Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 148

@jkb ... because it's well-established that some chemicals are physically addictive, to the point that there is physical as well as psychological suffering when they're withdrawn. It's equally clear from that research that opioids are among the most addictive substances, and that cannabis use does *not* create chemical dependence in this way, although like gambling or sex, it can be the focus of self-sabotaging habits.

@jkb I'm aware of the psychological theories that self-sabotaging habits can be caused by an obsessive-compulsive condition, rather than being caused by the thing people are addicted to. This is clearly the case with non-chemical "addictions" to gambling, sex, the net, and so on. I would argue we need a word to describe these, and a different word to describe chemical dependence.

@jeffcliff if it was a global governance body, like say the WTO, I would use "globalizing" rather than "internationalizing". To me, the word "international" implies a recognition of national sovereignty. The UN is an international body, a federation of sovereign states, which is also taking steps to recognize the indigenous nations within their borders. The WTO has set itself up as a sort of global Supreme Court, suppressing the exercise of local sovereignty when it interferes with corporations.

@jeffcliff I'd say that's still a form of privatization. A lot of people who study #NeoLiberalism would say that the "handover" or "sale" of public assets is usually backed by some kind of implicit or explicit threat, or carried out by buying off the decision-makers (ie corruption), and so it's not really a voluntary transaction. See Jane Kelsey's 'The New Zealand Experiment'.

@jeffcliff if it's a not-for-profit structure, again, it depends. If a government owned the copyright on a package of software, and decided to free the code and hand it over to a stewardship body like the #ApacheFoundation that operates at a global scale, that wouldn't be privatizing, more like "commoning" or even "collectizing". "Internationalizing" doesn't really fit here, even though you could argue that's what's happening.

@jeffcliff that depends what kind of global structure we're talking about. If it's a corporation, the standard term is "privatizing", although like "nationalizing", it's a somewhat misleading term, that implies something quite different to the way it's actually used as a technical term. I wrote about this a few years ago in a piece called 'privacy not privatization'.

A more personal #introduction. I enjoy #SciFi and #comedy. I've done some writing of both short stories and comedy skits, and keen to share more creative work along these lines, under #CreativeCommons licenses. I'm a keen performer, from #Shakespeare to #improv to #juggling to playing music, and keen to get back into these activities too. I'm passionate about #permaculture, the #Transition movement, and other forms of ethical and ecological design. I'm also vegan (been post-meat since mid-90s).

#Introduction career activist and professional volunteer from Aotearoa (NZ). Co-founder of numerous community projects, including a community newspaper, #CoWorking space, #MicroRadio station, #SocialCentre, the Aotearoa sections of #Indymedia and #CreativeCommons, and the Aotearoa Permaculture Network. These days, I publish long-form blogs at #Disintermedia. I'd love to hear from you about common interests, my contact info and more about my project history is here:
https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/danyl-strype

Reasons for clicking favourite on things can include saving them to read, to listen to, or to watch, or to research, to respond to, and many people just use 'favourite' as an 'I agree' button (why they don't just boost things they like enough to click a button to agree with I don't know, but ...). I'd love to be able to sort my 'favourites' into categories, so I could click 'watch' if I'm looking for videos. Even better if I could sort worky videos separately from entertainment videos.

Listening to 'Language of Violence' by Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. Occurs to me that calling anyone who doesn't agree with ones particular doctrines on identity politics a "fascist" is also weaponizing language to dehumanize people, and potentially rationalize violence against them.

@io @lynnesbian LMFAO #GeekHumour

#DocumentViewer opened the .pdf and .epub files, no problem, but I can't find a way to make it zoom the text to a comfortable size *and* wrap the words to the screen width at the same time.

#ComfortReader looks promising, but it doesn't seem to be able to open a .pdf on #Android 4.2.2, and trying to open an .epub made it crash.

Even though normal touchscreens aren't as easy to look at as e-ink screens, it ought to be possible to read a book on them. What I need is an app that can present a text at a comfortable size for extended reading sessions, while still fitting it to the screen width, and using colour, contrast, fonts etc that make it as easy on the eyes as humanly possible.

@nat or they are an actual classic liberal, but they don't understand their own school of thought in much depth. And/or they are being deployed as useful idiots to run interference on behalf of people trying to get away with stealing from the public. At some point, I'd really like to see a First Principles commission of inquiry into all the privatizations in my country, and see some huge fines paid, and some people go to jail for grand larceny.

@clacke then again, watching #LindsayEllis give the Transformers movies an amusing autopsy using a range of critical lenses, in her video essay series 'The Whole Plate', makes me happy, so ...
https://invidio.us/playlist?list=PLJGOq3JclTH8J73o2Z4VMaSYZDNG3xeZ7

@clacke different strokes for different folks I guess, bro. But I don't see the connection between a 3 minute long comedy song that never fails to lift my mood, and a nearly 3 hour long movie that never fails to make me sad about the massive film-making resources that were wasted on it, and its mostly terrible sequels.

@z428 don't despair ;-) These things evolve in waves. There was a time, not even that long ago, that LiveJournal, Friendster, and MySpace were the all-powerful incumbents, and YT, FB and the birdsite were the scrappy underdogs. Go back another decade or so, and the net and the web were the underdogs, struggling to carve out a niche in a media ecosystem dominated by TV, radio, and print.
@charlag @lightone

@jd I remember reading Ferguson's critique of Steven Pinker's book 'The Angels of our Better Nature'. He seems to really know his stuff on this topic.