𝕘𝕠𝕣𝕒𝕟 @goran@oour.org

"Technology is the active human interface with the material world.

But the word is consistently misused to mean only the enormously complex and specialised technologies of the past few decades, supported by massive exploitation both of natural and human resources.

This is not an acceptable use of the word. "Technology" and "hi tech" are not synonymous, and a technology that isn't "hi," isn't necessarily "low" in any meaningful sense.

We have been so desensitized by a hundred and fifty years of ceaselessly expanding technical prowess that we think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called "technology " at all. As if linen were the same thing as flax — as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs, aspirin pills, were natural objects, born with us like our teeth and fingers -- as if steel saucepans with copper bottoms and fleece vests spun from recycled glass grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe..."

http://ursulakleguinarchive.com/Note-Technology.html

Some Fediverse alternatives to "big tech" social media:

Twitter ➡️ @Mastodon

Instagram ➡️ @pixelfed

YouTube ➡️ @peertube

Twitch ➡️ @owncast

Goodreads ➡️ @bookwyrm

Facebook Groups ➡️ @mobilizon

Medium ➡️ @writefreely

You don't need an account on all of these in order to interact with them.

Because they all use the ActivityPub open protocol, you can (for example) use a Mastodon account to follow someone on PixelFed or vice versa. That's why they are collectively known as the Fediverse, because they federate together at a technical level.

Also, this is an incomplete list, there are many other Fedi projects out there such as @funkwhale or @inventaire that are not direct alternatives but are their own thing.

#FediTips #Fediverse #Fedi #ActivityPub

Here's one of our coolest referents, the Telekommunist Manifesto by Dmytri Kleiner.

"Software development & immaterial cultural production aren't enough against exploitation or unfair distribution of assets. Only self-organization of production by workers can."

http://telekommunisten.net/the-telekommunist-manifesto/

Just Delete Me, a site which lists hundreds of services with links to delete your accounts with them!

https://justdeleteme.xyz/

#Privacy
#JustDeleteMe

What idiot called them "mandatory joined glyphs" and not "obligatures"

Wait, you mean we could just take the billionaire's stuff if we wanted to?

> Forbes reported that Germany had seized Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov’s mega yacht in a Hamburg shipyard.

> Usmanov was on a list of billionaires to face sanctions from the European Union.

Bloody hell.

https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1496785695574269954

#uničimoTrdnjavoEvropo
#UkinimoFrontex!
#destroyFortressEurope

#OtD 16 Feb 1906 general strike was declared in #Rijeka, #Croatia. Strikers marching behind a red flag forced shops to close and trams to stop. Police & army attacked workers w bayonets but strikers fought back & most won improvements

https://www.janelia.org/news/new-microscope-captures-detailed-3-d-movies-of-cells-deep-within-living-systems

I promised @twistylittlepassages this movie, but it's soooooo cool, I figured I'd invite you all.

These are live immune cells (macrophages possibly but it doesn't say) in a zebrafish, eating fluorescent sugar molecules as a simulation of how they clean up bacteria. This is a great peek into how much energy is involved in keeping us healthy. If you have an active infection you can imagine how much ATP that consumes.