@Em0nM4stodon A perfectly aimed coronal mass ejection?
@Em0nM4stodon People are naturally virtuous and given sufficient support and environment will seek out virtue because it's human nature to do so. Technology is not only a tool for achieving post resource scarcity society where virtue and human presence is the most valuable currency but also an inspiration and north star showing us that this utopia is possible!
Small private tech that serves the small production unit. Humans need to wield tech. Tech should not be designed to use humans.
@Em0nM4stodon that our tech overlords are piling so much garbage on the systems everybody uses that they're unwittingly creating a space for alternatives
@Em0nM4stodon RISC-V. FOSS. Neoliberalism destroying itself (not fast enough). Renewable energy. Progress in fusion.
@Em0nM4stodon That most people do want to do good things. We sometimes just have different perspectives on how to get there.
fediversians united around the globe
The explosion in paper publishing.
Off-the-shelf microgrid energy.
The not at-all-spontaneous development of self-healing mesh networks which are net neutral, privacy by default, and resource sharing.
Electric forges, and craftsmen using them.
Ongoing building of increasingly niche communities of tech.
@Em0nM4stodon That our worst problems have poor fundamentals.
The market can stay irrational longer than I can stay solvent, but at some point it does have to deal with reality.
@Em0nM4stodon Soap Bubbles - they also burst eventually. Also: community!
@Em0nM4stodon Volunteers and hobbyists. The fact that people still go "you know what? I'm gonna make a thing." And then they just do it.

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A sharp guillotine. Only as a reminder, not to ne used.