“Is there a technology that the left is excited about?!?”

@thomasfuchs guillotines of course

@thomasfuchs I'm excited to see how the decentralized internet develops. It seems like there has been a lot of resentment towards the large companies lately and I want to see what the community does to push back against the larger companies.

Also looking forward to any advancements in cleaner energy and agriculture. AI has it's uses and I think these are two good applications.

@thomasfuchs Mars rockets, provided the right person is on it. We'll only need one.

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Watermills
Sailing ships
Trees (e.g., growing in rainforests, or encroaching on deserts)
Hydrogen-based steel production
Geothermal house heating
Non-fossil sources of organic chemicals for synthetic industries
Material-efficient wooden construction
Fountain pens
Open-hardware laptops
Repairable smartphones
Recycling

@float13 @thomasfuchs Fusion makes it sound like it's not just another entry in power generation's steampunk phase.

@thomasfuchs I agree with this list (pic from the #nokings protest here in Paris)

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Bodymods and other kinds of transhumanist research... by anybody other than the crypto man, of course...

Videogame console modding...

... hey, I'm saying "mods" a lot, am I not?

@maikel @thomasfuchs the main problem with guillotines is that after lefties behead royalists, they start to behead each other. The French Revolution was full of examples. So you never know, from which side you will approach a guillotine tomorrow...

@torf just let the French sort it out and order some croissants to finance their efforts.

It's a win-win.

Stay safe in Cadiz town centre, never conquered by them.

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-easy to repair designs
-screws
-diy creations
-3D printing (a 3D printer is usually made by a friend who has a 3D printer, with their own 3D printer, this was a standard at the beggining of 3D printers)
-counter surveilance tech
-anything that would erase USA from the world
-public transport
-agriculutre improvements
-the advances on understanding whales and the terrors that come with it

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there's a sizeable cryptoleft community working on tools to support worker movements ... a lot of it is DOA or vaporware at this point though. sad.

@maikel @thomasfuchs That is exactly it, the funny idea that personally you would be able to stay safe somewhere outside. Sometimes works, sometimes not really.

@itsmistermoon @diffrentcolours @thomasfuchs @PixelRobot it's... About COVID (and other communicable disease)

BO is bad but it won't kill or disable you.

@enby_of_the_apocalypse @thomasfuchs it's not about fetishising the apparatus. It's an Eat the Rich thing. Chop off their heads.
Redistribute their wealth.
Revolution.

The tool doesn't matter.

@thomasfuchs @mrundkvist Defintely guillotines

@thomasfuchs (recumbent)bicycles
Sailing cargovessels
Opensource software
Bamboo structures
Treehouses
Wind energy
Regenerative
Just adding a few to the list,
Sure there's lots more.

@thomasfuchs heat pumps

@davep @thomasfuchs Electric guillotine that uses solar power.

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and rope!

@thomasfuchs the first three for sure. #4 useful to half the population, and #5 I don't believe in the death penalty...as tempting as it may be, especially for a trial of Trump or Musk or Thiel.