Notices by Edurne (gin@social.coop)

Ah FFS!!! Waking up this morning to a 'straw poll' to create a board of directors for social.coop which could "make some decisions without having to run through the working group"

So not only a year in and we have a push for centralisation and representation rather than direct participation. Under the guise of 'convenience' and 'efficiency' this move will create a two-tier system where some members will have more power than others.

No fucking way.

Here's the poll: https://www.loomio.org/p/Cd0yJlMe/straw-poll-opinion-on-a-social-coop-board-steering-committee-coordinating-committee

Without grammar, very little can be conveyed,
Without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed
- Wilkins.

Here’s a question: what do we do if there’s an influx of capitalists joining social coop?

#kitty #rules https://social.coop/media/fQ270I6NdYan6H4Nvnk

To objectives of Open Source Ecology: Develop a set of open source blueprints for the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) (a set of the 50 most important machines that it takes for modern life to exist); develop a modular, scalable platform for documenting and developing open source, libre hardware – including blueprints for both physical artifacts and for related open enterprises. https://www.opensourceecology.org/

I finally finished phase one of the history section for HAHA Academy: https://wiki.haha.academy/Item:Q4293

This took ages 😂 Even the Britannica from 20 years ago was full of eurocentric, racist dribble and weeding this shit out was a lot of work- and there's still a lot more to do!

History is in the conventional knowledge section of the HAHA Academy taxonomy: a culturally-agreed upon, loosely based-on true-events story. See more at: https://haha.academy/

#decentralised #education

“'Power to the people' can only
be put into practice when the power exercised by social elites is
dissolved into the people. Each individual can then take control of
his daily life. If 'Power to the people' means nothing more than
power to the 'leaders' of the people, then the people remain an
undifferentiated, manipulatable mass, as powerless after the revolution as they were before. In the last analysis, the people can never have power until they disappear as a 'people.”
― Murray Bookchin

We've had a Wii for a fortnight now: every day I play it, the game gets incorporated into my dreams.

Last night: The rhythm heaven game became a 'clock' for the running of society - if I didn't hit the second hand at the exact time a bit of the world exploded - I realised the futility of top-down clock keeping and shared the responsibilities. After that was decentralised I had to cut down - like in Zelda - all the centralists that wanted to run the clock themselves fearing others incapable.

Hiya @priryo 😺

I wrote about the process here: http://emo.world/2018/05/01/on-creating-a-taxonomy-of-all-human-knowledge-for-haha-academy/

I'm still working away at it nearly every day, and all the recent updates can be viewed on the wiki: https://wiki.haha.academy/Special:RecentChanges

Before Phase Two gets started @mayel and I are finishing a skills section that will also be used by the Open Cooperative Ecosystem: https://opencoopecosystem.net/

+complete the review of how other educational websites tag their resources (especially from a learner rather than teacher perspective)! phew!

Verso sent a different GDPR email: if you let us keep contacting you we’ll give you 75% off our books for one day. They certainly did. https://social.coop/media/86rOdEJh29Apb_lVDb0

#writing #creating https://social.coop/media/Kn9OohyZfSiIblrPy3I

Adorno: The idea of freedom from labour is replaced by the possibility of choosing one's work.

TFW you find a person wanting to 'streamline' and bring 'order' to a project by centralisation https://social.coop/media/XAakqcIjWHhKSw5pEiM

“The utopian, immanent, and continually frustrated goal of the modern state is to reduce the chaotic, disorderly, constantly changing social reality beneath it to something more closely resembling the administrative grid of its observations.”
― James C. Scott

Good warning for social.coop “Designed or planned social order is necessarily schematic; it always ignores essential features of any real, functioning social order ... the simplified rules animating plans for, say, a city, a village or a collective farm were inadequate as a set of instructions for creating a functional social order, The formal scheme was parasitic on informal processes that, alone, it could not create or maintain.”
― James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State

I just got asked to participate in a conference because it's too much of a sausage fest. I was like sure, I can run a workshop, do a talk, what do you need? 'I need you to read what I've written word for word up on stage,' says the 'woke' organiser. I told him I wasn't comfortable doing that, but that I could write something up. 'No, that's not what I need,' said he.

So much sexism is unconscious, it's a clusterfuck to pin down. Esp when a man thinks they're one of the 'good guys'

Fuck it! Made myself some #art today. https://social.coop/media/FEWUWZb1OyIeC75pc9I

Dual inheritance theory:

Human behavior is a product of two different and interacting evolutionary processes, genetic evolution and cultural evolution. Genes and culture continually interact in a feedback loop, changes in genes can lead to changes in culture which can then influence genetic selection, and vice versa.

One of the theory's central claims is that culture evolves partly through a Darwinian selection process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_inheritance_theory

May is one of my favourite months thanks to the lovely old Jacaranda tree outside our balcony that blooms up this time of year! https://social.coop/media/cmB-r39zB3gFulJ4cEg

"Another intriguing possibility is that the concept of #decentralized autonomy could allow the human race to achieve a #singularity without the involvement of #AI but rather through a more novel framework of human interaction and collaboration equating a #hivemind "

- Ryan Walker, Decentralized Autonomy and Terence McKenna's Timewave Zero