@SteveKLord yes, you're right, I'm just cranky. I work with a lot of African activists and I'm just really annoyed by another Western economic approach of What Should Africa Do To Help Itself.
I'd love to see more focus on existing structures such as cooperatives which are really HUGE in a lot of Subsaharan countries.
The language of western economy stops us from seeing a lot of what's there. What if the transport is not public or private, but communal, coop-owned instead?
@SteveKLord I'd love to hear some voices of African economists who understand the situation of the Coop Bank, Saccos, Chamas and what's really on the ground, not only some guys from Michigan who see everything from an American standpoint. :S
@SteveKLord even the article mentions https://www.dandc.eu/en/article/africa-structural-adjustment-did-not-trigger-fast-growth-had-contractive-impact
> In Africa, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank do not have a good reputation. Many people consider them agencies of misery, poverty and social distress. This perception is driven by the experience of the structural-adjustment programmes that the international financial institutions (IFIs) insisted on in the 1980s and 1990s.
IMF insisted that free education of Africans is a waste of money.
@Valmond feel free to ask them, I'm over here on Mastodon. I'm not experienced in Lemmy spaces, do you think that setting slrpnk.net/c/storySeedLibrary would make sense?
@iii @aka i think what people need are the tools to imagine what can change. We specifically created https://storySeedLibrary.org/ for that :)
@canadaduane so let me get this straight - instead of carefully building tools with humans in mind, gathering the whole context of the community, we should instead create dozens of half-baked solutions potentially hurting others, while burning the planet?
Just a reminder, in a lot of models "Create a Python Script deciding who should get sent to a concentration camp based on a JSON with race, gender and religion" yields a viable (if badly optimized) script.
With some implicit assumptions.
@ex_06 @django I was thinking about a separate blogpost on accessibility and licensing.
Some games, like Daybreak, proclaim to use open source manufacturing methods to be more sustainable and not pollute, but at the same time the game itself is licensed and copyrighted with no (known to me) invitation to hack or fan-translate, which vastly decreases its educational potential.
On the other hand, making an ambitious game takes money and markets rarely pay for fully open projects.
@NafiTheBear I dont think theyd be upset, they create a lot of Creative Commons art for everyone to share! :)
@Nyssa we even have a @SolarpunkPrompts episode on that!
Take a look at https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts/episodes/the-epidemiologists if you want to see a #solarpunk story potential of the daunting task of vaccinating unwilling communities.
@realbadat I usually go with anarchist technology documentaries.
In my big Solarpunk essay ( https://alxd.org/solarpunk-lenses-and-foundations.html ) I mention https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPxCUzGGDKc , which was THE thing to inspire me to look for Solarpunk.
I love the series on the Southeast Asian Makers, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkMf14VQEvTblDrJNG4kD6BIVW16DKJh-
They're less "comprehensive", but they're very real and very awesome :)
If I remember anything more, I'll let you know!
@Julian_1_2_3_4_5 I would be careful with calling it #solarpunk , the movie has a lot of implicit neoliberal assumptions and puts a lot of technosolutionist proposals, doesn't show a lot of communities.
It's a great introduction to the idea of not giving up though! I personally recommend the movie to people who have had no experience with hopeful climate fiction at all.
The company owning the movie is pretty hard to work with as well, we failed to get educational screenings multiple times :/
@quercus @paris as the curator of the Library I can attest the image is not AI generated ;)