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

@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!

@morgan @thomasfuchs
including ebikes (she said, with old knees but a young heart)

@PaulaToThePeople @thomasfuchs I specifically omitted it from my list, even though it's true.

Because more people on the left need to get excited about it.

@hfinyow @thomasfuchs What we need is a metaphorical corporate guillotine. Nobody dies, but business is absolutely not allowed to carry on as usual.

@thomasfuchs Regenerative agriculture.
Rain/water harvesting.
Peer Governance
Self propelled/small electric mobility
Sodium Batteries
Guillotines
Any tech leading to more sovereignty,
less subjugation, more and better nature, more billionaire heads rolling.

@maikel language is fine, even if I don't like it. So long as you don't REALLY think that guillotines are going to solve our problems. I'm worried sometimes that parts of the left use this language to express their feelings, but then it winds up being a serious thing as people get used to it. That would be bad for the left and for the world. @torf @thomasfuchs

@thomasfuchs home made protest signs
whistles
3d printed whistles
stickers
zines
balkonkraftwerk
bikes bikes bikes bikes
multitools
guillotines
bike-portable sound systems
bike-portable guillotines

@float13 @thomasfuchs
“It's the fusion chamber!”
“The what?”
“The fusion chamberlain. The fusion chamberlain show. With your host, fusion chamberlain!”

@alter_kaker if surgical violence of billionaires was possible (that is: without it degrading into a carnage of people killing other people) then I'd be happy with it, I'm not gonna lie.

But that's not feasible, so, I'm happy with murder being illegal and the guillotine being a figure of speech of our collective level of anger.

Thank you for understanding

@thomasfuchs solar aircraft.

also, the fediverse

@maikel heh, I'm more sadistic than that. Under Communism, we should make all the former billionaires spend the rest of their days in customer service

@alter_kaker hahahaha. I approve. Btw they shouldn't get toilet breaks.

@noodlemaz @thomasfuchs the tool does matter. If you try to do revolution using authoritarian means, you’ll just replace the rich with a new elite, that will chop off the heads of everyone who might stop them.

@thomasfuchs neuroscience. Also Espresso making machines.

@thomasfuchs Open source software (still).

@thomasfuchs ham radios & mesh!

@janneke @valsombra @thomasfuchs I came to the replies looking for this!

@thomasfuchs @trainguyrom

- wind, tidal, and geothermal energy
- antitrust
- electric transportation
- energy neutral universal housing
- job guarantee, basic income
- universal health care
- democratic circles and cooperative management
- universal education
- food and water security and safety
- air pollution remediation
- environmental resuscitation