Notices by neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop), page 55

@nicksellen @douginamug Same, I am very compelled by municipalism at the moment. For federation reasons but also because changing a city/town feels more manageable and replicable than trying to change the whole world in one go...

Great article from @jasonpjason on decentralising the internet and the successes and failures of federation. Suggests some new approaches and some policy support (but not a StateBook) are needed for decentralisation that actually empowers. Platform coops play a role. We need counterantidisintermediation to prevent platform lock-in. I think the 'centralised services win (partly) through better UX' argument needs examining though. https://newsocialist.org.uk/decentralising-the-internet/

Good article. Feel like it straw man's Srnicek and Williams in a couple of places but offers good critiques in others. I find the terms of the debate, accelerationism and degrowth, overly polarising. Also feel it's wrong to see technology and 'growth' as synonymous. But overall the article is positive and looks at how to take good ideas from both. And there are definitely common aims to be built upon. I http://unevenearth.org/2017/01/accelerationism-and-degrowth/

@bob @bigl0af If they're referring to the VC there, then it's Glasswing Ventures.

@phryk @GreenandBlack @solarbear Same. I love the aesthetic of brutal and green. Barbican in London being a favourite example.

That said, the manufacture of concrete and cement is not very environmentally-friendly.

@bob @bigl0af See:
https://www.inrupt.com/blog/a-new-world-of-opportunity for confirmation of how badly compromised this VC has made it.

@squirrelturtle Yikes. Hadn't thought about it being used that way. Even assuming the authors of this one aren't misunderstanding the climate studies, I'm hoping the suggestions would be more 'let's think about how to build resilient communities', less 'hey check out my bunker'.

@squirrelturtle What do they discuss?

@cstanhope I'm sad that TimBL is embroiled in this.

"Honestly, your honour, I had no evil intent, I was just trying to generate profit"

oh ok then, sorry to have bothered you

"Honestly, your honour, I had no evil intent, I was just trying to generate profit"

oh ok then

"There’s generally no evil intent at work, they’re simply businesses and organizations doing what generates profit or serves political agendas."

Sentence does not computre

"We didn't like the way profit-driven corporations captured and enclosed the web. So we've decided to start our own profit-driven corporation to reverse that trend"

Okkaay...

Insofar as Ive followed Solid, it bugged me to see little to no mention of other attempts to (re)decentralize the web. But the technical side of it is very interesting.

Now, to see it take a dive into capitalist rhetoric and VC funding, I hope it crashes and burns.

"a free market of fair return for value would stimulate innovation"

"thrive by delivering products and services that consumers actually want"

"anyone with an idea and the energy to work hard can prosper"

https://www.inrupt.com/blog/a-new-world-of-opportunity

Sinuses giving me gip again. Honestly who's idea was it to have empty spaces in your skull, that are prone to getting clogged up and giving pain during pressure change? I'd happily do without, can't I just fill them up with Sugru or something?

@mayel My motto is "go slow and fix things".

'Fix' partly in the sense of cleaning up the mess made by the move fast crowd, but also fix as in maintenance - for things that work well, taking pride in keeping them running for a long time.

There's a good article about the problems caused by the fetishisation of innovation (in the 'move fast' sense): https://aeon.co/essays/innovation-is-overvalued-maintenance-often-matters-more

But I like your repurposing of it in the phrase 'social innovation'. Making things better for people where it's bad.