FreeSchool=Co-Op+Friendship🔁 @freeschool@qoto.org

Website Blocking example vs. Tiny Notice message...

LEFT SIDE = ULTIMATUM
(RESULT: STOPS BROWSING)

RIGHT SIDE = NOTICE TO USER (RESULT: ALLOWS BROWSING WITH NOTICE)....

With older browsers or forks this blocking is becoming popular encouraging people to upgrade when not really needed at all / can still run the site or just needs warming it's 99% ok just not 100% which many sites are (just pictures and text, or at worst some pics or something missing)

While it does help me browse less sites (I just leave or send them this screenshot) I would prefer just a notice in my browser (the right side) AND NOT A BLOCK PAGE!

Poor countries are not under-developed, they are over-exploited - Michael Parenti

Making freedom(s) easier to follow is our task...

More active you are the more you step on toes, but if you can absorb that and even fix things to help it on it's way then you have progress.

-Worst case is bad dancers with bad teachers,
-Best case is a hive full of activity and repairing / feeding cells + getting the honey (progressing activity regardless of ability and increasing of human intelligence within a hive,)

This includes your fingers dancing while listening to stuff like this from back in the day....

this one a shortened mix... from Sub Love - She Moves (I think, at least beginning)

Make sure you put it on repeat and squeeze it to get the max from it!

#pirateradio #remixes #dj #dnb #drumandbass #jungle #euphoric

#Mastodon 3D Toy For Sale

What I took from this reading (copy after) might be useful to consider or possibly learn in the future since other people's experience is good either way as it's either not easy or always subject to change (this might help projects in these respects below)

-organising; changes to legal containers
-maintainers changing etc
-money arrangement
-reading statutes
-lack of interest
-voting & membership
-managing assets

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Original here:
https://blog.funkwhale.audio/2022-association-update.html
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Pasted below in whole with links also inserted here:

In June 2019, Funkwhale officially became an association. When the project started, Agate ran the project as a BDFL (Benevolent Dictator For Life). It became clear that this wasn't a very good way to run things, so she made the decision to formalize the collective.

Creating an official association (https://www.journal-officiel.gouv.fr/associations/detail-annonce/associations_b/20190026/327) brought with it many benefits. It gave the project a written legal structure for decision making. It also presented a framework for handling memberships to give people voting rights. The association has been instrumental in shaping Funkwhale's democratic approach to development.

Things have changed a lot since the creation of the association.

- The original maintainers have stepped away from the project.
- A new project team has stepped up.
- The majority of the project team are no longer located in France.

As we work on the project more, our statutes sometimes feel more restrictive than helpful. In particular, the paid membership model for voters feels exclusionary. While it's possible to request a free membership, this isn't clear and can be embarrassing. Our statutes are also written in a very formal way that may be challenging for people to read. It's not an approach that a lot of people are used to.

Additionally, the running of the association is a lot of work. Making big decisions requires a lot of organization and planning. The handling of money and paperwork requires us to maintain a presence in France. And importantly, we aren't getting the amount of interest we need for new elections. This lack of interest recently led to us needing to change some of our statutes to accommodate limited interest.

We need to change something.

## What are you proposing?

After some discussion in our forums (https://forum.funkwhale.audio/d/10-legal-state-of-the-funkwhale-collective),
we got in contact with the Center for the Cultivation of Technology (https://techcultivation.org/).
They are a non-profit that helps free software projects handle work outside of software development. They have offered to assist us with handling financial, administrative, and legal tasks. These are tasks that we find quite challenging to work on, especially as we are trying to build the software. We are quite interested in taking up this offer, but it would mean dissolving the association.

The association is currently responsible for donations and project administration. We can't continue as an association and hand these tasks over to the non-profit. If we decide to take this path, we'll dissolve the association and let the non-profit handle the administration.

## But what about members?

Members are currently able to vote on big decisions about the collective. This isn't something we can copy over to this proposed structure. This has made us think about what we currently use membership for and how we could improve it.

We would like to move to a more holistic view of membership. One that isn't based on money or any specific contribution. We'd like to move to a system that recognizes more people in our community and gives them a voice. Contributions take many forms, and we want to recognize all contributions equally. Code submissions, documentation, designs, translations, running and using the software. All these contributions are important and we should recognize this better. We can't do this with the association, and it leads to a somewhat exclusive environment.

Money collected through membership fees will be counted as donations and will still be used for the good of the project.

## Has this already been decided?

Not at all! The association members need to vote to make this decision. We're writing this blog post to let everyone know what's going on and what our position is on the topic. Of course, if the association votes to keep things as they are then they will stay as they are. That's what it means to be a democracy! 😄

We want to put this to a vote in a general assembly to formalize our response. If we decide to move away from the association, a general assembly vote lets us do that. We can start the process of dissolving the association and moving our assets over.

We'd like to open this discussion up on our forum (https://forum.funkwhale.audio/d/112-future-of-the-funkwhale-association) to hear your thoughts on it. Once we've got an idea of everyone's feelings, we'll create a poll. Depending on the outcome of this, we'll look at what we do next.

Thank you for your continued support!
By @Sporiff in
Announcement
Sat 19 February 2022
https://fosstodon.org/@funkwhale
@funkwhale

SHORT VERSION OF UNOBVIOUS NUANCES IN LIFE:

[Ahem]
"Peanut Butter is not made from Peanuts and Butter."
"Thank you."
[Speaker exits spotlight]

It's a short way to say about how life and language may look simple or easily translated, but read too shallow can be read wrong because assumptions are that peanut and butter are easy to read, So things mean different things sometimes (even if you knew this one).

I'm using this example to say the obvious is sometimes not Peanut Butter exactly!

It helps to read into more than the aesthetics or even just words because they can mean many things especially to others (not just you). So in this case the peanut butter is an easy neutral example so imagine if it was political (Bitcoin is my favourite one as it creates such a strong mix in people even if they don't believe I'm not advertising here, just it creates emotions real good!
So as easy parallel I found this example good so any subject can be more neutrally looked at (helps if you have someone guide you through things) so even you and me as entities (the peanut butter) are not always assumed mean what you or I assume and even recreate ourselves.
Helps to read or ask just a bit more deeper and even help ourselves realise what we are growing into / out of !!!! Yes we're growing so I can change ingredients almost in myself!

To converse with others is also my direction here in mentioning growth, for aligning your own perception or overall humanity in understanding similar nuances. And well stupid examples like Peanut Butter too!

(I'm using this example to say things can be read but not understood but I didn't know how to say it other than Peanut Butter!)

What life is made from as you use it is important (not only consume but the understanding and decision-making).

Life is like Peanut Butter!
(Butter here means more of a consistency like that of butter, lard, ointment, food paste or spread- not the dairy/milk product "butter"!)

Above is the spoiler/answer/clincher.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_butter

Banks are political (pick and choose) who they loan out money to (picture hints to that).

It more about re-enforcing existing profitable practises I think than helping people... and while they may have reasons to check (I'm being generous to them) I don't think they would even try a bit to try speculate something nice for people (they still collect I think if business fails which about 50% do in 1st two years)

This is a vicious cycle for what they don't fund... (because effectively they kill those idea or do not giving life to those people or things - even though I believe in the long term 0 debt is the way and giving people debt is never really any solution... or never equalises, merely passes on higher % on the bad tangent of 'money# they started doing in a faulting way of life and basis for man-made virtual numbers for living (and of course fiddling the books or agreeing with job makers ho to get the maximum output from everyone)... so this tangent of money is growing negatives numbers AT THE SAME TIME as loaning money... so even if the origins of money existed and were pure, the banks 'service' of chargnig % means there is still MUCH MORE DEBT IN TOTAL accumulated with time and masses of people)...

So this is bad equation we are in now where not giving money = death and giving money also = death / more debt in total practically unpayable (you die for your work and still keep paying endless unlimited % yourself OR the government's borrowing and charge %'s to your people forcing them to stay busy and not solve the real things in life and to enable them to make/pay for their own bad DisneyLand which we're just now realising on a daily basis we have to go more from scratch with defective by design tool (including money!)

%'s catch up and increase stress / suffering!... therefore death (over longer period of time and less easy to see the dead body or starvation from siphoning people's blood via %'s.... drip drip)

original here, this is shorter edit
https://ni.hil.ist/@coconut_noodle/107959486942698416

Political artist in line with what I think or just like as pictures WITH HEART (literally!) :
Stephanie McMillan
http://stephaniemcmillan.org/

#Art #Cooperation #Team
#Climatechange #Capitalism #Imperialism #Elites #Climat #Climate #ClimateCrisis

My best of political artist in line with what I think or just like as picture by Stephanie McMillan
http://stephaniemcmillan.org/

Pictures say:

1 Workers Of The World Unite! -
Break Chains of Capitalism Imperialism

2 We survive and thrive together

3 Is it organic (with the environment around shows as toxic / polluted)

4 Capitalism = Accumulation of Surplus Value

My best of political artist in line with what I think or just like as picture: Stephanie McMillan
http://stephaniemcmillan.org/

#Art #Cooperation #Team
#Climatechange #Capitalism #Imperialism #Elites #Climat #Climate #climatecrisis

Music for mathematicians to consider (not just numbers, calculate this!!...)

...with a bit more soul that your average pop, go DubFX! :)

Lyrics... (take a few times to get it)

"long division is a timely process,
subtract thought the shadows and darkness
multiply your movements to shine,
add all your thoughts
to equal sublime"

"one connected collective consciousness..."

Not saying it's perfect but it sends some clear direction with maths and consciousness merged.

The reasoning:
Chess is a lot like puzzle solving and a few similar dynamics in life... if you can train your kids (and yourself!) to accept someone else's better puzzle-making then you can literally have more accepting people and a measurably better population in life accepting loss of this kind.

Also people can accept they are not perfect because Chess is not only about death and damage or defeating people or ego. It's about accepting happenings, puzzling and even learning to forget about it while still able to play the next time and not ignore this game (or these deeper and easy-when-you-know parts of life).

Banks are not a service, more a parasite.

No wonder people start doing bad things banks the draining the blood. sweat and tears from people proportionately to the % charge and they swallow!
(or say they have no money and public money goes to private banks!)

#Money # Meme #Fake #Finance #FakeFinancialSystems #Business #Profit #Banks #Human #Parasite #SuckingTheDearLifeFromPeople

When you have someone typing faster back in response lots of time, THEN do you realise why others can get uncomfortable with your own speeds of response! :D

So just saying I'm fast - and don't worry if you're 'slow' or just your own speed... BUT do get faster and be able to do both fast and slow! It's like a drug when making life somewhat (currently between any physical action I think thoughts in the mind are mostly what's needed to develop since what's physically happening is getting rather meaningle$$)

Fortunately it doesn't happen a lot and I realise sending messages (which when you are busy is harder and feels like being asked for attention' on top of everything else) but it is like gold dust in this realm so I don't often ask anyone to really stop or slow down!

" Oh no please stop sending messages about what you love to do and how you want to see more of it"
...lol!

Play your music and keep running/typing in whatever you're progressing!
Go go go Forrest!

People taking care of you and you taking care of other people.

Taking good care of yourself is also inside of taking care of other people.

Humans Caring for Humans! It's needed and not to be profited from!

It's all one big care! Seems a bit childish but I love it in many ways!

People changing their posting habits according to the algorithms on commercial mediums shows for me how humans on one side (with computers) can change equations to effect the other side without much of a problem (human behaviour and manipulation basically setting how it works).
Algorithms and Hacking Habits... People think they are hacking or figuring out algorithms... but just end up getting u$ed them$elf...

I don't like it or it's more of the same money making...otherwise those companies would have solved hunger by now or just paid for it in cash!.

Spinning production and excluding people with new algorithms I hope is a good example of the manipulation happening.

Some are even willing to feed it to get ahead.

Some are 'hacking' and testing the algorithm to find 'cheats' they can do or changes that basically feeds the system even more...
until of course they system changes it again like a fashion trend.
Nice game right? Rinse and repeat! Move goal posts.

More of the same result. For what and for who is questionable
right?...)

very questionable.

More than expecting to be perfect or aiming for perfection in a machine sense, I think perfection for the imperfect human being is really about practising towards learn to improve one's self and another's.

The interaction between ourselves is the perfecting of perfection...

Another way to say it:
Perfection for humans generally means the enjoyment or the learning process.
The practise of good things while improving and simply practising other things to make sure we're all happy in many different ways.

https://andrei.zodian.net/p/kefir.html

This link is to show a great idea for trying to grow something and passing it on for free.

There are suggestions of paying which I don't usually like... but the meticulousness and detail (even if overwritten) in the free part tells me this person is serious about giving it away which wins for me on the ladder of acceptance and even demotes and helps lessen the usual "oh he's using google and facebook" which always creates bad feelings or isn't my ideal way in terms of mentioning things even for free... but again he's doing things personally too it seems and even drops free to to your mailbox in New York.
Ok! Not bad!

BTW Kefir is a fermented milk drink similar to a thin yogurt or ayran that is made from kefir grains ( a specific type of mesophilic symbiotic culture. )...

... whatever right just add it to milk, let it grow and do it's thing!

If you're in New York you can even get it delivered for free which also tell me he's 'hardcore' towards "freedom" and "free" in this way and just want to get rid of it.

(I have no idea if this is real so if you want to test it out and feel free to say but for now take on board the idea and feeling I have about it)

Summary:
The main reason is to show the free part and growing of culture and leveraging by allowing living organisms to grow while we *at the same time* are leveraging our own activity around it (even to flavour our milk or do make cheese or whatever), just us in the equation of how we do culture on top of the real economic of life (planet, biosphere, living organisms) is the ideal I'm reaching for.

Simple things can done on mass *IF* the idea of people can focus to grow it rather than profit / sell it only (Milk based things I guess are amazing, almost infinitely low priced at any scale and give cheese, yoghurt etc).
People can do on small farm ( I witnessed it and needs us to live and manage on land better for cow or whatever bacteria like ourselves! Even if this example isn't best or to people's taste- I used to know someone with 1 cow, just one and they had infinite supply of milk based products (many!).
Other things I've done one summer is growing pumpkins (need a lot of water but hey give things love and from 5mx5m you get enough to get sick of it)

So I wanted to show my appreciation for the idea and the parallel to using US / ourselves in trusting what can work and ourselves in these things (trust and measuring well is what we need) and eventually each other with planet becomes towards more healthy things... while also defending from bastards of course wanting to make others suffer / profit from them heavily / chat people.

(If you have land really share it growing *your own culture* too in the free / giving back way (I would say don't by it but find existing)
And simply not emptying al our energy in wasteful devaluing uncaring currency of $ or any similar following the same template of domination / pressure on people ! ( abusive money which as 'byproduct' pays for wars using the tax too from same pot... woops bye bye our energy and hello war)

So eventually 'coming off it' like money = bad tool / bad drugs and even if using money for a bit to start things, MAKING SURE by thereafter making the eco-system about habits and people as free or massaging as possible to make that money work! Growing culture in as many ways possible)

I also like the idea of adopting people as more philanthropic culture once a person has more than enough money for others and own inherited place (many have) etc + working on the land and growing culture for real that way!...

Mushrooms are currently too complicated and sensitive but would be something else if you know how, get in touch.

I like the simplicity, and people contact in this. If there are other similar things please let me know.

A bit long as post- which also gre itself BUT good work in progress if we are coming from a culture system that doesn't care but for you and me it means something and we can't accept it being uncaring. Thanks