Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

"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

#Introduction career activist and professional volunteer from Aotearoa (NZ). Co-founder of numerous community projects, including a community newspaper, #CoWorking space, #MicroRadio station, #SocialCentre, the Aotearoa sections of #Indymedia and #CreativeCommons, and the Aotearoa Permaculture Network. These days, I publish long-form blogs at #Disintermedia. I'd love to hear from you about common interests, my contact info and more about my project history is here:
https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/danyl-strype

A stick!

Dungggggggg!

"Most of the hungry people in the world are farmers."
- #EricHoltGimenez, interviewed on the #RootstockRadio podcast:
https://www.organicvalley.coop/blog/eric-holt-gimenez-hope-for-democratic-food-system/

Also ...
"We [the US] have more people in prison than we have on the land."

More prisoners than farmers. Although some of the prisoners are also farmers, so ...

#ShowerThought just as we begin to accept that oil-powered industrial society has been "developing" down a blind alley, we realize we've been far too effective at convincing most of the world that this dead-end road is what development *is*, and societies whose sustainable economies we could be learning from, are rapidly emulating our unsustainable ones. Oh the hubris ...

@AmarOk I seem to be having a lot of trouble sending text messages on Jami. Most of them have been instantly failing on both Android and GNU/Linux for the past couple of days.

So #Mastodon has announced they are in the process of removing #OStatus support their codebase. Hopefully this will light a fire under the collective arse of whoever is managing the #GNUsocial project, and the dozen or so #fediverse instances still running it, and get #ActivityPub support finished and merged.

Hmm. Time to thinking about moving to #Friendica?
https://wedistribute.org/2019/07/mastodon-drops-ostatus/

#ShowerThought Apps like #Mailpile and #SyncThing have one problem that makes them behave less native apps. You can't launch the back end from the UI, because its just a web page until it can connect with a running local process. What about creating a browser plug-in that allowed native apps with in-browser UI to be launched from within the browser?

"Especially the more rage and indignation it arouses, the more it activates the shadow elements of those who get their feathers ruffled and have their buttons pushed. The polemical message is like a virus that propagates through the shadow elements of those who despise it."
http://www.kenwilber.com/blog/show/48

The methods Wilber used in that post, explained in more detail in a follow-up:
http://www.kenwilber.com/blog/show/48

... also explain - a decade before the fact - essentially how a narcissistic TV celebrity became President of the USA:
"... the aim of polemic is to propagate a message through a particular population that otherwise wouldn’t lift a finger to help it. But they can’t stop talking about it, and thus up go the sales and out goes the message ... "