Alcor

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Our last few books have been fiction, but nonfiction is totally on the table if it can get the majority of the vote.

 

Hey Solarpunk people! We are a small community of readers, writers, and activists that is dedicated to exploring Solarpunk and adjacent literature. Every week, we discuss one chapter of a book that we choose together. So far, we have read four books, including most recently The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. If you want to join our book club just in time to pick our next read, please swing by. We’d be happy to have more people to share thoughts and insights with!

https://discord.gg/wFsXhs3MDG

 

Hey everyone, our Solarpunk book club community on Discord just finished reading the "Solarpunk Summers" anthology together and we are voting for our next book soon.

If you’d like to join our weekly talks or contribute your suggestions on what to read next you can join us here: https://discord.gg/2zUph5DSmR

I look forward to meeting everyone who decides to join!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Suggesting that someone read the article in a comment section under said article…blasphemy!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

We take it pretty leisurely, we've mostly done a chapter a week, sometimes two. We found that there's always enough to discuss if you go deep enough on a given topic.

 

Hey everyone, We from the Solarpunk Book Club community on discord just finished reading the Monk and Robot Series together and are discussing what to read next this week.

If you’d like to join our weekly talks or contribute your suggestions on what to read next you can join us here: https://discord.gg/MNyjJpnjbJ

I look forward to meeting everyone who decides to join!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (7 children)

On iOS I’m very happy with Memmy, I was on Apollo before and it feels similar design-wise.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, user-wise this won’t really negatively impact Reddit this is why I called it penny pinching, they weren’t losing out on huge amounts of money with the 3rd party apps. What I was mostly referring to is that moderators are frequently power users who either used 3rd party apps personally or used them because the moderator tools inside of them were way better than Reddit's native ones.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It’s ridiculous to me that there are still people volunteering to moderate, Reddit had such a good deal with running mostly on free labor that is satisfied with some scraps here and there.

And what do they do? Turn the people who are sustaining their business and ask for nothing in return hostile towards them over some penny pinching.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I’m trying to be unbiased here, Mark and Martin from my reading deserve some credit for the initial creation of the company and vision but I’d agree that they have very little to do with where the company is now.

Elon does play a big role, I don’t like his grandstanding and arrogant behaviour as much as the next person but to suggest otherwise would be foolish, I’m not sure how far beyond just his money and determination that contribution goes but it’s there.

It is however also foolish to not mention people like Jb Straubel, Franz von Holzhausen and many others when talking about Teslas success, if there’s one thing Elon is good at it’s getting talented people excited about hard problems.

One of the many problems with Elon is that he actively supports his portrayal as the lone technical genius who does most of the work instead of a guy who is very good at motivating (or sometimes threatening) talented people into working 80 hour weeks and also has a bit more technical understanding than the average CEO