bluestarfish

I went to a fascinating talk yesterday about participatory mapping and decolonising maps and was introduced to Digital Democracy who are doing amazing work.

One tool they've been developing is a peer-to-peer offline map editor called Mapeo. Indigenous peoples are using it to put their homes on the map in the Amazon.

digital-democracy.org/mapeo/

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bluestarfish

Greta Thunberg is protesting outside the Swedish government every day until the elections (tomorrow) - refusing to go to school for the climate. She has powerful things to say to adults.

medium.com/@wedonthavetime/gre

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Jesse

This company that sells clothing says it had to stop selling to EU because of GDPR. This image IS their site now, it says: "Blame your government (no, really)".

Really though? It's that hard to sell me clothes while respecting my privacy? You only have to blame yourself on this one 😂

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Leo Sammallahti

"New figures have shown that credit unions, long touted as offering a vital alternative to payday lenders, are on the rise."

"Credit unions are not-for-profit cooperatives owned and controlled by their members that have traditionally specialised in loans and savings for the less well-off. In a credit union, members typically pay in small sums to their account and can then access loans."

#creditunions

theguardian.com/money/2018/aug

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non aesthetic memes ✅
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Dazinism

Interesting podcast where @richdecibels talks about #Loomio and organisations. Somehow felt a bit relevant to #socialcoop stuff

He also mentions the talk @douginamug has given about post-consensus, cooperative decision-making - douginamug.gitlab.io/slides/po

The second half of the podcast is all about #solarpunk

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bluestarfish

Welcome to all the new people who have joined the Campaign fediverse. Welcome to this corner of the ! Here's an article that might be helpful if you are new to Mastodon: theoutline.com/post/2689/masto

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Cas 🏳️‍🌈♻️♿️🇬🇧 [main]

I made a flow chart of which #Mastodon posts end up in which timelines!

So, you can see how each instance will have a different local timeline, and even a slightly different federated timeline - and you can see why the federated timeline moves so much faster than the local one, too.

#FAQ

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bluestarfish

Dissent is not a crime.  A group of six women campaigners are defending their right to protest against a fossil fuel company which sought a wide-ranging injunction to restrict direct action at drilling sites.

desmog.co.uk/2018/09/03/people

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vagabond

youtube.com/watch?v=-RrphEZxmU The famous mashup of early environmental nonviolent direct action produced by Richard Hering and George Marshall in 1993. The video collates actions from the beginnings of UK environmental NVDA 1991-93, along with other actions from around the world. Its extensive and humorous use of montage techniques made it inspirational to many actual campaigners as well as future ones. The video even appears in a novel.

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bluestarfish

A mastodon for mastodon

campaign.openworlds.info/media

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bluestarfish

The bid to buy the Ulva Estate on behalf of the island's community was launched about a year ago - and it's been successful.

The estate covers Ulva and some of the isle of Mull, although there are only six residents on Ulva itself.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-gla

The group applied for a community right to buy of the estate under the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003.

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Cassian ♻️☀️

"California becomes first U.S. state to require solar panels on new homes [from 2020]"

news.trust.org/item/2018050920

"The decision ... came despite estimates it would raise the up-front cost of a new home by nearly $10,000 in one of the most expensive parts of the country.

"The Commission estimated the standards will add about $40 to monthly mortgage payments but will compensate for that by saving residents $80 a month on energy bills."

#goodnews #positivenews #environment #renewables

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jim

Being interviewed by about —it’s good that it will be mainstream news for the USA as well as the UK and EU

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bluestarfish

The average walking speed increases as city size increases!

Amazing fact from this paper pnas.org/content/pnas/104/17/7

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bluestarfish

I did go outside today and it was pretty cool

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bluestarfish

South Wales police are using facial recognition technology that has a rate of 92% false positives (!)

...92%...

theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/m

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Björn Schießle 🇪🇺

@bob
Remember what Stallman did ~30 years ago when proprietary software dominated, he didn't recommended abstinence he came up with a positive answer aka Free Software. We need to do the same with today's evolving technology (cloud, saas, IoT, whatever). Ignoring it will change nothing we have to get engaged and shape it in a freedom and privacy respecting way.

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vagabond

Testing seedboxs for the youtube replacement.

Am seeding vier webRTC torrent app on fast home broadband two videos:

video.tedomum.net/videos/watch

video.tedomum.net/videos/watch

Am looking for some feedback to see if my seed's are added to the swarm, can you try to watch them and tell me the number of peers and try and download them as torrents and tell me if you see my seeds.

Thanks

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vagabond

This is both fantastic and scary clickclickclick.click just click you know you wont to.

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Campaign

Founded on #4opens and moderated by an ethical code of conduct. Its a safe space for Campaigning and NGO groups to access their members via #openweb projects.

"We can't engage as communities, unless we have money. I can't even express how angry this makes me."
- an activist group using Facebook. People and organisations who feel this way are our initial targets.

We are launching two new Mastodon instances for activists and campaigners to aid communication of grassroot groups; putting social media back in our hands by providing a free, unfettered home for campaigners, NGO’s and activists to communicate among their peers and beyond.

This project is a way out of the restricted, algorithmic, for-profit mediation and commercialisation of communication we increasingly experience. If you do not pay to "boost" each post, a Facebook page will only reach 3-6% of members. This soon becomes an expensive drain on limited NGO and activist budgets.
Activists and campaigners alike are ready to shift their outreach away from the corporate social networks paid-per-view “walled gardens”.

Mastodon is the worlds largest free open source decentralised microblogging network; it’s thousands of unique, interconnected communities, filled with different people, interests, languages, and needs.
You’re free to join any community you like, or better yet, host your own, on your own terms. It remains possible for members of each to instance to interact with others.
There is no monopoly by a single commercial company, no ads, and no tracking.

We aim to help activism/campaigning groups to make this step now.

https://campaign.openworlds.info
https://activism.openworlds.info

A note on Security and Privacy - these take a somewhat different shape within the #openweb. Have a read about our thoughts on the matter.

How are OMN projects run?

Resources

Developers

What is Mastodon?

campaign.openworlds.info

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