Good to note that the game Half-Earth Socialism was developed as an extra to the book of the same title, by Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass, that also combines fiction chapters with non-fiction.

For some less optimistic, but still combative climate literature:

Climate Change as Class War, by Matthew T. Huber

Slow Down, by Kohei Saito

and right now I’m reading I Want a Better Catastrophe, by Andrew Boyd, and so far it’s interesting (and accessible).

Can confirm: it’s a great game and really worth it! Loved the dark atmosphere as well.

I mean, where to start? Try a new wave playlist somewhere - there’s lots of well known songs that you’ll recognize and start branching out from there.

You’re welcome! Happy I shared it then

I don’t see why it wouldn’t fit here. There’s significant overlap between anarchism and solarpunk. Maybe there’s some other leftwing instance where this community would also fit (or maybe better), but that doesn’t matter that much due to the federated character. All this regardless of what my stance on voting is btw.

Many people have purposefully moved away from Big Tech platforms, often because they cause them harm. Who are you to judge their defederation - which is a core feature of the Fediverse btw - as laughable? Every instance is free to decide their own policies, that’s the whole point.

I’m afraid it’s mostly that last one.

Watch people flock to yet another corporate social media honeypot instead of going for something less dystopian.

Are you referring to the Digital Markets Act that would force some large tech players to allow interoperability?

I think it’s a great step forward, although I think it’s only in 2024 that those changes will actually happen.

I have similar issues running Gnome on AMD.

No shit!

We also can’t plant enough trees to mitigate climate change.

This won’t do, they don’t have a pun or funny reference in their URL!

Really goes for almost everything. I don’t want my machines and appliances to be ‘smart’ and ‘connected’. I just want them to do the thing I use them for, that’s it.

If he isn’t bought and paid for by the fossil fuel lobbies, then he admits to being a complete idiot.

It’s main purpose is to make some die-hards angry, I think.

Coincidentally, I had a conversation about dating and climate change with a friend today. We both agreed that people showing off their exotic travel destinations have become a turn-off. Especially when they use airplane emoji’s in their bio. On the other side: it does feel like some sort ‘race’ to show off those fancy place to communicate how well off you are, and not having pics like that may make you less attractive (but then again, why would I want to attract those huge polluters?). Dating gets you in a weird headspace, fucking hell.

Self-regulation fails. Can we solve it with more self-regulation?

I think ‘doomer’ is too vague a term.

I could plausibly be categorized as a doomer, I think we’re already too far along the path towards catastrophe and the forces against us are too big to stop it in time. But I don’t give up and keep acting, because every act of resistance still matters (and will always matter). It’s pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will; to say it with a Gramscian saying.