Aaron Wolf @wolftune@social.coop

"Donald Shoup is the Richard Stallman of parking" — me, lunch conversation #SeaGL2018

An amazing 6-minute scifi look into where surveillance capitalism is taking us:

http://hyper-reality.co

preview of new Frontline investigative overview of Facebook's surveillance capitalism: https://youtu.be/3KoU4t_2U2I

Been distracted from other priorities by trying to stay somewhat engaged with promoting the STAR voting campaign in Lane County, OR — the first initiative anywhere in the world to implement this truly better democratic voting system…

https://www.starvoting.us

A good effort to frame sexual assault politics:

https://web.archive.org/web/20181009171152/https://www.boredpanda.com/nut-kicking-analogy-brett-kavanaugh-case/

(using archive.org link to not link to ad-focused aggregator of stuff from ad-focused social media where the original stuff was posted)

https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/09/26/we-need-a-post-liberal-order-now

Yuval Noah Harari says we face 3 global challenges:

* climate
* automation
* nuclear war deterrence

ask all high-level politicians what they plan to do about these things and don't support anyone who won't or can't engage with them

http://www.review.upeace.org/pdf.cfm?articulo=124

That's most thorough overview I found discussing #restorativejustice and #transformativejustice

Emphasizes that RJ replaces dysfunctional retribution approaches but TJ takes RJ and pushes for more acknowledgement of systemic context, and thus provides more capacity for producing systemic change.

Excellent short post: https://emu.edu/now/restorative-justice/2016/07/22/on-safe-spaces/

Too much emphasis on always feeling safe can mean avoiding chances for profound growth — notably (but not only) when privileged people avoid contexts where their privileges are reduced.

Looking deeper into #restorativejustice and #transformativejustice I found http://www.zehr-institute.org to be the most valuable and inspiring resource so far. Clear articles and perspectives. This seems to me among the most valuable principles in all of human life. Superlatives feel valid here.

@strypey You're missing one of the most core 100% free software projects at https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/for-profit-freedom-forges

#Discourse

They are truly uncompromised, 100% FLO. Business model based on paid support and hosting etc.

Forbes overview of flawed but well-intentioned Whatsapp cofounder leaving Facebook and funding #Signal was an insightful read.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2018/09/26/exclusive-whatsapp-cofounder-brian-acton-gives-the-inside-story-on-deletefacebook-and-why-he-left-850-million-behind/

I'd like to hear about examples where someone observes a broad political conflict as a truly complete outsider and notices the patterns of communication dysfunctions…

I'm sure it's similar (but not identical) to a therapist mediating an interpersonal conflict.

I wonder how much people who do have such outsider experiences still fail to map any insights onto political conflicts where they are insiders…

Came across yet another example in the countless list of cases where:

I witness two people I am certain have good faith in engaging on some political topic have a completely dysfunctional interaction online because of accusations of bad faith.

I have no doubt this is vastly more common than actual bad faith (although with billions of people online, the bad-faith examples are still in the millions, unfortunately)

@cwebber how can I follow you but see only the small fraction of your massive quantities of postings that are generally applicable to FLO, politics, or I dunno, remarkable…? Your stream is just such a high quantity of stuff that overloads everything else I might follow…

Perhaps there are hashtags you suggest I follow that you often use?

P.S. https://archive.org/details/snowdrift-dot-coop-intro will be on Snowdrift.coop homepage soon…