moved to @ebel@moytura.org @ebel@witches.town

#Ireland has very regressive #abortion law. There's been a pretty good & active campaign for the ~5 years to change that.

Yesterday the leader of one of the main right wing parties said he favors repeal (ie pro-choice). He's following the votes & public opinion. But still.

5 years ago I didn't think would be possible. It's amazing how much #Irish society seems to have changed. It gives one #hope that things might just get better. We might just win.

#RepealThe8th

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/oireachtas/miche%C3%A1l-martin-says-he-favours-repeal-of-eighth-amendment-1.3360377

RT @COMMlEdaughter@twitter.com: please do not use words like “policeman” or “policewoman.” Use gender neutral terms like “tools of the capitalist bourgeoisie and enemy of the people”

Source https://twitter.com/COMMlEdaughter/status/953310420118396930

RT @MarsGuyPhil@twitter.com: @seananmcguire@twitter.com Maybe all fiction is political, even when apparently apolitical, in that it exposes the class for whom dignified existence is not a political struggle. Which is very telling indeed.

Source https://twitter.com/MarsGuyPhil/status/953836793857634305

I am using cssh to log into 5 machines t once and set them up, and I feel like a god

@dredmorbius Also: EU law requires that they hav a "data liberation option", which will get even stronger in May with the GDPR. If Service X has any sort of EU business, then they're required to give anyone in the world their data.

@gracie @bob IMO debian repos *are* federated. You can set up your own mirror and sync from the main one. If it goes down you can use another mirror. Local groups can (and do) use their own mirror.

Now imagine what a p2p system would look like, where everyone running apt was also part of the swarm. That's the counter-anti-disintermediatisation

@gracie who knows why Google cancel things

One person's blog about attempting to go zero waste
https://journeytonull.wordpress.com/

@gracie like, I know that most of this is a social problem, not a technical problem.

*But* when you phrase it another way, there *might* be a technical solution! And the geek in me likes this. 🙂

@gracie I broadly agree. But it wouldn't it be cool if there were software/technical solutions which made corporations unable to mess things up.

e.g. Copyright has problems, and copyleft is a "solution" to some of those problems.

@gracie @cykros @alanz @mayel Yes mailing lists are federated, and email is the last surviving popular bastion of the decentralized web. But it's barely hanging on.

We should look at how come people use centralized mailing list software? Why do centralized email services dominate?

I really like the idea of "solving" that problem by making software/services that *cannot* be centralized! That would solve it for real.

@gracie @ebel @cykros @alanz @mayel

Yes we had libre versions. And what happened? It says to hard and complicated and there was money in controlling and centralising it, so that's what happened. The thing with the counter anti dis intermiatisation is to make tools that are impossible to centralise. We should learn from what happened.

@mayel @alanz @cykros @Framasoft I've recently found out about "Anti-Disintermediatization" where formerly decentralized tools were centralize-able, and hence were centralized. Kleiner suggest we make tools which *cannot* be centralized, where they only run on your local machine.

Which (IMO) is a fascinating new perspective (for me)

The conservatives in #Ireland are currently busy campaigning against a change #abortion law, so a progressive gender recognition law was easy to get through. I fear they'll come for our #trans friends when (hopefully) abortion law is liberalised in ~6mo.

#RepealThe8th

"Since 2015, #Ireland has allowed people to change #gender by self-declaration."

The Guardian reports on Ireland's progressive gender recognition law, one of few in the world that allows #trans people to self-declare their identity.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jan/15/monumental-change-ireland-transformed-transgender-rights