TerryTPlatypus

As the title says, what are all of the different futurisms, or like imaginings of the future?

So far in my sphere, i know of a few: solarpunk, cyberpunk, retrofuturism, and transhumanism.

• solarpunk: green new decolonialized future where we use technology, natural systems, and cultual wisdom to live sustainably and in harmony with the Earth and others

• cyberpunk: dystopia where technology is capable of many things, but is used in all the wrong ways. Megacorps control everything, and tech is ubiquitous

• transhumanism: future where humans can overcome their linitations through technology, and we also delve into deeper questions of how technology and its use affects people

• retrofuturism (i'm probably thinking more of atompunk, help me here???): Star Trek-esque, optimistic, 1900s view of the future with the typical flying cars, space hotels, and luxury comforts in a utopic setting

Can you guys think of any others? And if i'm wrong, please do correct me

I was thinking about this a litle bit. If we are enabling bootstrapping, shouldn't we do it in such a way where all the materials are easily acceesible to people?

I haven't fully thought this out, but could one way to self sufficiency be through organic chemistry and plastics engineering? Likw think about it. Plastics can be made in a variety of ways and styles, woth different properties, not to mention they can easily be formed from carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, etc, all of which are very easily accessible. I can acknowledge that there are a lot of risks, such as filtering out dangerous plastics or minimizing their use, as well as addressing plastic pollution, but if we can do it in the right way, we could have a viabke path towards common people/bootstrapped l collectives being able to make their own stuff cheaply.

Please corect me if I am wrong, and thank you for reading!

It may be a long article, but it goes in depth about what the movement was doing. Give it a read!

What advice would you give to someone who is trying to teach themselves software development skills? I'm doing that right now, and I'm finding it easy to understand, yet difficult to implement in computer code. I want to move onto more advanced stuff, but I feel that I don't have enough experience quite yet. What skills/courses would you recommend I take? How did you get better on your coding journey? Any tips to make the process go faster? Thanks in advance!

I was listening to the radio, and I found this podcast called Democracy Vibe Check. It's about civics and being active in your comunity. Give it a listen!

The episode I was listening to was about how to nurture your community, mainly through volunteering. An interesting few renarks I heard from the episode was that you can volunteer more than time and money. You can also volunteer your talent and experiences to help out a certain group of people. Volunteering is also a great way to get new skills that can be used elsewhere in your career.

This has made me think a little more deeply about how I can volunteer, and ehat strengths I can bring to volunteering. I hope this helps some of you as well, too!

I think this video is a pretty interesting look into highlighting larger issues of being a minority in an online space. Oftentimes, we never really get the opportunity to represent ourselves online, and this has a bunch of issues. I know, especially in interacting in online spaces where race is never explicitly brought up...

cross-posted from: https://yiffit.net/post/21886

An oldie but a goodie. Artist: https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/kacey/

Hello, Reddit refugee here...I'm still wondering how to use Lemmy well, because it's not Reddit, but I keep on trying to use it like Reddit. So how do you use Lemmy well without being a lurker? And how are you unlearning your bad social media habits?

Thank you in advance

This is an academic seminar which takes a look at post-scarcity. I suggest listening when doing something mundane.

In the talk, Brenanav goes over the main tenets of current post-scarcity research, as well as concerning economic trends over labor productivity and automation. He then gives some suggestions on how we must change our perspective of work, and at the least, start thinking about changing our economy from one of growth.

Some of the interesting pints I found from the article were that

1. jobs aren't being destroyed, but job creation is slowing down dramatically

2. despite automation and productivity increasing, economic growth has been slowing dramatically, and this has resulted in a feedback loop where firms hold onto money more and more, thereby negatively affecting communities by disinvesting in them

3. There is something called jobless recovery -- in the United States, Brenanav noted that after each economic recession it took longer and longer to get back to the same level of unemployment as in a boom time