I've been on Mastodon over at
https://social.weho.st/@dazinism
I'm based in the UK and into food, land, tech and people collaborating to manage them.
I'm involved in a few projects -
https://www.ourfieldproject.org/ 40 people using online tools to collaborate managing a field
http://travellingtoolbox.org.uk/ is a mobile hackspace/workshop set up to help environmental & community projects build & fix tools and infrastructure
http://farmhack.org/wiki/soilhack-wiki Soilhack is a peer 2 peer learning network
Podcast with an early participant telling tales of the 50 year old multi-national intentional community Longo Mai
The particularly interesting things to me is that they based themselves around agricultural production, raised capital with crowd funding & didnt aim for insular 'self sufficient' - but have achieved a lot by also having a keen focus on outreach & solidarity, locally & globally
https://soundcloud.com/earthcarefieldcast/longomai
Theres also a great article about them https://thelandmagazine.org.uk/articles/forty-years-longo-ma%C3%AF
#agroecology
I'd love to see a book written on getting started with the indieweb, aimed at people who don't have much experience with computers. Part course on tech literacy, part how-to guide on how to escape the grips of big tech companies. Anyone know if something like that already exists? If not, I'm kind of interested in writing one, so if you are too, send me a message.
Boosts appreciated, and also tagging this in #askfedi
Podcast with an early participant telling tales of the 50 year old multi-national intentional community Longo Mai
The particularly interesting things to me is that they based themselves around agricultural production, raised capital with crowd funding & didnt aim for insular 'self sufficient' - but have achieved a lot by also having a keen focus on outreach & solidarity, locally & globally
https://soundcloud.com/earthcarefieldcast/longomai
Theres also a great article about them https://thelandmagazine.org.uk/articles/forty-years-longo-ma%C3%AF
#agroecology
Using 2FA phone numbers for targeted advertising. One of the dumbest ways ever for a company to abuse its users’ trust. Take a bow, Twitter. And have a $150 million fine too.
https://grahamcluley.com/twitter-2fa-phone-number-advertising/
Great source of info on worker cooperative employment, especially at #Mondragon: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Geert-Reuten/publication/357437913_The_Employment_Performance_of_the_Mondragon_Worker_Cooperatives_1983-2019/links/61d869e9b8305f7c4b2a6f08/The-Employment-Performance-of-the-Mondragon-Worker-Cooperatives-1983-2019.pdf?origin=publication_detail
The rich extremists are making more people suffer and die every year.
Tax Billionaire Wealth and Pandemic Profits, Says Oxfam, to End 'Inequality That Literally Kills'
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/23/tax-billionaire-wealth-and-pandemic-profits-says-oxfam-end-inequality-literally
Reading notes
No one thinks matsutake will bring Japan back to its pre-bubble glory. Rather than redemption, matsutake-forest revitalization picks through the heap of alienation. In the process, volunteers acquire the patience to mix with multispecies others without knowing where the process is going.
Mushroom at the End of the World p264
So alienation is not a state of sin or fall from grace but a kind of opening, a clearing, a disturbed and impure space in which to cultivate co-existence.
Do you know Foxglove’s work defending Facebook content moderators? https://www.foxglove.org.uk/
If you make memes join their meme party this afternoon 🦊🥊
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkcemqqT8sGdHqhigypSNczzyZvwSVbezY
(I am trying to convince them to participate here in the Fediverse where there is a wealth of knowledge about content moderation.)
Last day to apply for this opportunity ⏲️!
We seek a creative video producer to develop engaging audiovisual material for journalists, media, and civil society members interested in investigation techniques.
Don't miss out on this opportunity ⬇️ https://exposingtheinvisible.org/en/news/call-for-video-producer
🚩Join us today 8:30am PDT | 11:30am EDT | 5:30pm CEST to build synergies with organisations that #empower #citizens initiatives:
Our Sci LLC
City of Västerås
Politics for Tomorrow
Open Collective Europe
The Civic Hacker Network
Knowle West Media Centre
A.D.C.I.D. (Aiding Dramatic Change in Development)
lala.ruhr - the landscape and architecture laboratory
Sign up via Open Collective & get Meeting Link:
👉https://opencollective.com/proofing-future-europe/projects/making-citizens-heard
bonfire-networks/activity_pub https://github.com/bonfire-networks/activity_pub
Modular ActivityPub library in Elixir
This looks very interesting, I’ve not seen much ActivityPub in the Elixir space apart from Pleroma.
#Elixir #Project #ActivityPub(https://inhji.de/notes/bonfire-networks-activity-pub)
EU folks, the latest @EU_Commission proposal for scanning private communications and undermining end-to-end encryption is an extreme threat to privacy.
It threatens the right to meaningful encryption and would force your communications to be subject to scanning and classification by AI outside of your control. Truly dystopian shit.
This won't become law without the EU parliament's assent, so please follow this closely and speak up. See EDRI's analysis here:
A useful accompanying chart contrasts the two approaches; where Subsidiarity relies on "social context," Global Redundancy is "Contextless." Subsidiarity has "Commons governance;" Global Redundancy has "Coin-voting governance." Some of these contrasts are very abstract but important, for example, Subsidiarity uses "Distributed permissioning" while Global Redundancy is "Permissioned through fungible assets."
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In computer graphics, Blender has supplanted expensive modeling and rendering programs for teams who aren't tied into an existing ecosystem. I feel like FreeCAD is about to do the same thing to suites like SolidWorks. I was a FreeCAD user for several years before trying solidworks and I expected it to be radically better because it is an industry standard and expensive. It does have features that FreeCAD doesn't but other open SW has filled the gaps.
Climate breakdown realtalk, India/Pakistan, scaremongering but based on pretty obvious extrapolations. Negative.
@fedops I'd stop well-short of using a word like "reckless" - historically, these regions have had a fantastic carrying capacity for sustainable livelihoods, the glaciers provided sustainable year-round freshwater.
The recklessness lies chiefly with Europeans and western North Americans who changed the global climate so that the glaciers are dying. We did this.
Though there is a powerful class within India and Pakistan who know what is happening and are not preparing to prevent it, and to hell with those people. The people of Pakistan and India deserve better.
#meet.coop will hold our eighth session in the #commons.hour series on the fourth Monday in May:
Sophie Bloemen (Commons Network, European Municipalist Network, ROSA - Right to the City Amsterdam)
Public-civic collaboration, coop incubators and stewarding digital infrastructure as a commons
Sign up and details here:
https://forum.meet.coop/t/signup-commons-hour-session-8/1002
Thanks to the wonderful @milan and his tube.tchncs.de , our https://solarisecon.org/ will be streamed live on PeerTube!
Saturday, May the 28th, CEST timezone:
14:00 - Real Solarpunk Technology
https://tube.tchncs.de/w/dckMS3s8t4iQ1DRMDdBk94
15:45 - Empowering Future Communities
https://tube.tchncs.de/w/gtAWuNwUGVAvcLyMYkDCj6
17:30 - Is Solarpunk Just Another Style?
https://tube.tchncs.de/w/mttsLKtY3ZprrAJN89Sng9
19:15 - What's Holding Us Back From A Better Tomorrow?
https://tube.tchncs.de/w/mB5oxCG7mH5FYbuUubN1uA
food, trees, land, tech and people collaborating to manage/steward them