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Last Notes npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey But in each case, getting the exemption requires a staged to plan to get the building back into a usable state, replace it, or sell it to someone who will. (4/4) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "We do not require 'Revolutionary' institutions. 'After the Revolution' we would still continue to drift, to evade the instant sclerosis of a politics of revenge, and instead seek out the excessive, the strange—which for us has became the sole possible norm. If we join or support certain 'revolutionary' movements now, we’d certainly be the first to 'betray' them if they 'came to power'. Power, after all, is for us—not some fucking vanguard party." #HakimBey, 1994 https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/hakim-bey-immediatism npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey So what does InfluenceWatch say about known right-right entities? Here's their page on the Heritage Foundation; https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/heritage-foundation/ ... and here's the SourceWatch page on the same organisation; https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heritage_Foundation While both websites obviously have their own biases, both pages contain useful information. (4/?) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "Many so-called 'watchdog' groups are instead opponents of the outlets they are watching." https://www.influencewatch.org/about-us/ You don't say? "The Capital Research Center (CRC) is a right-wing 'investigative think tank' established in 1984 to examine the influence of money in politics. CRC focuses on 'unions, environmentalist groups, and a wide variety of nonprofit and activist organizations'." https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Capital_Research_Center #InfluenceWatch #CRC npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey @npub18gw…xtgt > It would be amusing to have a wizard who is good at the job because he isn't high born and hence had to actually study Rincewind from The Colour of Magic? npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "Most people see Mastodon as a social network." https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1124631464#Requested_move_28_November_2022 Come on. If most people thought the unicorn was a species of zebra, would you write state that as fact on WP? It isn't, so you wouldn't. Same is true here. #Wikipedia #Mastodon npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey @npub1m34…njzz > What did Plato and Aristotle say about the fate of Democracy? Don't really care and I'm immediately suspicious of anyone who references them in a discussion about contemporary politics; https://genius.com/Pop-will-eat-itself-the-incredible-pwei-vs-the-moral-majority-lyrics npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "... Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Meta all increased expenditures on AI dramatically in the first half of this year, to a collective $106 billion." #CaseyNewton, 2024 https://www.platformer.news/ai-bubble-tech-stock-decline/ (1/?) #MOLE #AI #AIBubble #MoreTroubleThanItsWorth npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Me: > Can fediverse servers running software other than Mastodon do this verification against third-party sites? @npub198j…d3fm > (streams) can do that Sweetbix. So if there are 2 working implementations... Me again > Is it the sort of thing there could be an FEP for? npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey (1/?) We seem to be talking past each other @npub1h0f…jsz2. Let me make my point more explicitly... npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey @npub18p3…t9gh is the NZCCL aware of this UN Cybercrime Convention? Just learned about it today, but so far it sounds like ACTA, but much worse... npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey FactBook: A social network built around Wikipedia. #InventedOnlineServices npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Can fediverse servers running software other than Mastodon do this verification against third-party sites? Is it the sort of thing there could be an FEP for? #FEP npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "Mastodon offers a mechanism for external websites to claim an account as being affiliated using a green background and check mark icon. In other words, Mastodon makes no claims about who an account belongs to, just that a particular website has vouched for it." #DanPhiffer, 2022 https://themarkup.org/levelup/2022/12/22/how-we-verified-ourselves-on-mastodon-and-how-you-can-too #verification npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey #FreudianTypoOfTheWeek Vinteroperation (n.): Cooperation between wineries. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "It is so tempting to theatrically claim to brush off your hands and be like; 'I'm done with the internet! I don't care anymore. The internet's over, leave me alone'. Like I say everyday. But the fact that it is such an unavoidable place, for so many people, means we have to fight for it." #TaylorLorenz, 2022 https://www.buzzsprout.com/1112270/14130803-influencers-with-taylor-lorenz #podcasts #You'reWrongAbout #TaylorLorenz npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey If there's no way to distinguish between tofu (2.1) and spam (2.2), then by definition, it's spam. (6/6) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Use of BCC to hide recipients addresses could make it hard to separate layer 1.1 from the multiple recipient layers (1.2 outwards). Is there a way to detect that an email was sent to multiple recipients without needing to know their addresses? A BCC block does helpfully distinguish between 1.2 and the next layers out (2.1, 2.2), because the other recipient addresses can't be checked against Alice's contact book if they can't be seen. (5/6) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Each layer in Alice's inbox only displays emails from; Layer 2.1 (tofu): an address not in contact book, sharing with an address block of people they want to be interested Examples: unsolicited notifications and marketing "newsletters" from domains you have an account with. Begmail from charities and political parties. Layer 2.2 (spam): an automated mailer, to any address block of people they can find (3/?) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey ... while I agree its cynical to say all politicians are swamp-dwellers, the US example raised is a timely reminder that some most certainly are. So it's equally unwise to hide behind rose-tinted lenses, treating all politicians as good faith actors until there's snoking gun evidence proving they're not. That's exactly how the architects of the neoliberal coup - both inside and outside Parliament - got away with fleecing the public from 1984-93. (2/2) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey @npub1h0f…jsz2 > Comparing a non-profit to a for profit? I first heard such a comparison made by Laura O'Connell Rapira, co-founder of ActionStation.org.nz. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey @npub1zxn…7s3u > Element Call embedded in Element Web/X is close to this, but doesn't have the floor control yet that you need, sadly Is it on the roadmap? Could it be? npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Excited about the future of blockchain finance and AI superintelligence? You're going to love Zombo.com! https://zombo.com/ #ZomboCom npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "We'll push users to apps to consume timelines, author content, and others; while we already support the Mastodon API, I do wonder if we could also support other client app APIs, like the Pixelfed one, for people who are primarily posting images." https://aeracode.org/2023/04/29/refactor-treat/ This is why ActivityPub has a client-to-server API, as well as a server-to-server API. So servers don't have to support a different bespoke API for every type of fediverse use case. #ActivityPub #Client2ServerAPI npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey #FreudianTypoOfTheWeek Wire freud (n.): Diagnosing people over the internet. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Then misfits who start to organise and speak up in our own defence find ourselves demonised. By powerful and well-funded institutions, who seem to be fighting us in a futile attempt to enforce conformity with a perceived "mainstream". Is it any wonder misfits are increasingly perceiving the society as anti-democratic and becoming increasingly suspicious of "official" narratives? (8/?) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey So, you've got all these misfits - people who are smart or creative or both - who have been watching with increasing concern as the society we live is reorganised. Against the interests of most of its people. In ways that seem almost designed to destroy what we love,grind us down, and push us down the holes in its economic safety net. (7/?) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey #FreudianTypoOfTheWeek Commend line (n): A control interface based on flattery. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "We didn't have WordPress or other websites that you could just start up, and we also didn't have social media. The idea that anyone could decide what was news, and publish a picture of story." #RenéeFeltz, 2019 From “Don’t Hate the Media, Be the Media”: Reflections on 20 Years of Indymedia, on Democracy Now https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ikcGnLPr2TI (Invidio.us link to YouTube) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey It's analogous to medical researchers proposing to fight skin infections by having nanobots with lasers flying around the bloodstream zapping bacteria. What could go wrong? Surely it's better to clean and seal the wounds that are letting the infecting bacteria into the body. Restoring the integrity of the skin, and allowing the immune system to do its job. Supplemented as necessary by conservative use of topical antibiotics while the skin heals. (3/3) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey For example, I know you're excited about the possibilities of embodying the spirit of Indymedia in fediverse tools. I had some ideas about that the other day, which I'm in the process of fleshing out and turning into a blog post. What exactly would that look like for you? (2/?) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey @toiletpaperufjg > Taxation isn't voluntary There are two ways to slice this. First, accepting the assumption that taxes are payments, this is like saying transaction fees on credit card payment systems aren't voluntary. If you want to use the national currency, it's reasonable that you share in the cost of maintaining its usefulness. Don't want to pay taxes? Don't trade in the national currency. Totally voluntary. (2/?) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "... how to improve the quality of bad rules that cause needless waste, harm, and suffering." #PaulRomer https://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2009/10/12/ostrom-commons/ (2/2) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "Economists who have become addicted to skyhooks, who think that they are doing deep theory but are really just assuming their conclusions, find it hard to even understand what it would mean to make the rules that humans follow the object of scientific inquiry. If we fail to explore rules in greater depth, economists will have little to say about the most pressing issues facing humans today..." #PaulRomer https://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2009/10/12/ostrom-commons/ #economics npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Iwi being examples of sovereign local government that delegate some powers to a central body. As agreed in 1835 in He Whakaputanga. Does anyone know of any writing that embraces this idea and explores how a decentralised, confederal government could work in 21st century Aotearoa? (2/2) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "Business executives, almost without exception, believe that the country will start to run trade surpluses. They are generally unconvinced by the economist’s answer that such a country will necessarily run large trade deficits." #PaulKrugman, 1996 https://hbr.org/1996/01/a-country-is-not-a-company (2/2) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "The argument that I'm really wanting to make in Raising the Bar is, that's a really dangerous thing to do to young people, is to strip them of their imagination. And particular kinds of schooling can do that, and do it really quickly." #PeterOConnor, Professor of Education, University of Auckland, 2024 https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018948356/imagining-a-better-school-system-for-new-zealand #podcasts #RNZ #TheDetail #education #schools npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey But of course, we're all here because we know better. We understand that a ZuckerBorg or a Melon Husk can only continue to be the unelected dictator over millions of peoples' online social lives, if we can't talk to those people without needing an account on a service owned by ZuckerBorg or Melon Husk. So we're not going to fall for this. Right? (6/?) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey I want to hear from ecologists commenting on how novel plants can only invade degraded or recovering ecosystems. Where was the last time you saw an exotic plant inside a healthy area of mature native bush? Was it by the path? This is because of a problem called islandisation, where paths, roads and other gaps created in the bush cover create edge habitats ideal for colonising exotics. (2/2) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey We need to think carefully before a fleet of drones is set loose to zap living things with lasers. Very, *very* carefully. But this is a serious proposal for killing invasive plants; https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018948825/robots-with-lasers-killing-weeds (1/2) #podcasts #RNZ #TheDetail #InvasivePlants #robots #lasers npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey If Marx was right about history repeating as tragedy, then as farce, this bit must be the farce. The history of 19th century assimilationists "smoothing the pillow of a dying race, turned into a musical stage showvfor political infants, complete with pantomime horse (Seymour the head, Winston the arse). (2/2) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Cue another round of 'Meta is bad, therefore fediverse admins shouldn't allow anyone on their servers to talk to anyone on Meta's server'. As usual, all the wailing and gnashing of teeth; https://cyberpunk.lol/@FediPact/112871261753041389 ... totally misses the point. Nobody here is defending Meta. Literally *nobody*. I'm for federation with Meta's server because it helps people leave it. Simple as that. (1/2) #fediverse #Meta #AntiMetaFediPact npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Like the famous quotation attributed to Frederic Bastiat, "the state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else", Margaret Thatcher's infamous comment that there is no such thing as society was not an observation, but a proposition. (1/2) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey What about something based on "personification", like "personas"? would it be confusing for people who speak Spanish or any other languages that already use "personas"? Then I thought... If personal accounts were "personas", personal data could be "personata". This is the kind of tangent my cognitive style naturally follows. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey I was trying to say "data created by people using a service" (to avoid "user data"), and then I thought, why not just say "personal data"? Data about (and therefore belonging to) a person? Personal data. Hmm. Then, I thought... Could that help me avoid "user accounts" too? What if I started calling them "personal accounts"? Accounts used by a person. Then I thought... #UserData #PersonalData npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey If you want to understand the Orange Felon's playbook, study Xi Jinping's. Not his political-economic strategy for the country, but the political strategy he uses to increase his own power and influence. A quick example, he wants to get rid of term limits. Xi did it. But that's just the tip of the iceberg... npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey It's fascinating to hear Michael Beckley misunderstand China, despite being well-informed on the raw facts. Because he's trying to cram those facts into a one-size-fits-all neoclassical economic frame. It simply doesn't fit a country with a totally different political-economic system from the US, and a massive, diverse territory qqwith a huge population. https://opentodebate.org/debate/has-chinas-power-peaked/ (1/?) #podcasts #OpenToDebate #China #NeoClassicalEconomics npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey I think this one was inspired by another near-future dystopia, a novel written by a kiwi. Sadly I can't remember title or author right now. But I think it was published in the 2010s. Public Service Networks https://strypey.dreamwidth.org/1120.html (2/2) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Also, here's a couple of short stories I wrote a few years ago, relevant to everything being a cloud service, and online accounts becoming effectively compulsory. I may have been watching Black Mirror for a while before I came up with this one; ThoughtBill https://strypey.dreamwidth.org/1120.html (1/2) #fiction #SciFi #ShortStories npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey This is a fascinating read from the end of 2023, about the #ActivityPods team's plans for v2.0 and the v1.0 limitations it's being designed to overcome; https://activitypods.org/the-road-to-activitypods-2-0/ #ActivityPub #SOLID npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Here's one thing I agree with "identity politics" rhetoric about; effective #democracy requires the creation of safe spaces. Both for private reflection and public debate. What makes a space safe for productive conflict is rules of engagement, which those participating know and agree to. With neutral moderation to enforce them if needed. Without some guidelines that people stick to, every conflict is war. Which can escalate quickly, in ways we hopefully live to regret when the red mist lifts. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Damien routinely explains this away on The Working Group by pointing out - quite rightly - that Actually Existing Neoliberalism falls well short of his platonic ideal. We still live in the same old welfare state compared to that. A state stripped of everything but the cops, the courts and the military. Everything else? "Leave it to The Market" (ie anything that doesn't break laws... well... those that are actively enforced anyway). (6/?) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey At the start of the 1980s, banking in Aotearoa was mostly owned by the public, as was the insurance sector. There were charitable community-owned savings banks and building societies (remember SBS?). Plus there were larger publicly-owned banks that were run as social enterprises, for public benefit, with oversight by Parliament. (5/?) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey In the last decade alone, the crypto bubble did a speed run from boom to bust. Demonstrating exactly how 19th century laissez-faire finance caused the Great Depression. The obsession with cryptonomics was driven by a complete loss of public confidence in the possibility of trustworthy finance institutions. Which in turn, was caused by the GFC. (2/?) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey (2/2) Obiwan realized he was wrong because he'd forgotten his Jedi training. Again, Sith are never the real enemy, rather it's the struggle against the Sith within. A struggle he lost just as Annakin did, the day they created the Darth Vader we saw in A New Hope. But fortunately for both - and for Luke - it's a struggle that never ends. no matter how lost in the dark side a Sith is, or how strong a Jedi's mastery of integration and balance. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey The difference between the Jedi and the Sith is *not* that one represents "the light" and one "the dark", as positive forces. Like every living being, every Jedi and every Sith contains all sides of the Force. The difference is that the Jedi are aware of this and accept it, and the Sith do not. (7/7) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey None of my business, of course. But I stumbled on this today while searching F-Droid for something else. So I'm sharing it in a spirit of solidarity, mutual aid, and health privacy. Anyone looking for a respectful menstrual cycle tracking app that doesn't track you? One where you - or someone you trust - can check that it keeps all data on your device (source code published under GPLv3.0)? You could do worse than #Drip; https://bloodyhealth.gitlab.io/ #privacy #HealthData npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Snyder, like most US liberals, is a monist. So everything that's not monism is dualism and sides with The Other. The problem with The Other being the way it stubbornly prefers dualism, and resists assimilation into the monist unity. Dualism has the opposite problem, insisting on Them and Us separations, and characterising all monism as totalitarianism. Most US conservatives are dualists. (4/?) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey The whole point of the yin/yang principle is that any given duality can always be seen as part of a larger unity, and any given unity can always be seen as part of a larger duality. This is represented in the tai ji symbol - which most anglophones call "the yin/yang" - in the way both the dark and light sections are part of the whole, and contain seeds of each other. (2/?) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Just realised I'd inadvertantly muted a bunch of hashtags. No doubt scooping up a bunch of posts I am interested in, and piping them to /dev/null. Dangit. Glad I decided to prune my filters today. When was the last time you checked your filters (and maybe mutes/ blocks), and made sure they're still creating the fediverse experience you want? #FediTips npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey @npub1wah…xc8t > Sometimes you’re in Canada ... and you have to go back to the US 😜 npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey #TIL that Biden did the right thing for himself, his party, and his country, and turned down the Democratic nomination. Can't help but feel a little bit vindicated. I doubt I'm the only one. Best of luck to whoever gets handed the poison chalice of replacing him. #USPolitics #USElection2024 npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey @npub1pqp…e753 > What on Earth gave you that idea? Hmm. Dunno. Maybe there's someone on a different server using the same handle (or a very similar one)? npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey With enough money, could could convince them to kill and eat their own young, and claim it was for the greater good. No amount of money would make them *believe* in being a "progressive feminist eco-warrior activist", but if you offered them enough money, you could *definitely* convince them to claim they did and go through the motions. (2/2) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey With enough money, could could convince them to kill and eat their own children and claim it was for the greater good. No amount of money would make them *believe* in being a "progressive feminist eco-warrior activist", but if you offered them enough money, you could *definitely* convince them to claim they did and go through the motions. (2/2) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey As a bonus, if there's a charge to create an account - however small - everyone who creates one is a customer. Giving them legal protections that aren't always available to people using services without paying. It would also provide some income towards the costs of hosting, of course. Although since revenue would only be coming in as long as new accounts are getting created, it would encourage server hosts to optimise for growth. Which isn't ideal. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "It’s the same. It’s always been the same. Stop benefitting from the internet, it’s not for you to enjoy, it’s for us to use to extract money from you. Stop finding beauty and connection in the world, loneliness is more profitable and easier to control. Stop being human. A mindless bot who makes regular purchases is all that’s really needed." #CatherynneMValente, 2022 https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey As long as the app viewing a thread can reassemble all the posts, it's always possible to find the original post from which it started. Any post may have more than one post hanging off it, but there's no way it can have more than one post above it in the thread. What do we see in nature that works like that, constantly branching from a single source? A WordTree? A WordRiver? Could apps visualise this branching in ways that make threads easier to follow? (3/3) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey @npub1l7c…p949 > please see #degrowth:matrix.solarpunk.au Just tried. My client (Element web) says; "#degrowth:matrix.solarpunk.au is not accessible at this time." npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "Experts say the cyber outage revealed the risks of an increasingly online world." #MartinCoulter and JamesPearson, 2024 https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/522617/crowdstrike-glitch-what-caused-the-global-cyber-outage Uhh, no. It revealed - once again - the risks created because... "...governments and businesses alike have become increasingly dependent on a handful of interconnected technology companies over the past two decades." *Proprietary software* companies, to be exact. #CrowdStrike npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "Far from being expected to demonstrate personal charisma or the ability to outdo rivals, those who aspired to a role on the Council of Tlaxcala did so in a spirit of self-deprecation—even shame—and were required to subordinate themselves to the people of the city." #DavidGraeber, #DavidWengrow, 2020 https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/democracy/hiding-plain-sight #democracy #RepresentativeGovernment npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey I want to emphasize that the app I'm after *only* does online publishing. It can't receive or display notifications, or posts from feeds, or any of that. It's just a post editor, a publish button, and a reasonably elaborate account management dashboard. It's source code is, of course, published under a Free Code license. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey I want to remind everyone about the Fediverse Ideas suggestion box; https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas This is a place where anyone - anyone at all - can suggest and discuss specific changes that could improve all fediverse software. For example, this suggestion for improving the UI tools for linking to and quoting fediverse posts; https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues/61 ... led into a nuanced discussion about the technicalities and netiquette of this, and how fediverse UI might reflect them. #FediTips npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey @npub13zt…x9vd > id that a few weeks ago all over my laptop Wah! Done that one too. More than once : P Just as well as my laptops seems to be fairly coffee-proof. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey In an online system where @mention normally generates a notification, an @mention is a co-authorship credit. What I mean is, if someone @mentions me in a post, it's implicitly part of a conversation co-created with me. Whether I reply to that post or not. So I have a right to see that post, and to keep a copy. @mentions ought to be except from Blocks and Deletes, where they prevent someone seeing they've been @mentioned, or break threads they've already been part of. #fediverse #copyright npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey I just spilled my coffee. This annoyed me for 3 distinct reasons; 1) I was enjoying that coffee 2) I was enjoying much less having it soak into my pants 3) I suddenly had a big cleanup job to do, that I had to do right away in order stop my flatmate's couch ending up covered in coffee stains. Sausage fingers. Gah. #EverydayIrritations npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Just rewatching Idiocracy, released in 2006. It's starting to seem like Mike Judge was optimistic to think it would take 500 years to get that bad. I think we're maybe ... halfway there already? : P #movies #comedy #satire #MikeJudge #idiocracy npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey One of the most effective strategies a larger force can use to counter this is to present an intentionally weak front. As it appears to collapse under attack from the smaller army, they're tempted to push forward, allowing the larger army to flank and surround them. (6/?) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey In an asymetrical struggle, it's essential for the smaller army not to let the opposing general choose where the battles take place. They need to use their knowledge of the terrain to make sure battlegrounds prevent the larger army using their strength of numbers, and to blunt the benefits of their superior weapons. The smaller force must resist being drawn out of advantageous positions, and into compromising ones. (5/?) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey As we consider who might have had both the motive and the means to shoot a US Presidential candidate, I think it's worth keeping this in mind; "As state security functions have gradually been privatised under neoliberalism, corporate mercenaries have reshaped the way that power is exercised, as well as tapping into a new source of profit." #FelipDaza, 2021 https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/disturbing-rise-corporate-mercenaries/ npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey A fediverse server is an automated digital print shop. As well as ActivityPub feeds, it can output a website, and in many cases RSS feeds (eg Mastodon can). In theory, there's no reason it can't also produce other sorts of outputs, like PDFs to be printed for communities without net access. Or feeds that can be ingested by apps designed for Gemini, Nostr, podcasts, etc. This kind of tool opens up so many new possibilities for community-led media projects. #FediversePromotion npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey The opposing view is that Te Tiriti o Waitangi was a formal treaty between two sovereign powers, the British Crown and the confederation of iwi ("United Tribes") that had declared the independence of "Nui Terene" in 1835. That since sovereignty wasn't ceded in the Te Reo Māori version - and some iwi like Ngai Tūhoe never signed Te Tiriti - the enforcement of NZ government sovereignty over iwi is an illegal occupation under international law. (2/3) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey I just stumbled upon this article on Wikipedia; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Government ... which as it stands leans heavily into what is arguably a minority interpretation of the founding of New Zealand and its constitutional relationship with Māori, pushed by groups like Hobson's Pledge, the publishers of Investigate magazine, and the ACT and NZ First parties. (1/2) #Aotearoa #NZ #TinoRangatiratanga npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey *anti-Māori, except when they play a limited role as owners of property or privatised public services. They like devolving public services to Māori when it looks like Charter Schools, but not when it looks like Special Character state schools. When it looks like outsourcing the functions of Oranga Tamariki to businesses owned by Māori, but not when it's co-governance of local OT with local iwi. (4/?) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Yes, Muldoonist authortarianism. The Rogernomics government wasn't a break with Muldoonism, but a continuation in liberal drag. Just as the Ruthenasia government was a continuation of the Rogernomics government. The break with Muldoonism didn't come until the advent of MMP. When Finance Ministers (whether also PM or not) could no longer run the government finances like their own personal feifdom. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Why does Prebble shut all these post offices, despite knowing that the list he's been handed wasn't advice that was meant to be actioned? To put the public servants on notice. None of this handwringing about the public good, and warning your ministers about their hubris (ie trying to do your job). When Prebble says jump, you say how high. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey I suspect James Shaw ended up in the same place as Jim Anderton after the peak of the Alliance. Closer to his Cabinet colleagues in Labour than his own party base. This is just an observation. I'm not writing off either of them. Anderton made many lasting contributions to Aotearoa, and I suspect I'll be saying the same thing of Shaw in 20 years. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "It is our thoughts that shape the formless unknown into meaningful events and images. This is both a useful and disorienting thing since the process of human thinking takes us away from the limitless potential of absolute reality for the sake of a single, limited event or interpretation. As a result each one of us lives in small, separate, psychological worlds of our own making." #RobertInchausti, 2015 https://onbeing.org/blog/a-unified-field-theory-of-the-interior-life/ #philosophy #Buddhism101 npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "We think we've come so far. Torture of heretics, burning of witches is all ancient history. And then, before you can blink an eye, suddenly it threatens to start all over again." Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek TNG, s04e21: The Drumhead #quotes #StarTrek npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Hey @npub1n8m…z0vj, would you recommend Elementary OS as a GNU/Linux distro for a laptop that's struggling with the weight of the Cinammon desktop in LMDE? npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey But the "Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill" is bad law. A wrong-headed, knee-jerk response, by successive governments who don't understand the problem, and have been led by the nose. By one set of mostly foreign-owned media corporations, who want to be empowered to parasite off another set. Regardless of our antipathy to the DataDarmers, or our sympathy for journalists, we should oppose the FDNBB. (5/?) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey #ShowerThoughts: Mastodon is the Hobbiton of the fediverse. Everything is smaller, more frustrating and more resource intensive than it has to be, for entertainment purposes. #Mastodon #fediverse npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey I've spent a chunk of this afternoon researching updates to a wikipage I curate about blockchain-based social apps; https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Blockchain_Social_Media_App I started this 5 years as part of my research for fediverse.party. At the time, I was hopeful that the devs of some of these projects could be convinced to use ActivityPub in some way and interoperate with the fediverse. Spoilers... they didn't. At least half of them are now footnotes in the history of the decentralised social web. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey @npub1fxz…5rc0 > I am posting from my brand new Linux Gaming rig Which distro? What hardware? npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Presenting... a game the whole family can enjoy, French! The language in which half the consonants in every word are not pronounced. Can you guess which ones? npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey #RIP Keith Locke, who I just learned passed away on 21 June 2024, at the age of 80; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Locke Keith was a peace activist, which for him included being a staunch critic of mass surveillance. I had the pleasure of meeting and briefly chatting with Keith during a Greens conference when he was still an MP. His declining health reduced his capacity for activism in recent years, but his death leaves a hole in the political fabric of Aotearoa. My condolences to his whānau and friends. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Zeihan's analysis is a classic example of David Graeber's observation that the main result of neoliberalism has been a hobbling our ability to envision the future. Making it easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine a world after capitalism. He assumes that industrial farming is the only way of producing food at scale, and that capitalism is the only possible economic system. Fortunately for us all, that's not the case. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey #Listening to the freshly released album Elude the Torch by US indie guitar band The Drin; https://thedrin.bandcamp.com/album/elude-the-torch #music #guitar #indie #TheDrin npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey (2/2) "We didn’t create these identities—they already existed—it’s that we turned those identities into focal points for self-organization, by virtue of our failure to provide security." #NoahFeldman, 2005 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2005/01/what-we-owe-iraq-interview-noah-feldman/ To what degree do we also observe this in countries where structural adjustment has eroded or destroyed their social safety net? npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey (1/2) "So one of the reasons that we’ve seen such a strong focus on ethnic, tribal, denominational, other identities in Iraq, is that when the state collapsed, people had little choice but to find some marker of identity that they thought would have some chance of working for them. And these were the identities that were there." #NoahFeldman, 2005 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2005/01/what-we-owe-iraq-interview-noah-feldman/ #Iraq #neoliberalism #StructuralAdjustment