unicornriot.ninja Anarchists Gather for Conference at the Corner of the World - UNICORN RIOT
A global gathering of anarchists took place in Mexico in late January, focusing on international resistance to border militarization.
Oh wait that's an ADHD symptom? I'm considering going nomadic atm maybe that makes it bearable.
I'm a woman in her forties and maybe my perspective helps. What I've noticed about myself as I am approaching menopause is this: I won't tolerate stuff that I don't want. No compromise anymore. My body just won't allow that I be in a place I don't want to be in, with people I don't want to be with, in conditions I don't control ... so I'm probably not a very nice person anymore in the way I used to be - but at same time feeling powerfully aligned with what I really want for myself, and walking out of situations that don't serve me.
As women are still raised to please and support others many of us tend to wear ourselves out in caring for other people and their opinion, and when that falls away with menopause the results can be very painful for the person themselves and their families. This change in me killed my relationship, and I do feel very sorry how it all went down, but I was literally physically unable to stay and remain in this 'wife' situation that I tend to almost automatically create for myself when with a partner.
And for your situation as a partner: No, you never have to put up with your partner criticizing you all day and dumping their rotten mood onto you. That's not acceptable for any reason.
Wall-E, is that you?
Why should the homeless have no right to organize? It's funny that the only places with (rough but efficient) functioning self-organization I could find so far were among the homeless and the small folk. Those with stuff left to protect are too much up their own arse to want to play well with others.
Also, the plans to get off the street are real, most of the time. Every kindness you show is a seed that one day will point towards the right direction.
I've been hanging out with the homeless as a kid, and lived on the streets for a few months as a young adult, travelling and panhandling. I met many very kind, and often very damaged people. They are on the streets because it's for a variety of reasons the only option they can manage, not because they enjoy scamming you out of a few coins and do nothing all day.
If you are concerned about your money look at the suit wearing people, most of it ends up with them.
Improve your local community in other ways. Or give in other ways. Not sure what would apply in your local community - I live in rural Western Europe and that's very different from what you describe. People here set up donation boxes, swap shops, create food banks, organize markets, create safe spaces for minority groups, community gardens ... mostly volunteering time. Not sure you are in the position to do this? Sorry things are so heartbreaking. I hope we all figure this out soon.
How did you like Georgia? I keep beong obsessed by it (because music).
How did you address your trauma? What methods did you find worked?
Thispunk.
The farmers themselves have to come to their senses as well and support these government reforms or eventually the crime gangs might take the land and eat the owner. After that is done I hope we can return to a commons system of land use.
They help with slowing down, degrowth, a meditative life. Although the speed depends a lot on the motivation of the donkey. Towards home and a bucket of food they might reach ludicrous speeds temporarily!
Hmm, the farmer interviewed in the article farms 570 ha - maybe consider a restoration of smaller-scale farms and restoration of the commons before complaining about criminals roaming lands the size of an entire village?
The concentration of ownership into fewer and fewer hand means that smaller farmers had to sell out to the big guys, a process that has been going on for very long. When there is nothing left but large swatches of land owned by single persons what is normal folk supposed to do? Turn into serfs again? It's not even possible anymore because most farmers will just import the cheapest farmhand from other countries because nobody can live a dignified life from the pittance they pay workers.
Not to forget, with large areas of land in a single hand comes monoculture and all the destruction associated with it.
Fuck it, distribute the land to the crime gangs and teach them how to garden.
My dream is to use the donkeys as my main means of transport. I've had so many cars broken recently, I don't know why I bother anymore.
trying to catch trains, trying to find the correct room at university ...
Where I live Mimosa kills everthing where it grows, so does Eucalyptus. But watching (and unsuccessfully fighting it) during two decades I find that it ultimately can't outgrow the native species, it finds a more humble place in the landscape with time. Yes we shouldn't stupidly introduce new stuff left and right, but the idea that invasives could be removed entirely feels entirely impossible (how? and where to draw the line?), and also frighteningly fascist, to me. Managing a landscape by building diverse ecosystems where the 'invasives' have place and function seems to be a more fruitful (!) thing to do imo.
Sounds too much like 'the war on weeds' only for humans. Still no thanks. We can grow smaller but lets take it easy. Also if we squash ourselves back who is gonna fight the invasives (/s because I don't think the term even makes sense)
The idea of a slow and careful crafts movement aligns with a more sustainable society, because it slows things down. Best way of slowing down is like this: create things very beautiful, even out of broken stuff.
You decide which human is invasive? No thanks. As for invasive plants, are we going to take all our agricultural plants back to where they came from as well?
Every plant in the garden and in the surrounding landscape has a use. There is no weed. Learning how to use plants again is important!
Yours is just one of many versions of 'why I personally don't do anything': I'm all for change, but the others don't want!
Society will never be fully aligned on the solutions and you cannot expect everyone to agree with you, but you still can work for your preferred solutions in smaller groups?
I would take diagnosis around Neurodiversity with a grain of salt. I suspect both conditions might be the same brain differences presenting differently, and I don't think science has really gotten to the ground of this yet.
Server as heating device - how do I do this?
So I have this silly idea/longterm project of wanting to run a server on renewables on my farm. And I would like to reuse the heat generated by the server, for example to heat a grow room, or simply my house. How much heat does a server produce, and where would you consider it best applied? Has anyone built such a thing?
Hydro Power Overview
A good overview and link collection around small scale hydro power technologies
Water is running again, ram pump installation year 2
A couple of years ago I built two ram pumps and installed them in the stream near my house. They pumped water for the garden for a few months during spring and summer. I'm okay with the fact that the pumps are just useful during part of the year, but didn't really like damming up the entire stream for my installation, seemed rude towards wildlife.
So this year I returned with a longer tube and just took the water from further upstream. I have only about 70cm head. I haven't really measured the height I'm getting, but it's more than the first year and enough for what I want to do.
My installation in the stream is very simple: fence post hammered/wedged into the stream bed, pump tied to it with wire. Everything wobbles a tiny bit. Might return and solidify that later, but I love it when stuff is so simple that I can just throw it into the stream and it works. After a while of pumping by hand it just runs. Variations in water height might stop it as it sits low in the water. Will report
Comparison: Coop Cloud, Yunohost, similar platforms
If you have tried several self-hosting platforms like the above, please share your experience.
I have so far only tried Yunohost and I'm quite satisfied. It does help to read French, sometimes solutions can be hidden in French forum topics.
Coop Cloud seems to be docker-based, as far as I understand, and I just never managed to wrap my head around containers and why I should use them. Not sure though if Yunohost does container stuff in the background that I am not aware of?
I've just started to use my Yunohost installation for some small scale collaborative stuff so I really hope it scales (to probably not more than 100 users) and keeps running smoothly. Starting to host common stuff is a little more scary than just fucking up my own private files.
Anarchists Gather for Conference at the Corner of the World
www.bbc.co.uk Doncaster giant airship plant to create 1,200 jobs
Hybrid Air Vehicles aims to make 24 ships a year at the site in Doncaster.
Did someone say airship?
publicdomainreview.org The Landlord's Game: Lizzie Magie and Monopoly's Anti-Capitalist Origins (1903)
The story of how a homemade, anti-capitalist game created by a woman becomes a mass-produced uber-capitalist game that profited a man.
Rather relevant. I had no idea 'Monopoly' had an anti-capitalist predecessor.
Web3 and land stewardship, need ELI5
Web 3, nature conservacy, crypto-somthing, blockchain? So this organization appears to be buying land to then put in the hands of stewardship organizations. One of the places being bought under this scheme is Traditional Dream Factory.
Their plans and ideas seem sound, I just don't understand the crypto part and tokens and what these are supposed to accomplish as opposed to something like traditional shares or just write everything down on a piece of paper?
Is crypto ultimately just an ultra complex way of record keeping here?
I would really appreciate your opinions. In terms of activities and spaces, a lot of the TDF setup is very close to what we would like to build, so I try to study and understand different ways people organize such projects.
Community server for a local community
Preference of community hosting instead of self hosting has recently come up in a permacomputing chat, and in this sense I am trying to set up a tiny yunohost server that can serve my local alternative community - a series of mostly rural living people spread throughout the landscape around a small towns. I want to support local barter and trade, local tool sharing and connections between people.
I am trying to feel my way towards what functions could be useful for a mostly non-tech community, and what is out there to self-host? And what is especially useful and makes sense for local communities? Event calendar, small ads and some sort of map functions come to mind, what else? I guess a lot of what Facebook does.
As I don't see myself in the position to replace Facebook anytime soon but would like to pave the way towards having Facebook and the like replaced by many small scale solutions like the server I am building, I would like the server to have other useful stuff. Currently usin
Cooperativism and green energy
I have finally contracted my electricity with them. I didn't even know much about their story, but it's a nice example of cooperative success and EU-wide support among cooperatives.
Also, it looks like PT is fully renewable now anyways, no more coal!
I think what needs to be done now is evaluate the impact that each of these technologies have on the landscape.
Some people seem to have problems with the wind turbine noise and vibration, but as the turbines are placed on top of the hills not many people are affected. All turbines are placed by large corporations, as far as I know. This seems to be a little different in Germany if I remember well, anyone knows any details?
Hydro power has a large impact on the landscape, whole villages have been flooded an the people relocated, ancient common lands expropriated. But the remaining villages all have electricity now. There's irrigation water to grow many crops. Built by the state (nowa
Stimpunks - not sure if it has been shared already?
stimpunks.org 🌈♿️ Mutual Aid and Human-Centered Learning for Neurodivergent and Disabled People
Stimpunks is created by and for neurodivergent and disabled people. We provide mutual aid, learning opportunities, human-centered research, and living wages for our community. We presume competence, and we believe in self-determination. We, Stimpunks Header art: “Sphere of Humanity: A Traverse Gift ...
To create a new, non-pathologizing paradigm around our minds. Lots of good texts.
Autism in families / displacement in families
Hi, if you identify as on the spectrum, neurodiverse, ASD, ADHD - I would be curious if your family is multicultural, and if you or a relative has moved to a foreign country or lives in a foreign country. For example, I have grandparents on both parents side who moved abroad. I moved abroad myself as an adult, and have a sibling who has done so as well.
This seems to be a response to feeling alien in one's own culture, therefore having less of an incentive of staying. And then it increases the alien-ness for the next generation. I wonder where are correlation and causation here. Maybe they just intertwine, like some neurofunky globetrotter's dna.
the languages of solarpunk
A few times I've come upon the power of a common language in the last few days.
I've seen a video about a meeting of Amazonian pajés (shamans) and herbalists sharing and maintaining traditional plant use, facilitated through the common language Portuguese, I've read about the success of the Zapatistas where native people are helped in their efforts by the common language Spanish. And just now a post in Anarchism & Social Ecology mixing Spanish and English just as comfortably as my family juggles three languages at home.
Do you know of other examples?
I thought one of the non-evil possible uses of a LLM could be to create a new language like Esperanto, and ideally it would simply be a mix of English and Spanish, to connect a maximum number of people? Or are artificial languages always doomed to fail?
Edit: title, because there is not one language of solarpunk
www.shareable.net Artisans Cooperative: An Etsy alternative, owned and run by artists and makers
We have all experienced it: Some organization or service starts out good — or great, even — and then as time goes on, either costs and fees go up, or
I do hope this fits here, in case it doesn't feel free to remove.
cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/2383962
Finally, there's a no-tech-knowledge-needed alternative to Etsy. I'm really excited about where this will go!
This site explains how the internet works
explained-from-first-principles.com The Internet explained from first principles
Learn more about this critical infrastructure, which you likely use for hours every day.
But it's also great at explaining how human communication works in terms of greeting protocols, haha. I'm gaining real insights here.
Advice around setting up two laptops, one as server
So I have two laptops. Both run Linux Mint.
I need Laptop 1 to work with.
Laptop 2 is an unrepairable POS that starts having a little trouble with keyboard and hinges but works nicely otherwise and has a nice large 1TB disc and a GPU. I want to bury L2 in a shelf(*) and save videos and music on it to access from L1.
I would also like to play with Stable Diffusion on L2, accessing it from L1. Can I do that?
Edit: At some point I want to have my website served from L2 as well but I guess that can be a future project.
(*) Bonus points for ideas about how to have L2 do other useful things when I don't use it and install it as grow tent heating instead of just have it sit in a corner.
Eli5 XMPP
So I understand this instance is integrated with XMPP and also vaguely understand XMPP is a chat protocol? It would be great if someone could point me towards a simple explanation around anything else important, I'm a bit lost and the only 'chat thingy' I use are messenger apps (is that even the same?)
Missing comments?
I think part of the discussion in this Community community thread went missing? Anyone else is missing any comments anywhere?
Fast paced - why are we so tired
During my years as a marketing translator I've probably translated the phrase 'in today's fast-paced business environment' or some variations thereof hundreds of times. These words raise my heart rate when I read them, and I eventually had to give up marketing translation as I wasn't capable of normalizing living in a fast-paced environment.
I'm not even sure who created this fast-paced environment, and is now expecting me, a tiny human, to keep up with it. Forces me to rush my children into it too, prepared to get prepared for the modern life, clad in ever freshly-washed garments and with their faces washed, and shoes tied well, early in the morning. Become a productive citizen, now!
And it gets worse - to keep up with the rush I'm offered products. Machines, more machines, so I can do everything fast enough for the fast-paced environment. All while the real, actual, living environment goes down the drain, also ever more quickly. Nobody gets to rest in this fast-paced environment, w