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• Presented by @rolltime@freeradical.zone
• Recorded Fri 12 Jul 2024
• Uploaded Fri 22 Nov 2024
• Slides, references & links: https://rollti.me/hope2024

»For more than a year now, "AI" has been the tech world's most expensive obsession.

The scramble to burn money as fast as possible is both unprecedented and utterly familiar - but not every resource is as endless as venture capital funding. AI technology's energy consumption is beginning to approach that of a small country, and it shows no signs of shrinking.

How can we reconcile our hunger to compute with the need to avert ecological devastation? Is it possible for progress and sustainability to coexist? And how can hackers help computers save themselves?

This talk brings a fresh perspective to discussions on the problems, possibilities, and future of the human relationship to computing.»

A steamy water vapor pixel art infographic just dropped 🧖‍♂️

Concept art for Earthen: Dirt Simulator, an upcoming free open-source game about solarpunk gardening & soil life 🌱 https://gitlab.com/vrtxd1/Earthen

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• 🏴‍☠️ License: CC BY Creative Commons Attr. 4.0 Intl. vrtxd
• 🗓️ Tue 8 May 2024

Oxygenic Photosynthesis ☀️ i.e. how most plants use carbon dioxide, water & sunlight to produce carbohydrates & oxygen.

Concept art for Earthen: Dirt Simulator, an upcoming free open-source game about solarpunk gardening & soil life 🌱 https://gitlab.com/vrtxd1/Earthen

• 🌞 Light mode
• 📱 Hand-drawn w/ dotpict
• 🩷 Thanks for all the upvotes and comments
• 🏴‍☠️ License: CC BY Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International vrtxd
• 🗓️ v 1.0 Sun 8 Jan 2023, v 2.0 Mon 6 May 2024

I know Fables (e.g. The Wolf Among Us) is not solarpunk – yet! Go make spinoffs, it's in the commons now! 🔥