finally, Wendell Berry's standards for technological innovation--truly as relevant now as they were in 1987 #othernetworks

[aakoskin@bitwoods.duckdns.org]

@loriemerson 10. Never post an image/screenshot if you can type the same in plain text.

[mossyfoot@pdx.social]

@loriemerson the sad thing is that, today, if someone tried selling something based on these principles they would go out of business because people are only driven by price.

[redoak@social.coop]

@aakoskin @loriemerson hey, this reply sucks

[guillotine_jones@beige.party]

@loriemerson
Now obsessing about Mr Berry's rule #9 and the current run of tech bros obsessed with "disruption" as some sort of positive thing.

[loriemerson@post.lurk.org]

@mossyfoot I don't even know if they could even get such a business started in the first place! we are slowly heading toward an anti-capitalist revolution of some kind...I just hope it doesn't take too many more global catastrophes to happen

[mossyfoot@pdx.social]

@loriemerson agreed.

[ricardoharvin@mstdn.social]

@redoak @aakoskin

Ironically, and unsurprisingly, this clownish troll posts images without alt text.

I really hate people.

[pterry@fnordon.de]

@loriemerson funny thing, this resembles in part the requirements for new drugs

[pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social]

@loriemerson I love the idea of the body's energy being solar energy

[earthshine@masto.hackers.town]

@loriemerson Yes 100% to all of this. Though I'm not entirely sure what they mean by "some form of solar energy" in that context... it sounds like they mean generally renewable or naturally abundant in the local environment?

[zenheathen@beige.party]

@loriemerson Based on this brilliant wisdom, I should look this person up.

[ah_99@mastodonapp.uk]

@loriemerson
So EVs are out then?

[kolev@babka.social]

@loriemerson I'd like to see some examples of good and bad tech based on these principles. I assume a solar-powered calculator is a good tech.

[radicalabacus@hachyderm.io]

@earthshine @loriemerson I think they mean it quite literally. The energy in us comes from our food, which gets it from the sun. Wind energy is also from the sun since it's the heat differences that drive the wind. If you take that idea to extremes fossil fuels are also solar but I don't think that's what they meant

[publius@mastodon.sdf.org]

@loriemerson

How far back do you have to go, to find a time when many people would have agreed that slavery fell in the category of "family and community relationships", and was even among the most important? Technological innovation disrupted that, by separating the processing of chemical energy into mechanical work from the human body. I for one have no desire to go back.

#atomicpowertothepeople

[stairjoke@indieweb.social]

@loriemerson wonderful! Is there a website with more information and some context? Or a book?

[zombiecide@polyglot.city]

@AH_99 e-SUVs are out, e-bikes very much in

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@publius Slavery was recognized at the time it was practiced as an abomination by all decent people.

History classes just teach the awful people of their times as though they were the only ones whose opinions counted.

[admin@mastodon.slightlycyberpunk.com]

@earthshine @loriemerson Yeah, powered by burning wood or vegetation, or a combustion engine running pure ethanol..maybe even incinerating mountains of bioplastics...

[ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org]

@loriemerson This is a great list!!