Neil Mather, Author at doubleloop

I remember muxtape with great fondness. After its demise, I’ve made a bunch of mixtapes using opentape.fm. Selfhosted and all. Will definitely check out duxtape! Thanks for the tip (:

26th June 2019

I love kingfishers! A couple of years back I saw a kingfisher on the Leeds-Liverpool canal – a complete bolt out of the blue, it flew into a tree, perched there for a little bit, then swooped down into the canal, caught a fish, and then flew away again – it was stunning.

26th June 2019

Ana’s personal blog

26th June 2019

If you’re reading this, interact with it. This is a slight experiment in reach in the IndieWeb.

26th June 2019

Listening to Kicks’ Kicks Mix on Duxtape, his dat-based remix of muxtape (mp3 mixtapes).

The music’s good, the technology’s decentralized. Maxin and relaxin.

https://www.kickscondor.com/duxtape

kicks mix on dat

20th June 2019

first listen on duxtape

The curse of Western ‘productivity’.

"The Anishinaabe could gather more, said Jenks, “if they did not spend so much time feasting and dancing”—rather missing the point that at least some of that dancing was both for joy and an element of food production. "

https://newsocialist.org.uk/theres-more-life-argument-joy-against-economism/

20th June 2019

As countries across Europe struggle with housing crises, Switzerland’s innovative housing co-operatives point the way towards an alternative.

Despite a lot of interest, there’s only a small amount of co-op housing in the UK. Most non-profit housing is charitable housing associations. Large housebuilders have a stranglehold on the market overall.

“the Swiss example shows how these non-state and non-capitalist actors can build quality housing at a mass scale, if they’re encouraged — and that they can create a model of housing provision that moves beyond speculation into something more democratic and innovative.”

This article points to Switzerland and Zurich in particular as examples of more active housing co-op markets. Although it doesn’t give much insight into how to get to that point from our current position in the UK.

20th June 2019