Notices by neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop), page 37

Welcome to 2019

Welcome to 2019

"50,000 Nos Cans Can't Be Wrong" by Acid Cannibals

Kicking off 2019 with some noisy bearded Glaswegian punk rock'n'roll. Works for me!

#nowplaying #noisebeard

https://invidio.us/watch?v=OnzP18-dLlo

Afrotech Fest 2019 - a tech festival by and for Black people of African and Caribbean heritage. PSA: deadline for talk submissions is Sunday 13th January 2019!

https://www.afrotechfest.co.uk/

#London

Mind The Gap

#london

Radical Technologies has a cracking first chapter.

“On this evening in the City of Light, a hundred million connected devices sing through the wires and the aether. Of the waves that ripple through the urban fabric, at whatever scale, very few escape being captured by them, and represented in bursts of binary data. Enciphered within are billions of discrete choices, millions of lives in motion, the cycling of the entire economy, and, at the very edge of perception, the signs and traces of empire’s slow unwinding.”
-- Radical Technologies

@douginamug That said, it works for juries, and if there was a strong civil service and adequate time for researching important decisions, I'm sure it could work.

I don't know much about the details of sortition - would love to hear more of your views.

@douginamug I am all for the idea of more direct civic participation in society and the removal of an elite governing class. I can see why not having 'expert' knowledge would be a thorny issue tho. I wouldn't see it as not trusting normal people, just a recognition that a lot of issues require in-depth knowledge. I presently wouldn't trust myself to make a suitably informed decision on many complex issues outside my area of knowledge.

@thinkMoult https://invidio.us/

Love finding tracks from netlabels on archive.org.

Pinklogik - Heavenly Orchid (Marshmello Mix by theAudiologist)

Ambient, cinematic, chilled. Uncertain future.

#nowplaying

https://archive.org/details/s27-031Pinklogik-LearningToTrustHigherFrequenciesRemixed/09-HeavenlyOrchidmarshmalloMixByTheaudiologist.mp3

@bob @michel_slm This article suggests that social housing rents were around 50% of local market rents, whereas affordable housing is around 80% of local market rents.

https://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2014/feb/03/affordable-housing-meaning-rent-social-housing

@bob @michel_slm Also don't know a huge amount about the topic, but I believe another issue is the replacement of social housing with 'affordable housing'. Sometimes a percentage of new developments are required to be 'affordable' - which generally isn't affordable to many in that area. (Also a bizarre name - presumably the rest of the flats are then squarely *unaffordable*...)

I don't know the full history but Thomas Sankara sounds like he was a genuinely radical and revolutionary leader. Anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, feminist. Public education and health policies. Assassinated.

https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/sankara-the-che-of-africa