alex-esc's old account @alexesc@librem.one

I ought to point out that there's plenty Flood says in his piece that I heartily agree with, like:
"Left organisations, and all too often writers, are forever wishing for ‘blank slates’, people who can be safely inscribed with their ideas and their ideas alone. In many organisations this translates into actively discouraging people reading outside the party cannon."

Ironically, the figurative burning of books (and their authors, eg Greer) is also a dysfunctional habit of the #VampireCastle.

Q: How do I screw in a light bulb?

A1: Why do you want to do that? It would be so much quicker to use a torch. It you have a wind-up one you don't even have to buy batteries!

A2: I can't believe you don't know how to do that. You're such a noob.

A3: Have you considered just living in darkness? It's more possible than you think ;)

A4: I wrote a blog post about this four years ago. Check it out: link-that-does-not-work .com

A5: This is duplicate thread. Closing

Open Sourcing Mental Illess: "changing how we talk about mental health in the tech community":
https://osmihelp.org

It's great to see the commons software movement addressing the need to support and strengthen the #MentalHealth of the people it depends on.

#FridayReads Your phone isn't born in a store

Want to know how your phone is made + how Fairphone is doing things differently at some of the most important points in the process? 🤔Read all about it ➡️https://frphn.co/HowYouPhoneIsMade⬅️

religion

I'm gonna keep posting this until one of you fucking boosts it

Joker wearing checkerboard vans and a newsy cap and suspenders. “You wanna know how I got this ska?”

tired: doing my tech support job and telling people to use #chrome instead of #internetexplorer

wired: doing my tech support job and telling people to use #firefox because they will probably do what I suggest and every person using firefox is one fewer person using chrome

WE FIGHT FOR THE USERS! (not #google)

it annoys me when people refer to "decentralized" as a something that implies some amount of centralisation. (the graphic i corrected here is probably )

if i say i want something to be "decentralized" then i mean: it should be less centralized than i am now. like email is very _centralized_ and should be _de-centralized_*, even tho it is a technically federated system.

*: preferably by replacing it with something that has any regard for security..

Not only do these standards exist at IETF and W3C and Twitter has never played fair with them, these existing standards were partly designed/informed by folks who jumped ship from Twitter quite some time ago. Full circle, I guess. Meh!

"Change is not a sprint, but change is also not a marathon, it's a relay."
- #YanceyStrickler, founder of #Kickstarter, interviewed on #TeamHuman. I highly recommend this episode, one of the best for ages.
https://teamhuman.fm/episodes/ep-142-yancey-strickler-a-more-generous-world/

"Please enable JavaScript"

*enables*

"Download our app*

*closes tab, sets fire to phone*

We believe human rights apply to all spaces we occupy, offline and online.

Digital rights are human rights. https://blog.torproject.org/digital-rights-are-human-rights #HumanRightsDay #privacy #internetfreedom

7/11 was a part-time job.

"realtime area lighting"
published 2008

#greencapitalism is no solution. The #COP25 is discussion concepts like the carbon offset market which will never lead to more #ClimateJustice.
We need to ask different question: In what kind of world do we want to live? How can we arrange a good life for everybody?

What if there was a gamergate for chess

The Marketplace of Ideas
The Food Court of Beliefs
The JC Penney's of Conspiracy Theories
The Spirit Halloween Store of Sexy Thoughts