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NASA Invites Stakeholders to STMD’s LIFT-1 Industry Forum nasa.gov/general/stmd-lift-1-i… #NASA #General #GameChangingDevelopmentProgram #LunarSurfaceInnovationConsortium #LunarSurfaceInnovationInitiative #SpaceTechnologyMissionDirectorate #Technology #TechnologyForLivingInSpace

NASA Invites Stakeholders to Space Tech LIFT-1 Industry Day

NASA is hosting a virtual industry day to introduce the agency's Lunar Infrastructure Foundational Technologies (LIFT-1) demonstration Request for Information (RFI).
Stefanie Payne (NASA)
#technology #NASA #general #spacetechnologymissiondirectorate #gamechangingdevelopmentprogram #lunarsurfaceinnovationconsortium #lunarsurfaceinnovationinitiative #technologyforlivinginspace

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NASA Seeks Input for Future Lunar Surface Resource Utilization Demo nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/nas… #NASA #SpaceTechnologyMissionDirectorate #GameChangingDevelopmentProgram #LunarSurfaceInnovationConsortium #LunarSurfaceInnovationInitiative #NASADirectorates

NASA Seeks Input for Future Lunar Surface Resource Utilization Demo

To support ISRU technology maturation, NASA issued a Request for Information (RFI) on Nov. 6 to formulate its future Lunar Infrastructure Foundational Technologies (LIFT-1) demonstration.
Stefanie Payne (NASA)
#NASA #spacetechnologymissiondirectorate #gamechangingdevelopmentprogram #nasadirectorates #lunarsurfaceinnovationconsortium #lunarsurfaceinnovationinitiative

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NASA Stennis Compiles Framework for the Future to Guide Center Forward nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-ste… #NASA #StennisSpaceCenter

NASA Stennis Compiles Framework for the Future to Guide Center Forward - NASA

The NASA Stennis Strategic Plan 2024-2028, available online at nasa-stennis-strategic-plan-2024-2028.pdf, outlines goals and objectives in five critical areas
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#NASA #stennisspacecenter

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One Year of Spritacular Science! science.nasa.gov/get-involved/… #NASA #CitizenScience #EarthScience #Heliophysics

One Year of Spritacular Science! - NASA Science

Sprites, those beguiling electrical flashes of light above thunderstorms, raise so many questions: Why do they take the shapes they do? What conditions in the upper atmosphere trigger them? How do sprites affect Earth’s global electric circuit, and w…
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#NASA #citizenscience #earthscience #heliophysics

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EmulationStation Desktop Edition v2.2 brings huge additions gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/emul…

#Emulation #FOSS #OpenSource #RetroGaming

EmulationStation Desktop Edition v2.2 brings huge additions

EmulationStation Desktop Edition is a frontend for browsing and launching games from your multi-platform game collection, it's pretty great and the latest version 2.2 is out now with loads of improvements and new system additions.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#opensource #foss #Retrogaming #emulation

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Twelve years ago a mass movement shaped by the ideas and practices of anarchism erupted out of New York City's Zuccotti Park. Taking inspiration from the Arab Spring, the Green Wave of Iran, and the Indignados Movement of Spain, participants in Occupy Wall Street boldly experimented with participatory democracy and mutual aid in public spaces.

Next week we're excited to host Marisa Holmes, one of the originators of Occupy Wall Street, for a conversation about her new book on the movement, "Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice." She'll be joined by author and media studies scholar @ntnsndr for a lively discussion of Occupy's experimental structure and the lessons we can learn looking back on its successes and failures.

Register for free and grab the book at firestorm.coop/events/3097-mar…. Not sure if you can make the event? Sign up anyway and you'll receive a link to the recorded conversation when we post it!

A graphic promoting a virtual author event with Marisa Holmes on November 15th at 7pm ET. The image features the cover of Holmes's book "Organizing Occupy Wall Street" over a dark, computer-generated background depicting a network made up of lights connected by thin bright lines.

Marisa Holmes on Organizing Occupy Wall Street

Marisa Holmes, one of the originators of Occupy Wall Street in NYC, shares her new book about how the movement was organized and—in conversation with media studies scholar Nathan Schneider—explores the lessons it holds for the future.
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Before The Storm

#BelieveInFilm #KodakTMax100 #HC110 #Ligero69 w/ #Mamiya65mm #Panorama

Black and white panorama photograph of a Dutch beach looking southwards at large rain clouds approaching, dunes on the left, North Sea on the right.
#believeinfilm #kodaktmax100 #hc110 #ligero69 #mamiya65mm #panorama
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NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole nasa.gov/missions/chandra/nasa… #NASA #ChandraXRayObservatory #BlackHoles #Galaxies #JamesWebbSpaceTelescopeJWST #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter #TheUniverse

NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole - NASA

Astronomers have discovered the most distant black hole yet seen in X-rays, using NASA telescopes. The black hole is at an early stage of growth that had
Lee Mohon (NASA)
#NASA #theuniverse #jameswebbspacetelescopejwst #galaxies #marshallspaceflightcenter #blackholes #chandraxrayobservatory

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hi!
a yellow bird hanging upside down from a thin branch and looking straight ahead with its beak pointing slightly downward. both deep black eyes visible on either side of its head giving it a somewhat goofy expression on its face.

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Three Trapped Tigers farewell show 😭😭😭

But other than that sad fact, solid lineup, just bought a ticket. The lineup so far is more how it used to be, before it became more "metal" over the last 2 or 3 years.

#ArcTanGent #ThreeTrappedTigers

A lineup poster with the first bands announced for ArcTanGent Festival 2024.
#arctangent #threetrappedtigers
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Eugen Rochko
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Oh, have they announced the bands for next year already?
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マリオ (Mario Menti)
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@Gargron yes, first announcement this morning! Plenty more still to come though (e.g. no headliners announced yet).
@Eugen Rochko
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Next year will be my third year in a row. I try to keep the #ArcTanGent hashtag alive but to be fair the connectivity there is rather lacking.
#arctangent
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マリオ (Mario Menti)
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@Gargron Haha, yes mobile coverage is notoriously bad (almost as bad as the weather)... I’ve been to every single one since the very first one, except the last 2 years. But will be back next year! 😁
@Eugen Rochko

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A thought-provoking piece about how therapists are handling the climate crisis. “Human well-being has historically been linked to participation in a healthy ecocultural context. Living within a context that is obviously unhealthful is painful.” nytimes.com/2023/10/21/magazin…

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Path of Titans' Pounce Update brings new dino combat mechanics gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/path…

#PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck

Path of Titans' Pounce Update brings new dino combat mechanics

Path of Titans is steadily building up to be a really good-looking dinosaur survival MMO, and with the Pounce Update the combat should be a lot more exciting now too.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #SteamDeck #pcgaming

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65 Years Ago: NASA Formally Establishes The Space Task Group nasa.gov/history/65-years-ago-… #NASA #NASAHistory

65 Years Ago: NASA Formally Establishes The Space Task Group - NASA

On Oct. 1, 1958, NASA, the newly established agency to lead America’s civilian space program, officially began operations, with T. Keith Glennan and Hugh L.
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Heroic Games Launcher 2.10.0 released with plenty of essential fixes, a crucial tool for Steam Deck and Linux desktop gamers gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/hero…

#SteamDeck #Linux #Gaming

Heroic Games Launcher 2.10.0 released with plenty of essential fixes

Heroic Games Launcher has a big UI upgrade coming in the 3.0 update which isn't quite ready yet, but they have just released Heroic Games Launcher 2.10.0 which has some essential fixes for this popular multi-platform game manager.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #gaming #SteamDeck
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Henry
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I need to check this out, might have to blow the dust off my surface pro (it has mint installed). It’s good to see how far gaming on Linux has come 😊

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23-07: Best Practices for Fabrication of Microelectronic Devices nasa.gov/general/23-07-best-pr… #NASA #General #NASAEngineeringAndSafetyCenter

23-07: Best Practices for Fabrication of Microelectronic Devices - NASA

The NESC has released a technical bulletin for the Avionics community.
Meagan Chappell (NASA)
#NASA #general #nasaengineeringandsafetycenter

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So there is an anime airing right now called "The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You" about a dude who has 100 soul mates he falls in love with and starts dating, so I was curious if it stayed committed to the bit and I was not disappointed

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RPG 'Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness' is set to get a big DLC and free upgrade gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/rpg-…

#RPG #IndieGame #Linux

RPG 'Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness' is set to get a big DLC and free upgrade

Inspired by classic isometric RPGs, Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness released back in 2022 and the developers are coming back for a DLC expansion and a free update.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #indiegame #rpg

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Snacktorio: a factory-cooking simulator for feeding unspeakable horrors gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/snac…

#IndieGame #Linux #PCGaming #SteamDeck

Snacktorio: a factory-cooking simulator for feeding unspeakable horrors

Not satisfied enough by creating the chilled beekeeping sim APICO, and their plans for frog-breeding in Mudborne, TNgineers recently announced Snacktorio, a factory-cooking simulator where you must satisfy the appetites of unspeakable horrors.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #indiegame #SteamDeck #pcgaming

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Was very pleased to find this among all the other classics right at the front.
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov as a hardcover book. The cover is red with white lines and triangles. In the background are other books by Jules Verne and Charles Dickens.
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iChas
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And there’s a brilliant opera, Der Meister und Margarita, music and libretto by York Höller that I saw in about 1990. Conducted by Pierre Boulez. A surreal evening!

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CodeWeavers are hiring for a Wine / Proton developer gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/code…

#Jobs #Wine #Proton #FOSS

CodeWeavers are hiring for a Wine / Proton developer

If you're a programmer looking for your next challenge - how about this! CodeWeavers are hiring a full-time position for a developer to work on Wine, Proton and their own CrossOver product.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#foss #Jobs #wine #proton
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Ole V. S. Mortense 🇩🇰🇪🇺
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Ole V. S. Mortense 🇩🇰🇪🇺
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I REALLY wanted sign up for that, if I were only quallified. saddly I’m not nearly smart enough. 😀

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One of the (many) good sides of teaching: you get plenty of time to delve into topics and develop your own material (and code).

I now want to share part of my materials as a #DataScience textbook online:
florian-huber.github.io/data_s…
(work in progress)

All materials and source code is on #github: github.com/florian-huber/data_…

And a pdf version can be found on #zenodo: zenodo.org/records/10074475

#opensource #Openscience

Introduction to Data Science book cover

GitHub - florian-huber/data_science_course: Introduction to data science (for not yet scientists)

Introduction to data science (for not yet scientists) - GitHub - florian-huber/data_science_course: Introduction to data science (for not yet scientists)
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#opensource #openscience #Github #datascience #zenodo
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@foaylward installation of Python from the first-party installer works well for Windows and Mac.

I know that veteran programmers love environments, but this is just another confusing abstraction that students have to understand. Better to say "hey, if you want pandas, do `pip install pandas`" and it will just be there. I don't think the 3 conda steps starting at florian-huber.github.io/data_s… are going to make any student say "I love python"

4. How to use this book (… if you ask us) — Data Science for (not yet) scientists

florian-huber.github.io
@Frank Aylward
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Frank Aylward
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@cthoyt oh I see - yes I can see how that would work too. I teach a bioinformatics class on an HPC running Linux and so I've found conda is simplest. But I do have a full week of logging in/ conda initialization in the beginning to get everyone started.
@Charles Tapley Hoyt

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Stepping stones. Cumbria.

Canon AE-1 Program
Kodak Portra 400
Helios 44M 58mm/2

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm

A woman (my wife) dressed in a red sweater and plaid skirt, wearing a black backpack, is crossing a river on stepping stones almost entirely submerged by water. She is using an umbrella to touch the next stone as she leans forward.
#35mm #filmphotography #analogphotography #believeinfilm
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Ethan Black
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Looks great! The color looks more vibrant to me than your previous shots.

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🇩🇪 Germany's Microsoft bill: €209M in 2022, up from €43.5M in 2015! 📈

Despite public goals around #opensource, vendor lock-in increased, raising cost & losing #digitalSovereignty.

Time to embrace #Nextcloud and regain control:

nextcloud.com/


Nextcloud - Open source content collaboration platform

The most popular open source content collaboration platform for tens of millions of users at thousands of organizations across the globe
Nextcloud
#opensource #Nextcloud #digitalsovereignty
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Can you please provide source for that financial statements?

(I would like to compare that with Slovakia. Last time I've checked, one of the figures was to the tune of approx. 30M€ for three years.)

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Nextcloud 📱☁️💻
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@kohelet How's it going? Well, we hope! Which method did you choose for your Nextcloud installation, out of curiosity??
@Collei :verified:

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Red Aurora over Italy

Image Credit & Copyright: Giorgia Hofer

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231106.ht… #APOD

The night sky over a valley is shown complete with the central band of the Milky Way Galaxy crossing up from the lower left. On the right the sky just over the hill glows an unusual red: aurora.

APOD: 2023 November 6 – Red Aurora over Italy

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
apod.nasa.gov
#APOD

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Red Aurora over Italy apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231106.ht… #APOD

APOD: 2023 November 6 – Red Aurora over Italy

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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#APOD

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This image was in my head this morning and so now it is on the computer
The girls from Mean Girls saying "Get in, loser. We're rewriting the entire userland in Rust"

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When I was a child in the 80s, the night sky was filled with stars. And those stars inspired us to imagine other worlds & ask really big questions.

Decades later, the night sky looks like a much lonelier place. Light pollution is increasing & I fear we may lose the ability to be awed by looking up & recognizing our place in the universe.

I don’t know about others, but I sure miss the stars. Image: Luke Stackpoole via Unsplash

person standing near body of water during aurora northern sky. Image: Luke Stackpoole via Unsplash
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One of my neighbours just sent this around on social media. This is my life! hehehe!

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Discord Now Officially Ships On Flathub!! #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/XrO-8V_Te_c

Discord Now Officially Ships On Flathub!!

Discord is kind of a mess on Linux but very recently they started officially shipping on Flathub, does this mean Linux and Wayland problems will be addressed...
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#linux #YouTube

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tweet from KWholesaler: I just had a 30 minute conversation with this AI and I am… rattled to say the least. Come with me on a dark journey… 1/?? Image: A farmhouse sound wheel

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Path through the countryside. Cumbria.

Canon AE-1 Program
Kodak Portra 400
Helios 44M 58mm/2

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm

A road covered in orange leaves, framed by old stone walls covered in moss, with green but yellowing trees on either side.
#35mm #filmphotography #analogphotography #believeinfilm
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Ric
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Ric
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you seem to be really enjoying Cumbria specifically. If you don't mind a somewhat terrifying drive, look up Hardknott Pass. It's Britain's steepest road and has lots of insane corners, most notably a hairpin turn where if you come off of the road, you're not going to be getting back on to it again (I nearly died there myself the first time I drove it, in a clapped out Ford S-Max, pitch black and heavy rain!), but there's the remains of a roman Fort there which is a must-see!

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@Joyce Donahue
@Joyce Donahue
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"... and I will say unto them, 'Yeet, you evildoers! I know you not!'"

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This is not so far fetched!

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It turns out that students’ test scores rise with their parents’ incomes. 🤔

nytimes.com/interactive/2023/1… #GiftArticle

Percent of SAT test takers who scored 1300 or higher, by income group. Source: The New York Times. Just 2.4% of test takers were from income levels in the bottom 20%. 38% of test takers in the top .1% scored 1300 or higher.

New SAT Data Highlights the Deep Inequality at the Heart of American Education

The differences in how rich and poor children are educated start very early.
Claire Cain Miller (The New York Times)
#giftarticle
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Fessup
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expensive test prep, cumulative advantage of schooling
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A Dangerous Conflation. “We are Jewish writers, artists, and activists who wish to disavow the widespread narrative that any criticism of Israel is inherently antisemitic.” nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

A Dangerous Conflation

We reject antisemitism in all its forms, including when it masquerades as criticism of Zionism or Israel’s policies.
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Travis F W
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Super powerful. In my ignorance, I am moved.

"We call for a ceasefire in Gaza, a solution for the safe return of the hostages in Gaza and Palestinian prisoners in Israel, and an end to Israel’s ongoing occupation. We also call on governments and civil society in the United States and across the West to stand up against the repression of support for Palestine.

And we refuse to allow such urgent, necessary demands to be suppressed in our names. When we say never again, we mean it."

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You always thought that keeping all body parts under the covers was the only way to keep you safe at night. It's only when you bring a furry little monster into your house that you realize that you were right all along.
#Catsunday #CatsOfMastodon #claws
black kitten grabs onto and attacks green socked foot
#CatsOfMastodon #catsunday #claws

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It is no longer #caturday but Nansen explores undeterred. He’s been doing a lot of hiding but that’s fine.
A confident kitty observes his domain.
Tiny kitty face peeking out from curtain next to speaker and tv trolley
Cat off to explore his scratching post
#Caturday

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La famille de novembre s'agrandit !
Petit lapin dodu en bois sur un planche prise dans un étau
Sculptures sur bois : Lapin dodu, Ornythorinque avec un couteau dans le bec, Agneau immolé de l'apocalypse et Loutre

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Still noodling on the dynamics of sustainable and distributive economies. When they shrivel up. When they would predominate.

Inspired by the Wealth Supremacy convo between Marjorie Kelly and @ntnsndr

amateurearthling.org/2023/11/0…

The Math of Ethical Growth - Amateur Earthling

Just and sustainable economic institutions will never dominate, unless they grow faster than their unjust, unsustainable counterparts.
Zane Selvans (Amateur Earthling)
@Nathan Schneider
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Zane Selvans
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I think a policy like that of the German Feed in Tariff for solar PV might work. Meaning, something that starts small and seems innocuous, but grows exponentially, and by the time it's obviously a threat it has built its own durable constituency. A head-on conflict from the very beginning seems... not great.
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Nathan Schneider
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but we have to stop building a coop economy with just piecemeal interventions. We need to build infrastructure for creative futures, not just specific known problems.

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Somecat has got the right idea for this Sunday.

#heatingpad #SilentSunday #caturday #CatsOfMastodon

A tricolor cat is seen from above: she is curled up to rest on a heating pad, pad is underneath a grey fleece blanket with raised sides. Her front legs are outstretched and crossed elegantly, quite a cute sight.
#CatsOfMastodon #Caturday #SilentSunday #heatingpad

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