> If [the Luddites] had their way we wouldn’t be living in a world with ‘no technology’, we’d be living in a world where communities have a say in the technological decisions that will impact them.

– Why the Luddites Matter | LibrarianShipwreck

Why the Luddites Matter

(via Harold Jarche https://twitter.com/hjarche/status/1455264342174273550)

Despite a lot of interest, there’s only a small amount of co-op housing in the UK. Most non-profit housing is charitable housing associations. Large housebuilders have a hold of the market overall.

"the Swiss example shows how these non-state and non-capitalist actors can build quality housing at a mass scale, if they’re encouraged — and that they can create a model of housing provision that moves beyond speculation into something more democratic and innovative."

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/06/switzerland-housing-coop-cooperative/

Watched @cwebber 's FOSDEM talk about Racket, and made me remember Fluxus, the super old generative audio/visual environment built on Racket that I used to play around with.

http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/

Makes me want to dig it out again!

Lot of people still on Waterloo Bridge. And a lovely choir.

At Marble Arch they said people are being arrested here now. But doesn't seem so at the moment.

Quite a few police and vans here though.

#london #xr

Really enjoying listening to backlog of episodes of @librelounge.

e.g. a discussion on human rights and how they relate to free software / free culture.

For me the intersection of ethics, politics and libre stuff is very important. Looking back I think I got into it for the fun of it but the philosophy always attracted me. I want to know if and how we can mobilise it as part of a transition to an egalitarian future, and what I can do to be a part of that.

Part of why Cooperation Jackson was able to get going was Mississippi was bypassed by traditional capitalism. Preston is economically depressed. Rojavan revolution grew in the vacuum of conflict. Puerto Rico is reorganising as a community after natural disaster.

There is 'the shock doctrine' and 'disaster capitalism'. We should have 'the cooperation doctrine', 'disaster anarchism'. Or, more poetically, as per Rebecca Solnit, paradises made in hell.

@paulfree14 I hope so, yes. The indieweb ones just use the webmention protocol for sending and receiving RSVPs, and there's been some work done of bridging webmentions between indieweb and fediverse with https://fed.brid.gy, so I'm sure it must be doable for events too.

We need to figure out (or someone needs to introduce me to..) a good alternative to Facebook Events ASAP.

I briefly reactivated my FB account (because reasons) and stumbled across a public lecture about Thomas Sankara, and an event put on by the Chilean embassy about Project Cybersyn. And it's an absolute crime that Facebook is the only way to discover these.