Your father is not coming on anything!

Not quite. I think you may be referring to their genome transplant. They used a natural cell and completely replaced the original genome with synthesized DNA. Whereas this project did not rely on existing cellular machinery.

These are all great suggestions and I concur. Education will be much more individualized. I prefer a competency (some folks here use ‘results based’ which is analogous, also sometimes called ‘strengths based’) focused education process.

Also, education will no longer be seen as a thing separate from life/work. Education isn’t something you finish then go to work, it’s a thing you incorporate into your whole life. Solarpunk society values simplicity but solarpunk society is more complex and demands a bit more from people. The solarpunk dream is that these demands are balanced by a healthy reward of a functional supporting social system.

So empowering! 🤗

They will never give you the education needed to overthrow them.

I’m going to try to revive a dead post by commenting on my own experiences playing. Based on the upvotes, others seem interested too. Let’s see if it works

I had a good crew of friends while in grad school in the 00’s. This was a super smart crew of bio-nerds so when I heard about this game on Slashdot (or maybe Memepool, can’t be sure) I knew I had the right crowd to try it.

It was a successful session and we developed a lot of those inside jokes that tight social groups do.

I tried again years later with another set of friends and it fell flat. Not a disaster but it was quickly abandoned for lack of general interest. This was also a crowd of high-wattage personalities so i still wonder what the difference was.

That’s what prompted my question. Just seeking scene setting tips that might increase the chance the game goes well again.

Nice vision! Please keep advocating this viewpoint to non-insider audiences. It’s a very realistic extrapolation from today to the near-future. It tickles me because it is also hopeful.

We are building these things so shouldn’t we think really hard, all of us, about how they are built? Everyone is a stakeholder in the future.

Go! That’s an awesome thing to be doing. We need more diverse options like these. You are doing the right work.

Indignez-vous!

And LinkedIn posts.

It was a quick read and the entire book can be summed up as generational pandering.

Very true, but you have to try anyway. Small changes grow large over time.

A solarpunk future will need more plants of all kinds. I’m building and testing a (solar-powered naturally) temporary immersion bioreactor (TIB) that is suitable for mass propagation of numerous different plant species.

TIB are especially suited for multiplication of woody species. I don’t think anyone would disagree that a massive tree planting effort will require efficient ways to produce saplings.

It is a practical gospel of hope. I work in tech and I hate what we have done with tech. Let’s do better! This is the opposite of dropping out, it is digging in and making positive change informed by a humane and rational value system.

So, no, not hippie redux. But any old hippies are certainly welcome.

Not much love here for the Pi Zero W. I love them for being so flipping cute. I have a couple I use when I am learning a new system admin tool or service and I need to be able to let it run undisturbed to observe stability and function.

Lately I am learning MQTT so am using one as a broker to manage some homemade smart devices.

If I can ever find one in stock, i want a couple of Zero 2 for similar projects that would benefit from the extra oomph.

Deep cut from the vault…

Lovely ideas.

As a start, I’d like to see fewer but more repairable appliances. The technology of the toaster hasn’t changed since my grandparents were setting up their first kitchen. One of the grandkids should have received that toaster as an inheritance.

We treat the wrong things as disposable.

I’ve lately made a fun game out of seeing my daily screen time average drop steadily. The decline in average daily doom scrolling has correlated directly with an increase in my dating frequency and general social activity.

There’s, like, a whole world out there!

Exactly, what they do isn’t exactly research in most cases. It’s product development in kist cases. Big difference

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

You’d think hiring someone fully remote then changing the terms of the job would qualify but I m only a bird lawyer.