bluestarfish @bluestarfish@campaign.openworlds.info

Prison Culture is a great resource for learning about the US incarceration system and they are incredible organisers - well worth seeing what they are up to and how they do it if you do any campaigning yourself.

http://www.usprisonculture.com/blog/

#campaign #prisonculture #learning

"Various conversations about AI and inclusion have already started. However, these important conversations run the risk of being shaped by an ‘artificial intelligentsia’ that discusses inclusion without truly including the voices of the marginalized people likely to suffer most significantly in an AI ecosystem that didn’t consider their voice in its design."

https://points.datasociety.net/lets-avoid-an-artificial-intelligentsia-inclusion-artificial-intelligence-and-human-rights-3905d708e7ed

#AI #inclusion

@richdecibels I read a lot of fiction so these sessions reminded me of some of what I've been reading. Walkaway of course (or the earlier Makers). But having recently reread Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed point after point in the morning session (especially) resonated with the ideas she was exploring. It felt rather uncanny! And Ivan Illich is definitely going on my to-read pile.

@Angle The physicist Ilya Prigogine put it beautifully. “When a system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence have the capacity to shift the entire system”.

Some words from Roscoe, one of the first people to be jailed for their protest against #fracking in England

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/fracking-climate-change_uk_5baba8efe4b091df72ec91b8?

#climatechange #protest

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.

https://www.digital-democracy.org/mapeo/

#maps #openweb #datasovereignty #dataextractivism #Mapeo #amazon

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.

https://medium.com/@wedonthavetime/greta-thunberg-sweden-is-not-a-role-model-6ce96d6b5f8b

#climatechange #youngpeople #action

@poligirl Hi and welcome! One good way of finding some people on here is to do an #introduction post and then search the hashtag as well for others.

Welcome to all the new people who have joined the Campaign fediverse. Welcome to this corner of the #openweb! Here's an article that might be helpful if you are new to Mastodon: https://theoutline.com/post/2689/mastodon-makes-the-internet-feel-like-home-again?zd=1&zi=i53n74s2

@iamskye
"The motion of most of these animalcules in the water was so swift, and so various upwards, downwards and round about that 'twas wonderful to see." Leeuwenhoek, 1674

@iamskye
I'm just reading about him. Apparently he was delighted! Kept looking everywhere to see more of these small dancing things

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.

https://www.desmog.co.uk/2018/09/03/people-have-been-frightened-silence-campaigners-warn-threat-rights-oil-drilling-injunction