"Working towards a future where communities can assemble their own social networks like lego blocks, to cultivate safe and private spaces while being interconnected with the rest of the "fediverse" and the internet at wide on their own terms."
-- we've just updated our new bonfire homepage :)
https://bonfirenetworks.org/

**neil** @neil@social.coop · Jul 11, 2021, 12:31

**neil** @neil@social.coop · Jul 11, 2021, 12:31

Jul 11, 2021, 12:31

neil @neil@social.coop

What’s the digital note taking equivalent of underlining something three times, circling it, and drawing an arrow to it labelled with YESSS!!

I feel like I’m missing this from ye olde paper and pencil days.

**neil** · Jul 10, 2021, 19:28

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**Librarian socialist** @syndikalista@anticapitalist.party · Jul 10, 2021, 19:28

Jul 10, 2021, 19:28

Librarian socialist @syndikalista@anticapitalist.party

Today I learned that “rivals,” originally, just meant two people who lived on the banks of the same river.

But, since people who live on the same river usually fight over water rights, the word “rivals” came to mean anybody in an “unfriendly competition.”

From Richard Trench’s ON THE STUDY OF WORDS, 1878

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**neil** · Jul 10, 2021, 12:46

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**🪐 Nora Tindall, cyber aspect** @tindall@cybre.space · Jul 10, 2021, 12:46

Jul 10, 2021, 12:46

🪐 Nora Tindall, cyber aspect @tindall@cybre.space

that is to say, people being selfish in a system that rewards them for being selfish is not evidence that people are fundamentally selfish

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**neil** @neil@social.coop · Jul 11, 2021, 10:51

**neil** @neil@social.coop · Jul 11, 2021, 10:51

Jul 11, 2021, 10:51

neil @neil@social.coop

"This would entail a shift away from the short-term stream-centred approach of mainstream social media, where users experience content as isolated posts with little relation to what has come before them or what will follow them."

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**neil** @neil@social.coop · Jul 11, 2021, 10:51

**neil** @neil@social.coop · Jul 11, 2021, 10:51

Jul 11, 2021, 10:51

neil @neil@social.coop

Very wiki / garden / agora adjacent to me.

"Memory/narrative. Given the importance of strategy and grand strategy in anarchist cybernetics, functionality in an alternative digital platform to support long-term planning, for example through facilitating a narrative- or memory-focused layer to communication and organising, would be essential." -- Anarchist Cybernetics

**neil** @neil@social.coop · Jul 11, 2021, 08:06

**neil** @neil@social.coop · Jul 11, 2021, 08:06

Jul 11, 2021, 08:06

neil @neil@social.coop

"Here too local minorities can and do control their own means of production and expression in free and equal intercourse with their neighbours. If we must identify biological and political systems our own brains would seem to illustrate the capacity and limitations of an anarcho-syndicalist community." Grey Walter

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**neil** @neil@social.coop · Jul 11, 2021, 08:06

**neil** @neil@social.coop · Jul 11, 2021, 08:06

Jul 11, 2021, 08:06

neil @neil@social.coop

"In comparing social with cerebral organisations one important feature of the brain should be kept in mind; we find no boss in the brain, no oligarchic ganglion or glandular Big Brother. Within our heads our very lives depend on equality of opportunity, on specialisation with versatility, on free communication and just restraint, a freedom without interference." Grey Walter

**neil** · Jul 10, 2021, 23:30

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**Leo Sammallahti** @LeoSammallahti@social.coop · Jul 10, 2021, 23:30

Jul 10, 2021, 23:30

Leo Sammallahti @LeoSammallahti@social.coop

What are some examples of free-to-use ways to utilise public spaces to foster social capital? Or new ideas?

Few examples:
- BBQ grills in Australian parks
- Dog-parks in Finland
- Chess and checkers tables in New York

**neil** · Jul 10, 2021, 16:57

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**Cory Doctorow's linkblog** @pluralistic@mamot.fr · Jul 10, 2021, 16:57

Jul 10, 2021, 16:57

Cory Doctorow's linkblog @pluralistic@mamot.fr

The Biden administration teased a sweeping antimonopoly executive order last week, including a Right to Repair provision aimed at agricultural equipment - a direct assault on the corporate power of repair archnemesis John Deere. It

https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/07/instrumentalism/#r2r

But it turns out that the executive order goes far beyond tractors and other agricultural equipment - it also applies to consumer electronics, including mobile phones, and this is a *huge fucking deal*.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3d5yb/bidens-right-to-repair-executive-order-covers-electronics-not-just-tractors

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**neil** · Jul 10, 2021, 13:01

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**pinkprius [en]** @pinkprius@chaos.social · Jul 10, 2021, 13:01

Jul 10, 2021, 13:01

pinkprius [en] @pinkprius@chaos.social

I am looking for a #podcast or #youtube channel that has content focused on personal growth. Like motivational stuff and dealing with yourself and others, dealing with emotions etc?
It is important that it is made by people with a leftist mindset, I don't want them to pretend money or women are the solution to my problems.
Maybe a podcast with interviews with inspiring leftists could work, they should have had similar problems as me.
Does any of this exist?

**neil** · Jul 09, 2021, 21:45

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**Kat Marchán 🐈** @zkat@toot.cat · Jul 09, 2021, 21:45

Jul 09, 2021, 21:45

Kat Marchán 🐈 @zkat@toot.cat

Open Source Maintainers!

Community contributions (contribs coming from outside a paid, core team), are:

**neil** · Jul 10, 2021, 05:13

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**deadsuperhero** @sean@social.deadsuperhero.com · Jul 10, 2021, 05:13

Jul 10, 2021, 05:13

deadsuperhero @sean@social.deadsuperhero.com

Seriously, though, count the sheer amount of platforms there are: https://zotlabs.com/

Fucking seven of them.

And make no mistake, each phase has provided groundbreaking results to how it all works underneath the hood. The guy has largely single-handedly developed a self-healing DNS-agnostic network that allows users to create relays of themselves across multiple domains, with an elaborate permissions system and every feature you could find from most social networks, and it still doesn't get adopted into most fediverse platforms, plus cloud storage and file syncronization and calendars and all kinds of other stuff.

It's astonishing, fascinating, and intensely frustrating.

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**neil** @neil@social.coop · Jul 09, 2021, 21:09

**neil** @neil@social.coop · Jul 09, 2021, 21:09

Jul 09, 2021, 21:09

neil @neil@social.coop

adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy is "inspired by Octavia Butler’s explorations of our human relationship to change".

God is Change! I feel like I should read this soon.

https://www.akpress.org/emergentstrategy.html

**neil** @neil@social.coop · Jul 09, 2021, 21:08

**neil** @neil@social.coop · Jul 09, 2021, 21:08

Jul 09, 2021, 21:08

neil @neil@social.coop

Solarpunk and Storytelling the Present and Future. Nice wee podcast on some solarpunk stuff.

https://thefirethisti.me/2021/06/25/81-solarpunk-and-storytelling-the-present-and-future-with-phoebe-wagner/

**neil** @neil@social.coop · Jul 09, 2021, 18:28

**neil** @neil@social.coop · Jul 09, 2021, 18:28

Jul 09, 2021, 18:28

neil @neil@social.coop

I realised I was subscribed to pretty much zero podcasts that aren’t presented from a wholly Western perspective. This one is good and isn’t: https://thefirethisti.me/

Any other suggestions?