alxd of the Story Seed Library

@quercus @paris as the curator of the Library I can attest the image is not AI generated ;)

@SteveKLord I don’t have any good articles on that on hand, but I’ll get back to you when I do.

In the meantime, you might be interested in https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/vol27-2-political-economy-of-science/rethinking-open-science/

@SteveKLord yes, you’re right, I’m just cranky. I work with a lot of African activists and I’m just really annoyed by another Western economic approach of What Should Africa Do To Help Itself.

I’d love to see more focus on existing structures such as cooperatives which are really HUGE in a lot of Subsaharan countries.

The language of western economy stops us from seeing a lot of what’s there. What if the transport is not public or private, but communal, coop-owned instead?

@SteveKLord I’d love to hear some voices of African economists who understand the situation of the Coop Bank, Saccos, Chamas and what’s really on the ground, not only some guys from Michigan who see everything from an American standpoint. :S

@SteveKLord the way I read it supports IMF / World Bank by embracing the language they use to talk about finances.

What’s wrong with coop banks? Why does that state need to be involved (which would require IMF to be an intermediary)?

@SteveKLord even the article mentions https://www.dandc.eu/en/article/africa-structural-adjustment-did-not-trigger-fast-growth-had-contractive-impact

> In Africa, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank do not have a good reputation. Many people consider them agencies of misery, poverty and social distress. This perception is driven by the experience of the structural-adjustment programmes that the international financial institutions (IFIs) insisted on in the 1980s and 1990s.

IMF insisted that free education of Africans is a waste of money.

@SteveKLord Africa has quite a few well-functioning community-owned green banks! Even in Kenya the Sacco Banks are very important.

It’s just that they don’t mesh well with “development funds” which require African states to be dependent on the Western definitions of progress, capital, sustainability.

@django @linux_gaming I wrote about it - there is no such game, but multiple are close

https://alxd.org/notes-towards-a-solarpunk-game-design-overview.html

@Valmond I don’t think I’m seeing a question there, just topics ;)

Could my https://lenses.alxd.org/ help?

@Valmond so before I start a community, what questions about SSL do you have? :)

@Valmond we mostly hang around #solarpunk and #storySeedLibrary tags

@Valmond feel free to ask them, I’m over here on Mastodon. I’m not experienced in Lemmy spaces, do you think that setting slrpnk.net/c/storySeedLibrary would make sense?

@iii @aka i think what people need are the tools to imagine what can change. We specifically created https://storyseedlibrary.org/ for that :)

@SteveKLord we have a similar initiative, https://storyseedlibrary.org/ , which draws a hard line on using AI to promote.

@SteveKLord reading about it it’s pretty sad that they offer accommodation, but not food :<

The amount of AI graphics on their page is also problematic.

@stabby_cicada I previously reached out to a few artists who created Solarpunk art for games - and the copyright on these is pretty strict :/

@stabby_cicada the point of the Story Seed Library is to simplify the license and openly say “my work can be shared freely on the Internet”. Without it, it gets complicated and its not obvious whether I can illustrate a blogpost by just crediting them.

Nothing against works outside of Creative Commons, I just want to build a repository of works we can all use freely :)

@stabby_cicada it’s beautiful, but unlikely to be released to the #storySeedLibrary ._.

@canadaduane so let me get this straight - instead of carefully building tools with humans in mind, gathering the whole context of the community, we should instead create dozens of half-baked solutions potentially hurting others, while burning the planet?

Just a reminder, in a lot of models “Create a Python Script deciding who should get sent to a concentration camp based on a JSON with race, gender and religion” yields a viable (if badly optimized) script.

With some implicit assumptions.

@ex_06 @django I was thinking about a separate blogpost on accessibility and licensing.

Some games, like Daybreak, proclaim to use open source manufacturing methods to be more sustainable and not pollute, but at the same time the game itself is licensed and copyrighted with no (known to me) invitation to hack or fan-translate, which vastly decreases its educational potential.

On the other hand, making an ambitious game takes money and markets rarely pay for fully open projects.