Notices by neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop), page 2

@dredmorbius

> "Technology" is a word about as specific as "sports" or "food" or "animal".

Hell yes. Your ontology looks very useful for framing thoughts, thanks.

@dredmorbius Do you have a resource with more details about your tech ontology?

Sometimes feel powerless from the other side of the world. But solidarity is always needed for those in struggle.

'On his way to exile, he wrote that he is “very grateful to the solidarity of the people, brothers from Bolivia and the world who reach out with recommendations, suggestions and expressions of recognition that give us encouragement, strength and energy. They moved me to tears. They never abandoned me; I will never abandon them.”'

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/11/bolivias-far-right-coup/

@dredmorbius

Cool, thanks for that. I like how the word connection is polysemic here - I kind of sort of meant it in the sense of our social connections, but knowing it is a bit ambiguous and easily translates to the infrastructure, network connections, etc. And these days the two are so heavily intertwined, and you can't have one without the other.

Both very heavily mediated and often used against us.

Article looks interesting too, what happens in a revolution gone awry.

@pfm @liaizon

> unfortunately "likes" is just...

Yeah that's definitely the thing I'm struggling with. I feel meaningful interaction has been abstracted away, in order to cope with having too much stuff to interact with. Maybe it's not bad per se, but want to question it at least. Personal approach of late is to experiment with following less people, but making more replies, let's see how it goes...

@liaizon Hmm yup, that'd be annoying. Thanks, good point. Not as simple as just removing them.

@pfm Yeah I guess the +1ing could be a thing.

Removal of stats and metrics is what I would like. Not a fan of the gamification of human connection. Abstracting it to discrete little actions makes it trackable and us more manipulatable.

> this social network does exist and is called email ;)

Ha, true! Although that's all private I guess. Blogging is perhaps the public alternative.

@liaizon Ah yeah true, used to see that a lot on Github before they introduced the emoji reactions.

Did it happen a lot on microblogging like Twitter before they had likes?

I'm thinking that the only built-in interaction I want a social network to have is 'reply'.

'The Brazilian working class and the left is under attack of a vicious political project that is globally articulated with the most reactionary currents in the world. We can only beat the populist right with an internationalist working class movement. Our weapon is solidarity, our struggle is international.'

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/11/lula-livre/

seize the means of connection

Mind a bit blown by an intro to the ideas in Caliban and the Witch.

@Flophouse_Sam Someone told me once, but I have no clue as to its veracity, that listening to some classical music can help. I think specifically, something without a discernible hook or loop. So I would also think it doesn't need to be classical, just something relatively formless (or perhaps the flip, very complex forms) and absent of lyrics.

looks like a good mini-conf (Brussels, Jan 21st)

'For the 8th edition, Privacy Camp takes “Technology and Activism” as its focus.'

https://privacycamp.eu/

@emi Ooh is it this? https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/a-postcapitalist-politics

@redoak beautiful

@rhiaro Starting nanowrimo this year has taught me that I really enjoy writing, but also that 1667 words a day is fucking mad

@priryo Actually no I had this: https://www.discogs.com/Piano-Magic-Seasonally-Affective-A-Piano-Magic-Retrospective-1996-2000/release/121181

@priryo Ahhhh, I remember this track well, listening to it at university. I think my uncle gave me the album. Very unsettling, those lyrics and that music.