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BillySmith

@BillySmith@social.coop

I'm an engineer/musician/artist/designer/bricoleur/womble. :D

Now blogging at https://write.as/billysmith/

Currently working on #OSHW for the primary industry sectors; #Agriculture, #Aquaculture, #Energy, #PowerGeneration, #PowerStorage, #Sustainability, #Regeneration, #Resilience, #TerraForming.

You can't solve a #SocialProblem via TechnicalMeans, so i've focused on creating solutions that people can choose to build themselves. :D

#ADHD #TeamADHD #Womble :D

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BillySmith, to design
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Some good news from London Hackspace! :D

London Hackspace is taking part in the London Craft Festival this weekend:

https://www.parkroyaldesigndistrict.com/craft-festival-2024

We're almost set up, and should be open for members at the end of June. :D

jonny, to random
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Nothing dismays me more in academia than my colleagues excusing themselves from the world because they have internalized their job as their identity, and exist in a separate domain from everyone else. every time I knock on doors with my union I get someone, sometimes angrily, wondering what any of this has to do with them - they're here to just do science.

BillySmith,
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@jonny

And don't forget the brainwashing effect of the teaching approach:

https://disciplinedminds.tripod.com/

BillySmith, to random
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:D

https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/05/06

BillySmith, to solarpunk
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Chewy approach towards solar panels and water :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hcsFVZbV5w

BillySmith,
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@Dtl @dgerard @mii @cstross

The game mechanics are similar to most tactical MMORPG's, but it's the quality of the storytelling that stands out. :D

In the first section that you are sent to explore, the player is acting as an investigator/cleaner in an HP Lovecraft story. :D

What is also interesting from the pov of gameplay, is that you can only make some of the choices once in the main story arc. :D

Want to make different choices, you have to start again with a new character. :D

BillySmith,
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@o7___o7 @dgerard

TY for helping me lose the last 4 hours to an archive trawl... 🤦‍♂️ 🤣

BillySmith, to solarpunk
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This is very solarpunk :D

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2024/apr/06/why-has-15-minute-city-taken-off-paris-toxic-idea-uk-carlos-moreno

gregggonsalves, to random
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Donald Moynihan at Georgetown has talked about how you bring down the administrative state--it is also a template for how to destroy public health in America. Delegitimize. Deconstruct. Control. 3 horsemen of our slow motion public health catastrophe in the US. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/undermining-public-health/

BillySmith,
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@gregggonsalves

The UK's current PM, when he was Chancellor in Johnson's Cabinet, was meeting with exec's and C-suite staff of healthcare companies in the USA.

They were explicitly talking about the "opportunities" within the UK's NHS.

The pattern described has been used over here as well.

There's an excellent fictional description of the techniques to be found in "The Delirium Brief" by @cstross

BillySmith, to ADHD
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Self-employed UK folk.

Remember to do your tax return before the end of the month.

Then check that they've received it. :D

I called them this morning, and found out i still needed to send some of the paperwork in... 🤦‍♂️

Problem solved now, but... :D

BillySmith, to random
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Reading the latest news from @davidgerard and Amy Castor on Crypto-finance:

https://amycastor.com/2023/12/28/crypto-collapse-mt-gox-payouts-tether-hooks-up-the-feds-sec-says-no-to-coinbase-crypto-media-mergers/

"The stupid! It burns!" 🤦‍♂️

BillySmith, to uklaw
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The campaigning organisation, Liberty, has just published a Guide to Protesting in the UK.

While the advice about dealing with the police is relevant to the UK laws, the rest of the advice will apply everywhere. :D

More details here:

https://action.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/page/140640/petition/1

Please boost and share this. :D

BillySmith, to random
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On AI and robot dogs:

https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2023/11/12

BillySmith, to random
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@simon_brooke

Chewing over yesterday's conversation.

I remembered a proposal by the Scottish Green Party for a Green New Deal for Scotland.

https://www.edinburghgreens.org.uk/campaign/scottish-green-new-deal/

The use of sea-based wind-farms as a power source, the use of CO2-capture plants to create the feedstocks for industry, and, the use of the captured CO2 to make hydrocarbons, would operate effectively as a complete and profitable business that would fit in with the Scottish Green Party's plans. :D

BillySmith, to random
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Main campaign website here:

https://www.savewaterlooparadise.com/

BillySmith, to random
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🤣 🤦 🤣

https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2023/11/04

BillySmith, to random
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Just came across a new ( to me ) material :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent_wood_composite

It seems fairly simple to make from the base components. :D

May need to make a larger vacuum chamber to hold the resin bath for larger sheets of material. :D

BillySmith, to random
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There's a Co-op Hackathon taking place in October. :D

It's run by Coops UK.

The closing date for project proposals is the 20th of September.

Full details here:

https://www.uk.coop/get-involved/campaigns/enabling-tech-and-digital/co-op-hackathon

:D

BillySmith, to KindActions
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No matter the current temperature is today, next summer is going to be worse. :D

Start preparing for it now. :D

BillySmith, to random
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Just came across this tool:

https://12ft.io/

:D

BillySmith, to reddit
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An interesting commentary on Reddit's current behaviour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfZKkUg8jgM

Reddit is ignoring the CCPA and the GDPR.

The Reddit IPO is screwed.

Every post that is restored is a separate charge.

Edit: Forgot the

BillySmith, to random
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This is what successful winning looks like :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekxZxSYWT9g

The creator of SciHub won as her ideas became part of the mainstream, and are now enshrined in law in the USA, and, the EU. :D

If you accept public money for research, the research has to be made public for the common good. :D

BillySmith, to random
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Excellent news! :D

The London Hackspace has a new venue. :D

We're moving in to a section of a warehouse here:

https://www.excelsior.london/

:D

Literally, the organisers have just gone home. :D

The move will be continuing over the next few weeks, but we're getting prepped for the London Design Festival, as this place is one of their venues. :D

More details of the festival events in Park Royal here:

https://www.parkroyaldesigndistrict.com/craft-fair-2023

BillySmith, to random
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I've been trying to wrap my head around Taoism.

One of the exercises i am using is to cast a Hexagram each morning, and use that as a frame-of-reference for everything that takes place that day. :D

BillySmith, to random
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There are 5 problems in any organisation:

  • To Innovate;
  • To Manage;
  • To Maintain;
  • To Defend;
  • Succession.
BillySmith, to random
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This is my account for the Co-operative side of my approach. :D

I'm still an in the way that i think, but decades ago, i found the limits of what i can do by myself, so the obvious step is Co-operatives. :D

"Hand washes hand and we all rise together." :D

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