Free, Fair and Alive calls the word citizen a ‘keyword from a failing era’ and prefers ‘commoner’.
Kind: Notes
Heh nice the digital garden metaphor makes an appearance in Free, Fair and Alive:
"[…]people using Fedwiki sites are like gardeners or farmers. They can plant as many fields or gardens as they want, and reap the harvest from their own Fedwiki, but anyone else can also use someone’s harvest to enhance their own fields and gardens. Instead of toiling under a regime of private, competitive exclusion, the system encourages cooperative gains through commoning."
Free, Fair and Alive is rocking my socks right now. It has a whole section on Federated wikis (specifically FedWiki) and how they can form a Commons. Add this to the complexity science and commons-public partnerships bits I’ve already read, it’s really hitting all my sweet spots so far…
I was going to do something and then my cat sat on me and now I can’t.
"Since the dawn of the neoliberal period in the 1980s, however, public land has been subject to privatisation on a massive scale. In his recent book The New Enclosure, Brett Christophers found that a staggering 10% of Britain’s total landmass has been privatised during this period, equivalent to land worth £400 billion."
A lot of Manchester’s public land is turning into privately-owned unaffordable luxury flats.
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/05/the-privatisation-of-manchester/
Whenever I get a new (second hand) phone, I try to cross-reference repairability with custom ROM support. sustaphones is very handy in that it does just that (for battery replacement, and some ROMs).
I’ve got RSS-Bridge set up to pick up RSS feeds from Facebook pages now. I subscribe to them in Aperture and can read them in my a social reader e.g. Indigenous. That, combined with some Twitter feeds coming from Twitter Atom, is letting me keep up with what’s going on locally pretty well so far.
Preston is hiring a Social Value and Partnerships Officer. "The Social Value and Partnerships Officer will be responsible for extending and embedding social value activity and developing an Anchor Network." Looks like you basically work on Community wealth building all day, looks pretty good!
Pretty excited to be reading in Free, Fair and Alive about the links they make between complexity science and the Commons.
I studied Evolutionary and adaptive systems way back when, and its nice when various themes of my life link together.
This is a great article in @compost on the role of the client-server model in the enclosure of the digital commons, and how peer-to-peer can punch some cracks in the big tech pavement.
https://one.compost.digital/seeding-the-wild/
I think there’s some space for reflection on the other aspect of the article, the use of nature analogies for technological concepts. I like them (e.g. digital garden) but I think need to think about what they might hide or distort, too.