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New blog post: Cascadia Open Education Summit Proposals (feedback welcome!)🤞
1️⃣Using Markdown and Git Workflow for Open Courses and Resources
2️⃣Using the Modern File-based Grav CMS as a Personal Open Platform in Education
hibbittsdesign.org/blog/posts/
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David Ing

Research in : "if there were global tipping points, they will rise from the interaction of local tipping points that would amplify each other. But the question of which tipping elements can interact and how remained unanswered" writes context twitter.com/juanrocha/status/1

"Cascading regime shifts within and across scales" | Dec, 2018 at juanrocha.se/publication/casca

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Strypey

I have lot of sympathy for Matt Slater's arguments for Protocol Cooperativism. This is essentially the songbook I was singing from, since the late 90s, and throughout my time working on the Aotearoa localizations of #Indymedia and #CreativeCommons. But in hindsight, those songs were naive. As Matt points out within his own essay, capitalists have already figured out ways to dominate open networks based on open protocols (eg Microsoft's "embrace, extend, extinguish"). Ownership matters.

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Appreciating one of many ongoing deliberations in Canada, on improving our society. Respectful diligence takes time, and is a better than a rush to judgement when policies impact many. A free press can report on the important, not just the urgent.

> Over the past few decades, schools across Canada have moved toward a model of inclusive education, but many are struggling to find the best ways to include children with complex needs in regular classrooms.

"Educating Grayson: Are inclusive classrooms failing students?" | Caroline Alphonso | Jan. 5, 2018 | Globe and Mail at theglobeandmail.com/canada/edu

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was invented by Ward Cunningham in 1995, to support the Portland Pattern Repository c2.com/ppr/ .

was invented by Ward in 2011, enabling parallel editing in a community. Renaming a "wiki page"​ as a "card"​ may make it more intelligible to novices (even those who don't remember ).

Restarted for sharing .
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@daviding @Matt_Noyes you can solve both relative cleanly with Cloudron (email server and app management) + NextCloud (calendars, contacts, files). Works fine across several devices. Even easier with a $25/year mayfirst.org membership. mayfirst.org/en/member-benefit

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@ntnsndr Thanks for the mayfirst.org link, I see there are U.S. and Mexican parts. The discussion on reorganizing as a coop is interesting. If such a platform was hosted in Canada, I might be interested. In 2016, I moved all of my web self-hosting to Canada, quora.com/Whats-a-good-Canadia . Choosing across organizational governance and avoiding the U.S. Patriot Act on data access is a dilemma, for a Canadian. @Matt_Noyes

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@dontai Mixing amateur drivers with a Formula One track in China follows their cultural style of accepting chaos in everyday life. Eventual popularization of motorsports in China would be better, if they were more stringent about training and qualifying.

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TorontoBoy

Racing #Geely 131-horsepower Emgrand GL sedan on the #Shanghai International Circuit Formula One track. American auto journo participates in a Geely event. Interesting read. Has some unique Chinese culture on display. She may have been discounted because of being female.

Chabuduo 差不多，or "good enough" is very often used in #China, and for good reason.

jalopnik.com/i-went-to-china-t

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@neil Over on qoto.org, the technical toot limit is over 65535 characters, but moderators have guidelines of <1000 characters because moderators on 500-character Mastodon instances have to receive them. My practice is now to use a free WordPress.com site (ingbrief.wordpress.com) with a P2 theme, for longer posts, and then to excerpt from there. daviding.wordpress.com/2017/06

Not self-hosting all of my WordPress sites lets me observe the decisions made on a guy I managed CMS.

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I think the argument being we should have coops that interoperate on top of a shared protocol; not one coop that dominates an entire market with a platform.

Relates somewhat to the Statebook article (newsocialist.org.uk/do-we-real), which argued that the state would serve us better if it focused on building and promoting shared protocols, not on building a Facebook alternative.

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platform.coop/stories/protocol

We should view protocols as the digital means of production, more so than platforms. And that ‘protocol cooperatives’ will do more to break down capitalism than platform coops will. think the main argument being that platform coops are inherently centralised, and that as far as challenging capital goes, we should be striving for decentralised architectures.

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@Matt_Noyes The biggest challenge with self hosting communications for me, to date, isn't the email, but instead the calendaring. I had a long career with Lotus Notes calendar, and Google Calendar is still missing features but is popular and functional. I do self host IMAP email, and prefer Horde over Roundcube. Advances on calendaring seemed slow, I would like to know if they have improved.

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Should we think about systems changes, in a way that we think about weather changes? SJ Marshall (also known as Joel Biroco) wrote on the meaning of Yi in the ZhouYi, which was the earlier basis for the Yi Jing (known to most westerners as the I Ching).

> In the Shang oracle-bone inscriptions this character refers to ‘a yi sacrifice to the sun’, the context suggesting a ritual intended to change overcast conditions and rainy weather, and bring the sun out again. In the inscriptions the character precedes ri, ‘sun’, literally meaning ‘change to sun’ or ‘change to sunny weather’.

"The Meaning of Yi in I Ching" ingbrief.wordpress.com/2018/12

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@michel_slm Amongst OECD countries, elderly poverty rate in Canada gets an "A" at 6.7%, says Conference Board of Canada. conferenceboard.ca/hcp/Details

USA gets a "C", with elderly poverty rate near 20% .

Further, in 2017, elders are included in "Canada's First Poverty Reduction Strategy" canada.ca/en/employment-social

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In Dec. 2018, an report "What is Systems Science" following the April 2018 Conversation was released as pre-final towards proceedings. stream.syscoi.com/2018/12/14/w

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Joshua Chalifour

How using open data science has worked for the Ocean Health Index. It's impressive how big a difference their open processes have made on their progress. opensource.com/article/18/12/p #OpenScience #OpenData

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@Matt_Noyes In the federated wiki community, experiments with Beaker Browser and Hashbase.io continue, forage.rodwell.me/view/federat .

In-progress work on DAT with Glitch wiki.dbbs.co/view/wiki-and-gli .

I tried DAT on laptop to friend's laptop without hashbase, non-technical users will hesitate to open up a port on a home router with news about hackers on IoT refrigerators.

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Think that you’ll be working past age 65? 2018 survey says >25% were forced to retire, 59% retired voluntarily.

> Just more than one-quarter of them were forced to retire, possibly for medical reasons, corporate restructuring or reaching a mandatory retirement age. Fifty-seven per cent said they retired voluntarily, while the rest said they reached retirement age and felt it was time to stop working (3 per cent didn’t reply).

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TorontoBoy

Chinese #dissidents ask #Twitter to consider dual key accounts, where deletion of a Twitter account requires two approvals.

Chinese police have been forcing people to delete their Twitter accounts against their will. I wonder if these deleted accounts could be reinstated?

It is an interesting idea, a unique use case specific to #China, but useful to them. We in the West don't have these repressive conditions.

chinachange.org/2018/12/11/my-

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