To plant a digital garden is to believe in tomorrow
(To paraphrase Audrey Hepburn)
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Any thoughts on convivial tools? I’m noding it today for Anagora node club.
"a kind of tool that is shared in common, and which expands personal creative freedom and communal interdependence"
My initial thoughts: sounds good.
The most notable critique I have come across so far is Bookchin (via Evgeny Morozov): "It didn’t make sense to speak of “convivial tools,” he argued, without taking a close look at the political and social structures in which they were embedded"
This quote about anarchism and right to repair caught my eye.
Anarchists often get caught up in the world of ideas, but right to repair gives us a chance to engage practically and I’d encourage all of us to get involved.
– https://c4ss.org/content/55471
h/t @tealturtle@social.coop for the link
Hey, it’s Aaron Swartz Day today.
Some good talks/projects at the hackathon (https://www.aaronswartzday.org/)
– Bad Apple – holding law enforcement accountable and putting an end to police misconduct
– Open Library – an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published
– Internet Archive seem to be talking about decentralisation of IA
– Cory Doctorow talking about various things including the right to repair
– SecureDrop – whistleblower submission system to securely accept documents from anonymous sources
Can anyone recommend a good text-to-speech engine I can use on Lineage OS?
The built-in one (presumably the stock Android one) is a bit grating.
tired: free
wired: libre
inspired: liberatory
wired: libre
inspired: liberatory
(expired: open source)
I’ve done my first pass of noding on ‘Liberatory technology’ for Anagora’s node club this week. It made me read Towards a Liberatory Technology which was good, and I’ve got a better grasp on what Bookchin meant by liberatory technology, I think.
https://anagora.org/liberatory-technology
https://anagora.org/node-club
ColinTheMathmo (mathstodon.xyz)@bhaugen I’ve tried on multiple occasions and just cant work out what’s going on, how to use it, how to contribute, how to collaborate, or anything. I find the interface opaque, and it feels like it’s a read-only.
I know that whatever follows the C2 wiki has to be different and possibly more complic…
@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz @bhaugen @flancian
I had exactly the same experience of FedWiki. Couldn’t really figure out how/why to use it.
Reading about it (e.g. https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/a-platform-designed-for-collaboration-federated-wiki and https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/choral-explanations-and-oer-a-summary-of-thinking-to-date) helped a bit with the why. Not so much the how.
Then I played around with it again recently (thanks @vera@freethinkers.lgbt) and it suddenly clicked. Bit of a galaxy brain moment.
That said I probably still won’t use as a daily driver for now (Im wedded to my current paradigm) but can see now why I would.
Ooh – Becky Chambers has a recent novella which is apparently solarpunk. I very much enjoyed her Wayfarers books, so will give this a read for sure.
davidak (chaos.social)@neil interesting. Can you explain why and maybe have a link to relevant literature?
I’m currently reading Towards a Liberatory Technology and that’s what prompted this thought.
It was written in the 60s, and discusses:
– alternative and renewable energy
– small, decentralised communities
– harmony and intertwining of town and country, nature and technology
– anti-capitalism
– animism
Here are the notes I’m taking – https://anagora.org/towards-a-liberatory-technology