Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 152

@mlg maybe the fundamental difference between our views is that you see political and economic power as being separate , one represented by "states", the other by "markets", and that these are opposed to each other. I see political and economic power as two aspects of one system, more like the two blades of a pair of scissors than two competing forces.

@mlg I suggest checking out c4ss.org, and maybe the book Markets not Capitalism, it's probably the closest US equivalent to my perspective:
https://radgeek.com/gt/2011/10/14/markets-not-capitalism-1st-ed/

@mlg ... which is exactly why I predicted in the original post ;-)
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/101186697506710488

@RangerMauve @cod3monk3y@housecat the fundamental problem seems to be tying the long term addressing of online files to domains names, which have proved to be reliable only for short term hyperlinks. I know almost nothing about IPFS except that this is one of the problems it aims to solve. Surely if an IPFS address could point to a current location where a video is stored, HTTP and WebTorrent could do the rest?

I know I keep pimping 'Throwing Rocks ...' by #DougRushkoff, but it just does such a good job of explaining why corporate hierarchies and "investment" extract value out of things, rather than adding it, leading to the results described above. As does The Corporation:
https://kino.social/the-corporation-2003/

The idea that private hierarchies are inherently more "efficient" at running things than public administration, non-profits, or commons, has been disproved so many times by examples like these, it boggles the mind that some people still believe it.

There are so many similar examples in Aotearoa, where public infrastructure has been sold to "investors", who then asset-stripped them (railways), abused resulting monopolies (Telecom), or ran them into the ground (AirNZ), then finally sold the steaming remains back to the public for a higher price than we got when it was sold. The #RogerAwards have been reporting on this for years.

Look how "investment" by foreign capitalists helps us maintain and improve the infrastructure in our country ... NOT!
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/377817/waiwera-pools-to-stay-closed-for-most-of-summer

"But while we wait for researchers to successfully develop non-addictive painkillers ..." people who make comments like this in articles on sites with the word "science" in the name should be pelted with rotten fruit for not mentioning the obvious solution; medical cannabis. Now legal in over 30 US states. Excellent for pain relief. Well known to be non-addictive, and certainly much less habit-forming or toxic than opioids or alcohol.

"We should remember that opioids play an important role in helping patients manage acute and chronic pain alike", not to mention the important role they play in the massive profits earned every year by the pharmaceutical corporations that pump out this addictive, lethal demon-jizz. Oh and here's the punchline ...

Raeford Brown, anesthesiologist and pediatrician at the University of Kentucky, says “We’ve known for some time that there’s a relationship between the exposure to opioids ... and people becoming addicted to opioids". No shit Sherlock! ;-P

Just say not to drugs kids! Err ... unless the dentist gives you drugs from one of the most dangerous and addictive classes of drugs in existence. Then you can pop 'em like candy!
https://www.popsci.com/dental-surgery-adolescent-opioids
#EndProhibition

It's not a bad thing that all these videos are on YT, where people may stumble across them after watching some vaguely related TED Talk or something. But I'd love to see someone set up a #PeerTube instance for conference talks, or a network of them. How practical would it be to set up a PT instance for each conference that happens, on the same hosting as their homepage, and maybe set up mirroring arrangements between them?

Day 1 of Sowing the Seeds started off with a big picture overview by Michel Bauwens of the #P2PFoundation, and sociologist scholar and labour activist Professor Pun Ngai from the University of Hong Kong. She set out to place the #PlatformCooperative movement in the context of the Chinese socialist revolution, and I'm looking forward to rewatch this video and try to understand more deeply what she was arguing:
https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=gFTfdfg000Q&list=PLLwjsIMpn4X8VyNhIPG-YlHs9pq39zcRE&t=0s&index=4

Today I found videos of the presentations from 'Sowing the Seeds', the 2018 #PlatformCooperatives conference in #HongKong. Here's the playlist for day 1:
https://www.invidio.us/playlist?list=PLLwjsIMpn4X8VyNhIPG-YlHs9pq39zcRE

#OAE #CTA

@dantheclamman doesn't that give it access to every file on the internal storage and any external storage? Or is it more like only having access to the /home partition of the current user in a GNU Linux system? I don't know much about the security model in Android yet ;-)

@mlg
#DavidGraeber covered this in the talk I linked here:
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/101188340363798938

@mlg as for solving the "power vacuum", it's a bit like the "power vacuum" there'd be if you replaced FB with #fediverse apps. It's a non-problem. Capitalism is - by the definition I'm using - concentration of political-economic power. Redistributing power is inherent to any social change that is genuinely anti-capitalist (which is why Lenin and Mao, despite their PR, were *not* anti-capitalists, just state corporatists)

@mlg I think if we're very lucky, and our species survives the Great Turning, post-capitalist generations will look back on waves of experimental world building like the post-2008 movements the same way we look back at the medieval monasteries that kept faith, hope, art, and the seed of science alive during the Dark Ages.

@mlg yes, I think those movements definitely presented a working alternative. They were furiously democratic and inclusive. They provided housing, food, medical care, and other services on an as-needed basis, and built libraries, net access, and other information commons and shared them openly, all from a tiny resource base. We did it all nonviolently, with barbarians constantly at the gates trying to sack and burn our villages.