“Is there a technology that the left is excited about?!?”
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@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.
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@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. -
“Is there a technology that the left is excited about?!?”
- Solar energy
- Libraries
- Trains
- Vibrators
- GuillotinesSwitchblades
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 oximetersI could go on
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“Is there a technology that the left is excited about?!?”
- Solar energy
- Libraries
- Trains
- Vibrators
- GuillotinesThe enzyme that reactivates a Republican brain worm.
A vibrating guillotine tuned to attract billionaires.
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“Is there a technology that the left is excited about?!?”
- Solar energy
- Libraries
- Trains
- Vibrators
- Guillotines@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!
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@thomasfuchs bikes
@morgan @thomasfuchs
including ebikes (she said, with old knees but a young heart) -
@thomasfuchs Someone in the replies must surely have mentioned ActivityPub yet, but I didn't find it.
@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.
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@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.
@hfinyow @thomasfuchs What we need is a metaphorical corporate guillotine. Nobody dies, but business is absolutely not allowed to carry on as usual.
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“Is there a technology that the left is excited about?!?”
- Solar energy
- Libraries
- Trains
- Vibrators
- Guillotines@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. -
@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.
@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
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“Is there a technology that the left is excited about?!?”
- Solar energy
- Libraries
- Trains
- Vibrators
- Guillotines@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 -
Fusion?
@float13 @thomasfuchs
“It's the fusion chamber!”
“The what?”
“The fusion chamberlain. The fusion chamberlain show. With your host, fusion chamberlain!” -
@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
@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
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“Is there a technology that the left is excited about?!?”
- Solar energy
- Libraries
- Trains
- Vibrators
- Guillotines@thomasfuchs solar aircraft.
also, the fediverse
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@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
@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
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@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.
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@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.
@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.
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“Is there a technology that the left is excited about?!?”
- Solar energy
- Libraries
- Trains
- Vibrators
- Guillotines@thomasfuchs neuroscience. Also Espresso making machines.
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“Is there a technology that the left is excited about?!?”
- Solar energy
- Libraries
- Trains
- Vibrators
- Guillotines@thomasfuchs Open source software (still).
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“Is there a technology that the left is excited about?!?”
- Solar energy
- Libraries
- Trains
- Vibrators
- Guillotines@thomasfuchs ham radios & mesh!
