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

@thomasfuchs

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.

@timrichards @thomasfuchs @mrundkvist

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.

@diffrentcolours @thomasfuchs @PixelRobot ventilation and air purification, definitely, especially in ways that are affordable. But the "owners" would want to make air a commodity if they could.

@torf yeah the guillotine fetish is one of the examples of far-right morality popping up on the left. I'd like to see less of that but there's no getting away from some things, I guess.
@maikel @thomasfuchs

@alter_kaker the blocking button does exist

@torf @thomasfuchs

@torf (specifically, washing away degeneracy/evil/the parasites in blood is a core fascist idea, but that's exactly how the guillotine is portrayed on the left. Theoretically the difference is in who gets targeted, but that distinction wears pretty thin sometimes and with some tendencies)
@maikel @thomasfuchs

@maikel you're welcome to block me, friend, but I've been a leftist or leftist adjacent for more than twenty years, so I permit myself to express the odd unpopular opinion, in the spirit of critical support @torf @thomasfuchs

@alter_kaker I'm fine with you here, as far as you can manage my guillotine fetish. If not, then seriously block me, I'm too angry with billionaires to mind my language. I won't hold it against you.

@torf @thomasfuchs

@Michael_1975

Crochet.

@thomasfuchs

@thomasfuchs

Switchblades
Locking forceps
Microscopes
mRNA vaccines
Bagpipes
Rib spreaders
Curettes
Books
Printing presses
Lancets
Scissors
The Periodic Table
Hall Effect transistors
Prisms
Piezoelectrics
Carbo nanotubes
Redox meters
Clip-on pulse oximeters

I could go on

@thomasfuchs

The enzyme that reactivates a Republican brain worm.

A vibrating guillotine tuned to attract billionaires.

@thomasfuchs wind, geothermal, tidal! Transparent aluminum! Vaccines that can immunize against entire fucking CLADES of viruses! Sail-assisted cargo ships! Full-motion prosthetics that can be printed at home!