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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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jilleduffy, to random
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Reading people's layoff notes the last few days, I would like to share some reminders:

  1. Work will never love you back.

  2. "It isn't personal." Ignore people who say that. Your salary, your sense of purpose and work integrity are personal, and when they are taken away without warning, it affects you personally, even if the decision to cut your position was only about money.

  3. Thinking about your emotions through a job loss as grieving can be helpful.

  4. Work will never love you back.

BillySmith,
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@jilleduffy

https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/unified-theory-of------

atomicpoet, to random
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Quite often on the Fediverse – more often on other social networks – I find people talking about how things were so much better years ago.

And I’m telling you this is a trap. Don’t fall for it. Yesteryear is not better than now, it just feels that way because it’s over.

Progress exists. It’s important that we all acknowledge how things are better. More importantly, you are alive – enjoy this moment.

BillySmith,
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@Lesliesez @thepoliticalcat @atomicpoet

The cage-free rearing methods give healthier animals, leading to higher-quality eggs, and higher-quality meat. :D

GossiTheDog, to random
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    BillySmith,
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    @Npars01 @GossiTheDog

    I was talking about Nokia in 2010, where ex-Microsoft Stephen Elop became CEO of Nokia, cancelled Nokia's projects that would compete with MS's work on Windows OS for phones, entered a partnership with MS to use their OS as Nokia;s preferred phone OS, and then went back to work at Microsoft.

    My cynic-sense tingled when i saw those actions.

    My personal opinion is that Elop never stopped working for MS, even while he was being employed by Nokia.

    compost, to gardening
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    Is there a exchange community or group on Mastodon?

    I have some chives and green onions that are going to seeds and I will have more seeds than I need.

    Of course, there is our local free seeds and plants library but I would prefer to use mastodon as my main seeds resource.

    BillySmith,
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    @compost

    Try the hashtag :D

    There were local events running in London over the last week :D

    https://www.goodtogrowuk.org/map/london/

    GottaLaff, to random
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    “Hundreds of infants’ lives would be saved and millions of children would breathe easier across the US if the nation’s power grid depended on clean energy and more drivers made the switch to zero-emission vehicles, according to a new report from the American Lung Association.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/21/health/electric-vehicles-air-pollution-kids?cid=ios_app

    BillySmith,
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    @lednaBM @GottaLaff

    There are no externalities.

    We only have one planet.

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    You know, when I look back on my life, I think it is utterly fucking amazing that for most of it, I had to literally argue with people as to the actual EXISTENCE of racism in this confederate ass hellhole. My whole fucking LIFE in white spaces. Holy hell. It's hard to be sane in this bitch, I'll tell you that.

    BillySmith,
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    @thepoliticalcat @StillIRise1963

    Remember Jackson.

    The organisers of the protests were gradually murdered over the next few years, as well as the 60-year-old curator of the museum of Black History, whose body was found in the trunk of her car.

    The stories need to be told, but be discrete about it, so you don't get deliberately targetted.

    yogthos, to random
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    “If you don’t like it, get a different job!” is quintessentially liberal response that focuses on improving the situation of the individual in question while ignoring the systemic problem that caused it.

    BillySmith,
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    @yogthos @davevolek

    It's never "No one wants to work!", but more that "No one wants to be exploited." :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

    00Aaron, to random
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    If you have the grit to do it, now is the time to build the alternatives that'll catch us as all institutions of the old ways fail, catastrophically.

    BillySmith,
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    @simon_brooke @00Aaron

    And one of these will cover 80% of the structures that you need:

    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/maslow4/maslow4-affordable-compact-large-format-cnc-router

    using the WikiHouse designs:

    https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/search/collections?order=relevance&q=wikihouse

    BillySmith,
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    @simon_brooke @00Aaron

    You may want to take a look at the Open Source Ecology approach:

    https://www.opensourceecology.org/

    You've got enough farmland that their workshop designs would be feasible and profitable for you to build. :D

    BillySmith,
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    @simon_brooke @00Aaron

    Sorry forgot to link the main WikiHouse website:

    https://www.wikihouse.cc/

    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/

    HistoPol, (edited ) to random
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    (1/n)

    The capitalist model ruined earth for humanity and many other species. has been its undertaker, b/c .

    If capitalism hadn't made the possible, human society would already have reached the (1) point at the end of the last century:
    In 1968, the Paul and Anne wrote the book The "...


    (1)
    https://medium.com/@CollapseSurvival/overshoot-why-its-already-too-late-to-save-civilization-e834cb4ec694

    BillySmith,
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    @HistoPol @Snowshadow

    The early Proofs-Of-Concept for hydrocarbon manufacturing in the laboratory took place in the late 1890's/early-1900's, but electricity was more expensive to generate then. :D

    Now... :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 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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    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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    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 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

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

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

    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

    davidnavratil, to random Czech
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    Pěkná vizualizace celosvětově vytěžených kovů v roce 2022

    BillySmith,
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    @simon_brooke @davidnavratil

    In 2012 few of us made a Gingery-style aluminium-casting furnace.

    https://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Project:GingeryFurnace

    We found that if a renewably-charged battery was used as the air-fan power source, and if sustainably-farmed charcoal was used, then the whole system could be carbon-neutral. :D

    And we built that feature by accident. :D

    A properly-focused design-run by engineering specialists would work wonders for the efficiency. :D

    BillySmith, to random
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    :D

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

    sarahf, to random
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    "People say they want real justice... so we fob them off with a slightly less unjust system of justice. Workers howl that they're being flayed like donkeys... so we arrange for the flaying to be a little less severe and slash their howling entitlement, but the exploitation goes on. The workforce would rather not have fatal accidents in the factory... so we make it a teeny bit safer and increase compensation payments to widows.

    ... (1/2)

    BillySmith,
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    @sarahf @bookstodon

    Crazypedia, to random
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    Might start keeping a list of societal and cultural quirks or blind spots that really irk me as an Noticer/truth teller/autistic person. Maybe something to traumatize a therapist with

    BillySmith,
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    @Crazypedia

    One bit of advice i got from a now-healed person who was recovering from extreme psychological damage:

    "Never work with therapists who have been through less extreme damage than the patient, as they won't be able to handle their own trauma and help the patient at the same time."

    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

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