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Julian Oliver

Re-posting here for the good..

Very glad to announce the first 72hr Collapsible writing sprint - The Collapsathon!

Pls share widely. Let's do this!

wiki.collapsible.systems

Julian Oliver

Huge thanks to the very talented Eltons for the flyer - made entirely in Blender!

Check out his work at theycallmeelton.online

Julian Oliver

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.

Markus Reuter

@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: br.de/nachrichten/kultur/the-w

Liz❤💃

@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.....

Julian Oliver

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!

collapsible.systems/about

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Pythia

@JulianOliver i have my own server, but I have a lot of friends who may dig this. Can I share on another platform?

ndpi

@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.

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@JulianOliver

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.

Julian Oliver

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.

permillion.live

spooky blip 👻

@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.

Julian Oliver

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.”

Julian Oliver

As was foreseen, & in a fairly major precedent, the NYPD has formally announced it is adopting the use of Spot the Digidog, a dog-like robot for use on active duty, recently seen running AWOL through a a public housing complex in Manhattan.

Alongside, it is testing the K5 Autonomous Security Robot, whose earlier version is famous for being slathered in barbecue sauce, while another iteration drowned itself in a public water fountain.

They are beta testing on civilians.

gothamist.com/news/robot-dogs-

As was foreseen, & in a fairly major precedent, the NYPD has formally announced it is adopting the use of Spot the Digidog, a dog-like robot for use on active duty, recently seen running AWOL through a a public housing complex in Manhattan.

Alongside, it is testing the K5 Autonomous Security Robot, whose earlier version is famous for being slathered in barbecue sauce, while another iteration drowned itself in a public water fountain.

Julian Oliver

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

Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

@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.

R E K

@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.
It scares me also, because ppl need fewer distractions for self-reflection, or to solve problems.

Julian Oliver

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

phrwn

@JulianOliver Prayerware sounds better, but this is beside the point.

Julian Oliver

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

Article: theguardian.com/environment/20

Report site: turningthetide.watercommission

marsh

@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.

upstream.tech/hydroforecast

Julian Oliver

For the locals: Cyclone Gabrielle is going to hit central and upper North Island here in #aotearoa #nz in a few days. Things will prob get messy. The advice as to preparedness is good, but solely relying on websites for travel & relief information during a CAT3 cyclone is not wise. Cell towers will fall, power cuts will knock out your broadband. Def grab an AM/FM radio over the weekend & learn to use it. Stash in your grab bag with a spare set of batteries in a ziplock.

rnz.co.nz/news/national/483992

For the locals: Cyclone Gabrielle is going to hit central and upper North Island here in #aotearoa #nz in a few days. Things will prob get messy. The advice as to preparedness is good, but solely relying on websites for travel & relief information during a CAT3 cyclone is not wise. Cell towers will fall, power cuts will knock out your broadband. Def grab an AM/FM radio over the weekend & learn to use it. Stash in your grab bag with a spare set of batteries in a ziplock.

Julian Oliver

Other things to pack aside those in the grab bag on the Get Ready site (just in case!)

- A good sharp knife, 12cm+
- Thermal sliver/gold blankets for each member of your family
- High protein snack bars or, say, zip-lock bag of cashew nuts (not just 'snacks')
- Simple carbon filter water purifying squeeze bag
- 20m+ of paracord 550
- Paracetamol
- Cigarette lighter (waterproofed)
- Whistle
- Permanent marker & little note book in ziplock
- Compass

Most you can get in 1 trip to a camping store

Other things to pack aside those in the grab bag on the Get Ready site (just in case!)

- A good sharp knife, 12cm+
- Thermal sliver/gold blankets for each member of your family
- High protein snack bars or, say, zip-lock bag of cashew nuts (not just 'snacks')
- Simple carbon filter water purifying squeeze bag
- 20m+ of paracord 550
- Paracetamol
- Cigarette lighter (waterproofed)
- Whistle
- Permanent marker & little note book in ziplock
- Compass

Julian Oliver

Hitachi HDD: Z7K320-250 / 250GB / SATA 3.0Gb/s.
Data erasure method: 50lb Longbow, two arrows at 15 yards.

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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
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@JulianOliver very nice, I would put an art hashtag on this

Julian Oliver

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)

Olm-e ☮️

@JulianOliver and of the media and social-advertising platforms pwned by capitalists retrogrades forces ... :/

Julian Oliver

More sanity from my home country: Māori tribal leaders & their advisers call for data sovereignty, to take back control of what is theirs. Cited is "an intergenerational approach to data, as a taonga (treasure)"

Self-hosting is included as a strategy, servers at home & on the marae (meeting house).

This initiative can be seen as a form of infrastructural de-colonisation, reclaiming what has been lost to the digital imperialism of AWS, Microsoft & other 'cloud' giants

rnz.co.nz/news/national/471967

More sanity from my home country: Māori tribal leaders & their advisers call for data sovereignty, to take back control of what is theirs. Cited is "an intergenerational approach to data, as a taonga (treasure)"

Self-hosting is included as a strategy, servers at home & on the marae (meeting house).

This initiative can be seen as a form of infrastructural de-colonisation, reclaiming what has been lost to the digital imperialism of AWS, Microsoft & other 'cloud' giants

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Matemann

@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

Julian Oliver

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. nikau.io

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