NerdResa @NerdResa@witches.town

"They have not involved challenging power head on (this usually leads to being slaughtered, or if not, turning into some—often even uglier—variant of the very thing one first challenged) but from one or another strategy of slipping away from its grasp, from flight, desertion, the founding of new communities."

"The theory of #exodus proposes that the most effective way of opposing #capitalism and the #liberal state is not through direct confrontation but by means of what Paolo Virno has called “engaged #withdrawal,” mass defection by those wishing to create new forms of community. One need only glance at the historical record to confirm that most successful forms of popular resistance have taken precisely this form."

"Some names have to do with where people live or how they make a living: the Tanala are “forest people”...the Vezo, fisherfolk. But even here there are...political elements: the Vezo lived alongside the Sakalava monarchies but like the Tsimihety, they managed to remain independent...because, as legend has it, whenever they learned royal representatives were on the way...they would all get in their canoes and wait offshore until they went away. Those...that did succumb became Sakalava, not Vezo."

"The easiest way to get our minds around it is to stop thinking about revolution as a thing—“the” revolution, the great cataclysmic break—and instead ask “what is revolutionary action?” We could then suggest: revolutionary action is any collective action which rejects, and therefore confronts, some form of power or domination and in doing so, reconstitutes social relations—even within the collectivity—in that light."

weve found that for the last 2 years bitcoin hasnt actually even been using a blockchain at all, some ecohackers changed the code to just shell out to rsync, and its been working fine and nobody even noticed. the libertarians are PISSED tho

@rixx @kellerfuchs here’s @au giving a short talk about what they are doing by https://youtu.be/5DkhUO7LiGs

(and the introduction to some of the tech they’re using: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlZfyEQS0s8)

@kellerfuchs it translates as “first admit that you are nobody” it’s a saying that Taiwanese civic hackers use. They think of their job as activists are not as persuaders for progressive causes (though many are), but facilitators for surfacing the public voice. So their job is to build tools and inclusive spaces to raise up the public’s voice to shape power and create consensus with one another.

Can’t get “先承認你就是沒有人” out of my mind. It’s such a different way of organizing for social progress.

Congratulate yourself for doing difficult things, even if they might not seem difficult to others.

btw you should totally donate to the internet archive if you can. they keep archiving cool things like the k&r c book and their mission seems like it's just going to be more important over time

Hey, fyi, since I haven't seen it posted here yet, patreon gave an update on the fee structure situation: they changed the fees because they're going to start charging patrons mid-month instead of on a monthly cycle, to get rid of pledge-cancelling abuse:

Read more here:
https://blog.patreon.com/updating-patreons-fee-structure/
https://twitter.com/burrito_tim/status/938943641791401986

The extra fee money will not be paid to patreon, its all going to PayPal fees.

Obviously still not a great situation. But this definitely isn't a money grab on patreons part.

Dear #fediverse #admins!

How important is it to have a v4 connection for connecting to others? How many of you do provide a v6 connectivity?

That would ease the possibility to host an instance at my home...

Oh hey, here is a big, well-researched comparison of different funding platforms:

https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/market-research/other-crowdfunding

"Like Jesus, the floppy disk died to become our icon of saving."

Because I needed it recently, a reminder:

It's ok to turn off push notifications from apps. It's ok to unsubscribe from email lists. It's ok to unfollow. Your attention is yours to give.

#selfcare

I think what people don't like about being grown up is actually capitalism

There's an easy way to get just a little better at accessibility:

1) Get a text expander. In OS X and iOS you can do this natively in System Preferences > Keyboard; I'm not sure about other OSes.
2) Create the following replacements:

"i18n" -> "internationalization"
"l10n" -> "localization"
"a11y" -> "accessibility"

Now you can type your shorthand AND be read by people who aren't fluent in Lazy Jargon.

Remember when we were younger, and we fantasized that cyberpunk was this awesome desired thing?

Where you could plug yourself in and digitally craft your entire everything, or have some spliced organo-mechano body sculpt so that you could appear outwardly as well as you felt inwardly, or just how much your overall appearance was modifiable?

Remember how excited you got inside when you fantasized that all these things were completely normal in that world, and that it would be worth it despite the utterly bleak dystopian backdrop that leeched all of the empathy, compassion, and civility out of being alive?

We're not there... we've DEFINITELY got the latter dystopian part, and we're still working on the first half, but the general world is not qvite as receptive to our crafting of our own images as would be ideal.

Hold on to those that are accepting of it. Hold on to them tightly.

This is how we survive the problems of the latter... how we navigate the dystopia.

We are better than the inhumanity of this world, because inside we are bright-neon, rainbow colored, shiny metallic, soft and comforting, hard and unflinching, loud and proud, qviet and caring, glowy-eyed beings.

We craft our existence despite being surrounded by these crumbling ruins of society, because who we are is all we have. They cannot take that away, because we won't let them.

You are worth every last gasp of breath that's inside you, every tear of sorrow, every dazzling spark of elation, and every shred of compassion.

I don't know if you needed that reminder or not... I just know that I did, today.

*Hugs softly*

hi i'm a software engineer and i worked in the web for a good 8 years before i ever realized what the abbreviations i18n and l10n (internationalization and localization) stood for

literally i knew what they were *about*, but thought the numbers had something to do with some funky standards body or some shit

numeronyms of this form are bad so so so so bad don't
just
don't

get the fuck out with your traditionalist family values, python