Gregory's ServerRe-posting here for the good..
Very glad to announce the first 72hr Collapsible writing sprint - The Collapsathon!
Pls share widely. Let's do this!
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Took the bus to town, everyone's on their phones. Got to town, everyone's on their phones. I want to see a photography exhibition of people waiting for the train, vaping on the back porch, in a queue at a concert, friends sitting opposite at a cafe - all of them looking at their hand as though holding an invisible phone. @JulianOliver There has been an artist doing exactly this some years ago. I don‘t find the pictures at the moment but there is also an exhibition showing something like that: https://www.br.de/nachrichten/kultur/the-world-in-my-hand-das-smartphone-in-der-kunst,UAkt5g5   @JulianOliver That people so badly abused have to run into the ocean for a few scraps (relatively) of food. The only people more dehumanized by all of these kinds of wars/degrading of other humans, are the perpetrators of murder, starvation, abuse..... Calling all off-gridders, frontline gardeners, fastidious foragers, community-facing survivalists, radio geeks, degrowthers, organisation theorists, seed bankers, disaster researchers and dumpster-diving technologists! We're writing a wiki for uncertain times, using the Fedi as a knowledge-harvester. Sign up to Collapsible.Systems and help us do it!
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@JulianOliver i have my own server, but I have a lot of friends who may dig this. Can I share on another platform?  @JulianOliver I’m hopeful that this can be a useful resource and aggregator. One of the tough things about this space is not falling into the paranoia and militarism trap, so I’m heartened by the server CoC. I like the idea of the wiki, but also don't need another Mastodon account. In the same way that I don't need another email address. The point of federation is thar we can all talk regardless of where the account is hosted. Atmospheric carbon continues to rise, along with potent GHG's CH4 and N2O. Governments the world over are evidently doing whatever they can to avoid addressing it directly as an emergency. UAE, a petrostate, will host the next COP. Many scientists place ~450ppm atmospheric CO2e to be the point of no return, whereby self-reinforcing feedbacks become so established that any imagined means of reducing carbon beyond this point becomes futile. It's getting late.  @JulianOliver Honestly, we've as a species decided to extinct ourselves at this point. I don't really see a path out of this one by now. Me might have the technical means to do various kinds of cleanup, and maybe activists will help us make useful strides here or there, but I firmly believe we're just fucked: the *huge* behavioral and political changes necessary to save us are scary and would require too many scary things to happen (read: almost certainly heads rolling) along the way. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI "Nobody wants to destroy the world." also Sam Altman (2016): "I have guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force and a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to.” Received an automated txt on one of my phones that from 2024 all of Aotearoa New Zealand will have mobile coverage, thanks to a "collaboration with SpaceX" (Starlink). I'm saddened not only because Starlink is the orbital overreach of a mad king, but bc we're about to lose our offline worlds - deep valleys where one can walk for days off grid. The centering of being involuntarily un-contactable, left solely with what you carry & know, of being defaulted to animal in an indifferent landscape  @JulianOliver Not *all* those NZ deep valleys are completely without communication - eg some farmers plant VHF relay stations on the mountaintops so that they've got communication with their family and workers up and down the farm.  @JulianOliver same deal for sailors... now ppl can go anchor in a beautiful secluded anchorage far from cities and everyone... and still watch Netflix.. .>_>. Constantly filling quiet with noise. Prayware. These technologies of fatal hope, tech we look to spare us from our own obscene destruction of our home planet, and as we continue to destroy it, technology like solar geoengineering, CCS/NETs, and offset markets  Major report on the economics of water finds demand for fresh water globally will outstrip supply by about 40%, 7 years from now. "No person, place, economy or ecosystem will be spared.” Report cites 7 calls for action needed to mitigate what it sees to be an imminent & near-future water crisis. They're worth a read Report site: https://turningthetide.watercommission.org/ @JulianOliver total aside, but this was the trend that led me to ultimately create a water forecasting company. Hoping to broadly release accurate, public forecasts around the world this year. Hitachi HDD: Z7K320-250 / 250GB / SATA 3.0Gb/s.
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 @JulianOliver :blobcatsweat: i mean its reasonable to use a drill but its quite new to me to delete data with a longbow
Disappointed to read that Chile's proposed new constitution, to replace that of the Pinochet era, was rejected by a majority of voters. A telling reminder of its socio-political heritage as a European colony and patriarchy. (source Guardian) @JulianOliver and of the media and social-advertising platforms pwned by capitalists retrogrades forces ... :/
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@JulianOliver the use of "decolonisation"/"colonisation" in this context weakens the word and what colonisation often was: a brutal regime full of violence, death and cultural genocide. Also, using the concept of "digital colonisation" just because in this particular case, the group affected was from an non-angloeuropean indigenous background in itself shows a good amount of racist ideas, imho. tl,dr: Words have meanings. Don't abuse words   I'm mighty stoked and excited to let you all know about a new boutique consultancy my partner and I have launched. It's called Nīkau, and it's got a lot to give. https://nikau.io  |
Huge thanks to the very talented Eltons for the flyer - made entirely in Blender!
Check out his work at https://theycallmeelton.online