#smallisbeautiful — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #smallisbeautiful, aggregated by home.social.
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Every time I hear anything about DHH these days I feel I have to apologise for inviting him to Small Is Beautiful in 2021.
https://small-tech.org/small-is-beautiful/07/
I’m sorry, I didn’t know he was a dollar-store Elon Musk at the time.
What can I say? He duped me with his “small tech” talk, making me think we were talking about the same thing. Which, clearly, we weren’t, because Small Tech is all about inclusivity and a non-colonial approach to designing and developing human-scale technology:
“Small Tech is political through and through. It stands with both middle fingers raised high against Big Tech and capitalism. It’s proudly progressive. Small Tech is the opposite of Big Tech, not Big Tech Light.”
Learn more about Small Technology here: https://small-tech.org/about/#small-technology
#SmallTech #BigTech #DHH #apologies #SmallIsBeautiful https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/115502864868912851
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The frontier of digital expression is returning to code and text.
Instead of massive models or flashy UIs,
trust grows in small, readable code and honest words.ZINEs in .txt or .md, local AI, and the minimal beauty of UNIX.
True freedom comes from technology you can understand.#TextCulture #UNIX #LocalFirst #SmallIsBeautiful #DIYTech #FediTech
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🌱 MICRO Common Lisp: Because who doesn't want to relive the glory days of CPM with a 64KB memory limit? 🚀 It's the perfect choice if you prefer your Lisp interpreters small, unhelpfully obscure, and proudly stuck in the 80s. 📼
https://t3x.org/mcl/index.html #MICROCommonLisp #80sRevival #LispInterpreters #RetroComputing #SmallIsBeautiful #HackerNews #ngated -
1/4 Folks everywhere are vibecoding the next viral, marketable thing to "make it big." Meanwhile, I’m pretty done with the whole "make it big" thing and, honestly, starting to feel done even with trying to fit the "average tech Joe persona" (whatever that is).
#LifeAfterHustle #SlowTech #BuildForYourself #AltTech #SmallIsBeautiful #MeaningfulWork
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Das Trostberger Tagblatt und die südostbayerische Rundschau berichten über den Boom des Chiemgauer in der Stadt #Traunstein: 1,5 Mio. Chiemgauer (1 C = 1 €) wurden in Traunstein im 2023 umgesetzt. Ein neuer Rekordwert!
Insgesamt wurden 2023 etwa 5 Mio. #Chiemgauer von 400 Annahmestellen umgesetzt.
Seit 2003 könnten über 850.000 Chiemgauer an 300 gemeinnützige Vereine und Projekte ausgeschüttet werden.
#regional #geld #smallisbeautiful #degrowth #glokalisierung #klima
https://www.pnp.de/lokales/landkreis-traunstein/regionalwaehrung-chiemgauer-boomt-weiter-15890226
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#AI #GenerativeAI #Schumacher #SmallIsBeautiful #CritiqueOfTechnology #BigTech: "This article sets out to bring E. F. Schumacher’s social theory of technology into dialogue with recent advances in the field of generative artificial intelligence (AI). By generative AI, we are here referring to a new constellation of machine learning technologies that aim to simulate and, subsequently, automate human creativity, with a particular focus on OpenAI’s GPT-3 family (ChatGPT and DALL-E). Often overlooked in contemporary debates on machine learning and AI, we argue that Schumacher’s 1973 book, Small is Beautiful, offers a series of insights and concepts that are increasingly relevant for the development of a humanist politics under conditions of computation. With a particular focus on Schumacher’s account of ‘intermediate technology’, we suggest that his emphasis on the social role of human creativity and identification of scale as a crucial concept to deploy in critiquing technology together provide a unique framework within which to (a) address the rise of what we call ‘pathologies of meaning’ and (b) offer a powerful way to consider alternatives to the gigantisms of the FAANG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google) and Silicon Valley-style ideologies of digital transformation." https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13684310241234028
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A really lovely article about cooking & eating together & community buidling. I really feel that organising small evening meals together is amongst one of the very best things we can do at the moment, for all round wellbeing. A fellow school mum suggested an evening like this, we are meeting at her house next week, can’t wait.
#Community #Food #Wellbeing #Togetherness #Happiness #ClimateAction #Empowerment #SmallIsBeautiful #SmallPleasures
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#WildFlowerHour love this time of year when our grass is full of #WhiteClover and #SelfHeal - so small, so easy to miss, yet so incredibly beautiful and amazing when you look closely
#SmallIsBeautiful #ClimateDiary -
#WildFlowerHour love this time of year when our grass is full of #WhiteClover and #SelfHeal - so small, so easy to miss, yet so incredibly beautiful and amazing when you look closely
#SmallIsBeautiful #ClimateDiary -
#WildFlowerHour love this time of year when our grass is full of #WhiteClover and #SelfHeal - so small, so easy to miss, yet so incredibly beautiful and amazing when you look closely
#SmallIsBeautiful #ClimateDiary -
#WildFlowerHour love this time of year when our grass is full of #WhiteClover and #SelfHeal - so small, so easy to miss, yet so incredibly beautiful and amazing when you look closely
#SmallIsBeautiful #ClimateDiary -
#WildFlowerHour love this time of year when our grass is full of #WhiteClover and #SelfHeal - so small, so easy to miss, yet so incredibly beautiful and amazing when you look closely
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If you’re in London this eve, please join us for this one under a crescent moon.
small is beautiful - LUNAR IMAGINARIES 🌙
22nd June
6pm, for a 6.30pm start
@care_and_climate, Linear Gallery, Greenwich SE10 BRS𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆
A special event in London this eve on lunar imaginaries for the Aluna London project - alunatime.org - a Moon and Tide Clock at the 0° longitude on the Greenwich Peninsula.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/small-is-beautiful-lunar-imaginaries-tickets-654713253967
#SmallIsBeautiful #cosmoimaginaries #greenwich #london #moon #river #ecologies
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Probably safest just to show this https://youtu.be/KNOxbaxOmIQ #ImWithGary #Lineker #Wright #Shearer #ToriesOut #ImmigrationBill #DavidAttenborough #BBC #ClimateDiary #ReWilding #SmallIsBeautiful #WaterIsLife
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All welcome to join a weekend celebrating E.F. Schumacher’s 1973 book, Small is Beautiful at Dartington Hall.
Ecologies, Technologies is holding online sessions across Sat 4thMarch w. artists, technologists, activists & researchers working with trees and bioacoustics.
Sessions will also stream on Soundart Radio on Sunday 5thMarch during the student-led Small is Beautiful Sunday Symposium - 102.5FM or listen online.
https://ecologiestechnologies.com #SmallIsBeautiful #ecologies #technologies @ecologies
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Working on getting the rewrite of Auto Encrypt Localhost (think mkcert but in Node.js and now in 100% JavaScript without using mkcert or certutil) complete today so I have time to test and prepare a demonstration for our first #SmallIsBeautiful live steam this Thursday.
You can follow our #owncast steaming server from your #mastodon / #fediverse account to be notified when we go live.
#tls #ssl #web #dev #tools #SmallWeb #AutoEncryptLocalhost #nodeJS #js #JavaScript
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@ClimateandCapMedia @jamesdyke
Me too! And 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of Schumacher’s #SmallIsBeautiful - let’s really make it the year when #Degrowth thinking becomes mainstream (already happening- yesterday on #AnyQuestions Delyth Jewell said #GDP measures all the wrong things - HUGE audiencd applause)
As this title oage brilliantly expresses: the new world is almost born 😊
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Join us for Small is Beautiful in 15 minutes (5PM Irish time; UTC+1). We’ll be talking about Nodekit (and why it’s moving from Svelte to htmx) and about why we’re moving our code from GitHub to Codeberg. You can also pop into the studio and say (or just hang out on the comments) :)
#SmallIsBeautiful #smallTech #smallWeb #nodeKit #github #codeberg #htmx #svelte
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Drop by for Small is Beautiful today at 5PM Irish time (UTC+1) for some Nodekit news or just to say hi :)
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You can see a demonstration of an earlier version of NodeKit from this Thursday on the recording of the latest Small Is Beautiful:
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Small Is Beautiful #15
This month, we extend a friendly middle finger to web3 with the web0 manifesto, talk about Laura’s presentation for Ikea on ethical design, and introduce you to NodeKit.
