Notices by Camille E. Acey (kavbojka@mastodon.social)

I'm looking for someone to do a comic book super hero rendition of the team I manage. I have the concept, I just wanna find out whether it's feasible and how much it'd cost. Halp?

Optimize What? • Commune

Silicon Valley is full of the stupidest geniuses you'll ever meet. The problem begins in the classrooms where computer science is taught.

https://communemag.com/optimize-what/

WhatsApp co-founder urges users to delete their Facebook accounts — again
https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/17/18269515/whatsapp-co-founder-brian-acton-urged-users-to-delete-their-faceboo

Also, any one who invokes the absolute hokum that is the "tragedy of the commons" immediately drops tremendously in my estimation. Goo👏🏾gle👏🏾E👏🏾li👏🏾nor👏🏾Ost👏🏾rom👏🏾. SHEEEE-IT!

https://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/the-victory-of-the-commons

#elinorostrom

"We need to cultivate new ways of producing and consuming technology that are better for our society and our planet. Where are the projects that are already doing this? Most importantly, how do we do this in a way that -- unlike much of the "foodie movement" -- is about a radical restructuring of relations between producer and consumer? Because in the end, we don't just want capitalism that is "bursting with flavor"; we want fresh, juicy, and local.......liberation." https://colet.space/slow-tech-movement/

We should start a campaign to encourage people to visit the actual internet rather than these bothersome and exploitative apps.

If the cement industry were a country, it would be the 3rd largest CO2 emitter in the world
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46455844

#climatechange #degrowth #alternativematerials

Here is the Anarchism of Blackness btw https://roarmag.org/magazine/black-liberation-anti-fascism/ Well worth a read....as is everything in Roar magazine.

Racist attack? Pickup that cellphone and hit RECORD. Black people get more justice from exposing racism on Facebook or Twitter than any appeals to the state https://blavity.com/white-woman-called-a-black-man-a-nr-over-a-parking-spot-and-his-wife-wasnt-having-it I think this is the point Samudzi and Anderson were trying to make in the Anarchism of Blackness. We can't try to reform what is so patently antiblack. My point is FB and Twitter are no substitute for true security/justice.

That said, I do think that the impulse here comes from a sense that there is wisdom and solution in the polity and this has been evidenced in many cases. Racists lose their jobs, their apartments, their social status . Call-out culture undoubtedly has its limits, but call out culture/ostracism is a step up from outright impunity which is often the result of appeals to the state. However, embracing and strengthening non-state security and justice could move us further.

The First Guaranteed Basic Income Program Designed for Single Black MomsThe Magnolia Mother’s Trust asks participants what they need to not only pay the bills but also to fight generational poverty.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/the-first-guaranteed-basic-income-program-designed-for-single-black-moms-20181106

I wish there was a DuoLingo for learning to code...

There are a lot of tech folks who would rather be solving pressing real world problems instead of helping techbros and VCs get richer. I'd love to be a part of facilitating that exodus. #thinkingoutloud #latestagecapitalism

"A left populism worthy of its name would not stabilize the existing institutions around us, but stretch them beyond their limits, breaking them and building a new politics based on radical democracy. " https://theoutline.com/post/6253/chantal-mouffe-left-populism-review #chantalmouffe #democracy #populism

This deferential, toadying open letter from the nonprofit world to the tech giants has me frustrated/fuming and I'm considering writing an open letter from the radical tech communities to the nonprofit world https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2018/07/19/an-open-letter-from-the-nonprofit-world-to-the-tech-giants If these people are trying to change the world why beg to use the tech that so blatantly upholds the current social order? #liberatorytechnology

No more presidents
No more mayors
Put the city
In the people's care

Fire all the cops
Get rid of the mayor
Let's really make
a city that's fair

#nyc #acab

early morning anarchist protest chant musings

Ok so yeah #abolishice but also #abolishthefostersystem and the state-sanctioned child snatching that's been going on for hundreds of years. also #abolishprison and state surveillance. #closegitmo and #abolishtheusmilitary . If we want to keep families together, there's lots to be done. Let's go! #familesbelongtogether

A town in Mexico overthrew their local government...they've kicked out all the criminals, cops, and politicians, things couldn't be going better.
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/gykaq9/a-town-in-mexico-overthrew-their-local-government-things-couldnt-be-going-better?
#autonomy #municipalism #communalism #acab

That feeling when you are sharing feelings of outrage about a situation with someone and they say some like "not all cops/honor our soldiers/preserve America"-type shit....is there a word for that? That feeling when you realize you are talking to a person who is still deeply rooted in maintaining the state. It's so the worst. Damn.

@mayel
I think we need to redefine "good cooperator". I think to get the ball rolling on any effort we have to embrace temporary hierarchies but find formal ways to inscribe their limits and enforce transparency. I'm in a situation now where too much institutional knowledge got built up in one person and that person is now holding way too much power despite no formal title or responsibilities.