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Fossil fuels are being 'eaten alive' by the solar rush
  • EDIT: From the article:

    According to analysis by the Carbon Tracker Initiative, “the land required for solar panels alone to provide all global energy is … less than the current land footprint of fossil fuel infrastructure”.

    I don't love the effect of solar (panel) farms on local ecology, since they take up so much space. But anything is better than fossil fuels since they give off the gas that kills everything.

    bloomer

    photovoltaics are nice but Solar thermal farms and solar updraft towers really tickle my brain.

  • quantum computing breakthrough from google.
    blog.google Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip

    Our new quantum chip demonstrates error correction and performance that paves the way to a useful, large-scale quantum computer.

    Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip

    seems big

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    How to explain to people that are fedposting in a big semi-public org space that that isn't the place?
  • I'd gently but firmly state that discussion of crimes should be kept offline and out official meetings. I'd make this statement "to the room" as it were.

    OpSec is important even for perfectly legal antifascist organizing. Feds are not the only infiltrators to be cautious of.   There's no way your org is mature enough to be operate as a recognizedly criminal organization. At this stage, to remain operating openly and legally, members who wish to engage in illegal acts must do secretly so as to not implicate the broader org & its membership.

    This is partly why I like Matrix. a self-hosted (by the org), unfederated server provides an official private means of communication for the organization, but messages are only visible to the participants of the conversations, and the metadata of who's talking to who never leaves the server. It would be totally normal for members to have private conversations, why would we assume they're discussing crimes??? liberty-weeping This org does not condone illegal activity! based-department

  • Anybody here play Veloren?

    I haven't touched it in a few years, thinking of jumping back in.

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    a question on organizing strategy and mutual aid

    I've noticed that mutual aid efforts in an org often focus on directing aid outside the organization, essentially operating as a charity. Additionally, many leftist orgs are quite small and could benefit from additional membership.

    I'm wondering if it might be better for a mutual aid org to focus its aid efforts internally? It is mutual aid after all. Please understand, I recognize that helping one's community is worthwhile, but an org focusing aid internally materially benefits the self-interest of its members. If one sees material benefit to joining a group surely they're more likely to join?

    Am I off base here? Seems like an idea worth developing.

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    Debugging
  • it's really fucking with me that neither axis follows a progressive ordering so I'm going to post a fixed (debugged) version. EDIT: lmao this is the most fucked up, inconsistent alignment chart I've seen. here it is fixed:

    everything -> sometimes -> nothing

    know -> not sure -> don't know

  • Half-Life fans, the Project Borealis tech demo is about to drop

    The full game is still yet to come. The project's intent is turn the Episode 3 story outline released by Mark Liadlaw (Epistle 3) into a game, resolving the cliffhanger ending of Half-Life 2: Episode 2.

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