Higher education should not just be free but everyone should get financial support while doing it.

Do what you want and get paid to be able to. Doesn't matter if it's STEM or art or humanities.

i think any solarpunk space program would require a grand fundraising to collect funds from people who support the endeavour and woul require stakeholders from various cities in the world. we can maintain and reuse the current launch sites that exist and decomission some of them. we'd look at the effects of rockets on the upper atmosphere where it can do the most damage and think of ways we can ameliorate them. 1/13

#Solarpunk #SolarpunkPrompts #WorldBuilding #Space

Venture capitalists can't subsidize cheap AI forever, and the hunger for more compute is affecting the labor market, the gadget market, and electricity prices.

https://www.404media.co/the-ai-compute-crunch-is-here-and-its-affecting-the-entire-economy/

finally bought myself a (brother) sewing machine after having used the machines of people i live with

it's really difficult for me, as a shorter, fat person, with wide hips, to find pants that fit me properly. i'm giving up on trying to find a brand and style that fits.

if anyone knows #sewing #patterns for full-length, high-waist pants (either with an elastic band or zipper + buttons), i would love recommendations

or youtube videos that explain how to draft such a pattern, that also works

🌊🪐 Researchers at #MIT identified universal rules for how #waves form on other #planets by analyzing the relationship between wind #energy and planetary conditions.

Their model illustrates that on #moons like #Titan low gravity and dense atmospheres allow waves to start at very low wind speeds and grow taller than they do on #Earth. Conversely lava worlds with high gravity and viscous molten rock would require hurricane-force winds to create even a small ripple.

👉 https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-mechanics-of-alien-waves

#physics #space #astronomy #science #education #research

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116454270791245630

been thinking about #DavidGraeber a lot lately. i think the Venn Diagram of people trapped in #BullshitJobs and aisloppers is a circle.

i would bet you that if people could earn a living without a bullshit job ―and, yes, a lot of tech work is bullshit― they’d have whole careers and lives outside of this capitalist hellscape.

capitalists are using #AI to gaslight us into believing we need them as the middlemen between our lives and a life worth living.

it’s a lie.

cut the middlemen out.

DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down.

DDoS against mastodon.social today: Lots of users on that instance impacted, the rest of the Fediverse keeps on running, my instance doesn't really notice, messages will be queued up until mastodon.social is reachable again.

Both networks claim to be decentralised and federated. You decide :)

In 1959, Volvo invented the three point seat belt and released the patent to it for free, realising it would save millions of lives.

In 2020 (Covid), James Dyson asked for a tax cut before he would even try to build a ventilator to save a life, then moved his business abroad to avoid tax. He didn't deliver a single ventilator.

Don’t buy a Dyson.