dazinism @dazinism@social.coop

Coming soon: 2021-07-30 at 9:00 PM UTC

@kclegacion presents:

Convivial social media: A comparative case study of Twitter and Mastodon from a degrowth perspective

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there are some extremely interesting and could be relevant presentations for social.coop coming up at the scholar.social #SummerSchool - see https://scholar.social/@SummerSchool/106602742858349984

Coming soon: 2021-08-02 at 11:00 PM UTC

@theruran presents:

How do we design computers that satisfy human needs without undermining human rights & safety?

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@activitypub

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Policy Meeting today at 5pm CET

The meeting URL is
https://bbb.w3c.social/b/seb-lld-rxj-zdg

#mastoadmin bi-annual reminder that Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London continues to operate a long-term fediverse spying operation without any explanation

grep your webserver logs for 138.37.89.234, you’ll probably find that IP keeping tabs on you constantly. Drop it in your firewall blocklist while you’re at it and encourage your friends to do the same; there has been no legitimate fedi traffic from that entire netblock. My server was last rebooted only a fortnight ago and since then it’s seen over fifteen thousand connection attempts from this one address

in case you can’t see the first post in this thread, this clownshow has been going on since 2020. Nothing else i’ve been watching has been half as persistent or aggressive

My new article: "More Leisure Should Be Coupled With Making Leisure Better".

https://www.mutualinterest.coop/2021/07/more-leisure-should-be-coupled-with-making-leisure-better

Reductions in working hours should be combined with policies that enable and encourage people to use their spare time in ways that are beneficial to themselves and others, like exercising or editing Wikipedia.

We should also stop our obsession with measuring success with GDP and shareholder value.

Published on Mutual Interest, free-to-read online media coop owned by the readers and writers.

Means TV is offering a pay-what-you-can option, if $10/month is too steep for you. Now you can watch a #WorkerOwned streaming service for $0-9/month. It's enough to make a capitalist cry. Email CONTACT@MEANS.MEDIA for their sliding scale subscriptions.

https://means.tv

Now that the conversation around racism in the UK has some positive momentum it's a really good time to plug the book Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge. It's an excellent and deservedly popular UK-centric starting point to understanding racism here. It's a straightforward, honest, uncondescending and accessible book that lays a great foundation for developing an understanding of racism and its context here and also your own anti-racism. 1/2

In Congo they call them 'Chukwudus' in Kenya we call them 'Chokobino'
https://youtu.be/XTy2aifnvRQ

Crazy: @chbmeyer says he asked #Renault what kind of personal data his car collects & shares with the company. #GDPR

Here you go, dystopian shit:

- Charging history
- Temperature
- Unique car & battery IDs
- Kilometres driven (battery)
- Operational state of engine
- Driving & parking history
- Data on speed, acceleration & deceleration
- Number of times ABS has been activated
- When airbags are deactivated
- Name, first name & email of owner
- Other electric vehicles in vicinity
- Geolocation

@dazinism And, if you are a member of Social.Coop,, you can use Meet.Coop for free! ;-)

An opportunity for Golang devs to work on a great FOSS project with funding: Bringing Gitea to the Fediverse with ActivityPub support and the ForgeFed protocol

https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/14186#issuecomment-875779897

#golang #gitea #fediverse #activitypub #forgefed #gofed #fedeproxy #foss

"MEET.coop - Online meetings based on shared values" article by Free Knowledge Institute: http://freeknowledge.eu/article/meetcoop-online-meetings-with-shared-values

#meetcoop #CooperativeClouds #commons #OnlineMeetings

"Nutrients from organic amendments and slow-release fertilizers stick around longer in the soil. They are plant-available only after microbes decompose them. We rely on living systems to make these nutrients available and to hold them in the soil. Fertile soils hold nutrients in the actual bodies of living and dead organisms, in spongy organic matter, or on the surfaces of soil minerals."

"Plants take up nutrients through their roots. This means that plant food must be dissolved in soil water. Quick-release and chemical fertilizers immediately dissolve into soil water, making them instantly available to plant roots. This is useful when a quick fix is needed to address a deficiency. On the other hand, it also means they are instantly vulnerable to being lost when water drains out of the soil."

Peak 90s cyber-utopianism. It really has a bit of everything.