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

"... it requires a design process in which many actors can participate - people with technical expertise, as well as those with lived expertise, domain expertise, organizing expertise, and #community #history expertise. It also means shifting the overarching goal of such #projects from “doing good with #data” to designing for co-#liberation. [...]

Rather than framing acts of #technical #service as benevolence or #charity, the goal of co-liberation requires that those technical workers acknowledge that they are engaged in a struggle for their own #liberation as well, even and especially when they are members of dominant groups."

#Quote — Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, Data Feminism

More seen here: https://sciop.net/

Made with 💌 #FreeSchool

We Need #government because people unchecked will do #vil,

but...

#Government is made of mostly unchecked or evil people.

#FreeSchool #Shrug
#Governments & #Evil #People

"We just don’t know whether the current data-hungry approach will be enough—or whether we’ll need to learn another #bitter lesson."

#AI #Data #quote by #JohnDCook
@johndcook

Source (Website):
Can #AI Models Reason:
Is Data All You Need?
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/01/16/can-ai-models-reason-is-data-all-you-need-2/

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#FreeSchool says: "For me it's about developing better emotionally intelligent people (#EmotionalIntelligence) not just developing #Technology and developing #STEM...

The Tech way would be very lop-sided and in-human, and I think we're seeing that with tons of people doing Tech while leaving humanity without proper human interaction and communication developed.

Isn't it a wonder how much money goes into other things more than caring / developing people or to really listening to problems. Sure it's not profitable and that's why unhappiness continues [as a result of profit].
You could see profit as inverted measure of damage to nature and it's people (directly or indirectly as #habitat / #urban #environment / #climate or again lop-sided human #development... for more profit and less happiness).

More #emotionally #intelligent #decisionmakers are needed for the way so it's WITH others going forward to understand better and make better decisions (in their own life / company and externally with others). So many projects fall apart for example due to #emotional issues in groups...

Tech is abusing and also taking advantage of these kinds of default "idiots" (untrained but clever people in a few compartmentalized fields or #specialists) and less emotionally intelligent people are not excluded from lesser human intelligence overall). Yes it could be you doing A LOT of one thing and never the other...

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TECH IS POLITICAL...
[MY ADDED COMMENT]
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Tech is political if money, the people behind it and profit are a measurement.
"No wonder" how much money goes into #STEM more than caring about people / listening to problems at the same time. It's proportional profit to not caring / developing better people / principles, as Tech can skip and cut that out to serve owners agenda.
Doesn't help that #jobs help #compartmentalise everything to whatever trigger chain it wants to make, and anyone in a job shrugs to say "it's not my business" to care for the rest of the people / life.

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SUMMARY: I think it is our "job" to care even if #states don't pay for it...
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Can expect any $tate looking for it's own money to really care or take less money from people as time goes on (instead of more using banks (negative #maths), #STEM, etc..)

Comments appreciated.

#POLITICS ... I don't have time for... banks... food... politics! 💲🏦💲🚀

Your actions are your politics
(Many types of Politics)

You do have power in... #Food #Tech #BigTech #STEM #money #banks #housing #war #welfare government #energy #Bank #extraction #uspol #ukpol

#FreeSchool Quote #Quotes

#POLITICS ... I don't have time for... banks... food... politics! 💲🏦💲🚀

Your actions are your politics
(Many types of Politics)

You do have power in... #Food #Tech #BigTech #STEM #money #banks #housing #war #welfare government #energy #Bank #extraction #uspol #ukpol

#FreeSchool Quote #Quotes
💻 🏦 💲 📈 🚀 💰

Test #FreeSchool

Good video overall and at the end something of a good point:

💰 Taxes Drive Money
✊ Tax forces the need for mney
🇦🇨 Tax legitimizes demand for money for it's own leader's will and society ideas

⬇️ #Video info: ⬇️
Money Did Not Come From Barter - It Came From Blood Feuds

- Professor L. Randall Wray

📼 https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=X-D5FERQzU4

Professor L. Randall Wray, discussing the origin of money, which forms the foundational conception of money in Modern Monetary Theory. The usual origin story for money as given by economists is that humans began by bartering in markets, but that this was difficult because of the "double coincidence of wants" problem: I have to have something you want and you have to have something I want, right now, or else we can't trade.

From this, a medium of exchange is selected by an evolutionary process, beginning with seashells and beads, and eventually settling on gold.

Then, the story goes, people discover that gold is sort of burdensome to carry and difficult to protect, so they arrange to keep it with the village goldsmith. The goldsmith hands out receipts, and people realize that these receipts can be used as money in place of the gold. This is, supposedly the beginning of paper money. Then the goldsmith realizes that not everybody will come to claim their gold on the same day, so the goldsmith can create receipts from thin air and spend or lend them as money. This is, supposedly, the origin of bank lending, or credit money.

The biggest problem with this story is that there's no historical evidence for it whatsoever, nor do we observe barter-based markets today within the tribal societies that are still around. The reason is obvious: if you're living in a small tribe, you know everybody. You don't need exact, proportional, spot-trade equivalence of the kind used in barter if you're doing all of your business with your cousin, or your neighbor. In practice, we find that these kinds of societies arrange themselves along informal credit relations: I'll help you out a bit here, then you'll help me out with something else later.

This is problematic for the barter story because it doesn't involve quantitative relations, ie. there are no prices. When you are engaged in repeated informal credit with your cousin, you don't need to keep track of exactly who owes whom how much, nor what kind of goods are exactly equivalent to other goods.

The time when you DO want exact proportional equivalence is during punishment for crimes. This is the ancient tribal tradition of "weregild," or "man price," in which tribal societies would draw up detailed codes of law specifying fines imposed for specific crimes. Without these kinds of legitimated official punishments, violence would tend to cycle into blood feuds. Weregild is instituted in tribal societies to stop the blood feuds and revenge cycles.

So while exchange of goods for daily subsistence involved no prices, these lengthy schedules of fines would have exact, detailed prices for everything to be found in the village, to tell you what sort of payment would absolve you of your crimes. If the prices weren't viewed as fair, then the warring families would not be satisfied and the revenge would ensue.

From these fine schedules arises naturally the concept of the "unit of account," that is, money as a social measuring unit, which is used to measure the value of things. Almost always a measure of a weight of grain, this could serve as a common basis for specifying fines. Ie. cutting off somebody's ear would require paying 50 shekels, while cutting off their nose would require 70 shekels, etc, which a detailed listing of how many shekels a chicken was worth, how many a cow was worth, etc.

Next, as societies grew larger such that not everybody knew all of their neighbors, the concept of rough credit equivalence was transformed into exact credit. That is, instead of an informal IOU between neighbors, you could record (in some form) an IOU for an exact quantity, and this IOU could be transferable. These IOUs would get denominated in the unit of account used for the schedule of fines, and connote a obligation for general value ('you owe somebody something worth 50 shekels') rather than a specific good ('you owe me 10 pigs').

And finally, the schedule of fines would be managed by some sort of authority, which today we would call "the state." Fines might have originally began as payments to the victim's family, but along the way became payments directly to the authority, for use in the "public purpose." The authority could also issue IOUs in exchange for goods, and did so. When authorities would levy these fines, they would have realized that they could require the fine to be paid in the authority's own IOU, which would create a demand for that IOU (also denominated in the unit of account). The authority would be able to spend its IOUs to anybody in the community, then that person would spend that IOU with the person who owed the fine, and finally that person would use that IOU to satisfy the fine.

Today we call these state #IOUs "currency" and we carry them around in our wallets.

#IOU #Finance #Economy #GiftEconomy #Banks

" All #War starts with money "
- #FreeSchool

#Mastodon software without #Friendship / #Trust building is a dead social engine.

This is also a reflection of real life, so while it's not Mastodon's fault, the software only solves ~50%, and now we have it, we have to work on making friends with ourselves and he world.

📈 Increment friendship and trust please. 🦸

⭐ Favourite / boost if you see me / #FreeSchool

(Orig text, but cut middle bit)

Perhaps I am the sum of my actions and written thoughts... but it’s up to you to judge whether itʼs of interest.

@electropict #Quote fom bio
#FreeSchool #Quotes

(Full quote below)

Perhaps I am the sum of my actions and written thoughts; you can read the latter here, but it’s up to you to judge whether itʼs of interest.

I like this quote as I also think I know little about a lot...

"I know a little about a lot, and a lot about very little."

@davidnjoku #FreeSchool #Quotes #Quote

(full paragraph below, from bio)
I listen to far too many #podcasts so I know a little about a lot, and a lot about very little.

" We say we are committed to #decentralization - but are we committed to each other?" ❓

- #Freeschool (#friendly #Fediverse hashtag)

Let's go towards: #friendship / #friends / #friendships online

Creative Commons = 20 Years ➡️ ⬅️ :
cc_by: #FreeSchool

Nothing strengthens #authority so much as #silence.

- Leonard De Vinci #Quote #Quotes
#Fascism #Fascist #Ignorance
#Silence #Silent #Politics #FreeSchool

This includes some non-fascist people who stay #silent and let things continue.

#Quote says it well:

💬 " I propose that in this context, a fear of #exile – that is, a fear of being left out, #overlooked, #ignored or#banished – can act as a #regulating #force that inverts the radial spatial dynamic of the #panopticon and shifts the responsibility for visibility, understood both in terms of competitive exposure and existential recognition, onto #workers.

As a consequence these workers enlist #digital #technologies to become #visible at the real or imagined organizational centre."

➡️ by #EllaHafermal #Quotes

Article Title : Out of the Panopticon and into Exile:
Visibility and control in distributed new culture organization

Picture Edit: #FreeSchool from "We Live in Public" screenshot

➡️ PDF Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0170840620909962

Tank Man: The new age (Cars) 🚗 =⛽ =🛢️ = = ✈️💣

#War = #Fuel = #Extraction = #Bombing #Pipeline #Energy Protest = More #Wars

#People vs #Cars
Basing western energy from bad Eastern ground isn't the right way and better to have less energy.

Cartoonist = #ZezVaz
Title + Edits = #FreeSchool

Trusting people to help more than the Trumps of the world?

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LIST TO CONSIDER WRITING
for yourself and others to help:
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NEEDS ➡️ Any personal problems / challenges / 'I could never know how to get to this point?'
(as a need)

People can send offers (things they might do daily anyway!)

OFFERS ➡️ what you like doing daily already and maybe separately what you want to do more of (even if it's a bit far off now - as a dream / low chance of it happening but as "need" you need to keep working on it in doing "something"
(as an offer)

Thanks - this helps see more your side and offer you a checklist as yes / no / maybe on your side after...

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SHORT INTRO TO THAT...

AND LONGER IF NOT HAPPY WITH THAT...

("things to do for you" in both meanings of that to do yourself and for others to help with that list which becomes part of the #ecosystem of helping itself for "US" as over more-human people, not just alone in a cold system.

So talking and doing more together IS FEEDING our own "system" and #mutuality grows as part of sending that to the world / #fediverse (even if that's just helping good people one-way and not wanting anything back).

Could be like "ok done" !

CONSIDER WRITING A LIST

(optionally more writing below if you don't see why saying and doing things is a better #ecosystem of trust rather than not trusting the Trump(s) out there surely not going to do it! )

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LONGER / EXPLAINED MORE:

People often don't get that when I ask what their problems / things-to-do are, because they think it's only their problem and not common relativity / systematic cause / humanistic things systems ignore) AND so whichever way you go or do things you MUST listen to people's things (or do the humanistic things) because the system or #Trump or whoever leader IS NOT GOING TO DO IT or listen! (shock horror at ALL the people on these #Zuckerberg / #Musk / #Bezos etc hashtags #begging / #hoping for top leaders to stop extracting / plundering from planet / people).

⛔ Stop that waiting. ⛔
️ ➡️ ✉ Send needs / offers ✉ ⬅️

So either way it's up to us to clean our laundry and even me to clean your boxer shorts! (I mean at least AIM to do something about everything and help ourselves/you/me do it alone after initial spark given at the start or just plain #handholding and saying 'done' at the end. It's not for everyone but I'm here for you.

#Tech people often don't get this unless it's like installing Linux for people... but it's similar in all parts of life...
So handholding in other ways means "I'm shit at this so feel free to do it for me and I'll see what I can do for others in same way"

#Payitforward style (and developing people not just tech)

I tend only to think in the now and 'me and you' and once I / we find similar I think that is the way. (just two more people honestly is enough... there's plenty <of our own work> to do (not the work of others / bad people).

The whole design of 'giving' anything to people as it is to take more from them in the end and so that's why everything you do away from people will cancel out the benefits or usage (even food) as the level / growth of people stagnate and systems become more killer efficient. It's Mind over Material Matter (we did enough Material and now people 'matter' more).

So lay our you lifetime's worth of 'things to do' and 'shit to fix' and hope someone will come along to fix it :)

And I'm available to fix your stuff or get it done seriously if you think you'll never do it (seriously seriously I can sorting text / files / editing / rearranging / donkey work if it helps get you to step 2 or 10 like a good garage clean out helps sort all other projects after that's done. Put your shame aside, Trump is winning meantime #friendships are not made (or even our shit is not done as fast as their #ENshitification actually spelt with two T's in the middle / 3 in total #ENshittification ).

DO IT NOW / ADD THIS TO YOUR LIST OF #FreeSchool #THINGSTODO

Boost / bookmark BUT don't forget (which is why anything now is better than nothing and I'll have a look)

And therefore almost useless for moral change.

Their #DeliberateDesign is better than what we can do with it (when we have to invest AND buy INTO it first AND THEN try to undo it AFTER...)

Change is almost useless when buying INTO it first AND THEN trying to undo it 😆

A lot isn't because of who #manages / #manipulates it.

#FreeSchool #Tech #Lessons

#Uncaring #primitive people at the top controlling render it all useless and damage the earth meanwhile....

We need a mindset change - from seeing nature as separate from humans, to seeing it as an integral part of our existence. #FreeSchool

#FreeSchool Wisdom from #Spiderman / #Spiderwoman

🖼️ Picture Credits: Added text from similar scene in:

Spider Man - Across The Spider Verse [2023]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_Across_the_Spider-Verse

"In this line of work, you always windup a solo act"

#Systematic #Detachment
#Circular #Extractive #System
#Uncaring #Unemotional

"Work for us or starve..."

💬 ➡️ #Governments / #Society as #Soldiers

(this is my interpretation as #FreeSchool and what many people experience every day)

THE #WORLD ORDER SUCKS. Let's do and design something more about that - more socially and progressive @freemo

Other versions of #passiveaggressive #slavery:

⏺️ 'Hole in the bucket’ #system
⏺️ ‘Leaks by #design’ #system
⏺️ Staying alive as a kind of conditional slavery and being constantly #cheated with man-mad containers for people to jump into.