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Any good resources for arguments for and against accelerationism?

Left wing accelerationism, in political and social theory, is a class of ideologies that call for a drastic increase in and expansion of capitalistic growth and technological development to hasten an inevitable collapse of the status quo.

I am looking for some arguments in favour and against this idea to apply in daily life. Daily life as in for example should some software dev deliberately some buggy proprietary software in hope that its open source alternative seems more attractive, or should a product manager deliberately enshittify a proprietary product to make it more repulsive than open source one.

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Gravitricity: Storing energy using gravitational potential

I have been following them for a few years and they are making some slow and steady progress

From their page: As the world generates more electricity from intermittent renewable energy sources, there is a growing need for technologies which can capture and store energy during periods of low demand and release it rapidly when required.

At Gravitricity we are developing innovative, long-life, underground technologies which store energy safely and deliver it on demand at a lower lifetime cost than current alternatives.

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Living off grid and documenting

Stumbled at this while exploring small web. Not sure if it belongs here but however they are living is pretty solarpunk

From about us:

Hundred Rabbits is a small artist collective. Together, we explore the planned failability of modern technology at the bounds of the hyper-connected world. We research and test low-tech solutions and document our findings with the hope of building a more resilient future.

We live and work on a 10 meter vessel called Pino, we have sailed around the Pacific Ocean and realized how fragile the modern-day computing stack was. Living in remote uninhabited parts of the world has offered us a playground to learn how technology degrades beyond the shores of the western world.

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