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"“The average drill is used for only 13 minutes in its entire lifetime.”
Think about that for a moment. Think about the amount of carbon emissions used to manufacture the product. Think about waste disposal. Think of the value of that compared with the use it gets. Then imagine the difference in that value if instead of a whole street owning a drill each, they all shared one! That is what a Library of Things / Lending Library / Tool Library offers."
ethicalrevolution.co.uk/share-
#LibraryofThings #sharing #coopertive #mutualAid

Ethical Revolution · Share Stuff - Ethical Revolution
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Sharing my life online

A while ago, I shared a post about living online (Trying to live online). And I keep thinking about it... I don't have too many friends, but the ones I have, I consider to be very good ones! 💜 And then, there is my phone, where all my "pocket friends" are. People that I consider friends, people that I care about, people that I'll probably never meet... My online friends. 🌹 I don't have a partner. I live with Arwen, which is nice, but it's definitely different than living with a person. And while I enjoy being on my own, doing my own things, living my own life... Sometimes I can feel alone, lonely even (Not lonely, but alone…, and I miss someone to share my life with. And I guess that's where all my social media comes in. I'm trying to make a difference to this world, I'm trying to "matter" in a way, and my brain tells me that I should do that by sharing stuff online. […]

cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2025/

@molly0xfff on AI vs. scraping vs. copyright protection vs. openness. Very thoughtful (as usual) and worth reading.

Also included, this gem (together with other thoughts about sustainable business models):
«Many AI “visionaries” seem perfectly content to promise that artificial superintelligence is just around the corner, but claim that attribution is somehow a permanently unsolvable problem.»

#AI #GenAI #LLM #CreativeCommons #Sharing
citationneeded.news/free-and-o

Citation Needed · “Wait, not like that”: Free and open access in the age of generative AIThe real threat isn’t AI using open knowledge — it’s AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free

I love #opensource and #distributed #peertopeer systems. They are essential to our future. Want to be free from tyranny? This is the way to go!

Instead of #RepoTheGeneticOpera and #GATTACA, let's do @vulpinelabs
Instead of hyper capitalist bullshit, do #incredibleedible and #transitiontowns with #urbanpollinators and #permaculture
Instead of proprietary software and patents, do #linux and #openpatents (defensive publications)
Instead of copyright trolling, do #netlabels and embracing the beneficial impacts of #sharing #piracy! #sharingiscaring
Instead of monopolies on your data and what you watch, do #Peertube and #Fediverse

We can shape the future by choosing what we use and what impacts us!

(Not only) in difficult times, I like children's TV. Not just to escape into funnier worlds. #Cartoons and #animatedFilms can show in a wonderfully soothing way what the kind of #society we wish can look like. And that it can be learnt.

#Cooperation and #sharing versus greed between diverse people: Volles Nest (full nest) kika.de/lenas-hof/videos/volle (no language needed!) 1/2

www.kika.deLenas Hof: Volles Nest | KiKADas Eichhörnchen ist glücklich. Es hat seine Baumhöhle mit allerlei Fundsachen ausgekleidet und winterfest gemacht. Ein Socken von Lena war Gold wert.