Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

Under marked otherwise, all posts from this account are #CC #BYSA 4.0. Unless I send a DM, I want all my posts publicly visible, to any web browser, and any other user app or archival/ research system that speaks #ActivityPub (and ideally #Diaspora and #Zot too). I'm happy for them to be indexed by any search system and included in any relevant search. That's why I publish them on the web with Mastodon. When I want to have private discussion, I use DMs. One day the AP-verse will do this better.

"Our collective objective should be, to make the world work for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offence, or the disadvantage of anyone."
- Buckminster Fuller

Just finished listening to this awesome, grungy, psychedelic stoner rock album by Green Meteor, 'Consumed by a Dying Sun', released in 2017:
https://greenmeteor.bandcamp.com/album/consumed-by-a-dying-sun

#music #listening #GreenMeteor #psychedelic #grunge #stoner #rock #2017

Emma Ferris explores her journey of recovery in this excellent kiwi podcast, with support from her sister Sarah, and insights from clinical psychologist Dr Sophie Muir:
Conning the Con: https://anchor.fm/sarah-marie-ferris

#EmmaFerris #Aotearoa #NZ #podcast #ClinicalPsychology

A tutorial on developing apps for mobile GNU devices, using GNOME Builder on a Librem 5:
https://invidious.tube/watch?v=9qB_5g2ZJYk

#MobileGNU #Librem5 #GnomeBuilder

The Detail podcast, produced by Newsroom with RNZ, reports on an example of the "intellectual property" logic of proprietary software development being applied to food growing ...

"Chinese growers are stealing the kiwifruit we stole from them in the first place, along with the varietal secrets New Zealand holds the rights to."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018790587/managing-china-s-theft-of-nz-s-sungold-kiwifruit

#podcast #TheDetail #kiwifruit #NZ #China #RNZ #Newsroom

"In the age of John Scott's Eriugena, Christian churchmen did not burn books. Only barbarians did that"

- #ThomasCahill, 'How the Irish Saved Civilization', 1995

In the 20th century, liberal activists did not ban books. Only fundamentalist conservatives did that.

"... agriculture’s largest contribution to climate change stems from ... synthetic nitrogen fertiliser. By reducing ... chemical fertilisers and substituting it with high-quality organic fertilisers, half of all agricultural greenhouse gas emissions could be prevented while simultaneously building humus."

#AndreaBeste, PhD in Agricultural Sciences

https://www.arc2020.eu/a-soil-scientists-perspective-on-co2-certification-and-carbon-sequestration-in-soil/

#ClimateChange #Organic #SoilCarbon

"Last month, the University of Michigan became the latest to accept the obvious — that investing in the destruction of society is fundamentally counter to the mission of higher education."

- #JonathanMorris

https://wagingnonviolence.org/2021/04/persistent-student-organizing-forced-university-of-michigan-to-divest-from-fossil-fuels/

#ClimateChange #divestment #UniversityOfMichigan

The future scenarios explored in 'The Ecotechnic Future' by #JohnMichaelGreer seem relevant to such thought experiment:
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2009-11-19/review-ecotechnic-future-john-michael-greer/

Cahill's book on the Irish monastic tradition of the Dark Ages has got me thinking. Let's posit that the global civilization that hit its peak in the post-WW2 boom is now in collapse, as was the Romans empire at the time of St Patrick. How could we ensure knowledge is preserved and spread, to assist future generations to rebuild? What kinds of scholarly institutions could seed the universities of a new renaissance? What actions could we take to facilitate such efforts?

I just figured out why the audio from my @trisquel system wasn't going through the HDMI. I tried looking for an HDMI device I could switch to in the 'Hardware' and 'Output' tabs of the Sound Preferences applet, but no dice. Then I found the instructions here:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/hdmi-audio-output-not-working#comment-39558

1. Go to "System Settings"->"Sound"
2. Select the "Hardware" tab
3. Click on the dropdown list (Profile)
4. Select "Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output"

Worked like a charm ;)

#GnuLinuxAudio #HDMI

"From the careful Bede we learn that the [Dark Ages] Irish monastics [were] ... as unconcerned about orthodoxy of thought as they were about uniformity of monastic practice, they brought into their libraries everything they could lay their hands on. They were resolved to shut out nothing. Not for them the scruples of Saint Jerome, who feared he might burn in hell for reading Cicero."

- #ThomasCahill, 'How the Irish Saved Civilization', 1995

"[They] hate our order, our civilization, our enterprising industry, our pure religion."

Bush Jr talking about Muslims? No, keep guessing.

"This wild, reckless, indolent, uncertain and superstitious race have no sympathy with the English character. Their ideal of felicity is an alternation of clannish broils and coarse idolatry."

Early New Zealand colonists talking about Māori? Nope. Try again.

"Their history describes an unbroken circle of bigotry and blood."

Give up?

#colonization

An interview with the director of the 2020 doco 'Coded Bias' and one of its key interviewees
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/02/08/770174171/when-bias-is-coded-into-our-technology

#documentary #CodedBias