Black mass with eyes is a fairly popular design, although I can't exactly say what specific artworks has it. Regardless, I think it suits the purpose of this piece fairly well
Thank you, but tbh I intended for him to be "weird-hot", not actually scary, but this is inevitable since frog features just do not mesh well with human anatomy, making the design unintentionally uncanny.
Yeah I seriously do not understand the hatred for very anarchism 101 takes happening in our instance recently. From what I observed, most people just care about clean energy technology and lifestyle without trying to engage in radical discussion about politics. The extent of their political concerns ends at very surface level environmental related issues.
Other social justice problems receive very little attention, just look at every post that is not strictly about environment and you'll see my point. It's such a HUGE shame since every single social justice issue: feminism, racism, state oppression, capitalism, and even environmental exploitation are heavily interconnected, to the point that it's hard to meaningfully solve one thing without extending the critical critiques to/shedding light on other problems.
Meanwhiles more explicitly radical, subversive political sentiments are collectively sneered at, like what the hell? How could you achieve the degrowth ethos inherent in solarpunk movement without discussing alternative mode of production, or stopping giving legitimacy to state-enforced institutions, or abolishing every single hierachy possible? Goddamn watching the reactions to very basic anarchistic notions makes my blood boil. I'm so tired of seeing the replication of lemmy.world politics in this supposedly anarchist instance.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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,
I wish you the best too :")
Thank you, though I'm not sure gorgeous is an adjective I would use to describe it :")
Thank you :")
Black mass with eyes is a fairly popular design, although I can't exactly say what specific artworks has it. Regardless, I think it suits the purpose of this piece fairly well
Gorgeous hatching good lord
Thank you, but tbh I intended for him to be "weird-hot", not actually scary, but this is inevitable since frog features just do not mesh well with human anatomy, making the design unintentionally uncanny.
Thank you :")
Yeah I seriously do not understand the hatred for very anarchism 101 takes happening in our instance recently. From what I observed, most people just care about clean energy technology and lifestyle without trying to engage in radical discussion about politics. The extent of their political concerns ends at very surface level environmental related issues.
Other social justice problems receive very little attention, just look at every post that is not strictly about environment and you'll see my point. It's such a HUGE shame since every single social justice issue: feminism, racism, state oppression, capitalism, and even environmental exploitation are heavily interconnected, to the point that it's hard to meaningfully solve one thing without extending the critical critiques to/shedding light on other problems.
Meanwhiles more explicitly radical, subversive political sentiments are collectively sneered at, like what the hell? How could you achieve the degrowth ethos inherent in solarpunk movement without discussing alternative mode of production, or stopping giving legitimacy to state-enforced institutions, or abolishing every single hierachy possible? Goddamn watching the reactions to very basic anarchistic notions makes my blood boil. I'm so tired of seeing the replication of lemmy.world politics in this supposedly anarchist instance.
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.
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 hope this is not too resources intensive for our instance? @Five@slrpnk.net
Here are some notable comments from Save Tam Đảo under the post: "Chiếc sân của nhà hàng Thiên Đường
"Sun Group
"Con đường giữa rừng nguyên sinh
"Đoạn cuối của con đường bê tông khi mới xong
"Lán của người trông coi cho Sun (Sun Group)
"Toàn cảnh con đường xuyên rừng đau đớn 13 km
"Dòng suối Tây Thiên chưa bao giờ đục như thế này
"Nhà hàng Thiên Đường ngày xưa, đã trở thành lán công nhân ở. Câu chuyện về nhà hàng này cũng nhiều điều hay. Nhưng có lẽ cũng liên quan đến Sun Group
"Con đường bê tông đã để hoang hơn 1 năm nay, và sắp tới Sun sẽ dùng nó để chuyên chở vật liệu
"[Tin liên quan] đại ka này là người ký phê duyệt ĐTM của dự án Tam Đảo 2 của Sun Group và khu đô thị Cần Giờ của Vin vừa ‘được’ nghỉ hưu sớm.
Because I've seen Vietnamese progressive pages disappearing in real time so I try my best to conserve them to the best of my ability.
Bởi vì mình đã chứng kiến các trang Facebook mang tư tưởng ở tiến bộ ở Việt Nam biến mất nên mình sẽ cố gắng để lưu lại chúng ở đây.
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.
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.
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!
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,