬ@aakoskin @DrJLecter If the image is so irrelevant — why attach one?
@Mabande @DrJLecter "If the image is so irrelevant — why attach one?"
That's a very good question.
Possibily the reason is that earlier platforms like Twitter rewarded such posts, and also if you have a picture it gets people's attention in their feeds.
Personally I would like text-only Internet, like it used to be. Maybe I should try posting without any pictures, and see if it makes any difference.
ArmageddJen@aakoskin @loriemerson the text is in the image description you numpty.
Nate Allen@loriemerson the sad thing is that, today, if someone tried selling something based on these principles they would go out of business because people are only driven by price.
@mossyfoot I don't even know if they could even get such a business started in the first place! we are slowly heading toward an anti-capitalist revolution of some kind...I just hope it doesn't take too many more global catastrophes to happen
@loriemerson agreed.
Guillotine Jones, Flâneur@loriemerson
Now obsessing about Mr Berry's rule #9 and the current run of tech bros obsessed with "disruption" as some sort of positive thing.
Now obsessing about Mr Berry's rule #9 and the current run of tech bros obsessed with "disruption" as some sort of positive thing.
Pterry@loriemerson funny thing, this resembles in part the requirements for new drugs
Pavel A. Samsonov@loriemerson I love the idea of the body's energy being solar energy
Earthshine@loriemerson Yes 100% to all of this. Though I'm not entirely sure what they mean by "some form of solar energy" in that context... it sounds like they mean generally renewable or naturally abundant in the local environment?
Geoff Mackenzie@earthshine @loriemerson I think they mean it quite literally. The energy in us comes from our food, which gets it from the sun. Wind energy is also from the sun since it's the heat differences that drive the wind. If you take that idea to extremes fossil fuels are also solar but I don't think that's what they meant :)
Space Hobo@earthshine @loriemerson You can imagine that all of these criteria were derived in reverse from the premise that bicycles are amazing technology that fit our society extremely well.
@earthshine @loriemerson I suspect a lot of this was inspired by Ilich's Tools For Conviviality.
SlightlyCyberpunk@earthshine @loriemerson Yeah, powered by burning wood or vegetation, or a combustion engine running pure ethanol..maybe even incinerating mountains of bioplastics... :)
ZenHeathen 🇨🇦@loriemerson Based on this brilliant wisdom, I should look this person up.
Andi H@loriemerson
So EVs are out then? 😉
So EVs are out then? 😉
zombiecide 馬雄@AH_99 e-SUVs are out, e-bikes very much in
Cassandrich@zombiecide @AH_99 We could have EV cars that are smaller and lighter and easier to repair than a 1980s-era hatchback. The reasons we don't are all bad ones.
כָּלב 
@loriemerson I'd like to see some examples of good and bad tech based on these principles. I assume a solar-powered calculator is a good tech.
publiusHow far back do you have to go, to find a time when many people would have agreed that slavery fell in the category of "family and community relationships", and was even among the most important? Technological innovation disrupted that, by separating the processing of chemical energy into mechanical work from the human body. I for one have no desire to go back.
@publius Slavery was recognized at the time it was practiced as an abomination by all decent people.
History classes just teach the awful people of their times as though they were the only ones whose opinions counted.
AlexanderMars@dalias that's just a sad little troll, making a pathetic attempt to shit on someone else's post.
Wenzel Massag@loriemerson wonderful! Is there a website with more information and some context? Or a book?
AI6YR Ben@loriemerson This is a great list!!
PhDogWendell Berry rocks.
@loriemerson I'm not keen on rule 2: often the current tool's problems include being too small to operate well.
Isocat@libroraptor @loriemerson Yeah, smaller isn't necessarily better.
urbaer@loriemerson I would add to number 7 "and ownable".
@loriemerson Nothing about durability. Point 6 only gets partway there.
Nick Silkey 📻 N5ILK 🪓🪵 🪣💧@loriemerson amazing - I tracked down the source. Thanks for this! 🙇♀️✌️💙
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
Wendell Berry
New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly
Vol. 10, No. 1 (Autumn, 1987), pp. 112-113 (2 pages)
Published By: Middlebury College Publications
Scotty Trees@loriemerson yeah that’s a fantasy list that doesn’t exist anymore lol