#ExtinctionRebellion ppl in London please join #riseup4rojava protest at the BBC at 1pm today. Indigenous horizontal socialist Kurds have been self governing with citizens assemblies for years. #Turkey is now invading on a massacre mission.
Is the anarcho vision individualistic, like Margaret Thatcher, βthere is no societyβ? Do FOSS folk fantasise that the only significant actions are the intentional ones, the connections we *mean* to make, with discrete materials we individually own and kontrol? >>
@mako@oli@bhaugen@richdecibels@Graham_Mitchell@dajbelshaw@mayel 2of3 Surely feds in the βverse need a mirror of their own *collective* acting/federating/publishing/sharing. Like birdsite shows βtrendingβ but more catholic. Like FarceBook sells profiles and target zones to marketers & alt-right ideologues. Donβt we need APIs that show βusβ to ourselves in the large? reveal emergent patterns in our tacit collective motion? help us see the movement in the movements?
@mako@oli@bhaugen@richdecibels@Graham_Mitchell@dajbelshaw@mayel 1of3 Puzzling again over why P2P and the fediverse seem uninterested in some of the core post-post-Fordist capabilities now exploited so horrendously against the Demos by silicon oligarchs, spy agencies and alt-right . . >>
I'm a bit of a literary and philosophy newb, but they've always been at my periphery thanks to my family. I've been drawn more and more to it in recent years as my interests shifted to the repercussions of technology in society. A Thousand Plateaus has also been recommended to me... any more recommendations welcome!
I found a book from 1997 on my brother's bookshelf in the house where we grew up, called Hypertext 2.0: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology.
The first section is called Hypertextual Derrida, Poststructuralist Nelson?
It looks pretty amazing. Beautifully, it has loads of pencil annotations from my brother.
I would love to read it. But I'll be honest with myself, I haven't started and finished a non-fiction book for a long time. I'm genuinely better in hypertext.
I uninstalled Tusky. Itβs a great libre app for Mastodon. But after a morning spent losing about an hour (or more!) of time scrolling through the timelines, before even getting out of bed, I figured itβs something I donβt need on my phone. Keep the firehose at arms length. If I want to for some reason just scroll through everything on Mastodon, Iβll go to a website and login.
(Counterpoint: I did find some really interesting things while surfing the timelines...)
@Gina That's a great idea, it would be good to normalize talking about mental health and selfcare. Did coworkers join in?
At our place I started a 'Good Vibes' doc for people to share good things that have happened. But I realise now it doesn't really leave a space for people to chat about things that aren't going so well.