In honour of #SchumacherCollege, a place that changed my life, on the occasion of its sudden closure.
And of its successors, carrying the fire onwards:
https://www.darkoptimism.org/2024/08/31/death-and-rebirth-farewell-dear-schumacher-college-hello-new-friends/
#ClimateDiary 2/2 I have been struggling in recent months with feeling really hope- and helpless regarding climate action (and much else). But now feel that there is also strength in this realisation, so much still that we can do for each other and the world even when the bigger picture is incredibly bleak. Then yesterday listened to @DarkOptimism talking about #DarkOptimism - and this term captures it perfectly. Thank you, Shaun!
https://www.ecogather.sterlingcollege.edu/surviving-the-future
USPol <-> EUPol Summary Comments
USPol <-> EUPol Some Comments
👤💬 Erik Haugen @ech ...
⭐ "...US giving them just enough weapons to keep fighting but in inadequate quantities or with too many restrictions to actually win seems like the worst possible thing we could be doing."
⭐ "Also Trump was right on in saying Europe should deal with this; they easily could if they had the resolve. Follow Poland's lead."
👤💬 🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo ...
" You don't talk to your enemies out of a sense of trust..."
" A violated treaty gives you justification and a right to retaliation you wouldn't otherwise have. "
👤💬 holgerpatzelt @holgerpatzelt ....
" It is naive to believe that Putin would negotiate unless to his advantage "
" Let make it clear: there is a Nazi Party that won over 30 percent of the votes in the state around Berlin and two south of it.
Democracy is not a matter of course. "
The company I am CTO at is hiring for #NixOS experts. IF there are any out there looking for a job (100% remote doesnt matter where you are), let me know!
#AI #Tech -The distancing from people is eventually the whole problem...
I understand why now... the distancing from people is eventually the whole problem... that is why I write sometimes about Tech,...
By giving and getting work without having chance to talk to the creator or people we are missing link that is important... while many don't want the attention or time-consumption, we must be aware the initial reasons and care in the creation also gets lost by distancing or treating people as disposable units...
So people can get replaced and we can become unsure why people are even there... because the passion and being of a person isn't easily seen through Capitalism or from distance and actually gets lost during these processes even if "top quality" and "maximum" is achieved as bad exchange or over-kill since we could still achieve a lot keeping the passionate builders in the frame a bit more...
SUPPORTING #QUOTE about #AI but it is what people in Capitalism are doing anyway (just faster now)
" ...we’re able to get access to what colleagues are producing without needing to actually engage with them”. "
Introducing #SUSE Typeface: SUSE’s new open sourced font
#adminlife #opensource #linux
https://www.suse.com/c/introducing-suse-typeface-new-open-sourced-font
OFF GRID COMMENTS / TIRED CITY PEOPLE
OFF GRID PEOPLE
My husband and I are moving off grid in a couple of months here. I'm so sick of everyday life...to most people that sounds terrible but I just mean I want to have the work I do count. I want to have my husband feel good mentally and physically for the work he does and I want my children to not be self centered, ungrateful brats<<<that's tough when everything around them screams you need this, you need MORE
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@JessIcaMessika
https://invidious.jing.rocks/watch?v=tkZoUuAqRhk&t=0
#Invidious Status
Heute: 17 / 27 (stabil auf hohem Niveau)
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WE JUST WANT TO BE LOVED.
WITHOUT #LOVE IN THE #SYSTEM
IT'S #POINTLESS... [ 💔 +🤑 ]
While my neighbours spend their time hunting for weed, removing moss from cracks, maniacally attempting the „perfect“ lawn, I go on creating hiding places, nesting places, drinking places, shadow places, wet places, warm places, feeding places and more for other life forms. I have discovered joy in fomenting #nature and #biodiversity even in a small area as where I live.
Nothing is done anymore in the garden without giving a thought about how others benefit or lose from it.
SHOPPING STORIES & SWINDLES
"...raising prices and not posting them is now a profitable business practice."
- Boxcars ➡️ @boxcars #Quote #ShoppingStory #Story #BoxCars
@boxcars Though that was Batman for a second.
So there has been a breakthrough in my retail price adventure.
This windy winter morning, with small flakes of snow tumbling sideways, I went for more on-sale apples at the local grocer chain. Bagged, presented, and accompanied with several yes pleases, I gently offered on-sale apples to the checkout, positioned myself at the display, facing away from the human operator. Wrong price I said aloud, and knew I only had less than a minute. Off she stormed, to the produce area to check the displayed price. I ran to keep up, asking her how I could help her solve this problem. Anger had flooded her face, I only had a few more seconds, 'maybe I could talk to a manager and get this fixed for all of us?' Then she was gone. I was sure that I had failed.
I returned to the customer chute.
She returned, lips pursed, said a few words to her colleague in groceryspeak. Without looking anywhere her fingers slammed the sequence of commands to cancel and correct. Then it happened, the other checkout turned to me and said softly, the senior manager watches Yelp closely, if you post a poor review there then we have a chance. Ok, maybe she didnt say we. Hooboy, I couldn't believe it. Yes, yes, I had a Yelp account, passed down to me by my naive-webself from twenty years ago. This could work, we could have displayed prices that match register prices.
My checkout was now smiling at me. And the store manager was approaching, I did my best ten second elevator speech about proper charges using the glowing blank register screen as a prop, unfolded my arms to virtually embrace all the people around me harmed by this careless process of putting food on sale and charging full price. A customer was staring at me. The store manager had a sort of monotone response, mumbling yes, and, I see. And away he went, the store manager, disappearing around the aisle of
beers, each with colorful, pleasant missives upon them. Later I posted my message in a Yelp bottle and threw it into the Internet sea. This might work.
US billionaires paid less tax than their secretaries in 2018
Under pressure from corporate giants and the super-rich, our governments have cut taxes on the wealthiest corporations and individuals to record lows at a time of record wealth.
For the first time, in 2018, US billionaires paid less tax than their secretaries.
Reference: Saez, E. and Zucman, G., The Triumph of Injustice (W.W. Norton, 2019)
Source: https://taxjustice.net/take-back-control/#reprogramming/reprogram3
#Money #Tax #Robbery #Legal #Loops #Taxes #Governments #USPol #EatTheRich #US #Billionaires
#BUSINESS IS #DIRTY #EXTRACTION (OF VARIOUS KINDS)
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Pollution #Environment #Climate #Governments #Company
Working together as the answer if you want human change (not just tech).
#Quotes #Notes #Books #Videos #Talks #Websites are added here from the Human-caring #Fediverse posts towards a better example of ourselves and what we could do in the principles and love for things we share.
Towards Togetherness.
History hasn't always done well among the people to work together and usually falls into working for cruel leaders instead. So let's just building whatever we can more without them.
Perhaps building friendship or love at the end can win it for us all.
Making our own relationship with life rather than time hating Trump / Bezos / Musk and spreading news of their actions that self-perpetuate hate.
Quick Links to my best work below:
- Media / Memes 🖼️ : https://qoto.org/@freeschool/media
- 💬 Chat / Conversations : https://qoto.org/@freeschool/with_replies
"FreeSchool" is a movement from 1960s/1970s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_school
Learning via interaction means there is always risk by the way. By not building trust or working on mutually worknig together inaction happens and lack of friendship also allows bad people... so I see us as doing the work more daily or as the good homework we need to do (nobody else can do it properly without us).
MORE DETAIL BELOW IF NEEDED...
BUILD YOURSELF AND ME (DOESN'T HAVE TO BE WHOLE WORLD)...
All aims should be towards working together more personally instead of hating, because most of the hating is free advertising and spreading fear for them ("Bad news is still good advertising)
This means less spreading Trumps, Musk, Bezos names and plans, and more our thing.
Humans change Humans - we the caring people reason better as we have a caring soul and a conscience. We also need to test and repair those that can't. Tech does not care and has it's limits at best which I think we have akready reached and in danger of leaving people behind over-doing I.T.
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Do you have work for me or any ideas / dreams of your own?
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Going towards growing better decision-making humans as a main goal or my interpreration (human-educated examples helping others help others) and not just tech filters of progression / aggression / profit.
Tech has measurably been over-done and had it's limits being backed by BigTech and State-orientatedand heavily regulated infrastructures. This ultimately undoes this and is are not human-caring and just money / profit-orientated the same as the state and companies are.
All $tates use bank$ that cheat everyone else behind their back.
Every $tate let's this happen to keep unfair power over people and keep them down.
I have DIY education more than any Massive Tech-based $haring. We have enough small solutions. We just need to do the human homework together which is what almost nobody is doing and it shows! We canNOT just do tech, we can maintain some tech but then grow the user's interests and direction using caring people and releasing their potential and curating ourselves... Since the mentlaity of people (users) are the weak point of all systems (who are happy to abuse them / add adverts etc) so it means working on ourselves is the best now we have mostly everything else worked on to catch up on the mentality and also realise all the tricks historically.
☼ Free work if you can justify it +
#Friendship (it's for humanity and world too to grow friendship). I edit basic text, audio, video for free to grow the idea of Freedom or not just banks and money made to give us crutches after they break our legs / eat our time and money (energy).
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Personal temporary individual Fediverse usage is ok without company or other affiliation backing or feeding these actions.
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