Eh, they don’t care precisely because they believe they have the privilege to shield themselves, and their descendants from environmental catastrophe. Luxurious fallout bulkers are built right now to do just that: protect themselves and their children from iminent threats, be it mob riots or tsunami or nuclear fallout. They don’t give a shit about the rest of us, and why would they? What do they have to gain from caring about us, it’s just not in their interest to do that when they could afford to survive through this and we don’t. They’ve already won the logic of the free market in a bloodthirsty, capital-centric world then surely they earned their superiority, and their place as the true, deserving heirs of the Earth reborn. Looking through their eyes, it’s just natural selection.
This is a post created to showcase the solidarity of Vietnamese artists with the Palestinians through the hashtag #VIETNAMwithHandala. The movement is still relatively obscure but is getting more and more attention from the Vietnamese art community....
Hi all, I’m working on a Solarpunk world building project and I want to know your thoughts on one of the main features of my world. To preface all this and provide some context, my world is an alternate-history with a divergence point sometime in the 2020s. The divergence was caused by a vocal and technically-skilled group of...
I’m not really sure, or, well, at least AI in what people tend to associate with nowadays. I think a solarpunk future is a future where degrowth is a main ethos for the development of the society. AI, as it currently exists, relies on global scale exploitation of not just artists, writers, but also people in the Global South living in abject conditions and are forced to accept mentally and physically damaging jobs to help “AI” to exist in the first place. Using AI, as far as I know, also comes with huge environmental costs simply because of how energy intensive it is to run and train its huge dataset. So the existence of stuffs like ChatGPT or Midjourney is a no go, unless “human ingenuity” could do something like being so cost effective energy wise that technology like that would require way less energy to run, or somehow the colonization of the universe would happen, but for the latter to happen will neccesarily require the kind of economy that centers growth above all else like capitalism.
Imo, Solarpunk technology should be local and open source and easily understandable for communities and individual to use, the factor of being environmentally friendly is also very significant and I don’t think AI infrustructure would guarantee to fullfill those requirements.
That’s the reason I would never understand the obsession with nuclear power or AI techinology of some solarpunk enthusiasts. These are all infrastrcutures that requires a degree of centralization of human and resouces, which drastically constrasts what solarpunk should be about. A solarpunk future is not fully automated luxury communism, but a low tech communism that still guarantees the well being of all. Low tech does not exist simply because of accessiblity, but also the capital E Environment.
Furthermore, the basic issue of human creativity being ripped off is also a thing that should be addressed. I don’t belive in intellectual property, but we shouldn’t need IP to protect arists from exploitation without consents. A solarpunk world is a world that respect human autonomy, so if an artist do not consent for their works to be used in training AI, their wish will be respectfully followed through. As an artist in art communities, I don’t think that many people are fond of submitting their works to an AI so that others could code a drawing, so the dataset required for AI would not be enough, thus render AI useless. That’s just creatives though, maybe scientists and researchers would hold different views? If that’s the case, circle back to the question of energy intensity inherent in AI technology.
That’s just AI in a very specific sense though, I don’t know what constitute an AI. If AIs are just machines that can beat human at chess, or to predict patterns of local weather, or regulate irrugation system for farming, or organize documents, then sure, there’s no reason why it should not exist in a solarpunk future. But the existence of such machinery should be put under scrutiny. If an AI could not be operated without significant environment impact, it has to go. Impressive techonology is not just codes, it’s also very real, very material hardware that possess impressive processing power, and with it, impressive amount of energy, resources, and human power.
To address your AI specificly: I think your AI is HUGE, and I’m not confident about its place in a solarpunk world. Your AI would exist in some versions of communism, but solarpunk? I don"t think so.
Thank you, I’m intending to do more re-post like this :“) I’m not really familiar with how lemmy works so I think there should be cautions with how I interact with small instances like ours, but it seems to be fine :”)
Btw, really appropriate usage of that expression in this context, even though it’s not exactly what Vietnamese would use.
I really hate how privileged people in the cities would jump at the opportunity to criticize the migrant workers looking for better chances in foreign countries. They don’t use harsh words against the government and corrupted authorities for facilitating the situation that allows this phenomenon to happen in the first place, or the predatory labor broker business for employing shading tactics, or domestic factories with draconian, oppressive policy against workers in the homeland, or foreign enterprises for praying on the desperate migrant workers. Noo, it’s never been something outside of average people’s control that cause this to happen, it’s always due to their lack of nationalism and refusal to build the career for themselves on the soil of motherland.
To be clear, it’s always fanatic nationalists who hold on to this kind of hateful rhetoric. Some people still look back at the heroic past of Vietnamese resistance force against imperialist powers in 20th century and the victory our ancestors have gained that pave the path for our independence, and believes that people who are not willing to sacrifice everything for the nations don’t deserve that liberation. They hold that views to look down upon the migrants from Africa and Middle East, for fleeing the country instead of staying and building/fighting for the better. It’s no surprise that when the tragedy of deceased Vietnamese migrants on the Essex truck came to light, they’d jump at the first opportunity to berate the poor souls for daring to leave the great Viet.
And again, it’s a fringe idea in Vietnam and most people still understand the complicated nature of the situation.
Anyway, I’ve been reading Al Jazeera for updates on Israel-Palestine conflicts but remain skeptical of its journalism due to the fact that the publication is funded by Qatari government. But this is a really good article about a subject that I’m quite familiar with.
A brief article by Tommy Lawson discussing how an anarchist’s understanding of nationalism must be nuanced in the context of imperialism, and how simplistic devotion to the rejection of nationalist ideal of oppressed people would weaken the global resistance against reactionary forces.
The urban area project in area 10B by Do Gia Capital Co., Ltd. is pouring land directly, without embankments, into the sea area in the buffer zone of the World Natural Heritage of Ha Long Bay - special protection zone no. 2 in Ha Long Bay....
Ah no, I just used Google Translate and rectified any errors in translation that didn’t make sense or have weird expression (There are some Vietnamese sentences that does not share the same structure with normal English grammar), which is just about 10% of the entire article. I really don’t deserve any credit for this really :")
Here in Vietnam we’re losing winter very quickly, it’s getting warmer and shorter every year. Winter is the only time in Vietnam when weather is mildly comfortable compared to the rest of the year so losing it sucks so hard.
Là người dân Việt Nam, chúng ta rất hiểu nỗi đau dưới của chủ nghĩa thực dân khi mà tổ tiên của ta hứng chịu sự áp bức, dày xéo và bóc lột được ngụy tạo dưới những mỹ từ của sự văn minh và khai sáng. Chúng ta biết chúng đã sử dụng những lý do gì...
This is a short article featuring an interview with a very talented Vietnamese artist, Nachi. She is known for drawing comics that spans various topics, such as astrology, supernatural, science fiction, slice of life. A significant portion of her comics is both informative and educational without being overly didactic. Notably,...
Yes, she even recently released an oneshort called Du Linh Ký. Fun fact: I have one copy of Mùa hè bất tận along with that comic’s postcard and artprints!
This is a translated Korean article belonging to a 4-part seires written by Saebom Kim that goes in depth into Samsung’s environmental and labor violations in Vietnam....
A very interesting video from “What is politics” aims to explain why most communist revolutions happened in third-world countries, including Vietnam, and how the goal of such revolutions was actually rapid industrialization in the face of hardships imposed by imperialist powers, not communism as we commonly think....
I wonder how long would it take for low income Vietnamese citizens in urban areas to have to live in micro apartments like people in Hong Kong. But as it turns out, we’ve already arrived that point....
Yeah, there have been a lot of cases in which the condominiums, especially ones designed for poor folks, catched on fire. They are not sleep boxes by any means, but the fire hazard inherent in cheap housing is not to be underestimated. Lots of people have died because of the lack of infrastructure that could help tenants escape the fire, so I simply could not imgine how such infrasstructure could exist in these places, nor how landlords who build these would ever have the intention of installing one in the first place. It’s bewildering to see the sheer length that landlords would be willing to take to avoid having to follow through fire safety regulations just to save a little money for themselves.
And by the way, while these people have to crawl into rat’s hut every night, there are still a lot of abandoned apartments that no one lives in,. Capitalism is so fine.
And yeah, paying rent to live in Vans might be the one of the most dystopian shits I’ve ever heard of,
Legend??? The green mark indicated the area in which the spikes are installed, the yellow mark indicates the area in which sand pirates operate illegally, and yes, the red mark indicates the location of lands being collapsed to the river
Very interesting. As far as I know, there is no such slogan that achieved the level of popularity to the point that people would actively chant on street protest, probably because we don’t have strong history of organizing protest to push for social changes due to state’s strict censroship of political subversion in mainstream media and lack of organizing experience from agitators. I could only think of catchphrases like “Save Tam Đảo”- symbolising the recent movement focusing on opposing selling indigenous forests and lands to corporation to build resorts and golf fields, and “Tôi đồng ý” (I agree) which is the campaign to gather support for the legalization of gay marriages. However, those movements doesn’t have popular support and only popular to middle class young people in urban areas. Their impacts are limited on social media space and rarely are people angry enough to bring those issues to the street.
Meanwhile, the most oppressed of people do not have the political power nor resorces like access to progressive Internet space. Their agitation often doesn’t have a common catchphrase (as far as I know) other than direct concern about the material conditions in which they are subjected to, like about wages, insurance, legal representatives, justic from scams from banks,… Often time, people who have the power to amplify the struggle of poor people (i.e progressive middle class younglings) do not care and often treat their attempts to destablize the status quo (strikes, protests, smashing factories) as reactionary or due to the influence of American spies. The consequence of this lack of solidarity is that although opressed people movements are most effective to achieve the material goal (states reconsidering compensation for dispossed lands, concession of capitalists to raise wages or add benefits,…), they are often fragmented and do not pose serious challenges to the status quo, while more privileged people are tend to be more moderate in their movement but they have much greater reach and attract far more attention. Both can not do much in the current state. I’m also guilty of this, I’m still not brave enough to address the concern of the opressed enough for fear of, you know, being jailed.
However, I do believe that considering the world and Vietnam is heading to shit, more and more middle class people would regconize our common struggles and effectively fight back the system.
Side note: My knowledge is limited to only modern time, I’m not very aware of how Vietnameses in the colonial time would organize and what slogans they raised. I think that Vietnamese grassroots social movements during that era, albeit heavily limited under to French colonial rule, were much more lively, but more research would be needed :")
Why billionaires should take the lead and declare their own emissions cutting targets (theconversation.com)
Vietnam with Handala - Việt Nam sát cánh cùng Handala
This is a post created to showcase the solidarity of Vietnamese artists with the Palestinians through the hashtag #VIETNAMwithHandala. The movement is still relatively obscure but is getting more and more attention from the Vietnamese art community....
Thoughts on background AIs in a Solarpunk world?
Hi all, I’m working on a Solarpunk world building project and I want to know your thoughts on one of the main features of my world. To preface all this and provide some context, my world is an alternate-history with a divergence point sometime in the 2020s. The divergence was caused by a vocal and technically-skilled group of...
Let's revisit some images in areas where Sun Group's project is under way.
Save Tam Đảo is an Environmental Conservation Organization in Vietnam....
In Vietnam, risking all in the search for a better life (www.aljazeera.com)
Risk, rewards and remittances in Vietnam 's Nghe An province...
Palestine, platitudes and silence (theanarchistlibrary.org)
A brief article by Tommy Lawson discussing how an anarchist’s understanding of nationalism must be nuanced in the context of imperialism, and how simplistic devotion to the rejection of nationalist ideal of oppressed people would weaken the global resistance against reactionary forces.
Vùng đệm vịnh Hạ Long bị san lấp làm biệt thự, nhà liền kề? - Buffer zone in Ha Long Bay is filled for the construction of villas and row houses? (nld.com.vn)
The urban area project in area 10B by Do Gia Capital Co., Ltd. is pouring land directly, without embankments, into the sea area in the buffer zone of the World Natural Heritage of Ha Long Bay - special protection zone no. 2 in Ha Long Bay....
Earth Just Had the Hottest 12-Month Span in Recorded History (www.scientificamerican.com)
Archived copy of the article
Đoàn kết với nhân dân Palestine! (slrpnk.net)
Là người dân Việt Nam, chúng ta rất hiểu nỗi đau dưới của chủ nghĩa thực dân khi mà tổ tiên của ta hứng chịu sự áp bức, dày xéo và bóc lột được ngụy tạo dưới những mỹ từ của sự văn minh và khai sáng. Chúng ta biết chúng đã sử dụng những lý do gì...
Comic teen: Nachi sáng tác truyện tranh từ trăn trở của bản thân! (muctim.tuoitre.vn)
This is a short article featuring an interview with a very talented Vietnamese artist, Nachi. She is known for drawing comics that spans various topics, such as astrology, supernatural, science fiction, slice of life. A significant portion of her comics is both informative and educational without being overly didactic. Notably,...
INTIFADA CHO ĐẾN CHIẾN THẮNG! – Vì sao đó là điều mà người cộng sản kêu gọi? (vnmarxist.com)
This is a Vietnamese translation of an article titled: “Why the communists call for ‘Intifada until victory!'”....
Hiểm họa từ nhà máy Samsung toàn cầu – Phần ① – Danger from global Samsung factories - Part 1. (vnmarxist.com)
This is a translated Korean article belonging to a 4-part seires written by Saebom Kim that goes in depth into Samsung’s environmental and labor violations in Vietnam....
Why Every Communist Country is a One-Party Dictatorship - Tại sao mọi quốc gia cộng sản đều có nền chính trị độc đảng. (yt.artemislena.eu)
A very interesting video from “What is politics” aims to explain why most communist revolutions happened in third-world countries, including Vietnam, and how the goal of such revolutions was actually rapid industrialization in the face of hardships imposed by imperialist powers, not communism as we commonly think....
Bên trong 'hộp ngủ' 2 m2 ở Sài Gòn - Sleeping box, a new type of shelter for low income people in Sai Gon. (vnexpress.net)
I wonder how long would it take for low income Vietnamese citizens in urban areas to have to live in micro apartments like people in Hong Kong. But as it turns out, we’ve already arrived that point....
Ngọt - CHUYỂN KÊNH (sản phẩm này không phải là thuốc) (yt.artemislena.eu)
Good song and good band :")
Bãi cọc trên sông chống 'cát tặc - A tale about the struggle of local people against sand pirates, and the companies responsible for their formation. (vnexpress.net)
A Tale of the Valiant Fight of Local People in Huong Tra District, Hue City Against Sand Pirates....