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"... does not give me the same right as cops to defend my life means the cop have a right that I do not and thus we do not have the same rights. "

@freemo

POST: qoto.org/@freemo/1134599976157

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@BrianJopek Very true... and if Harris had won the same statement would have been true about her. Thats the problem. This election was about if we wanted to starve and promote genocide, or have democracy be dismantled. Both choices were a loss.

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Human-orientated “Solving” a problem DOES NOT mean problem is totally gone,... a lot of this is on-going... 

“Solving” a problem DOES NOT mean problem is totally gone,... a lot of this are on-going...

We know that this isn’t how "problem" between people and machines works.

BOTH NEED MAINTENANCE

We’re mostly human after all!

Humans need care / maintenance / peer support (paid and unpaid).

There will always be , , and that needs and itself (people being higher priority than computers).
Right?

These problems will show up in everything we’re building. So help 'build' better people... Right?

This all means we must design solutions with these challenges in mind FOR better people, instead of trying to build perfect solutions that will "end all our problems" but not work on connecting people while improving the humans themselves.

Could call this mental health, upgrading our logic chip, improving the fallacies and fairy tales we were born into and parents hid from us (like money and banks paying for both sides of ). Right?

We just have to commit to the daily work of building the HUMAN ORIENTATED world we want which basic tech can help do but needs human to actually help other humans. Right?

Or just focus on tech... which is made largely by and ?

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is still without the said 'in a few days' changes - said so many times - so as a small elbow nudge / tongue-in-cheek thing to make fun of reality about this ongoing brokeness - click this message @freemo to see the other message from Greta about human and systemic change...

And how QOTO might need to the same with it's system AND it's 'people work' to upgrade them BOTH!

hehe... the broken , broken ... ah heal them all...

Greta hashtag also has some good stuff...

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ℹ️ Low quality but you get the message and beat with less climate change! 😉

💿 Audio Edit by @freeschool 💿

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Everything takes time - It can feel "extra" to do, but if it really saves time or reduces / simplifies then more work or care now can help you avoid or process better the many 'extra' things later that you end up doing less organised or without collecting them properly over time (like a to do list that you keep visible somewhere or some thoughts that you need to revisit constantly to help you solve things).

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YES Questions take a long time to answer!

Most people have a lot of questions but don't expect the answer to take forever to answer or continual work, and some things do take forever and continual work to answer... as it's together thing...

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Violet Madder

Okay, so: Peer Support is a thing.

It's not widely known, and it's IMPORTANT.

A Peer Support Specialist reaches across, not down. Non-hierarchical-- that's literally a requirement spelled out in the job description.

We close the liminal space between "patient" and "well person". We bridge the gap between the person receiving care and their therapist/doctor etc. We're the people you want knocking on the door when you're having a major personal crisis-- you know, instead of the people with guns. We've lived through our own crises/trauma/illness/addiction/etc, and we know how it actually feels.

This isn't just some cute hand-holding role. It's a crucial part of a larger movement to integrate and humanize-- frankly, to TRANSFORM-- healthcare. That's the agenda, straight up. And I even get to fucking SAY THAT out loud.

And how do we enact this subversive scheme? By using empathy to relate to people, while helping empower them to determine and work on their OWN damn recovery goals, without judging.

Trying to "fix" people leads to burnout. Coercion and punishment have diminishing returns-- you can't force anybody to get better by kicking them when they're already down. Stigma has done massive damage. So we slow down, give an actual shit, and walk WITH people while they learn to fish, instead of beating fish over their heads, get it?

How's that for revolutionary.

#praxis
#mentalhealth
#mentalillness
#trauma
#traumainformed
#peersupport
#peergroups
#recovery
#resilience
#supportgroups
#peersupportspecialist

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Time and Heart is the need also...

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Tools

1. Game Analysis
chessreview.net/

➡️ Chess (best moves etc)
➡️ Game (import games etc)

(usually a paid / full of adverts thing on Chess.com 💰)

2. 🎮 Play chess game (instant / NO account) lichess.org

3. 📺 Watch Chess TV ♟️ lichess.org/tv

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Eugen Rochko

Mastodon is financed by crowdfunding instead of venture capital not because we don't know that venture capital exists, not because we don't have bills to pay, and not because venture capital isn't willing to give money to new social media platforms. VCs don't want a sustainable business, they want a big exit. Every VC-backed business is on a timer to deliver or die.

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"...trying to be profitable just deepens said shithole."

by @ksaj
Post: infosec.exchange/@ksaj/1133690

"Looking at how much of a shithole X has become, and how it just keeps getting worse, is proof in the pudding. It's hard to be profitable in that space, and trying to be profitable just deepens said shithole."

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@r000t @Gargron you invite money, you relinquish control. the money stops the moment you don't fall in line even with crowdfunding
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William Pietri

@Gargron Having taken VC money for a startup, I want to confirm for others everything you've said. They promise big returns to their investors, but most startups fail, so they need the successful ones to make gobs of cash. Modest successes get pushed to take big risks until they get rich or die trying. And if they do win big, they'll be pushed to extract ever more cash, causing enshittification. That's the VC game, and Mastodon is smart not to play it.

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Venture Capitalism "...gives VCs more leverage later. " 

by Simon 🥧 man 🥥🌴 🇺🇸 @enmodo

Post: mastodon.social/@enmodo/113366

"...I worked at a VC funded startup and they let it go for two years with no interest in us making revenue. I was told by the founder this was common and gives VCs more leverage later. If you've created something good then you'll need more money to stay in business and they get more equity for continued funding because you're desperate. And if you're mediocre you're never going to be a great exit so they cut their losses and move on."

Vampire Empire
Venture Capitalism
Vulture Capitalism
State Capitalism

(State being the head Vulture + banks cheating everyone else..,

? 🧛 💉 🩸
💰 🤑 💰
🦃 👸 💎

the Vanilla flavour with STATE AND BANKS 🏦
Robbing people of their labour and future

Vulture Capitalism...
"...gives VCs more leverage later. "

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Venture Capitalism "...gives VCs more leverage later. " 

by Simon 🥧 man 🥥🌴 🇺🇸 @enmodo

Post: mastodon.social/@enmodo/113366

"...I worked at a VC funded startup and they let it go for two years with no interest in us making revenue. I was told by the founder this was common and gives VCs more leverage later. If you've created something good then you'll need more money to stay in business and they get more equity for continued funding because you're desperate. And if you're mediocre you're never going to be a great exit so they cut their losses and move on."

Vampire Empire
Venture Capitalism
Vulture Capitalism
State Capitalism

(State being the head Vulture + banks cheating everyone else..,

? 🧛 💉 🩸
💰 🤑 💰
🦃 👸 💎

the Vanilla flavour with STATE AND BANKS 🏦
Robbing people of their labour and future

Vulture Capitalism...
"...gives VCs more leverage later. "

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Roadskater, Ph.D.

@conniptions @Gargron VC is either Vulture Capital, or if you're an old Goldman-Sachs fan, Vampire Capital.

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uexo

@wysteriary @Gargron Nah. The VC funding is exactly why I use #XMPP instead of #Matrix and #Mastodon instead of #Bluesky. We don't need VC funded startups to reinvent basic internet standards and trying to displace standards with their custom and incompatible protocols.

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"Sometimes I like to pretend that things will turn out okay"

from Jon Lindemann
:fediverse: @mrdiamondj

Post: mrdiamondj.social/@mrdiamondj/

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Nathan Schneider

The #exittocommunity of @opencollective to a user-governed nonprofit is big news for those of us who rely on it, including #Socialcoop members.

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