Gert V @gert@social.coop
Collective Intelligence
Commons Compute Infrastructure
Degrowth hacking
Nonprofit coops
https://gert.home.xs4all.nl/blog/
Joined Jul 2018
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Oh shoot.
It's #EarthOvershootDay already.
Governments need to turn this destruction around.
#ClimateAction, anyone?
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The excess of capitalism leads to the necessity of an anti-crisis movement. The movement will focus on two keys to re-balance: social equality and the international commons: air, water and space.
The international commons is not for sale. It equally belongs to all of us and we belong to it. The continuous capitalist operations and growing amount of pollution, trashing, mining, trading, depletion and destruction are forcing us to declare it a trade-free zone.
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A massive ice melting event is taking place in #Greenland, according to @PolarPortal
It would be enough to cover Florida in 2 inches (5 cm) of water
Not as extreme as 2019 in terms of gigatons but the melt area is a bit larger than 2 years ago.
#ClimateChange #ClimateAction
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As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
-- Mikhail Bakunin
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#Yacutia in eastern #Siberia is known as the land of permafrost
It is now burning
#Copernicus #Sentinel2 image 26 July of a big fire almost 800km2 in one of the coldest parts of Russia.
Fires in Russian Federation started in May
via @PlatformAdam
#ClimateAction
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@aral Eventually I could envision Digital Post Offices, that coordinate routine transportation of data from point A to B, using efficient tools with the requirement that these can fully function on a RaspberryPi or a laptop.
@aral Trade-free zone sounds very similar to solidarity zone to me, I'll have both.
Gert V
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Man thought that the important thing was to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be. The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is.
-- Oscar Wilde
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In 2014, I gave a talk called Free is a Lie at a run-of-the-mill, dime-a-dozen, Silicon-Valley-worshiping Big Tech/surveillance capitalism conference in the Netherlands.
Yesterday, I learned that they unlisted my talk on *spit* YouTube and that it might be removed.
https://twitter.com/ribasushi/status/1418262501704282115
https://twitter.com/l18cp/status/1418281939778277380
Today, I archived it so you can keep watching it for as long as you want to.
#FreeIsALie #PeopleFarming #SiliconValley #BigTech #SurveillanceCapitalism
@aral When we talk about distributed data in smallTech, we also respect off-line communities and people who turn their computer off at night.
@aral Webdb is stable enough for now. Next is rssqueue.
Take any rss feed and convert it to distributed data. The LibreTech Documentary Club (vo) is interested, they exfilter metadata from https://rapidmoviez.site/feed
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Smoke from #wildfires in #Canada & #USA is affecting air quality in #Iceland, as forecast by
@CopernicusECMWF
#Copernicus #Sentinel5p satellite carbon monoxide total column image on July 2
via @PlatformAdam
#ClimateAction
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Release Lua Webdb 0.2.1
wget http://se.citiwise.eu/downloads/webdb-0.2.1.tgz
sha256sum webdb-0.2.1.tgz
1444bc919ced2c6fc5e5001e47484b11808d6b4bd3156ef3e376df2cb7058657 webdb-0.2.1.tgz
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✈️ One long-haul plane flight: 1-3 tons of CO2 per passenger
🚀 One rocket launch: 200-300 tonnes of carbon dioxide for four passengers
Space tourism is peak #BullshitFlights.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/19/billionaires-space-tourism-environment-emissions
German Chancellor Confronted over Blocking Patent Waiver for COVID-19 Vaccines
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Two months of #rain in 2 days
#Germany reels from devastating and deadly #flooding
from @DWD_presse
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**How the Pandemic Fueled Global Hunger: 2.5 Billion Lack Nutritious Food, 1 in 5 Children Are Stunted**
"The COVID-19 pandemic has fueled a sharp increase in the number of people going hungry worldwide, along with conflict and the impacts of climate change. A new report on the state of food security and nutrition in the world found about one-tenth of the global population were undernourished…"
http://www.democracynow.org/2021/7/15/2020_world_hunger_report
We (the 99%) know that capitalism can no longer continue without causing more crisis.
Perhaps the best thing to do is to start a anti-crisis movement.
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It’s not just unusual and extreme weather in Europe, it’s the climate crisis. And this is only the beginning if governments continue to prioritize profits over people and the planet. We cannot afford to wait any longer on climate action; the time to act is NOW.
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Collective Intelligence
Commons Compute Infrastructure
Degrowth hacking
Nonprofit coops
https://gert.home.xs4all.nl/blog/
Joined Jul 2018
