Kind: Notes

Peterloo mural outside the People’s History Museum.

The first victim of the Peterloo massacre was a two year old. One point of the mural is to say, if the same protest was to happen again today, who would the people be and what would they be fighting for?

There was a protest against the Tories by the Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People.

I enjoyed the singing of:

You can stick your work assessment up your arse,
you can stick your work assessment up your arrrse,
you can stick your work assessment,
stick your work assessment,
stick your work assessment up your arse.

(to the tune of “she’ll be coming round the mountain”)

Started with a really simple version of Ton’s infostrat and liking it already.

I set up a couple of channels, one for people I tend to interact with a lot, one for people I loosely follow. Both a combo of IndieWeb, Mastodon, Twitter and RSS feeds, mostly of actual real people. The other stuff I haven’t moved yet and is mostly institutional feeds.

When I get a social media urge, I’ll check the first two groups. If empty, I’ll maybe check the rest, or read an article, or just do something else.

The best part is avoiding anything that has an endless stream of fairly random (but tantalisingly, possibly interesting) stuff. As Ton points out, anything *really* worthwhile will invariably end up in a feed in one of the first two groups sooner or later. I’m feeling more intentional, less flighty of attention.

Smart contracts for more equitable returns on investment in public infrastructure.

‘redesigning our regulatory systems so they don’t favour speculative financing and land trading’

‘give communities a way of investing and owning the things that make neighbourhoods work, without the fear of being priced out by their desire to improve their community.’

I need to give it a thorough read, but sounds interesting and I immediately like anything that has a plan rather than just a diagnosis…

https://provocations.darkmatterlabs.org/a-smart-commons-528f4e53cec2

Apparently Facebook and Instagram are currently doing ‘trials’ of removing like counts from posts. That’d be good if they did actually roll it out. I can’t see them doing it though, I thought all of that psyops stuff was good for business.
Nice article about indymedia. I was vaguely aware of indymedia when I was a teenager, but didn’t know much about it.

Talks about how techno-libertarianism and individualism won out over federated communities.

This line makes me sad: ‘Today, social movements depend on Facebook, Google, and Twitter.’ But strikes me that we’re in a pretty good position right now to start federated, tactical media platforms again, no?

https://logicmag.io/bodies/another-network-is-possible/