This is something I meant to do a long time ago, but I've finally uploaded that Matrix material shader I made in Blender to my website!

Get it here: https://martincrownover.com/blender-examples-tutorials/blender-shader-matrix/

Now on DP: Diurnal Diorama!

https://drixpell.com/2024/12/18/diurnal-diorama/

#Degrowth and #Socialism: Notes on Some Critical Junctures

by Güney Işıkara and Özgür Narin

"Most degrowth thinkers agree that growth, as both a fact and a concept, is brought about by #capitalism. It is even acknowledged that growth is not the driver, but an outcome, the “surface appearance or ‘fetish’ of an underlying process: capital accumulation.” One would then expect that the challenge to it and the imaginary of an alternative society would be based on the negation of capitalism as a mode of production. Yet instead, growth remains the focal point of the discussion.

"The emphasis on growth as an aggregate phenomenon that emerged only with industrial capitalism and turned into an unquestionable economic paradigm following the Second World War is not trivial. It implies that growth as we know it is capitalist growth, or actually accumulation of capital, constituted in processes of exploitation and expropriation peculiar to capitalism, measured by indicators designed by and for capitalist societies. Why should we then be so concerned with growth as such from the viewpoint of a socialist (or #postcapitalist) society? The degrowth position is that it mesmerizes and captivates individual and social imaginaries, political movements, parties, and projects, including that of socialism: “Growth is the child of capitalism, but the child outdid the parent, with the pursuit of growth surviving the abolition of capitalist relations in socialist countries.”

"The transplantation of growth from its capitalist historical context into a socialist future, and thereby the problematization of growth as such—which supposedly transcends social relations upon which societies are founded—can be justified only under one condition: if all growth, regardless of the underlying relations of humans to both humans and nonhuman natures, can be seen as homogeneous, or at least alike to a significant degree. This is precisely what Giorgos Kallis puts forward: 'socialist growth cannot be sustainable, because no economic growth can be #ecologically #sustainable. Growth in the #material standard of living requires growth in the #extraction of materials. This is unavoidably damaging to the environment and ultimately undermines the conditions of production and reproduction.”

"The logical conclusion of this argument is that all human activity involving extraction, transformation, and use of materials—that is, all human reproduction—is in direct conflict with the environment as the former unavoidably damages the latter. This is a reversion to crude materialism founded on the oppositional binary of nature and society. According to Kallis, this conflict becomes #unsustainable if material living standards keep growing. Growth, however, is still understood in its meaning in the capitalist context, representing a process of accumulation.

"The qualitative difference between socialism and capitalism as two distinct modes of production is highly relevant here. The primary function of production under socialism is to provide all citizens with use values to satisfy a universal standard of basic needs (essentials), which determines the length of the necessary working day. This comprises not only shelter, basic food items, clean water supply, health care, education, and accessible public transport, but also child and elder care, parks and recreation, basic cultural and informational services, (possibly) ecological restoration activities, and the like."

Read more:
https://monthlyreview.org/2023/07/01/degrowth-and-socialism-notes-on-some-critical-junctures/

#NowPlaying on #KEXP's #AfternoonShow

Material:
Reduction

#Material

https://newyorknoiserecords.bandcamp.com/track/reduction

https://open.spotify.com/track/52u0UAEhO0oPknTrTQMQic

A unique and promising #material for next-generation #electrochemical devices: hexagonal #perovskite related oxide Ba7Nb3.8Mo1.2O20.1. They unveiled the material's unique ion-transport mechanisms, something that will pave the way for better dual-ion #conductors and a greener future.
#MaterialScience #Chemistry #Environmental #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/12/ms12122301.html

Sexually #explicit #material is not #immoral, actually.

One of the consequences of #propertytax is that it causes #buildings to be #overvalued as #capital #investments, to such an extent that outdated/outmoded buildings fail to be replaced with newer. Much of the stock in the US was built before #insulation and should have been torn down and replaced long ago by more efficient structures that would have paid for themselves rapidly in embodied #energy and #material #savings. Buildings are durable #appliances, not #assets.

“Content” does not suggest worth: https://bit.ly/letsmakeacontent

I am #grateful for all of the #hashtags on the #fediverse that help me find #material to #masturbate to here at this #Dennys. #Democracy will always win.

Hackaday Prize 2023: Universal Tensile Testing Machine - Material testing is important in big industry, where manufacturers must be able to... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/17/hackaday-prize-2023-universal-tensile-testing-machine/ #2023hackadayprize #thehackadayprize #materialtesting #tensiletesting #toolhacks #materials #material

"The golden age of material production. How AI will transform everything we use."

I'm looking for this title but no one has written the article yet.

#ai
#material

MIT AI Review:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/07/05/1075865/eric-schmidt-ai-will-transform-science/

One of the problems with #decentralized #networks is that really bad stuff can traverse across them. The #fediverse has a #child #sexual #abuse #material #problem. Filtering it out does not solve the core problem. How can the #fediverse be a good #actor here? #Technology https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/addressing-child-exploitation-federated-social-media?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon

Last month LIST held its fifth annual tech day, where we showcased our research work. Topics covered the #environment, #material science, #space and #it

https://www.list.lu/en/news/list-tech-day-celebrating-5-years-of-science-and-technology-breakthroughs/?no_cache=1&cHash=736d420de859b856d48d84b9481892da

If you are interested in an exciting and rewarding career, or to partner with us for your research needs please visit our website for more information.

"It’s so fucking insane to me that #material #possessions and #merchandise is #valued more highly in this #country than #human lives and physical well-being. Saw a video of a guy who had been accused of shoplifting a single pizza (which he had paid for) being violently pinned to the ground by three #cops, one of whom was threatening to break his nose while he calmly told them to check the receipt he had and confirm he had #lawfully #purchased the #pizza. The comments were like “if he shoplifted he deserved that” and “even if he didn’t shoplift, I bet they tackled him because he was resisting arrest” that level of violence over an freeze pizza is insane in any fucking context no matter how much dickridding you are going. Fuck #Walmart. Fuck loss prevention. Fuck cops."

https://www.tumblr.com/froody/720070778589249536/its-so-fucking-insane-to-me-that-material?source=share

A groundbreaking advancement in #thermal #storage research, developing a new efficient #material that is easily scalable and can be sized and shaped to fit multiple applications.
#MaterialScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/06/ms06062301.html