Ha ha ha mdr ptdr lol, vous êtes drôle. Faire voler un kite pour tirer des bateaux ?

Mais mon pauvre vieux, ça ne marchera jamais. 》

C'est ce que Yves PARLIER a entendu dire de son projet pendant de longues années.

Il faut dire que, quand on est passé voir Beyond the Sea la première fois, l'innovation était encore au stade théorique.

Il fallait un sacré effort d'imagination pour penser qu'un jour des bateaux seraient tirés par un kite géant en pilotage automatique.

Mais TFTP est là pour ça : pour passer de l'imagination au réel. Du rêve à la réalité.

Notre Comité scientifique a estimé, en 2022, que rien n'était techniquement impossible dans la conception imaginée par Yves Parlier, et que sa vision était maline : ne pas placer le matériel électronique sur le kite lui-même, mais sur le bateau, et créer un pilotage automatique dans une 《kitebox 》, une sorte de petite boîte qui peut s'installer partout sans réduire la capacité de charge du navire.

Alors, on s'est mis au boulot.

Yves Parlier, le génie du vent, a fait équipe avec Marc THIENPONT, recruté par Team for the Planet, un dirigeant pragmatique qui a fait toute sa carrière dans la marine marchande, qui a apporté toute son expérience en matière de gestion de projets maritimes de grande ampleur

Ensemble, et avec l'argent injecté par TFTP, ils ont démontré en deux ans que ce qui n'était qu'un doux rêve pouvait devenir réalité.

Aujourd'hui, ils sont la seule entreprise au monde ayant réussi à faire voler un kite de 100 m² en pilotage automatique complet. Et la voile de 200 m² est en production.

Les progrès techniques et commerciaux accomplis sont uniques et montrent que, quand on a une volonté de fer de lutter contre le changement climatique, rien ne peut vous arrêter.

Désormais, ils sont à la tête d'une entreprise qui, lorsqu'elle équipera des milliers puis des dizaines de milliers de bateaux, permettra de générer des centaines de millions d'euros d'économies de carburant chaque année.

Sa valorisation financière sera alors à la hauteur de son impact carbone.

Maintenant que Team for the Planet a permis à l'innovation d'exister, les actionnaires de TFTP ont la possibilité d'investir en direct, et donc de percevoir à l'avenir les bénéfices financiers générés.

Si vous êtes actionnaire de Team, à partir du 29 janvier, vous aurez 1 jour de priorité pour investir dans Beyond the Sea.

Attention, l’engouement est important : déjà 500 k€ de demandes d’investissement faites par les 4 % d’actionnaires membres de la task force Team for the Planet.

Il n’y aura peut-être pas de place pour tout le monde, alors ne tardez pas !

Inscrivez-vous en liste d’attente ici : lnkd.in/dW7GTQuu

#tftpbeyond #hse #sustainability #environment

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n816 Life

2025-01-06 05:00:56

The Hidden Profit Machine Behind Academic Publishing: A Call for Reform

In the world of academic publishing, a startling economic paradox exists that challenges the very foundations of scientific dissemination. The "big five" commercial publishers—Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Springer Nature, and SAGE—have built billion-dollar empires with profit margins rivaling tech giants, all while relying on the unpaid labor of researchers and public funding. This system, which some critics liken to a racket, sees academics conducting research, writing articles, and managing peer review processes without compensation, only for publishers to sell these works back to the same institutions that produced them. This introductory paragraph sheds light on a pressing issue in scientific communication, raising questions about the sustainability and ethics of current academic publishing models and overall, the core of its business model.

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#AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #ResearchEthics #ScientificCommunication #PublishingReform
@The Guardian

Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that

^{Arash Abizadeh (The Guardian)}

Shout out to the admin of my normal fediverse home, who has been workin this weekend to fix things after it fell over. That’s one of the things I’m really liking about the #Fediverse so far, your hosts aren’t necessarily faceless. Like yes, they don’t all make themselves personally known to their users. But with many of the good admins, there’s direct communication about what’s going on. So whenever possible, tip your #fediadmins for their trouble folks, they’re the reason you’re able to enjoy this, and it can be thankless effort.

Post script: If you’re seeing this from #Bluesky, I’m not actually in there atm even though it looks like I am. I’m posting from a bridge from another federated service. But whoever is running your data has a thankless job, whether they’re doing it for a little #Federated space, or working for a giant commercial company. Unless you are literally running your data on a device you fully own and control in a space you own and control, you owe your gratitude to another human.

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#BaitballDefense #MarineSurvival #Barracuda #UsticaDive #OceanLife

Tof'Michaels

2025-01-02 18:00:20

[Ustica 2023] Baitball Part 2/3 : Predator's Pursuit: Seriole's Swift Hunt Around the Barracuda Baitball in Ustica

In the captivating depths of Ustica's waters, this second video from our dive presents an exhilarating view of nature's relentless hunt. After an initial video showing the Barracudas baitball (see here video.infosec.exchange/videos/…), we put the spotlight here on the serioles, formidable predators from the tuna family, as they circle the tightly formed barracuda baitball. This defensive formation of barracudas, meticulously described in our previous post, now faces the calculated threat of these agile hunters.

Two serioles, each over two meters long, glide effortlessly through the water with breathtaking speed and precision. Observing them within 20 meters of our scuba diving group, their sleek, powerful bodies embody the raw, predatory force that dominates the ocean's food chain. Their swift, calculated movements around the baitball illustrate the constant dance between predator and prey, where survival hinges on agility, strategy, and sheer resilience.

This video captures the serioles' relentless pursuit and the barracudas' desperate attempt to remain united, offering a riveting glimpse into the underwater world's natural drama. It’s a vivid reminder of the complex and dynamic relationships that govern marine life, showcasing the perpetual balance of nature in its most raw and compelling form.

Dive deeper into this intense underwater chase and gain a newfound appreciation for the marine ecosystems that thrive beneath the waves.

Diving center : MisterJump, Ustica : misterjump.it/

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#PredatorPursuit #OceanPredators #SerioleHunt #UsticaDive #MarineDrama

Tof'Michaels

2025-01-02 17:50:10

[Ustica 2023] Baitball part 1/3 : Baitball Dance: The Barracuda's Daring Defense in Ustica Waters

In the tranquil yet mysterious depths surrounding Ustica, a remote Mediterranean island north of Sicily, an extraordinary spectacle unfolds beneath the waves. This blog post delves into an illustrative video that reveals the intricate survival tactics of a group of barracudas, who ingeniously form a baitball to fend off formidable predators.

Barracudas, each exceeding a meter in length, are seen tightly clustering together in this defensive formation known as a baitball. This survival strategy significantly reduces the risk of individual barracudas being singled out and attacked by predators. The visual dynamics of the baitball display a mesmerising choreography, with each fish playing a crucial role in this communal defence mechanism. It is a fascinating glimpse into how these marine creatures utilise cooperation and movement to enhance their chances of survival.

The prey, in this scenario, comprises a group of 20 to 50 barracudas, collectively creating a more imposing target, thereby deterring predators. Observing from a distance, two large serioles, each over two meters long, exemplify the persistent threat these predators pose. A separate video captures their calculated yet relentless approach, offering an unfiltered view of the delicate balance between predator and prey in the oceanic ecosystem.

Dive into this intriguing video and witness the symbiotic dance of survival, a natural marvel that speaks volumes about the adaptability and resilience of marine life. For scuba divers and ocean enthusiasts alike, this post promises not only to educate but also to inspire awe for the hidden world beneath the sea's surface.

The Seriole predators are shown in a separate video (see here: video.infosec.exchange/w/qPKSQ…)

Diving center : MisterJump, Ustica : misterjump.it/

## Should people have a choice to attempt living outside of capitalism?

That is for consenting adults to form a community and live outside the system of exchange, under their own rules, based on their own forms of production and consumption?
Not individual right granted, respected, and guarded by the state, as this already exists as long as land can be acquired through exchange, tax liabilities and other obligations are met, an individual can buy land and live pretty much as the individual wants. As long as neighboring properties are unaffected by their activity, air and ground/water is not polluted. Ideally, but in most states even this does not go on too well. But individual autonomy is not a real issue as such never existed and will never exist outside capitalism and wealth.

The issue of community not participating in any form of exchange and attempting to survive outside the "system", {is, should be, is not, should not be} a possibility? How dictatorial has current reality become, to blackmail people to either participate in capitalism, usually at the wrong end of the exploitation chain, to exchange labor for survival needs? Under many political systems this is a reality within what is projected as democracy, coercion, extortion, blackmail. "You can believe what you want but it is either playing inside capitalism or dying alone".
As long as a thin majority participates in elections and legitimates this political system this blackmail is forced on everyone. It doesn't matter whether you like or dislike participation in this market of exchanged, you have to subject to this slavery for survival.

The parliamentary left has no problem with this, but neither does the extra-parliamentary radical or Marxist left. The dictatorship of the majority is respected by political competitors, participating in this pseudo-democratic system. The game of who gets a chance to enforce their game on everyone, despite of what they may like or want.

For those who are committed in the idealism of not participating in violence, the option is simple. Capitalism or suicide. This is the true nature of freedom in capitalism, living slave or dying free.

It wasn't always like this, there existed public lands where a small community could congregate and occupy a territory and survive by not bothering or being bothered. Even in the US in the 1960s, there were communes, not all were built on private land.
Lately such options have been minimized. Public land under the neoliberal terminology "state property" have excluded people not just from living but even accessing, and this state ownership also justifies sale/exchange to private interests. This "green revolution" has been the primary vehicle of stripping human rights from land and water bodies and allowing land grab by mega-energy-corporations.
It is this slim majority again, the dictators, stripping human rights from "everyone" and acting as mega-corporations' best partner in crime. Lumber, mining, meat/dairy production, and off-shore oil/gas exploration are the primary aggressors here. Land/Water GRUB = late capitalism

Where industry used to occupy the little property to organize mass production, today industry is occupying the vast majority of land and water, squeezing the exploited and oppressed in small spaces and ultimate dependence to exchanging labor and resources.

## THE OWNERSHIP OF THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION is the ONLY thing that matters.

Should there be a choice for people to collectively exit the system of exchange and form a collective system of sharing work and products?

#marxism #anarchism #communism #communalism #corporatism #dialectic #materialism #IWW #libertarian #libertarianism #neoliberalism #theory #wobblies #socialism ?

@yogthos @Heretical_i

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#caraïbes #martinique #plongée #préservationsousmarine

Tof'Michaels

2025-01-02 11:39:55

[Martinique 2024] Tour d'horizon rapide à 20 mètres

Dans cette vidéo, je vous invite à untour d'horizon rapide dans les eaux cristallines de la Martinique. Équipé d'une GoPro, je vous offre une perspective unique à environ 20 mètres de profondeur, où la richesse de l'écosystème marin des Caraïbes se dévoile dans toute sa splendeur.
Il est important de se rappeler l'importance de la préservation de ces environnements fragiles, particulièrement en Martinique ou la préservation de l'environnement n'est pas toujours aussi bien suivie qu'ailleurs sur la planèute.
Cette plongée met en lumière non seulement la beauté des fonds marins martiniquais, mais aussi les défis de conservation auxquels ils font face.
Pour les plongeurs expérimentés et les amateurs, cette vidéo offre un aperçu très rapide des conditions de plongée à 20 mètres.
Abonnez-vous pour plus de contenus sur l'exploration sous-marine et la protection des écosystèmes marins.

Last week, I decided to treat myself to breakfast at Burger King, and I was genuinely surprised at how good their breakfast menu is! They’ve got everything you could want to kick-start your morning, from classic breakfast sandwiches to more hearty platters. I went for their iconic Croissan’wich, and let me tell you—it was buttery, flaky perfection. The eggs were fluffy, the sausage had just the right amount of spice, and the melted cheese tied everything together. Paired with a steaming cup of coffee and some crispy hash browns, it was the perfect way to fuel up for the day.

What I love about the Burger King breakfast menu is the variety. Whether you're in the mood for something sweet, like their French Toast Sticks, or a protein-packed breakfast burrito, there’s something for everyone. Even their value deals are great if you're looking for a quick and affordable option on the go. Honestly, it’s a lifesaver for those busy mornings when I don’t have time to cook but still want something satisfying. If you haven’t tried their breakfast yet, it’s worth stopping by!