@punksnotdead @Crazycookie thats how Americans see it ;)

@fruitycoder it's by https://www.bbaw.de/en/young-network-transeurope and it's in Varna, Bulgaria, in July 2026. I don't think it has a public name / webpage yet, but I can ping you when it does :)

@Murse open source medical devices are a huge step, lowering cost and spreading access. OpenFlexure is a great example.

There will be a conference in Bulgaria this year about the future of medicine from a sociological perspective, I know some open medicine people will be there!

@tofu wait till you hear about https://storyseedlibrary.org/

@SolarQueen @poVoq I only now saw this, but can confirm that we would love to see your contribution!

We also have a lot of linearts in https://storyseedlibrary.org/tags/coloring-book/ :D

@Viking_Hippie actually agrivoltaics work pretty well and help farming :)

@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