Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@siderea have you heard of User Experience Design or HCI? They don’t get respected as much as they ought to, but they do at least exist.

And nobody goes to get these resources, nobody seeks out this expertise, who does not move past the naive arrogance of assuming there's nothing that they need to learn, that they have this social media platform thing all figured out already.

What I am hoping to achieve by this thread is to tantalize you with the evidence that there are things to know which you probably don't yet know, but would, if you only knew, like very much to know. Things that would benefit you to know.

I am hoping to enlist your curiosity in tackling to the floor the assumption you might harbor in your breast that this social media thing really isn't all that hard, you just do it in the right way, and which way is the right one is really obvious.

I am attempting to entice you with the knowledge that is out there (and insofar as there are experts in these things here on Mastodon, in here with us) into wanting that knowledge enough to go looking for it.

And to ask for it.

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There are two problems that are coming for Mastodon of which apparently an awful lot of people are unaware. These problems are coming for Mastodon not because of anything specific to Mastodon: they come to all growing social media platforms. But for some reason most people haven't noticed them, per se.

The first problem is that scale has social effects. Most technical people know that scale has technological effects. Same thing's true on the social side, too.

"In Eloxochitlán this tradition of anarchism and Indigenous communalism continues to this day with assemblies, self-defense groups, direct action and communal work projects. But the defenders of privilege, headed by the Zepeda family, have gained a foothold using fraudulent elections, abuses of the legal system, collusion with corrupt political parties, and illegitimate violence carried out by their minions, the police. In response to their persecution, local women from their neighborhood of La Escopeta have formed a self-defense group."

https://itsgoingdown.org/indigenous-activists-detained-in-oaxaca-following-gathering-on-political-prisoners/

I'm looking for examples of companion planting using #nativespecies for #foodsystems and #ecological #restoration. The Three Sisters method of growing corn, beans, and squash together is an example from #indigenous North America. Are there other regional examples of native plants that can be grown together for mutual benefit? What about sea vegetables in #coastal settings?

#bioregional #ethnobotany #nutrition #permaculture #ecosystem #climatechange #bluecarbon #sustainability #askfedi

Listening to RNZ this morning, and hearing Mr Carnegie (the head of Energy Resources Aotearoa, an industry lobby group) talking about the need for more fossil fuels... saying "we need to be practical about this". What he means is: we need to compromise our values and do the wrong thing because the wealthy elite don't want their profit reduced. Remember: "expedience is the *absence* of principle." I've got nothing but contempt for people like Mr Carnegie and his organisation.

"Discovering evidence that the most famous Indigenous woman in Canada, Buffy Sainte-Marie, was neither Indigenous nor Canadian was not what I expected when I sat down with my son last year to watch her biography, "Carry It On," on PBS. I had hoped the film would inspire him to learn about a successful Native musician." #pretendianism

By Jacqueline Keeler
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/buffy-sainte-marie-pretendian-native-canada-keeler-18508936.php

Our latest #MediaIndigena episode 333 is out!
How Canada Diddles while the World Burns - A Climate Check-in
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRpYWluZGlnZW5hLmxpYnN5bi5jb20vcnNz/episode/OGUwNTRkYzAtMDc5Yi00YjJhLWIwY2UtOTA1MTgwMGQ3MGY2?ep=14

This argument that we’re overreacting to MAGAs and trump is so mind numbingly stupid, I want to punch anyone advancing it. There is no way to watch this unprecedented Christo fascism seizing all of norms and governance, even the rule of law itself, and not see that democracy is in dire and immediate peril.

COOL! The spicy article I wrote about satellite pollution is FINALLY published! "Bright satellites are disrupting astronomy research worldwide" in Nature News & Views.

This article required weeks of back-and-forth with the editor, the editor-in-chief, and Nature's lawyers, so I hope that means it's a good one.

During this process, I learned that satellite companies are so powerful and litigious that even giant publishers like Nature are terrified of getting sued. Which is...rather worrying.

Anti-monarchists in the #NorthWest are going to be apoplectic at what the Guardian has uncovered...

The Duchy of Lancaster has been profiting from funds collected from those who die without a will or next of kin.... running at about £6m a year for the last decade.

I know a lot of people who will be getting ready to get really mad about this (and rightly so).

Get that will sorted, is the best advice to anti-Royalists!

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/23/revealed-king-charles-secretly-profiting-from-the-assets-of-dead-citizens

@cogdog in my days of providing IT support for people unlucky enough to be using MS products, I was frequently asked to help save corrupted MS Office files. MSO is surprisingly fragile. LibreOffice's code for opening Microsoft's proprietary formats is demonstrably better than MS'. Many 'irretrievable' MS files've been saved by LO despite MS trying to hobble it for most of its existence (because it's excellent). Users should take note. Incidentally LO came from StarOffice which predates MSO.

The Murdoch family's Fox "News" did its best to foment national fear and loathing with its dangerously bogus claim that the car explosion at Niagara Falls was terrorism.

It's a reminder that Murdoch and his underlings relentlessly inject poison into our civic bloodstream, for profit and power.

If you subscribe to cable/satellite TV or a digital equivalent, you are sending them money every month.

Please stop. Please cancel. Do not support this evil company.

Sometimes, despite it being unpopular with the bonfire proprietors, all of us have to be bonfire pissers. Because some bonfires are just a really bad idea.

No Thanks No Giving on stolen land.

Art by @KleeBenally (on IG) of Indigenous Action.

Learn more and support at indigenousaction.org & donate to Indigenous Mutual Aid at indigenousmutualaid.org and Kinłani Mutual Aid kinlanimutualaid.org.

The NY Post is part of the Murdoch family's media empire.

Media Matters has been one of the few organizations that has consistently called out the Murdochs' poisonous influence in our culture.

So it is no surprise that the Post -- which doesn't disclose this context -- is doing a hit piece on Media Matters.

Gonna re-signal boost that we're looking for folks to help out with (at least) #Go hacking on #Abra!

https://docs.coopcloud.tech/abra/

#Abra is used daily by actual real life tech co-ops such as @autonomic & https://local-it.org (fedi handle?) and loads more.

We have good collective process in place to submit proposals for compensation for the work.

The community is full with Very Nice People. It's free software and copyleft.

Happy to help on-board!

-- @decentral1se

Do I know anyone here who is willing to share their experience deploying an institutional Mastodon server? A contact of mine is looking for someone to discuss the experience as he works on getting a government agency to deploy their own instance. Boosts appreciated #fediverse #mastodon

I wrote a piece on a #Coop alternative to Etsy that just launched, one that puts power back into the hands of artists & makers:
@coopartisans (glad they're on Mastodon!)

I didn't realize the extent to which #Etsy had become toxic to sellers until starting interviews for this piece. It's clear that artisans are being drawn to this because an alternative is long overdue.

(there's a tech issue with the authorship at the top; it names me as the author at the bottom)

https://www.shareable.net/artisans-cooperative-an-etsy-alternative-owned-and-run-by-artists-and-makers/