DaoYang @daoyang@todon.nl
Keen on finding ways to make the world a better place, one community at a time. Special focus on local currencies, community resilience, and online education.
https://reporterre.net/Vague-d-arrestations-a-Bure-un-avocat-en-garde-a-vue
La répression s'aggrave à #Bure. L'état policier, saveur Macron.
Had a busy day so I'm not sure if this has made the rounds here yet BUT: #PapuaNewGuinea has shut down #Facebook for a month to research what facebook is doing with and to its users, how it influences them and their health: http://news.pngfacts.com/2018/05/papua-new-guinea-to-shutdown-facebook.html
Sounds almost healthy until you get to the point where it's actually about #censorship an how to better control, or uh, "curate" the experience
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/26/gender-wars-household-chores-comic
Time to share the mental load...
https://theintercept.com/2018/05/20/norman-finkelstein-gaza-iran-israel-jerusalem-embassy/
Important interview with Norman G. Finkelstein on the unlivable concentration camp that is the Gaza Strip.
"Are the people of Gaza trying to breach a border fence? No. The people of Gaza are trying to breach an unlivable space in which the population is daily being poisoned."
Bred to Suffer
Inside the Barbaric U.S. Industry of Dog Experimentation
https://theintercept.com/2018/05/17/inside-the-barbaric-u-s-industry-of-dog-experimentation/
https://reporterre.net/Zad-de-Notre-Dame-des-Landes-face-aux-gendarmes-les-reperes-d-une-militante
Ou comment se sortir plus ou moins intact.e et vivant.e d'une confrontation avec le bras armé du capitalisme. Conseils à intégrer au manuel du parfait militant, on en aura tous besoin tôt ou tard...
https://theintercept.com/2018/05/11/experts-say-keep-amazons-alexa-away-from-your-kids/
Why would your kids need actual friends, when they can have The Machine?
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/44458-making-america-great-again-assumes-that-it-once-was
"The United States is exceptional in believing it is exceptional... The US destroys whole forests for the paper on which to debate what would theoretically happen if a government provided universal health care, for example, despite so many nations having actually done so."
@MistressEmelia
#openNIC:
OpenNIC is a user-owned and -controlled top-level Network Information Center that offers a non-national alternative to traditional Top-Level Domain (TLD) registries such as #ICANN.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenNIC
#guffi:
'Guifi.net is a free, open and neutral, mostly wireless telecommunications community network, with over 33,000 active nodes and about 46,000 km of wireless links...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guifi.net
“Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours”: the story of how a person with their own mail server still ends up having Google able to read half their mail https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-because-it-has-all-of-yours #Email #Privacy
https://theintercept.com/2018/05/08/donald-trump-iran-nuclear-deal-john-bolton/
The US military-industrial complex once again can gleefully rub its oily, bloody hands.
Very scared for the people of Iran.
https://roarmag.org/essays/academic-alienation-cognitive-labor-capitalism/
"Is it possible to create space for intellectual work that is not purely technical or productive? Can there still be true (or organic) intellectuals whose work is not bound up in the general process of production?"
Like start-ups, most intentional #communities fail – why? | #aeon #Essay
https://aeon.co/essays/like-start-ups-most-intentional-communities-fail-why
"#Findhorn Foundation in #Scotland, one of the more successful intentional communities, which has been running since 1972 and is now a model of #ecological building, with #solar and #wind #energy. Pais explained that it took Findhorn more than two decades to overcome basic infrastructural challenges. In recent years, its income totalled .."
Hi everyone. Super happy to join this instance, as I want to network more with kindred spirits intent on pushing "things" forward a bit (until they go crashing to the ground?). Lately, I've become obsessed with 3 things: 1.community currencies (≠ Bitcoin); 2. local community resilience in the face of the coming climatic & social upheavals; and 3. online education tools for individual and collective emancipation. If you want to talk about any of this, please toot my way! Cheers. #introduction
