Daryl Gibson @dgibson36@librem.one

A brief update to this.

Let's go live now to Twitter engineering.

Why does Ensign Alf want to find Spot? I have questions.

#StarTrek
#StarTrekTNG
#Alf

Wow. You can now get 10 Gbps for $120/mo. The city of Lancaster will be "the first city in California with Internet speeds of up to 10Gbps available to residential homes citywide." And to think so many in US are stuck with crap from Charter & AT&T!
https://buff.ly/3HGMDAK

Bold of them to try artificial intelligence when we still haven't figured out the natural kind

Found art is one of my favorite things: a message of love from out of the blue.

My favorite photo from April of 2022 comes from the Smoky Mountains.

#photography #LandscapePhotography #FotoMontag

I made that. It's a bottle opener. Sand-casted.
#sandcasting #make #diy #makerspace #muc #munich

Northern lights in northern Minnesota from a couple of years ago. It was a full moon that night. Vertical shot.

#photography #NorthernLights #LandscapePhotography #Minnesota

“Oof no dragons”
-My kids scathing review of the book I’m reading

It’s almost as if by federating together, We’re all part of some United Federation.… of Planets. #SuddenlyStarTrek #IsThisStarfleet #LiveLongAndFederate

How it started: How it's going:

Finland has closely watched the Russian troll factory's efforts to create chaos in free democracies. We now educate our children to recognize #misinformation and rank #1 in our ability to resist it.

I wish the Americans would do the same.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/world/europe/finland-misinformation-classes.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuonUktbfqIhkSVUaAybKWsIjolqLmOLI2LF7iH74KCGTRXNHzv8UBYaH4ULEeatkYZ442z2AX9Jadr8zQfg4hsluA3tQcSj66J2VhMZCZCwvtYO4Wm5x1smXBO5nqDKvYjbndKIileKy-huKO2n1UPDY1nZ3JV1np5pkZkjqjSJTvtrNFuF-3dV83f4zVNstFXpbOn7877S_AA5-Od6Hchjf9gE0PupbUj3RltSXgKkSJEQQURmVCSMivhtvrY9UK9gVP6zgLhY_e8eYgrwZDmVgLofBFIS5pvO9ZV-vudr4BKbnXCby

The moral of this thread is to understand the deep core reasons of the Christian-right. It’s got zero to do with Jesus or the Bible, or morals or ethics. They use it to justify lawlessness. And we see it every day with them. Criminal immoral politicians waving Bibles.

Opening my work laptop like a sealed sarcophagus filled with an ancient evil.

It’s not a one & done figuring this out. It’s a constant homeostasis that we’re finding with our bodies. They will clue us in through illness & anxiety. Something must be tended to. Something cannot be ignored.

Continuing down the thought thread of connecting ecovillages or federated communities into a common tech stack. This time about #libraryeconomy and #librarysocialism, and how communities might be able to request and offer goods and services without the need for monetary exchange, and in a way that kinda follows a library of everything approach to things.

A big thing I see in subverting capitalism, and building new forms of living and organizing, is by decommodifying as much as we can. A great way to do that is to look at meeting people's basic needs, and having a way for people to both ask for something, and give something, without paying money. I guess it comes down to social capital, but I don't really like that term, and it fits better with the term gift economy anyways. In some forms it can be mutual aid, other times it can just be meeting a need when it comes up.

The concrete "how" on doing this might look like timebanks. I really like the software from timebanks.org though it doesn't have a self host option and requires an internet connection. Locally to me https://denton.timebanks.org is a great example where people can offer things, and request things as well. So it can be a very quick way of seeing the needs of people, and trying to meet those needs.

In terms of lending libraries, there isn't anything so far that I found that is free and open source that can handle things well. Most of the FOSS stuff is related to libraries. https://koha-community.org/ is a good example of this. I wish there was a way to have a library of things as well (though I guess with some finessing you could make it work)

I think it would be awesome to have the two combined, in the way that timebanks works, where people can request and offer things, combined with a more concrete way of tracking what has been lent to who.

Different communities could have their own internal sharing sites, on their own internal intranet-networks. But also they can connect, federate or be interoperable with other communities as a whole. So if a request in the community net is there, an offer can be found to meet that need. That way each community maintains their autonomy, while also being well-connected with the world at large and able to help move resources around. It would be great to have something that combines these ideas together in one place to make it alot easier, and also have it free and open source, so anyone can use it.

It's the start of an idea at least. It might be a good place to start for a real world #solarpunk experiment, of federated, interconnected communities that use technology as a way to connect with others, while organizing things horizontally and equitably, while maintaining a balance with the ecosystem by making bioregional+permaculture+indegenous knowledge led ecovillages.

@Str8nger @citizencat

Re: #Mastodon:

There are no ads. Every server instance is funded by donations.

Each instance (ie Mastodon.world in your case) manages its own moderation and has its own rules.

There are no algorithms that manipulate who sees what. Everything is user driven based on boosts.

Favoriting does not increase toot visibility but it is nice nevertheless.

There is a different culture here that is more friendly and laid back.

True, civil discourse is possible here.

A win for US farmers: Yeah. “Right to Repair” isn’t just about Apple products. John Deere equipment owners can now repair machines themselves or take it to independent repair shops. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64206913

The other day I was reading a thread about how to tackle the global shortage of doctors. Commenters were suggesting things like higher pay, more benefits, longer vacations & these were all good ideas but it blew my mind that not a single person in thousands of comments suggested we pay for school. Not a single commenter seemed to understand that the biggest hurdle is that medical school costs over $150,000 in Canada and for the vast majority of people, that eliminates it as a possibility .