Notices by neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop), page 6

@emsenn Thanks mate, I'm a member of one of the organising groups, nice to hear!

Woop woop, it's the 3rd International Repair Day on Saturday October 19th!

Over 250 events around the world over the weekend, 6 continents covered...

https://openrepair.org/international-repair-day/2019-events/

#RepairDay #RightToRepair

@emi Holy crap. Well done!

@mako @oli @bhaugen @richdecibels @Graham_Mitchell @dajbelshaw @mayel
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So why can I not see data analytic/pattern recognition toolsets being developed as intrinsic elements of P2P protocols?

Is the anarcho vision individualistic, like Margaret Thatcher, ‘there is no society’? 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?
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@mako @oli @bhaugen @richdecibels @Graham_Mitchell @dajbelshaw @mayel
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Surely feds in the ‘verse need a mirror of their own *collective* acting/federating/publishing/sharing. Like birdsite shows ‘trending’ but more catholic. Like FarceBook sells profiles and target zones to marketers & alt-right ideologues. Don’t we need APIs that show ‘us’ 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
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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 . .
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guerilla technology

Oh dang, I just realised where the record label Mille Plateaux took its name from.

I used to love their Clicks & Cuts series, and listened a lot to Vladislav Delay.

Love little linkages like that.

@Flophouse_Sam Sweet! What are you working on?

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!

In the meanwhile, I am very much a fan of Kicks' page on hypertexting:

https://www.kickscondor.com/hypertexting/

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. It’s 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 it’s something I don’t need on my phone. Keep the firehose at arms length. If I want to for some reason just scroll through everything on Mastodon, I’ll go to a website and login.

(Counterpoint: I did find some really interesting things while surfing the timelines...)

@deltaidea Also TiddlyWiki

@dtluna they embody a lot of impressive technology.. as for useful or valueable, maybe more debatable.

@tbeckett I don't know, but I did see this: https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/10/64bit-macos-update-ruins-some-software/

@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.

Good discussion in general of what's currently happening in Rojava with the US pullout.

https://novaramedia.com/2019/10/08/rojava-trump-betrays-the-kurds/

#Rojava