Notices by neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop), page 64

Brutal and green.

Still gotta work on this plan for turning the Barbican into a permanent autonomous zone.

#london #barbican #solarpunk #utopia #brutalism

@gc @deejoe It is worrying. Because it's a slippery slope where Google will start adding gmail only 'email' features (like that self-destructing email thing.)

We need counteranti-disintermediation. I guess there's various routes? education (make people aware of the perils of one company running everything); politics (legislation against monopoly of core services); tech (favour p2p rather than server-based?); direct action (don't know how you would do that against google.)

Big job though.

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I feel like the majority of people care that much about decentralization. But I also think they don't care that much about centralization.

Often whatever comes first and works is what gets ingrained.

Contrast: if some big corp came along and tried to centralize email, people would (hopefully?) tell them to eff off. But, trying to decentralize microblogging is a big effort because Twitter was there first.

Let's get there first with things then, I guess.

What is going on with the German Democratic People’s Republic and why am I getting so many emails about it?

Hey @samtoland check this out:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/may/25/resonate-spotify-music-streaming-service-co-op

#Resonate

One thing that concerns me, that I don't think gets talked about all that often, is the ecological impact of creating solar cells, and their long term sustainability.

These things are hard to make, and have a somewhat short shelf life, right?

And they require batteries in order to function correctly, which means mining heavy metals, yeah?

Apparently Jeff Bezos makes $28,000 (the median yearly salary of an Amazon employee) every 9 seconds.

He's on the way to becoming the world's first trillionaire.

The inequality is mind boggling. How do you actually, concretely, undo this kind of madness?