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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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Catawu, to random
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Why do consumers have to be responsible for plastic waste poisoning our environment but manufacturers who profit from it, aren’t held accountable?

BillySmith,
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@Catawu

Not in Holland. :D

The Dutch courts found Shell liable for Shell's customer's CO2 emissions.

BillySmith,
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@Catawu

Shell is still appealing the judgement.

The appeal is still in process.

jonobie, to random
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    BillySmith,
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    @jonobie

    They use some form of waiver to avoid that responsibility.

    Search for "<ShowName>" "waiver".

    BillySmith,
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    @jonobie

    I know people who work in the tv/film industries, and one thing that they all agree on, is that Ben Elton's "Chart Throb" is not a parody... 🤦‍♂️

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

    BillySmith,
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    @jonobie

    Have you heard of Simon Cowell from X-Factor?

    One of the clauses in the T&C's for appearing on the show, is that you have to sign a contract with the record label he owns, and those contracts require the signing-over of ALL of the work that the artists create.

    If the artists don't agree, then Cowell can block them from performing professionally in any and all forms of media.

    It's extremely predatory behaviour.

    design_law, to random
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    Wang v. Schedule A - On the bright side, this plaintiff actually included some pictures of the accused handbags in their TRO brief:

    https://www.scribd.com/document/702909859/Wang-v-Schedule-A-TRO-Brief

    But those pictures showed three accused product that do not infringe. The court granted the TRO anyway.

    #DesignPatents

    another (non-infringing) accused bag from the brief
    another (non-infringing) accused bag from the brief

    BillySmith,
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    @design_law

    If the designs are infringing, but were for sales 2+ years before the patent application date, then isn't it prior art that should have been admitted during the patent application process?

    Could this be used to get the patents withdrawn?

    ( Asking stupid questions as i'm unsure about the design patent thing.)

    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------

    J12t, to random
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    $83 million. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving fellow.

    https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-trial-e-jean-carroll-01-26-24/index.html

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    @J12t

    You misspelt felon. :D

    luis_in_brief, to random
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    :blobhyperthink:

    BillySmith,
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    @luis_in_brief @gwachob

    And the archive:

    https://tilde.town/~zine/ :D

    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

    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

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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

    Sorry forgot to link the main WikiHouse website:

    https://www.wikihouse.cc/

    KitMuse, to sciencefiction
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    I need your help . One of the classes I'm taking at the graduate level this semester is Religion & Science Fiction. I read more fantasy, and would like to do my research paper on something that's not obvious (like ST/BS5/Matrix/etc.) & I'd love to use more modern sf rather than the golden age classics.

    Anyone have any interesting ideas for my research paper on regarding the intersection of religion and science fiction?

    @bookstodon

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    @KitMuse @bookstodon

    In Richard Morgan's "Woken Furies", the third of the Takeshi Kovacs stories, there's a chapter-size vignette of Kovacs visiting a data-storage-facility for uploaded humans that is based on a Buddhist monastery run by a sect known as "The Renouncers".

    And in the "Altered Carbon" book, there's the Roman Catholic Church's attitude towards uploading.

    "Can you upload the soul?" :D

    BillySmith,
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    @KitMuse @bookstodon

    Ghibli's "Spirited Away" is a really nice version of a shamanic initiation.

    Look at the background characters in the crowd-scenes in the bath-house, and you'll see ancient and modern versions of the Tulpa's. :D

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    @KitMuse @bookstodon

    Neil Gaiman's "American Gods".

    The book is great, but only Season 1 and 2 of the series, as season 3 was heavily interfered with, as in designed to crash'n'burn.

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    @punklawyer @mozz @bookstodon @KitMuse

    The Golden Age of Sci-Fi is 11-14 years old. :D

    ntnsndr, to random
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    Okay, I'm supposed to be writing a digital privacy guide for normies. What would you put on it?

    BillySmith,
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    @ntnsndr

    Discuss Money.

    Look at the recommended approaches used by the insurance companies offering anti-hacking insurance.

    See what they will offer cover for, and compare with the costs of ID-theft.

    It's depressing that it's a necessary motivation, but if it works, then it works.

    bitprophet, to random
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    I wish I found whistling radiator vents/valves (and steam hammer, and etc) cozy instead of just annoying 😅

    BillySmith,
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    @bitprophet

    So you don't enjoy the SteamPunk covers of the Industrial Music genre... :D

    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)

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    @sarahf @bookstodon

    oceaniceternity, to books
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    @bookstodon I'm currently Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche. I must admit I don't find his idea of a universal drive for power compelling.

    It relies first and foremost upon an invisible subconscious that we cannot reach or touch inside all of us that tells us to always seek more power. And that anything other than we do is just justification for our power grabs.

    My problem with this is how... When you start out looking for it it is easy to say that anything anyone does is a power grab. Getting out of bed is an excercise of our dominion over gravity etc etc..

    Does a child draw letters in the sand merely to signal that they have power over sand? Is wearing cool and shiny boots a way of signalling social power over others? Maybe. But in my mind it is unlikely to be the most compelling reason behind everything... Solely because most people do not behave like cartoon villains. Or even cartoon villains trying to camoflage themselves.

    I admit. I am only 70 pages in and a very novice philopher at best. But as it stands... I don't think a drive to power as envisioned by Nietzsche is a universal truth.

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    @CoranDeo @bookstodon @oceaniceternity @Scienceisnotopinions

    The desire for control on an individual level is a desire for autonomy.

    For self-control, against being controlled by others.

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    @CoranDeo @Scienceisnotopinions @bookstodon @oceaniceternity

    Demonstrating their own will-to-power by conditioning other people to surrender their autonomy.

    Have you come across this Public-Service-Warning film?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvVHPVe525Q

    Knowledge of the techniques used, can act as a early warning signal, so you know when to GTFO.

    If you see the red flags, then leave.

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    @CoranDeo @bookstodon @Scienceisnotopinions @oceaniceternity

    Or the corporate cults like the ones from California.

    Similar training techniques used to constrain the range of acceptable questions.

    Another approach can be found here:

    https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/

    It's a longer set of articles, but the section on the Sociopaths is directly relevant to the original toot about Neitzsche, while the section on the Clueless fits with the members of the MLM systems. :D

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    @CoranDeo @bookstodon @Scienceisnotopinions @oceaniceternity

    Forgot the pic :D

    GossiTheDog, to random
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    @Npars01 @GossiTheDog

    Look at what happened to Nokia.

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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.

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