Notices by Charles π’ Hutchins (celesteh@algonoise.social)
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Charles π’ Hutchins (celesteh@algonoise.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Apr-2018 06:59:20 UTC 
Charles π’ Hutchins
Radboy then goes on to talk about how money does not behave like value or wealth. The surplus value in a good is the time spent creating it - essentially, it's a portion of a human life. However, money doesn't act like human life. It doesn't have a lifespan. It doesn't reproduce. It doesn't die. It doesn't have agency.
"We need," he tells the children, "money that is more like love". That grows and spreads and goes to where it's needed. -
Charles π’ Hutchins (celesteh@algonoise.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Apr-2018 09:25:59 UTC
Charles π’ Hutchins
The #federation model is effectively collaborative #moderation. The behaviour of every individual is too hard to track, but the limits of what a particular server considers permissible is more easily discovered. A user can pick an instance based not only on their own instance's limits, but how their instance handles federation with instances with significantly different limits.
Importantly, this model includes transparency and accountability. By contrast, shared blocklists address the scalability problem, but do so entirely without accountability. One of the largest shared blocklists on Twitter systematically blocks trans people, especially trans women. This list came about as a way to address the non-moderation of Twitter, but then, without accountability, became a tool furthering inequality and invisibilising marginalised people. What in scuttlebutt prevents this? -
Charles π’ Hutchins (celesteh@algonoise.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2018 15:55:48 UTC
Charles π’ Hutchins
@clacke I mean, the also extremely right wing. Most Christian HE founded since the 1950s has been, in some or all measure, a response to desegregation. The primary organising force among white evangelical Christians in the us is whiteness. Unfortunately, this also increasingly applies to Catholics as right wing white Christianity has rebranded to oppose abortion and LGBTQ people as other vectors of people not knowing their place and acting as if they have agency or something.
Anyway, there's a giant movement to give all of the state's social welfare organisations over to churches while simultaneously empowering churches to ignore what civil rights laws they don't happen to like.
Christian education is NOT the answer to underfunding public services. -
Charles π’ Hutchins (celesteh@algonoise.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2017 16:40:37 UTC
Charles π’ Hutchins
I kind of want a Mastodon/#fediverse installation for my students. I think it would be a good way for them to collaborate and share information, not data mined by an American company AND an opportunity to explore what it means to maintain a professionalised presence online and separate out their personal connections to another account or platform.
I should discuss this with my line manager, since I think this should also have a relationship with the uni's IT services rather than my risking their ire by inappropriately using their name.
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