Notices by neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop), page 27

@celesteh It's from the Wikipedia page on Visa:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Inc.#Visa_Europe

Is there a way to automatically install and configure a list of Firefox plugins? e.g. when setting up a new box.

I don't particularly want to use Firefox Sync.

UPDATE: Oh yeah - there's a whole bunch of Ansible playbooks if you search for them.

I still have remnants of it now, in that I'm fairly quiet in social situations and not the most gregarious. But it has mostly gone away, to the point that I can go to events, even do occasional public speaking, and not really worry about it.

So I guess I wanted to say, if you currently have it, or know someone who does - you can definitely overcome it.

#MentalHealth #SocialAnxiety

When I was younger, mid-teens to mid-twenties, I had really debilitating social anxiety disorder (https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/social-anxiety/).

To the point that I often did not want to leave my room. I found it difficult to be in a room with other people, eat in public, stand in line at the supermarket. It really affected my mental health and development of relationships.

#MentalHealth #SocialAnxiety

@douginamug We didn't, but it looks really interesting. Hoping to keep in touch with Matteo and have a play of it sometime. (I've never been a big board game player, but this has definitely piqued my interest!)

This is a book of gorgeous photographs of repair workshops in the South West of England.

Visible mending: Everyday repairs in the South West:
'The project was inspired by an attraction to the aesthetics of these workplaces, but also by an interest in what the practices of fixing, mending, repair and renewal could reveal about the way people value things, and each other.'

http://www.colinsackett.co.uk/visiblemending.php

#CultureOfRepair #VisibleMending

At a board games hacking workshop last night (https://beesness.games) we learned about the components of mechanics, dynamics and aesthetics in games. Me and a friend hacked the mechanics of Surakarta (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surakarta_(game)) to turn it into a game of cooperation and swapping, rather than a game of battle and capture. We only had chance to play it once with the new rules, but it worked surprisingly well and induced more high-fiving than the original (which induced none.)

At a board games hacking workshop last night (https://beesness.games) we learned about the components of mechanics, dynamics and aesthetics in games. Me and a friend hacked the mechanics of Surakarta (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surakarta_(game)) to turn it into a game of cooperation and swapping, rather than a game of battle and capture. We only had chance to play it once with the new rules, but it worked surprisingly well and induced more high-fiving than the original (which induced none.)

@GreenandBlack Cybernetic Revolutionaries (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionaries). (It's focus is on how technology and politics interacted in Chile.)

I had just assumed that Project Cybersyn was very much an attempt at top-down centrally planned economy, but at least from what I've understood so far it also aimed for horizontal too. But - e.g. front cover is the main control room, with like 6/7 chairs in there. (And all men I think.) So I'm not sure.

@celesteh Wonder if they were talking about Visa Europe?

"Visa Europe Ltd. was a membership association and cooperative of over 3,700 European banks and other payment service providers"

@bob Heh this is kind of the plot of Walkaway summed up in a single toot.

@verityvirtue

Good question! Makerspaces/hackspaces will have one but usually have a membership fee.

You could rent one for a day from Library of Things (https://www.libraryofthings.co.uk/) - again not free though

If you're trying to fix some clothes, you could bring it to a community repair event that's doing textiles, e.g. https://therestartproject.org/parties/?country=United%20Kingdom

Or maybe find a neighbour who has one?

@GreenandBlack @clayton Reading about Allende's Chile at the moment, sounds a little between democratic socialist and syndicalist as described here. At least that was the idea behind the cybernetic approach to planning - horizontal autonomous units with a vertical thread connecting and allowing for occasional central coordination.

Interesting anecdote from the book - during state expropriation programme, workers started expropriating factories that the state hadn't planned to be.

@wu_lee Yep http://dorkbotlondon.org/

It is pretty sporadic: http://dorkbotlondon.org/archive/ but they hope to do another in about 3 months this time