Reticulum is an elegant engineers approach to networking. It’s a complete replacement of the network stack, it’s entirely encrypted, and can communicate and can correctly organize global-scale mesh-networks over any connection >5b/s without the need for distributed hash tables, or any resource usage besides bandwidth. This makes it far lighter than GNUnet, and friendly to low-power, low bandwidth, embedded networks and devices.
This makes it viable as a global network, as it is super cheap to interact with. And it can run on any device, including your smartphone natively.
Bandwidth is a physical resource of the natural world. Reticulum is based on the principle of creating systems that (as far as is possible for a computer program) understand the physical limits of real-world resources, and manages them responsibly and intelligently, with well-thought out algorithms.
When that is ultimately not possible any more, human beings have to step in and expand capacity or make other thoughtful decisions on how to manage the available resources. I
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Reticulum is an elegant engineers approach to networking. It’s a complete replacement of the network stack, it’s entirely encrypted, and can communicate and can correctly organize global-scale mesh-networks over any connection >5b/s without the need for distributed hash tables, or any resource usage besides bandwidth. This makes it far lighter than GNUnet, and friendly to low-power, low bandwidth, embedded networks and devices.
This makes it viable as a global network, as it is super cheap to interact with. And it can run on any device, including your smartphone natively.
Bandwidth is a physical resource of the natural world. Reticulum is based on the principle of creating systems that (as far as is possible for a computer program) understand the physical limits of real-world resources, and manages them responsibly and intelligently, with well-thought out algorithms.
When that is ultimately not possible any more, human beings have to step in and expand capacity or make other thoughtful decisions on how to manage the available resources. I believe this is the most efficient, holistic and human-friendly approach to creating technologies that actually help us and better our lives.
I have been interested in mesh networks for a long while but I want to connect with other peoples mesh networks and access public websites on the protocol without an ISP . Like a mesh router box I pay for one time and connect via radio or something and access a very basic Usenet or early 2000s lean design internet. Is it possible?
I recently started making solarpunk postcards again, and I had a lot of fun with a quick scene of a solarpunk cargo ship (a steel-hulled, four-masted barque) in a storm. I'd like to do more but don't yet have any strong points to make or designs I'm excited to feature.
So what would you like to see? What scene is missing from solarpunk art of humans interacting with oceans, rivers, lakes, canals? What weird idea, or old, practical design should make a comeback?
I can't promise that I'll make everything but I really do try to include as many suggestions as possible.
So far suggestions from reddit and discord have included:
Showing more of the mooring ropes and foundations festooned with underwater life (perhaps in another storm or low tide?)
Boats or ships with
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I recently started making solarpunk postcards again, and I had a lot of fun with a quick scene of a solarpunk cargo ship (a steel-hulled, four-masted barque) in a storm. I'd like to do more but don't yet have any strong points to make or designs I'm excited to feature.
So what would you like to see? What scene is missing from solarpunk art of humans interacting with oceans, rivers, lakes, canals? What weird idea, or old, practical design should make a comeback?
I can't promise that I'll make everything but I really do try to include as many suggestions as possible.
So far suggestions from reddit and discord have included:
Showing more of the mooring ropes and foundations festooned with underwater life (perhaps in another storm or low tide?)
Boats or ships with soft wing sails which are apparently good (in theory) when it comes to performance as they maintain their shape regardless of wind conditions.
I'll state up front that I'm not a nautical kinda guy. I like to pick up terminology and learn but I've never sailed anything larger than a sunfish and I see the ocean maybe once every five years. So feel free to spell out practical considerations and realism stuff because I probably won't think of it.
Grain de Sail has expanded its fleet of sailing cargo ships with the recent acquisition of a new vessel delivered by local shipyard Piriou. Grain de Sail II was
Some kind of solar powered boats with kite-sails could be interesting, but I doubt that would really scale to cargo transport. Although kite-sails for cargo ships do exist and apparently reduce fuel consumption by a low double digit percentage.
I also once read that submarines could have amazing fuel efficiency (similar to whales), so maybe some sort of fully automated slowly moving electric submarine could be feasible? In general the water drag grows in exponent with the speed, so slower moving cargo ships should be in theory a lot more fuel efficient and an automated submarine wouldn't have to worry about adverse weather etc.
The solar powered, electric drive ships are cool! I might include something like this homemade one in a scene sometime.
I'd never heard about the submarine efficiency, but it makes sense.
I'm thinking about types of ships etc, and I suppose a solarpunk setting might have less of a range of purposes in addition to less shipping overall? Like, fishing, lobstering, crab fishing, etc are the first industries that spring to mind for me but even if someone is opposed to solarpunk being vegan, I don't think it's controversial to say the populations of those species need time and space to recover. Plus a lot of ocean waste is from the fishing industry. (I know lots of cultures are basically built around fishing but I'm not exactly qualified to depict them anyways.)
But what does that leave? Cargo, transportation, research, ships involved in building offshore wind or tidal power?
He’s been living aboard and renovating the boat for the past 3.5 years We’re excited to show you the transformation as well as how he plans to propel the boat
In your previous artworks, I really enjoyed your themes of reusing/repurposing things from an earlier time. So the first thing that came to mind for me was an offshore platform (one of those shallow water ones that’s anchored to the seabed) repurposed as living space, research area, or a hub for an offshore wind farm.
I don’t know of the technology level in your setting could accommodate this, but I also thought about nuclear powered cargo ships. Lots of safety and environmental considerations, but the potential to vastly reduce emissions (since cargo ships switch to the cheapest, nastiest, most bottom-of-the-barrel bunker oil sludge they can get their hands on as soon as they’re in international waters).
I like both of those ideas! I've seen a few cool takes on repurposed oil rigs, I'll have to read up on them a bit to see what kind of resources they offer to long term residents, but I'd enjoy doing a take on it - maybe a ship charging station from windmills plus merchant hub/repairs like a bartering outpost from waterworld?
Nuclear powered ships are definitely proven and it's be cool to see the tech put to a nonmilitary use - though the regulation/control aspect would be challenging to do safely.
In the Belgian North Sea, maintenance vessels are now able to tether to an automatic cable at a wind farm to get their batteries topped up. The innovative system is the first of its kind and a major step in helping reduce emissions from shipping.
Sailcargo Inc. is a pioneering clean shipping company. We construct and operate a world-leading fleet of zero emission cargo ships at our green shipyard in Costa Rica.
I've seen the clipper ship Grain de Sail II, and I'll definitely check these ones out too! I really like seeing some proof that modernized sail (with fairly traditional-looking rigging) is viable, and especially seeing which cargoes and routes make it viable. I think that might be a good look at what makes for worthwhile shipping in a solarpunk setting (high value goods, ingredients that only grow effectively in certain areas, humanitarian aid, etc). I think some takes on adding sails are perhaps too unwilling to compromise on the massive container ship design, grasping for how to keep that format running rather than examining if we should.
I wrote about this on the photobash I mentioned, but I genuinely like the optimization and logistical advantage of using standardized, stackable shipping containers which fit on ships, trucks, and trains without the need to load and unload the cargoes by hand at each transition in their journey. That’s great stuff, no complaints. What I wonder about is if that cost efficiency has caused other problems. We ship cargo all over the wor
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I've seen the clipper ship Grain de Sail II, and I'll definitely check these ones out too! I really like seeing some proof that modernized sail (with fairly traditional-looking rigging) is viable, and especially seeing which cargoes and routes make it viable. I think that might be a good look at what makes for worthwhile shipping in a solarpunk setting (high value goods, ingredients that only grow effectively in certain areas, humanitarian aid, etc). I think some takes on adding sails are perhaps too unwilling to compromise on the massive container ship design, grasping for how to keep that format running rather than examining if we should.
I wrote about this on the photobash I mentioned, but I genuinely like the optimization and logistical advantage of using standardized, stackable shipping containers which fit on ships, trucks, and trains without the need to load and unload the cargoes by hand at each transition in their journey. That’s great stuff, no complaints. What I wonder about is if that cost efficiency has caused other problems. We ship cargo all over the world but much of the time, we do it because it’s so cheap to do so. We ship raw material from one continent to process it on another, we ship that material again so we can shape it into parts, which are shipped back to the second continent for partial assembly, and then for final assembly on a fourth. Is that efficient? It’s cost efficient. But we burn terrible amounts of fuel each time we do it, and we do it for so many things. I'm not sure if there's a green stand-in for that kind of dirt-cheap bulk shipping.
The Passat, the steel-hulled barque I borrowed parts from to make my last image (and its sibling ships) hauled nitrate, grain, concrete, and other stuff using a pretty traditional-looking hull (and loading it was apparently an important process which could and did lead to issues if done poorly. Like I said, most of the designs I've seen for container ships look a lot like regular ones with masts added on where they won't get too in the way. I'd like to find or work out a design that starts with a viable sail ship and tweaks it towards modern features, like a way to somehow still load cargo in shipping containers, without messing up its form/function.
Mr. Trash Wheel is a semi-autonomous trash interceptor that is placed at the end of a river, stream or other outfall. Sustainably powered and built to withstand the biggest storms, Mr.
“Why should I vote for Harris when she’s horrible?”
If you think voting for status-quo Democrats will fail to earn us systemic change, then great; we’re on the same page. That’s why we have to also create green infrastructure, form mutual-aid networks, and unionize. Seven unions signed a letter demanding no more bombs for I$53@1. That’s how the real change will come. Voting for Harris won’t impede that organizing and will even make it easier, as if Trump is elected, he’s likely to ban unions and terrorize your community on his double-time march to authoritarianism.
A vote for a third-party candidate or not voting at all will amount to the same thing: a Trump victory. And if he wins, I’m more likely to be disappeared, for projecting “fuck Trump”. SCOTUS has placed the President above the law, and he would feel no compunction at wielding that dictatorial power to snuff out activists, deport anyone, and restrict women’s rights, for starters.
Voting has a low opportunity cost. You do it one day e
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“Why should I vote for Harris when she’s horrible?”
If you think voting for status-quo Democrats will fail to earn us systemic change, then great; we’re on the same page. That’s why we have to also create green infrastructure, form mutual-aid networks, and unionize. Seven unions signed a letter demanding no more bombs for I$53@1. That’s how the real change will come. Voting for Harris won’t impede that organizing and will even make it easier, as if Trump is elected, he’s likely to ban unions and terrorize your community on his double-time march to authoritarianism.
A vote for a third-party candidate or not voting at all will amount to the same thing: a Trump victory. And if he wins, I’m more likely to be disappeared, for projecting “fuck Trump”. SCOTUS has placed the President above the law, and he would feel no compunction at wielding that dictatorial power to snuff out activists, deport anyone, and restrict women’s rights, for starters.
Voting has a low opportunity cost. You do it one day every few years, and maybe add a few more days on top of that to register other people to vote. The rest of the time, you can focus on community building.
Finally, if you continue to spend time and energy arguing against voting for Harris, I will assume you’re a Republican agent masquerading as a progressive. If you’re in fact not under the employ of the GOP, why do their work for free?
I don't quite understand this mentality. You're getting genocide no matter what. It's either genocide and removing a woman's right to choose and erasing trans people, or genocide and not erasing trans people and maybe enshrining a woman's right to choose.
It can be two things. One, a person can be viscerally repulsed from voting for soulless politicians like Harris. That is understandable, though I do my best to urge people to vote for her anyway.
Two, it could be a paid shill only pretending to care for Palestinian lives, trying to prevent anyone from voting who isn’t a Trump cultist.
This would make more sense if not voting stopped the genocide.
But it doesn't. Either candidate with a chance of winning will sell arms. Your nonvote means that the parties can ignore you going forward, making your voice matter even less. @AEMarling
While I agree that it is very easy for republicans to masquerade as progressives, especially on the internet, I think that's actually not a particularly effective form of challenge due to how quickly it derails conversations.
By instead remaining focused on specific issues and policies we can help keep attention where it belongs--on the real life impacts that our elected officials' policy positions can have on our real lives. The fact of the matter is that Harris does have some genuine progressive chops. While she's certainly imperfect as a politician, she's no Bill Clinton-style moderate. We do have her Senate voting record after all, where progressive monitoring groups generally rated her very favorably.
You two party system dupes play the same game every election cycle. The very definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Go spin your wheels, voting for a lesser evil and shaming others. It will work this time!
By limiting the choices to two parties, we ALWAYS lose.
Tear it all down and start fresh or GTFO.
To quote myself from a previous rant:
The delusion is breathtaking. You really think of yourself as some kind of pragmatic freedom-fighter eh? How many presidential election cycles in a row have you allowed yourself to be herded into supporting Raytheon, General Dynamics, and Lockheed Martin whores with a D next to their name? When will a genocide that they are **pushing for** (and the clearly false pretenses for that genocide that they continue to cling to) be too much for you? I’d bet on never because you have to _vote blue no matter who_, right?
Actual democracy where there are WAY more than TWO FUCKING PARTIES and they AREN’T PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS THAT CAN DO THINGS THAT GO AGAINST THE VERY RULES AND DEFINTIONS OF DEMOCRACY.
Several people here have mentioned the genocide in Palestine, which I accept is a major issue and one no one should be dismissive of. Biden himself acknowledged the validity of the issue in his speech to the DNC.
I honestly find Biden's decision to keep spending so much money arming Israel baffling, but there is at least some chance Harris will change that policy.
But if Harris doesn't win the White House, Trump's policies will intensify the perescution of the Palestinians and also lead to pogroms, if not actual genocide, in the US and elsewhere.
I agree this is not a happy choice to have to make. But it's also quite clear which is the right choice.
Would you recommend compost toilets as a way to not waste human waste? I’m trying to imagine how that would work at city scale. Would communities cart the waste to their rooftop and nextdoor food forests? Would garage-truck style vehicles help in moving it?
Municipal scale infrastructure to capture waste, treat it, and extract nutrients to be redistributed or sold as fertilizer. This is usually an activity undertaken by and fit into existing municipal waste infrastructure.
Urbit is a decentralized personal server platform based on functional programming in a peer-to-peer network.
Am I having a stroke? What does "functional programming in a network" even mean? Does it mean anything? Do you torrent lambdas?
You wouldn't download a closure
The Urbit software stack consists of a set of programming languages ("Hoon," a high-level functional programming language, and "Nock," its low-level compiled language)
Weird ass names aside (Hoon sounds like a slur or is it just me?), they built two languages? Also what does "its" refer to here, Urbit's? From context it's as if Nock was Hoon's language, but that doesn't make semantical sense.
Also editorial note, just say "a pair" if there are two, not "a set"...
a single-function operating system built on those languages ("Arvo"); a runtime implementation of that operating system ("Vere"),
What. A "single-function operating system" doesn't even mean anythin
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What the hell is this
Urbit is a decentralized personal server platform based on functional programming in a peer-to-peer network.
Am I having a stroke? What does "functional programming in a network" even mean? Does it mean anything? Do you torrent lambdas?
You wouldn't download a closure
The Urbit software stack consists of a set of programming languages ("Hoon," a high-level functional programming language, and "Nock," its low-level compiled language)
Weird ass names aside (Hoon sounds like a slur or is it just me?), they built two languages? Also what does "its" refer to here, Urbit's? From context it's as if Nock was Hoon's language, but that doesn't make semantical sense.
Also editorial note, just say "a pair" if there are two, not "a set"...
a single-function operating system built on those languages ("Arvo"); a runtime implementation of that operating system ("Vere"),
What. A "single-function operating system" doesn't even mean anything. Do they mean a unikernel? That at least is an actual term. And then what's that other thing? A "runtime implementation of an OS"? What's Arvo if it's not implemented or doesn't run, a fucking abstract painting of an OS?
And again, why do you need two languages to build this, it really seems you can have one? You're designing them from scratch anyway specifically to build this OS, why not make one proper language? Linus Torvalds barely had one and he managed.
public key infrastructure, built on the Ethereum blockchain ("Azimuth"), for each Urbit instance to participate in a decentralized network; and the decentralized network itself, an encrypted, peer-to-peer protocol.
What are we doing here.
The 128-bit Urbit identity space consists of 256 "galaxies", 65,280 "stars" (255 for each galaxy), and 4,294,901,760 "planets" (65,535 for each star) and comets under those.
What does any of this mean. Is it also a metaverse attempt? What the fuck is a planet in a network dude, would you call 123.73.41.0 more of an asteroid or a planetoid?
And now for a shot:
In 2022, the main software in an Urbit installation was a "bare-bones" text-based message board.
And chaser:
Tlon, the company founded by Yarvin to build Urbit, has received seed funding from various investors since its inception, most notably Peter Thiel, whose Founders Fund, with venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz invested $1.1 million.
So they built an artificially complex architecture, to the point where half of its description sounds made up, took the most complex kinds software engineering projects (a programming language and an OS), did them twice for good measure, slapped on a blockchain to be cool and hip I guess, for absolutely no fucking reason whatsoever. They didn't have a use-case that would warrant any of this engineering effort, all they wanted was a message board, a problem we have solved in the fucking 90s (? Maybe earlier?).
But it's good enough for the Lich King and Egg Boi to give them a million fucking dollars. God I hope at least they boughy some quality drugs with that money or else this was a giant waste of resources.
Conclusion: the Wikipedia article on Urbit is absolute garbage. I feel like I know less about what the fuck this thing is after I read it. Can anyone tell me why any of this? Why did they do this? Why do they need a custom OS? Who hurt them so bad they came up with such shitty names for everything? Would you nock a hoon or is that too vere?
EDIT: Bonus question, how is this pronounced? Instinctively I read the U as in "uranium", but the article writes "an Urbit", so it's a short U like in "full"?
To me it looked like someone wrote some babble about the architecture and then a Responsible Adult came in and added the thinly veiled sneers of "all they built is a text board, Yarvin is a certified idiot, none of this works"
I might read the primary source on this tomorrow if I hate myself hard enough, I am fascinated by why you need two languages and two OS things to run a nazi chatroom, sounds like some absolute pinnacle of human lack of thought
EDIT: I guess the actual concept might be so insane that there's no way to write an article about it that makes sense and doesn't use expletives
Yeah, there's a number of people here who actually met Yarvin before he 1) became a complete asshole, you can not even imagine, 2) became a proud fascist and *monarchist*, and 3) lost his mind.
Many of us also have SW experience and have tried to look into Urbit and all came to the same conclusion - it all seems to be based on both giving stupid names to existing concepts, and blindly doing the opposite of whatever anybody has done before without regard to reason.
Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a whil
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Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
Khelif, who went on to win Olympic gold despite the harassment, reportedly filed a lawsuit alleging cyberbullying against Rowling (Elon Musk is also named in the suit). Shortly after the lawsuit became public on August 13, Rowling went silent on X, leading to speculation from many onlookers that she had pushed her transphobic narrative too far. On August 23, though, she again appeared on the platform, spreading more false and misleading commentary on Khelif. Her first post was a quote from a transphobic hit piece against Khelif by Colin Wright, the former managing editor of the far-right website Quillette.
I mean, does she actually write books anymore? Or is she a full time TERF now? Because that's a direct conflict between what's in her legal best interest and in her professional best interest.
@techtakes Speaking as a working writer: she's a hobbyist writer. At this point she's so rich she could spend £100K/week of her capital and still be a multimillionaire when she dies aged 100+. A novel typically takes a year to write and even JKR is unlikely to make significantly more than £100K from a book (unless it gets filmed). So she keeps writing for ego/self-esteem but not from necessity (to stop writing would leave a hole in her life).
A new contributor, "JollyDevelopment" made some improvements:
Fixed a very annoying bug where enabling the markdown editor emptied the text input field
Changed the home page so there are now separate sorting and filtering options, making the 'Popular' and 'All' home pages obsolete. They have been removed from the main menu.
Added a 'dev tools' page so developers can easily create large amounts of dummy content to test with
A new contributor, "JollyDevelopment" made some improvements:
Fixed a very annoying bug where enabling the markdown editor emptied the text input field
Changed the home page so there are now separate sorting and filtering options, making the 'Popular' and 'All' home pages obsolete. They have been removed from the main menu.
Added a 'dev tools' page so developers can easily create large amounts of dummy content to test with
As you can see we don't have a lot of really big news to share, lately. It nearly feels like a good time to call an end to the beta test phase of PieFed's development and formally release a version. With that in mind, over the next little while, we will focus on stability and bug fixes so the first release is something people can stick with without immediately getting back on the dev branch treadmill.
Technically, there is no mobile app for PieFed but there is a way that you can get something that is almost the same. PieFed is a ‘Progressive Web App’ meaning it is a website that can be installed into your phone as if it was a real app.
Die GWUP geht auf Neumitgliederfang und für die gibts als Bonus ein kostenloses Buch dazu. Welches Buch mag das sein? So als Organisation für kritisches Denken?
Ist es ein Buch, dass genau dieses kritische, rationale Denken lehrt?
Es wird kaum eine Überraschung sein, dass es keines dieser Werke ist. Statt dessen ist es:
Gefangen in der Opferrolle: Warum Wokeness scheitert
Was einem gleich am Titel auffallen kann, ist, dass die Leser hier mitnichten dazu eingeladen werden, ihre Fähigkeiten als Mitglieder einer skeptischen Organisation zu schärfen … nein, hier werden Antworten auf eine “Warum?”-Frage angekündigt.
Der Blurb
Schauen wir uns den Blurb des Buchs an. Was steckt hinter dem Titel? Blurb des Buchs “Gefangen in der Opferrolle” von der Seite des, zur Jungen Freiheit gehörigen, JF Buchdienst. Das fängt schon mal gut mit der Frage an, ob wir in einem Patriarchat leben. Wenn das im Buch bereits zur Debatte steht, kann der Rest nur noch spassiger werden.
Die Erkenntnisse des Herrn Doktoranden seien alarmierend.
Zusammengenommen mit Behauptungen dass “junge Menschen” “ängstlicher” und “unzufriedener” würden, der Behauptung “Wokeness”, aber vor allem auch der “Ruf nach politischer Korrektheit” würde “Schaden anrichten” … ich fasse den Rest mal grob zusammen: Die verderben unserer Jugend und machen sie krank und pervers!!!
Damit befinden wir uns rhetorisch bereits ganz tief im roten Bereich der “Moral Panic” wie wir sie von der Lesesucht, über den Comics Code, und die “Schwule verderben die Jugend”-Panik, über die D&D-Satanismus-Panik, über die Computerspiele-machen-Mörder-Panik bis hin zur “Digitalen Demenz”-Panik kennen.
Was zwischen den Zeilen mitschwingt:
gesellschaftliche Aushandlungsprozesse sind böse
wie es ist, ist es gut und zwar für alle!
es liegt nicht an struktureller Ungerechtigkeit sondern nur an DIR SELBST! Du bist schuld, wenn Du nicht den Hinteren zusammenkneifst und mit der Gesellschaft klar kommst, wie sie eben ist. Wenn Du was anderes denkst, bist du gefährlich!!!
Mit andere Worten, während Stella Young das Problem zwischen struktureller Ungerechtigkeit und der richtigen Einstellungen so zusamamenfasst “No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp“, möchte uns der Herr Doktorand verdeutlichen, dass uns der Abbau bestehender, struktureller Ungerechtigkeit sowohl persönlich, als auch als Gesellschaft schadet.
Interessant ist in diesem Zusammenhang, welche Gruppen — abgesehen vielleicht von der FDP — sonst noch genau dieses Liedchen singen. Genau: Die gesamte Schwurbel- und die Coachingbranche. Denn die verdienen ja leider am Abbau struktureller Ungerechtigkeit gar nichts, am verzweifelten Versuch von Menschen, sich für eine unpassende Gesellschaft passend zu machen, aber sehr viel.
Das Cover
Schauen wir uns als nächstes die Bildsprache des Covers an. Cover: Gefangen in der Opferrolle — Warum Wokeness scheitert — von Varnan Chandreswaran Ganz offensichtlich möchte das Cover eine Person zeigen, die sich in einem offenen Käfig befindet, aber aus eigenem Antrieb da nicht raus will.
Allerdings sitzt dieser Käfig dort, wo man den Kopf eines Menschen vermuten würde und darin befindet sich ein Vogel. Was das Bild also, egal ob absichtlich oder unterbewusst auch noch vermittelt:
“die haben einen Vogel” — Abwertung eines weltanschaulichen Gegenübers als irrational und nicht ganz richtig im Kopf — genau die gleiche Rhetorik also, wenn ein Nikil Mukerji “Wokeness” mit Esoterik vergleicht. Damit wird definiert, dass man sich mit den Inhalten einer anderen Weltanschauung beschäftigen muss, sogar nicht einmal darf — (Was nebenbei alle Weltanschauungen kennzeichnet, denn Menschen sind nun mal keine rationalen Wesen und auch ihre Sicht auf die Welt nicht. Das Problem entsteht, wenn dies isoliert einer Weltanschauung unterstellt wird, während man für sich in Anspruch nehmen möchte, komplett rational zu agieren und damit ‘höherwertig’. Ja, wir bewegen uns damit rhetorisch in den Bereich der ‘natürlichen Überlegenheit‘.)
das Bild nimmt der dargestellten Person das Gesicht und damit das Person-Sein
das Bild entmenschlicht, dehumanisiert.
Dass “Wokeness” in Regenbogenfarben daherkommt, zeigt dann auch worum es wahrscheinlich im Kern gehen wird: um Geschlechtervielfalt, bzw. gegen diese.
Womit wir, erneut, rhetorisch bei Debatten der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts angekommen wären und der Behauptung, dass Homosexuelle unsere Kinder verführen und verderben würden.
Dann lasst uns doch als nächstes Mal einen Blick auf den Herrn Doktoranden werfen. Der taucht z.B. in Videos auf wie “Feminismus im Faktencheck” in dem sich zwei Männer(!) darüber unterhalten, warum wir keinen Feminismus brauchen.
Im Blurb des Videos wird der Gast folgendermaßen angekündigt: “Varnan war früher linksextrem bei der Antifa!“
Lasst uns das doch mal auspacken.
Er sei linksextrem gewesen — gehen wir nach der Extremismusdefinition, die vom Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz verwendet wird, hat er sich also gegen die FDGO gestellt?
er “war bei der Antifa” — das klingt danach, als sei die “Antifa” ein Verein dem man beitreten kann und dann ein definiertes Mitglied ist und nicht ein loser Verbund Menschen, die sich in einem ähnlichen sozialen Umfeld mit gemeinsamen politischen Zielen bewegen.
aufgebaut wird hier eine “vom Saulus zum Paulus“-Persona. Die angebliche “Mitgliedschaft” bei “der Antifa” soll seinen heutigen Aussagen mehr Gewicht verleihen, weil er ja anscheinend tiefergehende Einsichten in deren Denkweise besitzt.
dabei wird der typische Spin verwendet, denn man von konservativen Kreisen bis in die extreme Rechte findet, die Antifaschismus mit Linksradikalismus oder Linksextremismusgleichzusetzen versucht und so ebenfalls versucht, diese Haltung, also die Haltung eines jeden anständigen Menschen, zu diskreditieren
Weiter unten wird in den Kapitelüberschriften dann zu “linksradikal” umgeschwenkt.
Der Verlag
Aber dann lasst uns nochmal einen anderen lustigen Abstecher machen. Lasst uns den Verlag ansehen, der das Buch herausgebracht hat:
Erschienen ist das Buch im Eulogia Verlag. Eine Eulogie ist ein Segensspruch und das ist im Zusammenhang mit der sich ansonsten deutlich atheistisch ausrichtenden GWUP schon ein wenig ironisch.
Die Eigenwerbung des Verlags lautet: Die Eulogia Verlags GmbH vereint das Beste aus der Tradition des Verlagswesens und der Innovation des modernen Online Marketings.
Wenn ich ‘modernes Online-Marketing’ lese, dann macht mein Kopf daraus “Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam …“, aber auf die Schnelle habe ich keine Anhaltspunkte finden können, was genau der Verlag damit meint.
Interessant ist aber das “Verlagsprogramm”. Ich setze das in Anführungszeichen, weil sich Verlage normalerweise im Sachbuchbereich auf deutlich erkennbare Themenbereiche hin ausrichten — um die erscheinenden Bücher auch sachgemäß betreuen zu können.
Die Themenauswahl des Eulogia Verlags sieht für eine kleinen Verlag doch ziemlich breit aus. Das bedeutet nicht, dass nicht gewisse Schwerpunkte zu erkennen wären. Darunter:
Ernährungsgurus, Kochbücher (u.a. Anti-Aging)
Python
Fußball
Schwagerschaft
Survival/Selbstversorgung
Anlageberatung (u.a. Bitcoin)
Titel die vage in Richtung Kulturkampf deuten
Alleine schon die Ernährungsratgeber machen einen eher fragwürdigen Eindruck auf mich und anders, als in einem großen Verlag, wo sich zwischen vielen seriösen Titeln ein paar faule Äpfel finden, steht hier das Buch des Herrn Doktoraden auf einer Seite neben Crypto- und Ernährungsquark. Das wäre, für mich persönlich, nicht das Umfeld, in dem ich eines meiner Bücher sehen wollte, aber YMMV.
Der Eindruck, der sich beim Anblick des Verlagsangebots verfestigt, ist, dass sich die ‘innovative Online-Marketing-Strategie’ des Verlages darin erschöpft, YouTubern Senf ums Maul zu schmieren, die sich bereits eine eigene Followerschaft erarbeitet haben, an die man dann die Bücher relativ leicht verkaufen kann. Kurz: das ‘Marketing’ besteht darin, dass der verlegte Autor die Marketingplattform bereits erarbeitet hat.
Eine Prüfung, ob die Inhalte Hand und Fuß haben, scheint auf den ersten Blick weniger relevant zu sein, als die Zahl der Kanalabos und -klicks.
Das Fazit
Dass man beim Beitritt zur GWUP nun ein Buch erhält, dass eben nicht kritisches Denken lehrt, sondern das eher den Charakter eines politischen “Arguliners” hat, sagt mir folgendes:
Das mit diesem kritischen Denken ist vielleicht ein bisschen unbequem geworden, denn am Ende denken die Leute noch, was sie wollen
die GWUP sendet damit ein deutliches Signal, dass alle potenziellen Neumitglieder abschreckt, die tatsächlich einer skeptischen Organisation beitreten möchten, statt einer politischen — man möchte eine homogene Mitgliederbasis, die sich weltanschaulich auf einer Linie befindet
man positioniert sich offen als politische Organisation mit Anschlußfähigkeit an rechte und rechtspopulistische Weltanschauungen, möchte aber das Feigenblatt des Skeptizismus gerne behalten — denn das braucht man, um gar nicht erst auf Inhalte einzugehen sondern rein mit Totschlagargumenten der Kategorie “krank“, “pervers” und “irrational” zu arbeiten.
man erteilt jeder Form einer gerechteren, weniger ungleichen Gesellschaft und Weltanschauungen, die diese anstreben, eine Absage
man akzeptiert nur noch eine Weltanschauung auf die die GWUP nun gezielt “optimiert” wird
man schämt sich nicht offene Vetternwirtschaft zu betreiben und Buchverkäufe eines im Juni in einem Kleinverlag erschienenen Buchs, als ein ‘kostenloses Goodie’ künstlich zu pushen.
Dass das Buch bereits in einschlägigen Shops, z.b. dem der “Jungen Freiheit” geführt wird, sollte niemanden wundern. Ob man sich bei der GWUP noch ob der Umarmung von rechts gruselt — oder lieber wieder empört von ‘Kontaktschuld’ redet, als könne man gar nichts dafür, dass auch ganz Rechtsaußen das Buch toll findet —, sei dahingestellt.
Ich habe absichtlich keine Links zu Inhalten hinzugefügt, die sich meines Erachtens nicht im Einklang mit dem Minimalkonsens unserer Gesellschaft befinden, dem Grundgesetz mit seiner Absage an Hass und Diskriminierung. Es fehlen die Links:
zur GWUP
zum Buch
zum Shop der Jungen Freiheit und dem von mir zitierten Blurb
zum Video mit Nikil Mukerji
zum Video “Feminismus im Faktencheck”
zum Verlag
Ich bin überzeugt, ihr findet diese selbst, um Euch einen Eindruck zu verschaffen. Ich habe während der Arbeit am Artikel Kopien im Internet Archive angelegt.
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Yes I am old. I started using the internet before there where search engines around. The best way to find stuff was to hope that somebody made a talking URL. Like when you wanted to know about movies you tried www.cinema.com and www.movies.com. The next thing where web rings. Like minded people with different homepages had a link on their front […]
Mein zweit-größtes Problem ist, dass ich als Isländer zwar Norweger mehr oder weniger verstehe (meine Obsession mit Kompani Lauritzen ist da wohl nicht ganz unschuldig), diese mich aber kaum bis gar nicht, und oft denken ich veräppele sie, wenn ich Intonationen nicht hinbekomme.
Also kommt das größte Problem: Spanisch will ich noch bis C1 schaffen, […]
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🎮 NVidia GeForce Now hat jetzt Addons für World of Warcraft. Unter dem alten Regime war Blizzard extrem gegen WoW als Streaming-Dienst, aber seit Microsoft der Boss ist, geht’s plötzlich. Interessanterweise auch am besten mit Edge in Linux.
Leider nur die Top 25, also Weak Auras, etc. Meine AddOns sind nicht einmal in den Top 100, also muss ich da […]
🎮 NVidia GeForce Now hat jetzt Addons für World of Warcraft. Unter dem alten Regime war Blizzard extrem gegen WoW als Streaming-Dienst, aber seit Microsoft der Boss ist, geht's plötzlich. Interessanterweise auch am besten mit Edge in Linux.
Question I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on possibly making votes public. This has been discussed in a lot of other issues, but here's a dedicated one for discussion. Positives Could help figh...
Grok-2 is the latest edition of Elon Musk’s Twitter chatbot, featuring a preview of xAI’s forthcoming image generator. This lets paying blue-check users “have some fun.” [Twitter, archive] Mo…
Guess it’s appropriate that Musk should go from some sort of entrepreneurial tech guru who was going to save the planet to some right wing billionaire shitheel, steals “grok” from Heinlein, who went for sic-fi author darling to libertarian shitheel.
Musk appropriating "grok" is on-brand for him, seeing as he fundamentally misunderstands Banks' Culture series and reduces it to "the one with the cool ship names".
@cstross the domino meme with the small domino being “ESR takes over the Jargon File” and the largest one being “Musk destroys the parts of geek culture not already owned by Marvel”
Ich bin gerade in Oslo. Hier nutzt man das Ruter App für den ÖPNV. Nicht nur kostet eine Wochenkarte nicht einmal 30 Euro, sie beinhaltet auch die ganzen Boote, die die Inseln anfahren. Es ist schockierend, wenn man sieht, was andere Länder mit dem Nahverkehr machen können. Parken kostet schon mal 40€ am Tag, aber mit so vielen innerstädtischen Alternativen […]
I had the opportunity to work with the team at OpenBeta on the re-launching of their community forums. They're one of our earliest v4 testers, since they've agreed to have ActivityPub enabled!
(Okay, more realistically I dragged them into it kicking and screaming, but they did provide the opportunity for the forum relaunch, so I'm taking the opportunities as they come!)
During the prep, I discussed some of the well-trodden concept of the fediverse to my co-admin, Ben (@bean@community.openbeta.io and also @bean@uvix.cc)... stuff I'm sure you've come across:
Fragmented nature of conversations
The idea of an instance
Content discovery with respect to the follow-relationship model
... and wouldn't you know it, it's really hard to discuss these ideas, and Ben is actually fairly well-versed! He ran his own Iceshrimp instance, so all of this wasn't exactly new to him.
Part of it was that I had been steeped in the ActivityPub dev scene for almost a year, so
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I had the opportunity to work with the team at OpenBeta on the re-launching of their community forums. They're one of our earliest v4 testers, since they've agreed to have ActivityPub enabled!
(Okay, more realistically I dragged them into it kicking and screaming, but they did provide the opportunity for the forum relaunch, so I'm taking the opportunities as they come!)
During the prep, I discussed some of the well-trodden concept of the fediverse to my co-admin, Ben (@bean@community.openbeta.io and also @bean@uvix.cc)... stuff I'm sure you've come across:
Fragmented nature of conversations
The idea of an instance
Content discovery with respect to the follow-relationship model
... and wouldn't you know it, it's really hard to discuss these ideas, and Ben is actually fairly well-versed! He ran his own Iceshrimp instance, so all of this wasn't exactly new to him.
Part of it was that I had been steeped in the ActivityPub dev scene for almost a year, so it's hard to step back and explain to ~~mere mortals~~ ~~laymen~~ non-developers what exactly all this ActivityPub nonsense is.
All I know it gets me thinking that I need to work with @andypiper@macaw.social on documentation!
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Vor einiger Zeit habe ich mir ganz aktiv die Frage stellen müssen, ob ich im Apple Ecosystem bleibe oder, nach 8 Jahren, wieder wie ein räudiger Hund zurück zu Google gekrochen komme. Am Ende hat die Vernunft gesiegt, und ich bleibe bei Apple.
Gründe gibt es recht viele, aber der Hauptgrund liegt einfach in der Natur der beiden Firmen. Google ist eine Werbefirma, die uns für unsere Daten mit schönen Spielsachen bezahlt. Apple ist eine Hardware-Firma, der unsere Daten mehr oder weniger egal sind, so lange wir brav mehr für einen Laptop bezahlen als gut für uns ist.
Ich zahle gerne etwas extra, um meine Daten bei mir zu behalten.
Da ist nur ein Haken: selbst wer Apple diese Wucherpreise bezahlt, ist immer noch ein Sklave Google’s. Und das musste sich ändern. Also habe ich. Mit … sagen wir mal „durchwachsenem“ Erfolg.
Als Suchmaschine nutze ich nicht erst seitdem Kagi. Kagi kostet Geld, hat aber ein paar
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Vor einiger Zeit habe ich mir ganz aktiv die Frage stellen müssen, ob ich im Apple Ecosystem bleibe oder, nach 8 Jahren, wieder wie ein räudiger Hund zurück zu Google gekrochen komme. Am Ende hat die Vernunft gesiegt, und ich bleibe bei Apple.
Gründe gibt es recht viele, aber der Hauptgrund liegt einfach in der Natur der beiden Firmen. Google ist eine Werbefirma, die uns für unsere Daten mit schönen Spielsachen bezahlt. Apple ist eine Hardware-Firma, der unsere Daten mehr oder weniger egal sind, so lange wir brav mehr für einen Laptop bezahlen als gut für uns ist.
Ich zahle gerne etwas extra, um meine Daten bei mir zu behalten.
Da ist nur ein Haken: selbst wer Apple diese Wucherpreise bezahlt, ist immer noch ein Sklave Google’s. Und das musste sich ändern. Also habe ich. Mit … sagen wir mal „durchwachsenem“ Erfolg.
Als Suchmaschine nutze ich nicht erst seitdem Kagi. Kagi kostet Geld, hat aber ein paar geile Features, die ich bei Google vermisse. Und die Werbung und “promoted results” vermisse ich gar nicht. Ich kann zum Beispiel Quellen als wichtiger oder unwichtiger markieren Einstellungen für Resultate bei Kagi. Vermissen tu ich nichts, die Suchergebnisse sind auch seit ein paar Wochen on-par oder besser als die bei Google. Das größte Problem bei Kagi ist es, Browsern und Betriebssystemen beizubringen, dass das jetzt die Suchmaschine ist. Für Chrome (das wäre ja wieder Google) gibt es da ein Plugin, iOS Safari muss umständlich umgestellt werden indem man extra Apps installiert.
Was uns zum Browser bringt. Arc nutzt zwar Chromium, ist aber seit seiner frühen Beta mein Lieblingsbrowser, weil außer der Seite nichts angezeigt wird. Alles “technische”, von der URL-Zeile an, wird versteckt und mit Tastenkombinationen aufgerufen. Das ist gewöhnungsbedürftig, aber geht schnell. Sonst Safari. Auch wegen der Einbindung der Apple Keychain, für die bei Arc ein Plugin gebraucht wird.
eMail, natürlich Fastmail. Eine geniale Firma, deren Kundendienst so ziemlich der Beste ist, den ich erlebt habe. “Kostenlos” dazu gibt es DNS und Kalender, auch wenn ich für das Letztere Apple’s eigenen Kalender verwende.
Bei Maps wird’s schwierig. Zwar wird Apple Maps immer besser, aber an Google kommt es halt nicht ran. Es fehlen hunderte von Einträgen alleine in meiner Gegend, und wenn es darum geht, Restaurants oder Hotels zu finden, ist es ganz schlimm außerhalb der US-amerikanischen Ballungszentren. Vielleicht nicht ganz so schlimm in Berlin wie in Köln, Hamburg, oder München, aber wer sich in Berlin aufhält, der hat sowieso den Griff ans Leben verloren. Und “wie komme ich hier weg” kann auch Apple gut beantworten.
Bleibt YouTube, was ich in der Tat sehr vermisse. Viele meiner Freunde sind Creators, und deren Videos kommen halt nun mal nicht außerhalb der Site vor. Auch wenn Google’s CPM scheiße ist, die generelle Apathie des Fediverse führt dazu, dass man eben dort keinen Qualitätscontent machen kann, weil die Zuschauerzahlen nicht die Werbeeinblendungen bringen, die für Redaktion und Schnitt sowie Recherche bezahlen.
Bleibt immer noch die Tatsache, dass Google in meine eMails reinschaut, wenn ich jemanden eine an seine @gmail.com Adresse schreibe. Kein Fan, aber was kann man machen? Zumindest habe ich mit Fastmail und Kagi schon mal die großen Datenkraken ausgeschaltet und mit Safari einen zukunftssicheren Browser, der auch mit Mainfest v3 immer noch brav Werbung blockt.
I don't think the definition of community is necessarily problematic. It centers on hierarchy and authority, yes. But even most anarchists recognize natural hierarchies. Parents have authority over children because children are not able to govern themselves. Community elders have authority within a community because of their age, experience, and the respect they've earned through longstanding ties to the community. When you need specialized information, about law, or medicine, or how to repair a car, or the difference between right and wrong, you go to a specialist who studied that field and you defer to their authority derived from their study and knowledge. And so on.
Everyone in a community is, or should be, equal as human beings. But not everyone has served the community equally or earned equal respect. Voluntary hierarchies based on duty and respect are not the same as involuntary hierarchies based on coercion. And it's those voluntary hierarchies that bind communities together.
You should learn the difference between deference and delegation, and then learn to delegate choices and research to experts rather than deferring to them. Where doctors are concerned, it could literally save your life and those of your loved ones.
Children, too, should learn to delegate rather than defer. Deference maintains a gap in someone's understanding, and as soon as the parents stop providing that service the child becomes lost. A baby who cries when they feel uncomfortable is already choosing when to cry and when not to cry. They don't defer the maintenance of their body to their parents, they delegate it, and as soon as they are able to control those bodily functions they rescind that delegation.
Deference is always archist. "Natural hierarchies" were an archist lie when it referred to racist and sexist hierarchies and it's an archist lie when it refers to familial, professional, and social hierarchies. Respect is due to everyone, not just to the powerful or to your "natural superiors". Every infant deserves respect, every wife, every teenager, every mentally
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You should learn the difference between deference and delegation, and then learn to delegate choices and research to experts rather than deferring to them. Where doctors are concerned, it could literally save your life and those of your loved ones.
Children, too, should learn to delegate rather than defer. Deference maintains a gap in someone's understanding, and as soon as the parents stop providing that service the child becomes lost. A baby who cries when they feel uncomfortable is already choosing when to cry and when not to cry. They don't defer the maintenance of their body to their parents, they delegate it, and as soon as they are able to control those bodily functions they rescind that delegation.
Deference is always archist. "Natural hierarchies" were an archist lie when it referred to racist and sexist hierarchies and it's an archist lie when it refers to familial, professional, and social hierarchies. Respect is due to everyone, not just to the powerful or to your "natural superiors". Every infant deserves respect, every wife, every teenager, every mentally disabled person. What the fuck is wrong with you that you think otherwise?
Please don't make this a personal attack. They stated their opinion and it wasn't something outlandish or hateful. Feel free to disagree with them, but not in a "what the fuck is wrong with you" way.
As for "respect" specifically. Definitions of that word differ widely. Yours is one that is commonly used, but I personally would rather use "human rights" for that. Of course the default should be to be respectful to each other (which you were not), but it is also a common understanding that respect can and should be earned.
I understand if you disagree on whether, by expecting children to go without respect and people to submit to the natural hierarchy, their comment promotes a form of child abuse. But do you disapprove of the methods or of the choice of target?
If it is the methods, do you want me to report everyone who makes similarly rude statements about fossil fuel companies so you can ask them to tone it down a little? Because fossil fuel companies too are neither outlandish nor hateful. Perhaps even about right-wing politicians? Many of them are hateful, but is it really right for us to act disrespectfully in turn?
If it is the choice of target, then would you please add a clarification to the rules where you outline what determines who is a valid target?
I'm frankly confused about your second paragraph. Do you have a different definition of "definition"? Because I didn't give a definition, I did not mean human rights, and the notion that respect can and should be earned also isn't a definition. I and your "common understanding" only give two different priors for who dese
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I understand if you disagree on whether, by expecting children to go without respect and people to submit to the natural hierarchy, their comment promotes a form of child abuse. But do you disapprove of the methods or of the choice of target?
If it is the methods, do you want me to report everyone who makes similarly rude statements about fossil fuel companies so you can ask them to tone it down a little? Because fossil fuel companies too are neither outlandish nor hateful. Perhaps even about right-wing politicians? Many of them are hateful, but is it really right for us to act disrespectfully in turn?
If it is the choice of target, then would you please add a clarification to the rules where you outline what determines who is a valid target?
I'm frankly confused about your second paragraph. Do you have a different definition of "definition"? Because I didn't give a definition, I did not mean human rights, and the notion that respect can and should be earned also isn't a definition. I and your "common understanding" only give two different priors for who deserves respect.
Is it so hard to fathom the notion of actually respecting children? Because I mean actual respect. Feeling the same gravitas at your infant child who wants a cookie before bedtime as at a CEO who wants that report on their desk by tomorrow morning when you clock out in five minutes, and vice versa. Just two people who have their own unstated reasons for wanting something that from your perspective appears unreasonable. The only difference is that the state uses its monopoly on violence to enable you to abuse one and enable the other to abuse you.
People will often find themselves in the position where they're forced to accept abuse from others, but that doesn't make it right for them to pass it on, and it doesn't make it right for them to claim that the abuse is fair or compatible with anarchism.
As far as I've seen, it's rare to find someone for who "having earned their respect" isn't code for someone having power over them, and for who "not having earned their respect" isn't code for them having power over someone.
When a moderator makes a request for moderation in someone's conduct, it seems weird to ignore the aspect of them being a moderator. It's not about the rules, per se, but if their request is done from the office of a moderator then that use of authority should be as fair as possible.
As for it being a good suggestion, personal attacks like this, where you're only 'personally' attacking deep-rooted opinions (including ones someone personally identifies with), are valid. For example, you don't need to have a civil debate about whether trans people deserve to pee with a transphobe. If you can win the peer pressure battle, a personal attack is better for everyone involved. Our liberal education has whitewashed history to make it seem like civil debate between neutral people had a much bigger part in progress than it did. Personal attacks are a form of peer pressure, getting people to re-examine deep-rooted beliefs that in a discussion they would cling to as axioms.
There are other valid ways to put on peer pressure, whether it's inviting envy by having a happier life, whet
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When a moderator makes a request for moderation in someone's conduct, it seems weird to ignore the aspect of them being a moderator. It's not about the rules, per se, but if their request is done from the office of a moderator then that use of authority should be as fair as possible.
As for it being a good suggestion, personal attacks like this, where you're only 'personally' attacking deep-rooted opinions (including ones someone personally identifies with), are valid. For example, you don't need to have a civil debate about whether trans people deserve to pee with a transphobe. If you can win the peer pressure battle, a personal attack is better for everyone involved. Our liberal education has whitewashed history to make it seem like civil debate between neutral people had a much bigger part in progress than it did. Personal attacks are a form of peer pressure, getting people to re-examine deep-rooted beliefs that in a discussion they would cling to as axioms.
There are other valid ways to put on peer pressure, whether it's inviting envy by having a happier life, whether it's building friendship and rapport until they're open to trying to something out, or whether it's a reward in the form of bragging rights, prestige, or upvote karma. But this time this one felt right.
I was recently reading Emma Goldman's account of her travels in post-revolutionary Russia. Something that stood out to me was her experience at a meeting where Bolsheviks dominated, and a non-Bolshevik asked for the floor.
Immediately pandemonium broke loose. Yells of "Traitor!" "Kolchak!" "Counter-Revolutionist!" came from all parts of the audience and even from the platform. It looked to me like an unworthy proceeding for a revolutionary assembly.
I think your intuitions about peer pressure are invariably true - it is a powerful tool for social and political change. But it is a very poor tool for ensuring that the achieved goals are worthy. I often wish civil debate between neutral people had a much bigger part in progress than was the case.
I don't expect you to engage in good faith debates with transphobes or politely protest oil companies, but @solo is neither of those things. If you consider their post and comment history, I think you'll find you have a lot more in common with them than you might expect. One of our goals here is to
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I was recently reading Emma Goldman's account of her travels in post-revolutionary Russia. Something that stood out to me was her experience at a meeting where Bolsheviks dominated, and a non-Bolshevik asked for the floor.
Immediately pandemonium broke loose. Yells of "Traitor!" "Kolchak!" "Counter-Revolutionist!" came from all parts of the audience and even from the platform. It looked to me like an unworthy proceeding for a revolutionary assembly.
I think your intuitions about peer pressure are invariably true - it is a powerful tool for social and political change. But it is a very poor tool for ensuring that the achieved goals are worthy. I often wish civil debate between neutral people had a much bigger part in progress than was the case.
I don't expect you to engage in good faith debates with transphobes or politely protest oil companies, but @solo is neither of those things. If you consider their post and comment history, I think you'll find you have a lot more in common with them than you might expect. One of our goals here is to grow great things through cooperation, but each act of verbal abuse adds to the toxicity of the soil. When it comes to cooperation, often it is less important that people agree with you than it is that they like you and trust you - and being able to disagree with someone without unfriending them is a powerful skill to develop.
tl;dr: Peer pressure is a normal and healthy part of communication. You use it in this comment and it is baked into this website through the karma system. Using it for disagreement and not just conformity is important to keep groups attached to meaningful values. I don't think "What the fuck is wrong with you" is unfriending, and I think that sort of harsh peer pressure can be and was justified by its context. I think you're mistakenly arguing against peer pressure in general and absolute terms when your issue is specific and one of degrees.
Indeed it is a poor tool for determining whether the intended goals are worthy. That's what the entire rest of the comment that people have been systematically ignoring is for. Condemnation is the sledgehammer in a suite of construction tools, itself unable to tell whether it is in the right place doing the right thing, but justified (or not) by it context.
And, like I said, upvote karma is peer pressure. People can see at a glance how many people will see something and how many people agree with it in a way that becomes a self
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tl;dr: Peer pressure is a normal and healthy part of communication. You use it in this comment and it is baked into this website through the karma system. Using it for disagreement and not just conformity is important to keep groups attached to meaningful values. I don't think "What the fuck is wrong with you" is unfriending, and I think that sort of harsh peer pressure can be and was justified by its context. I think you're mistakenly arguing against peer pressure in general and absolute terms when your issue is specific and one of degrees.
Indeed it is a poor tool for determining whether the intended goals are worthy. That's what the entire rest of the comment that people have been systematically ignoring is for. Condemnation is the sledgehammer in a suite of construction tools, itself unable to tell whether it is in the right place doing the right thing, but justified (or not) by it context.
And, like I said, upvote karma is peer pressure. People can see at a glance how many people will see something and how many people agree with it in a way that becomes a self-fulfilling Keynesian Beauty Contest. If you truly believe peer pressure is wrong, then the lemmy architecture is fundamentally hostile to you. If an invective adds toxicity to the soil, then the soil here is full of lead already.
But the reason civil debate between neutral people has so little part in progress is because nobody is truly neutral, not because so few people choose to be civil. Marxism works well as a model for society because people are by nature hypocritical. Philosophy, culture, and social groups are a layer of topsoil, vegetation, and human structures covering the mountains of what we think benefits us personally over the course of our lives. Argumentation can redirect superficial flows, which occasionally allows for a key watershed moment where your way of life is redirected onto another plausible course, and that course over time changes the geography. Sometimes that redirection means taking a sledgehammer to a wall.
I agree that it is easy to cooperate with people when you only care about liking and trusting them. That's how you get social groups and movements that are entirely detached from reality, a bog of stagnant water. If you want a social group to have sensible, actionable beliefs rather than descend into circlejerk, you need the members of your group to be systematically willing to cause offense when it improves the group's ability to interact with the outside world. And for them to be systematically willing, you need to react positively to them doing so. Otherwise, over time, the detritus and resistance builds up in that channel and it clogs up, and the flow becomes stagnant or goes elsewhere.
When you ask me to choose people liking and trusting each other over processing disagreement, you are not opting out of peer pressure. You're simply using (soft) peer pressure to enforce group norms that are about cameraderie rather than beliefs.
I do not consider the application of peer pressure to be outside the scope of good faith argument, otherwise I would not be on this website with its karma system, I would not reply to you when you talk about whether or not people will like me, and in fact I would not be able to communicate with anyone. I don't feel like @solo is an enemy or an unfriend, just someone who needed a wake-up call.
I don't see saying "what the fuck is wrong with you" after someone says something horrendous as abusive. I would personally genuinely appreciate that kind of clarity if I said something that revealed a fucked up underlying attitude, when accompanied with a sensible explanation. It's an emotive way of saying that you're noticing something deeply wrong with someone's worldview, and opens up the talk in that context. And honestly, I doubt you or others on here are unfamiliar with that sort of usage and don't partake in good-faith invectives yourselves on occasion.
Honestly, I think that maybe y'all have talked yourselves into a corner arguing against peer pressure and invectives in general when you really only disagree with how (and whether) it was applied in this instance. I could be wrong, but that's my impression.
you really only disagree with how (and whether) it was applied in this instance.
That's correct - I'm not arguing for a blanket ban on invective, just its widespread and inappropriate use. Persuasive argument has better long-term results than peer pressure.
Peer pressure through abuse is exclusionary - you may get compliance, but more often you simply turn people away from your group or cause. This creates the group phenonmenon of 'evaporative cooling' where more moderate members of a group leave and the group becomes smaller and more insular, which harms the group’s ability to interact with the outside world.
The argument you're responding to sounds very similar to Bakunin's "In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker" distinction between types of authority. Your disagreement with them also seems semantic rather than substantive. I don't want to get into the weeds of your
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you really only disagree with how (and whether) it was applied in this instance.
That's correct - I'm not arguing for a blanket ban on invective, just its widespread and inappropriate use. Persuasive argument has better long-term results than peer pressure.
Peer pressure through abuse is exclusionary - you may get compliance, but more often you simply turn people away from your group or cause. This creates the group phenonmenon of 'evaporative cooling' where more moderate members of a group leave and the group becomes smaller and more insular, which harms the group’s ability to interact with the outside world.
The argument you're responding to sounds very similar to Bakunin's "In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker" distinction between types of authority. Your disagreement with them also seems semantic rather than substantive. I don't want to get into the weeds of your argument, only to point out that it appears to be a minor disagreement between people with similar values.
We exclude fascists, but I don't want to encourage a particular anarchist orthodoxy, or even an anarchist orthodoxy on this instance. We're openly welcoming to liberals here. Good ideas can come from anywhere, and the problems we face are large enough that we need large coalitions to fight them. Practicing disagreement without dissolution means both our ideas become more potent and our movements grow larger.
That’s correct - I’m not arguing for a blanket ban on invective, just its widespread and inappropriate use. Persuasive argument has better long-term results than peer pressure.
I would say that is empirically incorrect, at least in our current world. Many activist movements have seen far better results when they forgo reason and started inconveniencing others.
Evaporative cooling is a contributor to people leaving a movement, but empirically people also get drawn to movements and people when they act provocatively. This is a public forum, this conversation is also a play to anonymous lurkers, and I hope there are people who are surprised and intrigued by the notion that it is so natural for children not to defer to parents' authority that accepting parental abuse is dumb.
Those people that get drawn to a movement are often unaware or disagree with its tenets, sparking more discussion and re-evaluation, re-heating the mixture. If you try to go for mass appeal, people will walk away disillusioned that nobody here seems to actually
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That’s correct - I’m not arguing for a blanket ban on invective, just its widespread and inappropriate use. Persuasive argument has better long-term results than peer pressure.
I would say that is empirically incorrect, at least in our current world. Many activist movements have seen far better results when they forgo reason and started inconveniencing others.
Evaporative cooling is a contributor to people leaving a movement, but empirically people also get drawn to movements and people when they act provocatively. This is a public forum, this conversation is also a play to anonymous lurkers, and I hope there are people who are surprised and intrigued by the notion that it is so natural for children not to defer to parents' authority that accepting parental abuse is dumb.
Those people that get drawn to a movement are often unaware or disagree with its tenets, sparking more discussion and re-evaluation, re-heating the mixture. If you try to go for mass appeal, people will walk away disillusioned that nobody here seems to actually believe the punk in solarpunk. Similar to how Clinton lost voters by seeming to take politically disgruntled people that voted for Obama for granted.
I disagree that it is abuse, though, and I would not want to abuse people for the sake of popularity or ideological pursuasion. If you're not arguing for a blanket ban on invectives, then I'm curious what makes you draw the line that this is abusive when other invectives wouldn't be.
The argument you’re responding to sounds very similar to Bakunin’s [...] distinction between types of authority.
But if people are free to leave a community and suffer no consequences for it, and staying in the community does have a consequence - accepting abusive behavior by other community members, for instance - people will leave. It’s normal, it’s understandable, and it inevitably breaks down communities. And that’s why I don’t think the authors’ understanding of community is at all wrong. In the long run everybody finds themselves in situations where they have to submit to their community’s authority in order to remain in the community. And when people leave instead of submitting, that breaks community, and everyone, especially the children, suffer for it.
It is literally arguing for accepting abusive behavior from group authorities for the sake of group cohesion. That is the sort of authority they want parents to have over children and elders over parents. Accept abuse so you don't rock the boat. Stay with abusive parents because they deserve to raise you even if they are abusive. Stay with abusive community leaders because the community deserves to persist so it can abuse more people into the future.
That is not Bakunin.
We exclude fascists, but I don’t want to encourage a particular anarchist orthodoxy, or even an anarchist orthodoxy on this instance.
I am not an admin or a mod. Treating my comment like an acceptable part of the discourse does not mean encouraging (a particular) anarchist orthodoxy, as long as similar discourse is accepted from people with different political leanings. I wouldn't describe myself as orthodox either, I just don't like abusive relationships. It is not my intention or expectation to scare them off, just to get them to re-evaluate deeply held beliefs.
We’re openly welcoming to liberals here. Good ideas can come from anywhere, and the problems we face are large enough that we need large coalitions to fight them. Practicing disagreement without dissolution means both our ideas become more potent and our movements grow larger.
I honestly blame the current unpopularity of the left (the proper left) as a political movement among the general public on this attitude. Being willing to water down your supposedly deeply held philosophical convictions for the sake of appealing to centrists makes it look like the convictions are just a charade, and that any promise you make, no matter how ideologically driven, can be traded off for just a little more influence. As labor parties in the UK, Netherlands, and elsewhere were happy to demonstrate in 1980-2018.
Disagreement without dissolution can be a useful skill when you're making practical decisions under time pressure, such as in a coalition government or a friend group deciding what movie to go to. As a user posting here out of my own urge for politically meaningful conversation, I am not under time pressure. If this thread ended, I would find another. I can disagree without dissolution, it's just not what I'm here for. If you happen to know anywhere that does encourage discussion that seeks to dissolve disagreement, I would love to know about it.
And if you do want this to be a safe haven for liberals, then I wish you luck 7½ years from now when you're asked to please not say that library economies are a fundamental part of solarpunk because it would scare off moderates and reduce AOC's chances in the Democratic primaries. Solarpunk is already being co-opted as the new cyberpunk - an aesthetic with a vague 'rebellious' tween attitude engaging in 'green' consumerism and YIMBY-ing state-subsidized corporate greenwashing with all their might.
You would be right, an openly solarpunk Democratic senator and primary candidate would be very potent and indicate a very large movement compared to what solarpunk is today. And maybe you would have practiced disagreement without dissolution so much that you would even be proud and happy to see the movement grow so far.
Ehh, in anarchism there's a concept of nominated authority Vs compelled authority (not sure of the exact phrasing of either but you get the point). If a group of people voluntarily elect authority there isn't really a problem with it.
"Down with all authority, except on a both figurative and literal anarchist plane/boat where the passengers all make the conscious informed and democratic* decision under no duress and a freedom of association that it's in their best interests as a community to delegate decision making power for their community to the captain of said boat/plane as he has the knowledge and experience to navigate it." doesn't exactly roll off the tongue does it? Nor does it fit on a poster.
But the same is true in communities. Humans are in their initial state very atomized and individual we are not like ant colonies or bee colonies where by default the welfare of others is even a known subject to us, but as we seek to accomplish tasks, we voluntarily commit to some degree of communal benefit and to ensure this community lasts long enough to yield said bene
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Ehh, in anarchism there's a concept of nominated authority Vs compelled authority (not sure of the exact phrasing of either but you get the point). If a group of people voluntarily elect authority there isn't really a problem with it.
"Down with all authority, except on a both figurative and literal anarchist plane/boat where the passengers all make the conscious informed and democratic* decision under no duress and a freedom of association that it's in their best interests as a community to delegate decision making power for their community to the captain of said boat/plane as he has the knowledge and experience to navigate it." doesn't exactly roll off the tongue does it? Nor does it fit on a poster.
But the same is true in communities. Humans are in their initial state very atomized and individual we are not like ant colonies or bee colonies where by default the welfare of others is even a known subject to us, but as we seek to accomplish tasks, we voluntarily commit to some degree of communal benefit and to ensure this community lasts long enough to yield said benefit we learn to keep the peace and abide by some social norms within this community.
It sounds like conservative hell, but the nuanced position between that and hyper-individualistic self-expression is that as long as said communities aren't coercive and association is voluntary, it's kind of okay.
However one flaw in this take is something like the Amish. Is it ethical for say, Amish or some other community that willingly foregoes the benefits of modern technology to have children, who may find that growing up not surrounded by tech has reduced their development in some ways?
The answer to that one is obvious - to create free facilities and let communities form themselves. Right now youth centres have disappeared, teens are hurried out of any gathering space, play areas are regimented out of any joy or priced to prohibition and you end up with young people being left with the activity options of isolation, or group activities that are antisocial or involve substance abuse
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Universal Basic Services (UBS) is an alternative case to UBI.
Under UBS, the provision of free public services must go beyond health or education to cover other basic necessities (e.g., housing, care, transport, information, nutrition).
UBS can be more egalitarian with a strong redistributive performance and impact on income inequalities.
UBS can also be more sustainable by decarbonizing the economy in a just way - rather than disproportionally loading the costs on the lower income brackets - and by supporting sustainable consumption corridors.
Many arguments have been made for Universal Basic Income (UBI) in the debate of revovery from the pandemic. This think piece by Ian Gough makes the alternative case for Universal Basic Services (UBS)
One thing to keep an eye on as far as services is to make sure they're used by all classes of people. In the states there's public housing but it's seen as inferior (and usually is actually inferior). So only the poor use it, which means it has no powerful defenders. And for most people who already own a home, they would never consider getting rid of it to move into public housing.
One advantage of UBI is that everyone gets it, so everyone will have an incentive to defend it. Think about social security - every so often politicians talk about how we might need to cut, but that would be political suicide because of how many people are invested in getting that payout.
Another issue there is that anyone not poor can't use public housing. It's a means-tested program, and if you make too much money, you're unable to use it. You have to be low income.
Most of our stuff is means tested, and not only that - the means test is based on a made up metric from nearly 80 years ago that has never been adequately adjusted to reflect modern healthcare, education, and transportation costs.
In addition, the means testing doesn't have gradual cutoffs, so once you hit the threshold you lose all of your benefits, which is just insane on its face. You don't suddenly stop needing food or housing assistance because you get a ten cent raise. We should set the system up to encourage people to grow into self sufficiency, not punish them into a permanent underclass. @LesserAbe
In the (anarchist) union I‘m in, we have neighborly get-togethers every month, where we talk about our life & work & just eat some food together. But it‘s really nice, there are people of different ages & different professions, so a lot of different perspectives.
Sometimes you build community by simply being the first to organize something -- anything.
Simple example: it's really hard to find a D&D game to join sometimes. But if you start a new table (and offer to DM), then you're flooded with prospective players immediately.
The whole "if you build it, they will come" angle works provided you're willing to put the effort in.
Just as loving particular people or all people moves us to act for their benefit, Kimmerer verifies that loving the earth impels us to act in service to it.
Eine Übersicht für alle, aber insbsondere für cis Menschen, die sich gar nicht auskennen.
Mit dem Selbstbestimmungsgesetz (SBGG) können alle(1) Menschen ihren amtlichen Geschlechtseintrag und Vornamen durch eine einfache Erklärung beim Standesamt ändern lassen.
Einige Menschen möchten das SBGG vielleicht nutzen, um ihre ungeliebten Vornamen zu ändern. Andere spielen mit dem Gedanken, „einfach so“ ihren Geschlechtseintrag zu ändern. Rein praktisch ist das wohl möglich.
Aber!
Ich empfehle stark, sich vorher gut mit den Nebenbedingungen und Konsequenzen zu befassen. Einige habe ich im folgenden aufgelistet. Die Liste ist bestimmt nicht vollständig.
Bedenke: Trans, inter und_oder nichtbinäre Menschen nehmen diese Dinge in Kauf, weil dies für sie trotz all dieser Konsequenzen immer noch besser ist, als die
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Eine Übersicht für alle, aber insbsondere für cis Menschen, die sich gar nicht auskennen.
Mit dem Selbstbestimmungsgesetz (SBGG) können alle(1) Menschen ihren amtlichen Geschlechtseintrag und Vornamen durch eine einfache Erklärung beim Standesamt ändern lassen.
Einige Menschen möchten das SBGG vielleicht nutzen, um ihre ungeliebten Vornamen zu ändern. Andere spielen mit dem Gedanken, „einfach so“ ihren Geschlechtseintrag zu ändern. Rein praktisch ist das wohl möglich.
Aber!
Ich empfehle stark, sich vorher gut mit den Nebenbedingungen und Konsequenzen zu befassen. Einige habe ich im folgenden aufgelistet. Die Liste ist bestimmt nicht vollständig.
Bedenke: Trans, inter und_oder nichtbinäre Menschen nehmen diese Dinge in Kauf, weil dies für sie trotz all dieser Konsequenzen immer noch besser ist, als die alte amtliche Identität weiter auszuhalten.
#0 Die Erklärung, dass der bisherige Geschlechtseintrag nicht der persönlichen Identität entspricht. Dies muss „versichert“ werden und kommt einem Eid nahe. Klingt ein bisschen banal, aber Ämter verstehen bei sowas keinen Spass. Deshalb wird bei der Erklärung auch eine Prozedur wie beim Kauf eines Hauses abgehalten; mit vorlesen der Erklärung, Nachfrage, ob das alles verstanden wurde und korrekt ist und dann der Unterschrift. Ab Unterschrift ist das dann für mindestens ein Jahr fest, währenddessen die Änderung durch alle Behörden weitergereicht wird.
#1 Mit dem Eintrag müssen auch die Vornamen neu bestimmt werden. Laut SBGG sollen sie zum neuen Geschlechtseintrag „passen“. Wer zB auf „weiblich“ ändert muss „weibliche“ Vornamen wählen. Selbst für „divers“ und „ohne Eintrag“ sollen die Namen „irgendwie geschlechtsneutral“ sein(2). Die wenigsten Menschen werden daher bei einem Wechsel ihre Namen behalten können. Denke dran, dass du mit der Zeit überall unter deinen neuen Namen geführt werden wirst, wo auch nur entfernt Behörden o.ä. beteiligt sind, oder du dich mit Perso o.ä. identifizieren musst (sogar Post, DHL, usw).
#2 Alle Ausweise und Dokumente sind ab sofort ungültig. Perso, Führerschein, Reisepass, Bankkonten, Bahncard, usw. Alles, was die offizielle Identität enthält. Dein alter Name existiert amtlich nicht mehr und jede Überprüfung kann Probleme erzeugen. Je länger nach der Änderung, desto mehr(3). Jede Unstimmigkeit zwischen früherer und neuer Identität erzeugt Diskussionen, benötigt Erklärungen, Nachweise, Zeit und Probleme. Zum Beispiel bei Polizeikontrollen: Die Abfrage deines alten Perso kann fehlschlagen, als ob er gefälscht wäre. Einen (inzwischen) ungültigen Perso zu benutzen ist eine Ordnungswidrigkeit mit Bussgeld. Dein Deutschland-Ticket, Monatskarte, etc sind personalisiert. Mit neuem Perso müssen die auch geändert werden. Banken und die Finanzaufsicht verstehen keinen Spass bei den Kontodaten: Geldwäschegesetz. Kontostammdaten und alle Karten müssen daher so schnell wie möglich erneuert werden. Es kommt immer wieder vor, dass Kassenpersonal den Namen auf der Karte liest und der Ansicht ist, dass diese Karte nicht dir gehören kann – weil ihrer Ansicht nach Name und Aussehen nicht zusammenpassen. Dann brauchst du auf jeden Fall einen gültigen Perso. Deine Zeugnisse passen auch nicht mehr zum neuen Namen. Falls du sie noch mal brauchst, zum Beispiel für Bewerbungen, solltest du sie umschreiben lassen.
#3 Outing in Job und Firma – und die Rentenversicherung. Deine Firma überweist Steuern und Beiträge an Renten-, Kranken-, und Arbeitslosenversicherung. Dabei muss der gültige amtliche Name verwendet werden – und der Geschlechtseintrag dient vielfach als Prüfmerkmal. Die Personalabteilung deiner Firma muss deshalb den Namen offiziell ändern. Weil Firmen häufig nur einen Namen pro Person pflegen können, heisst das in der Regel auch: Neue Mailadresse, usw. Stelle dich auf ein ziemliches Durcheinander in der Übergangszeit ein. Falls dein alter oder neuer Eintrag „männlich“ war/ist, bekommst du von der Rentenversicherung automatisch eine neue Nummer, die deine Firma auch erfahren muss.
#4 Krankenkasse und Gesundheitssystem. Als Arbeitnehmer*in musst du deine Kasse über den neuen Namen (und Geschlechtseintrag) informieren, sonst gibt es irgendwann Probleme mit den Beiträgen. Du bekommt eine neue Karte – die wiederum zu deinem Perso passen sollte. Auf der Karte steht dein neuer Geschlechtseintrag. In Praxen und Kliniken wird der häufig für die Anrede und die Einsortierung auf Stationen verwendet. Praxis- und Labor-EDV nimmt den Eintrag häufig für Referenztabellen, ob Blutwerte okay sind. Mit einem „X“ für „divers“ oder „ohne Eintrag“ bist du quasi überall Sonderfall. Mit dem Geschlechtseintrag ändern sich auch die Einladungen zu geschlechtsabhängigen Vorsorgeuntersuchungen. Leistungen, die für dein amtliches Geschlecht „nicht vorgesehen“ sind, must du einzeln einfordern. Trans Personen schlagen sich regelmässig mit dem Medizinischen Dienst und von ihm angeforderten Gutachten herum.
#5 Fahrzeuge und (Grund)Eigentum. Eigentum an Fahrzeugen („Brief“) oder Wohnung, Haus, Grundstück, etc. hängt an der amtlichen Identität und müssen also alle umgeschrieben werden. Gerade bei Immobilien guckt der Staat wegen Geldwäsche u.ä. besonders gut hin. Falls du dein Auto offiziell verkaufen möchtest, wird zB ein Autohaus Kfz-Brief und Perso prüfen, ob es tatsächlich dir gehört.
#6 Reisen, Reisepass. Der neue Reisepass enthält – als so ziemlich einziges amtliches Dokument – deinen neuen Geschlechtseintrag. Dies kann bei der „Sichtkontrolle“ an fremden Grenzen zu Irritationen führen, wenn dein Aussehen für die Amtsperson nicht „passt“. Mögliche Folge: Detaillierte Personenkontrolle und damit unkalkulierbare Wartezeiten an Grenzen oder Flughäfen. Mit dem alten Pass zu reisen kann gefährlich sein, wenn an der Grenze die Identität elektronisch abgefragt wird. Übrigens auch, wenn innerhalb des Schengenraums der (alte) Perso im Ausland überprüft wird. Insbesondere trans- und queer-unfreundliche Länder (Russland, Ungarn, Türkei, „naher Osten“) können sehr unangenehm werden, wenn eine Person laut Pass „nach trans aussieht“ oder gar ein „X“ im Pass hat (bei „divers“ oder „ohne Eintrag“). Mit einem „X“ kannst du einige Länder nicht mehr bereisen. Vor allem die Emirate (Dubai, Katar) und Saudi Arabien verbieten ausdrücklich die Einreise mit „X“. Auch Transit / Umstieg dort ist nicht möglich. Bei anderen Ländern wie Indonesien, Ägypten, südliches Afrika, etc gibt es bisher keine offizielle Aussagen. Viele Länder sind jedoch auf das „X“ nicht vorbereitet. Wie Grenzübertritte und Kontrollen dort ablaufen ist deshalb offen.
#7 Ehe und Elternschaft. Falls du verheiratet/verpartnert bist, wird das zuständige Standesamt automatisch informiert. Deine bisherigen Urkunden und Stammbücher sind damit obsolet. Falls du Kinder hast, passen deine neuen Papiere nicht mehr zu deren Geburtsurkunden. Dies kann u.U. Probleme mit Schulen o.ä. erzeugen. Informiere dich am besten vorher bei trans-erfahrenen Beratungstellen, ob du auch da etwas umschreiben möchtest.
#8 Für Menschen, die nicht trans und_oder nichtbinär sind: Was alles nicht funktioniert. Auch wenn du amtlichen Geschlechtseintrag, Vornamen und alle Papiere geändert hast, deine Firma informiert, alle Verträge angepasst: Im zwischenmenschlichen Alltag wird sich dadurch praktisch nichts ändern. Die allermeisten Menschen haben ihren amtlichen Geschlechtseintrag noch nie „beweisen“ müssen und könnten das auch gar nicht. Stattdessen werden wir alle ständig „nach Aussehen“ einsortiert und behandelt. Von dieser Einschätzung und der Einstellung der Leute auf die du triffst wird abhängen, ob du in geschlechtergetrennten Räumen akzeptiert oder rausgeworfen wirst. Dein amtlicher Eintrag, deine neuen Namen und auch deine neuen Papiere werden dir im Zweifelsfall nicht helfen.
Solltest du also vorhaben, das SBGG „einfach so“ zu nutzen, ist mein Tipp: Lass es. Du machst dir selbst viel Arbeit; es wird dich Zeit, Geld und Nerven kosten, und wenn du es nicht wirklich ernst meinst, wirst du dich letztlich als ein Mensch outen, der sich das ganze wirklich nicht gut überlegt hat.
(1) Alle Menschen mit deutscher Staatsangehörigkeit, „Blauer“ EU-Karte oder unbefristetem Aufenthaltstitel. Minderjährige ab 14 und Menschen unter Betreuung mit Zustimmung der Sorgeberechtigten.
(2) Die Praxis ist hier noch nicht ganz klar. Im Gesetz steht dazu nichts genaues, es gibt noch keine Fälle oder Urteile, nur geäusserte Rechtsauffassungen einzelner Verwaltungsstellen, die jedoch keine Weisungskraft haben. Der ausdrückliche Zusammenhang zwischen Eintrag und vermeintlich geschlechtlichem Namen war bisher nicht gegeben, bzw seit dem „Kiran“-Beschluss des BVerfG 2009 quasi aufgehoben. Für nichtbinäre Namen gab und gibt es bisher gar keine Grundlagen.
(3) Der alte Name ist ungültig und damit auch der alte Perso. Eine polizeiliche Abfrage mit dem alten Perso führt zu einem Fehler. Das Standesamt gibt die Änderung automatisch an die Meldebehörde am Wohnort. Die informiert dann das Bundesamt für Steuern, Rentenversicherung, Kraftfahrtbundesamt („Flensburg“), Bundeszentralregister („Führungszeugnis“), usw. Von da aus verbreitet sich die Änderung langsam durch alle Behörden.
Meint: Was trans Personen so an Aufwänden und Widerständen zu bewältigen haben, um einfach nur gemäß der „freien Entfaltung ihrer Persönlichkeit“ nach zu leben. Siehe auch „WelchePrivilegien„.
Entstanden, nachdem eine cis Person sehr verwundert über das Blutspendeverbot für trans (und andere) war. Weitere Beispiele werden gerne genommen.
Für Personenstand, geänderte Vornamen, Papier, etc:
(Alt, abgelöst durch SBGG ab November 2024) Neuer Personenstand und Vorname nur per Gerichtsbeschluss, mit zwei gerichtlich bestellten psychologischen Gutachten (Kosten: 1500-2000€). Dabei ist unter Fachleuten Konsens, dass eine Geschlechtsidentität nicht wirklich getestet oder begutachtet werden kann. Viele Gutachtys „testen“ deshalb eher auf Klischeetreue, sprich: Dass die Person wie eine Klisscheefrau bzw Klischeemann dort aufläuft und die passende Rolle „vortanzt“, inklusive „passender“ Kindheit. Bei nicht-binären gibt es quasi nichts zu begutachten. Wie soll ein Mensch „beweisen“, weder als Mann, noch als Frau zugeordnet werden zu wollen, bzw dass die Zuschreibungen und Klischees psychischen Druck verursachen? Deshalb sind auch kaum Therapeutys oder Gutachtys dafür zu finden und ihre Qualität sehr dürftig. Die Möglichkeit, als nicht-binäre trans Person den Personenstand „divers“ oder „Streichung“ per TSG zu erlangen, ist deshalb bisher eher theoretisch. Auch wenn der BGH dies eigentlich durch ein Urteil in 2020 eröffnet hat.
Alle Kosten und Aufwände für die Änderungen von Konten, Verträgen, Versicherungen, Autos, Führerscheine, Pässe und Ausweise, Zeugnisse. Eigene Grundbucheinträge ändern ist… diffizil.
Beim Wechsel weg von und nach „männlich“ wird eine neue Rentenversicherungsnummer fällig. Darin ist nämlich der amtliche Gendermarker kodiert. Übrigens nach dem Schema „50% für männlich, der Rest für .. den Rest“ (also inkl „divers“ und „ohne Eintrag“)
Name und Anrede bei Firmen, etc. ändern geht auch in unsinnigen Fällen häufig erst mit neuer Geburtsurkunde. Selbst bei Ärztys für die Transition.
Eigentlich dürfen die alten Namen nach Gerichtsbeschluss nicht offenbart werden. Da das Verbot aber nicht strafbewehrt ist, muss im Zweifelsfall zivil auf Schadenersatz / Schmerzensgeld geklagt werden.
Bei der Eheurkunde kann das Standesamt die Änderung einfach ablehnen
Elternschaft bei Paaren mit trans Personen: Absolutes rechtliches Nebelgebiet.
Gebärende trans Männer werden als Mütter eingetragen. usw.
Peronen mit „divers“ können möglicherweise amtlich keine Eltern werden.
Bei Elternschaft innerhalb x Monaten nach Personenstandsänderung kann der Wechsel u.U. zwangsweise rückabgewickelt werden. Nicht vergessen: Das TSG („Transsexuellengesetz“) von 1981 war vor allem als Gesetz zur Verhinderung von Ehen (und Kindern) ausserhalb der cis-hetero-binären Norm gemacht. Immerhin konnten Zwangssterilisation und Zwangsscheidung über das Verfassungsgericht aus dem Gesetzt rausgeklagt werden. Die Gutachtenpflicht ist die letzte wackelige Säule.
Blutspende ist verboten. Trans Personen gelten pauschal als promisk, Sex-Risikogruppe und_oder Sexworker…
Jetzt ggf Zwangsouting bei den Corona Impfnachweisen, weil nur mit – u.U. gar nicht mehr stimmigem – Ausweis gültig
Bestimmte Jobs sind nicht mehr zugänglich. Bis vor kurzem z.B. Polizei und Zoll: Männliche Personen mussten Hoden vorweisen können, um eingestellt zu werden, was transmännliche und bestimmte inter Personen ausschliesst.
Verbeamtung und „sicherheitsrelevante“ Jobs sind u.U gesperrt, weil eine trans Person ja (Zwangs)Psychotherapie hatte.
Schutzräume für Frauen sind auch gerne trans-abweisend.
Für körperliche Angleichungsmassnahmen:
Zwangstherapie. Erst mal 12 Sitzungen Psychotherapie und zwar am Stück von kassenmässig anerkannter Fachperson, bevor die Krankenkasse auch nur irgendwas bewilligt (s. BGA des MDS). Therapieplätze sind kaum zu kriegen, viele trans Personen brauchen keine und belegen damit Ressourcen.
Für viele OPs wollen die Kassen bis zu 18 Monate Therapie für die Bewilligung nachgewiesen haben. Wie gesagt: Am Stück. Therapeuty wechseln o.ä. macht häufig Probleme
Nur wenige Therapeutys sind real für trans qualifiziert. Es gibt keine formale Qualifikation, was gut und schlecht zugleich ist.
Psychologische Indikationen notwendig für alles und zwar einzeln: Hormontherapie, Epilation, genitale Angleichungen, Brust-Aufbau bzw Mastektomie, Logopädie, Hysterektomie, usw.
Alltagstest. Eigentlich abgeschafft, aber einige Therapeutys wollen den immer noch. D.h. 6-12 Monate „100% im Geschlecht leben“ – bevor irgendwelche Massnahmen bewilligt werden, bzw Zwangstherapeuty die Indikation ausstellt. Im Klartext: Coming out von jetzt auf gleich, in Job, Familie, Umfeld, inklusive Kleidung etc., ohne zB Epilation oder Hilfsmittel wie Binder bezahlt zu bekommen.
Für nicht-binäre zahlen Kassen erst mal nix, gemäss ihrer sich selbst gegebenen Richtlinien (BGA des MDS). D.h. es wird pauschal abgelehnt und muss dann einzeln mit Gutachten eingeklagt werden.
Vorsorgeuntersuchungen. Krankenkassen gehen idR nach eingetragenem Gendermarker. Aber einige Menschen haben Brüste und Prostata und_oder Penis und_oder Hoden. Automatisch benachrichtigt wird normalerweise auch nicht.
Die meisten Ärtzys kenenn sich mit trans Anatomie nicht aus, was zu Fehlbehandlungen und Schmerzen führen kann.
Mindestens während der Transition und für nicht-binäre quasi immer:
In öffentlichen, gegenderten Räumen angegriffen oder rausgeworfen werden: Toiletten, Umkleiden, Läden, Schwimmbäder, Saunen, …
Falsche Zuordnung oder Abweisung in Kliniken, bei Polizei und Sicherheitskontrollen.
Aus Sportvereinen rausfliegen und nirgendwo aufgenommen werden
Nicht wenige werden nach Start der Transition unter fadenscheinigen Gründen im Job gekündigt
Wer das Kassensystem umgehen will oder muss (nicht-binär), also selbst zahlen:
Hormon-Umstellung, lebenslang, ca. 500+€/Jahr
Epilation (Gesicht, Körper): 5000-25000€, je nach Behaarung und Haarart/farbe
Personenstand / Vornamen: s.o., ca. 2000€
Genital-OPs je nach Art und Umfang: 10000-25000€. Tw. mehrere Teil-OPs nötig
Brust-OPs je nachdem (Aufbau, Entfernung): 10000-15000€
Auch bei selbstgezahlten OPs und Hormon-Umstellungen wollen die Ärztys idR psychologische Indikationen, die irgendwie realisiert und bezahlt werden müssen
zu anderen Angleichungsmassnahmen habe ich keine Zahlen, also zB Logopädie, Gesichtsform, Stimmbänder, Adamsapfel, usw.
So viel zu „die machen das aus Jux und Tollerei / wegen der Aufmerksamkeit“ usw.
Nein, nur Vornamen ändern geht mit dem SBGG nicht. Das ist ausdrücklich ausgeschlossen. Dazu müsste das NamÄndG genutzt werden, bei dem du Amt bzw Gericht einen „wichtigen Grund“ nennen musst. Nach Erfahrungen aus meinem Umfeld: Einen wirklich sehr sehr wichtigen Grund.
Mit dem SBGG kann nur beim Wechsel zu einem anderen Geschlechtseintrag der/die Vornamen geändert werden, bzw. muss/müssen angepasst werden:
Die (neu bestimmten) Vornamen müssen zum gewählten Geschlechtseintrag „passen“, also (für das Amtsleut) „ausreichend männlich, weiblich oder unisex sein“. Was da akzeptiert wird ist bei Abweichung vom „Standard“ nicht gut vorhersagbar.
Klar ist: Wenn du zu m oder w wechselst, muss mindestens ein Vorname eindeutig sein. Am besten der erste und Rufname. Danach können ggf „uneindeutige“ kommen, aber kein „gegengeschlechtlicher“.
Nein, nur Vornamen ändern geht mit dem SBGG nicht. Das ist ausdrücklich ausgeschlossen. Dazu müsste das NamÄndG genutzt werden, bei dem du Amt bzw Gericht einen „wichtigen Grund“ nennen musst. Nach Erfahrungen aus meinem Umfeld: Einen wirklich sehr sehr wichtigen Grund.
Mit dem SBGG kann nur beim Wechsel zu einem anderen Geschlechtseintrag der/die Vornamen geändert werden, bzw. muss/müssen angepasst werden:
Die (neu bestimmten) Vornamen müssen zum gewählten Geschlechtseintrag „passen“, also (für das Amtsleut) „ausreichend männlich, weiblich oder unisex sein“. Was da akzeptiert wird ist bei Abweichung vom „Standard“ nicht gut vorhersagbar.
Klar ist: Wenn du zu m oder w wechselst, muss mindestens ein Vorname eindeutig sein. Am besten der erste und Rufname. Danach können ggf „uneindeutige“ kommen, aber kein „gegengeschlechtlicher“.
Wenn du zu „divers“ oder ohne Eintrag wechselst, sollen die Namen in Summe uneindeutig sein. D.h. z.B. ganz unisex oder gemischt m/w, mit oder ohne Bindestrich. Eine m/w-Kombination mit Bindestrich - z.B. Markus-Sabine - zählt als ein Name und wäre ziemlich sicher okay, Markus Sabine (ohne -) vermutlich auch.
(Ausnahme: Maria ist für m zugelassen, so das Thomas-Maria oder Thomas Maria dem Amtsleut bei divers / ohne Eintrag möglicherweise nicht uneindeutig genug ist)
Einen noch: Per SBGG ist für jede der vier Geschlechtsoptionen nur eine Liste von Vornamen jemals möglich. Wenn wieder zurück gewechselt wird, gelten automatisch auch die alten Vornamen.
Twitter hat sich verändert und das leider nicht zum Guten! Hier ein paar Schlagzeilen: Elon Musk Is Turning Twitter Into a Haven for Nazis Elon Musk says he’s letting Donald Trump back on Twitter Twitter's sacking of content moderators raises concerns Elo
Twitter hat sich verändert und das leider nicht zum Guten!
Ich habe, um ehrlich zu sein, keine Ahnung, warum ich immer noch bei Twitter bin, und ich glaube, bei Facebook hat damals wesentlich weniger gereicht, um meinen Account zu löschen…
Klar, Twitter war über 17 Jahre lang das soziale Netzwerk meiner Wahl und hatte über lange Zeit hinweg wenig bis keine Konkurrenz! Ich habe viele spannende und inspirierende Menschen kennengelernt. Twitter hat mir geholfen, mich mit der deutschen Web2.0-Community zu vernetzen. Barcamps und Webmontage wurden über Twitter organisiert und diskutiert. Außerdem verdanke ich Twitter wohl auch meinen aktuellen Traum-Job bei Automattic!
Aber das alleine hat mich die letzten zwei Jahre nicht auf Twitter gehalten. Die Menschen, die mir wichtig sind (inklusive mir), sind weitergezogen und haben das Fediverse für sich entdeckt. Ein besseres Job-Angebot als das von Automattic ist aktuell eher unwahrscheinlich (😍) und wenn es hochkommt, schaue ich maximal alle zwei Wochen bei Twitter vorbei, und seit Monaten nutze ich schon keine Twitter-Apps mehr auf meinem Handy oder Computer.
Das was mich hält, kann also nur Nostalgie und die Romantisierung der „guten alten Zeit“ auf Twitter sein!?!
Nur fair, wenn ich jetzt auch umsetze, was ich da so von mir gebe!
Ich glaube, vielen geht es ähnlich wie mir: Sie sind unzufrieden mit Twitter, haben ihren Account aber aus Sentimentalität noch nicht gelöscht. Doch so wird sich langfristig nichts ändern. Der einzige wirkungsvolle Protest ist das konsequente Löschen all dieser inaktiven Profile. Das Netzwerk verdient durch uns und mit uns Geld, und nur wenn die Nutzerzahlen sinken, wird genügend Druck erzeugt! Aber selbst wenn nicht… das ist dann nicht mehr mein Problem ☺️
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A big fight is happening world-wide to push governments to ensure people can repair the products they own.
“The right to repair refers to proposed government legislation to forbid manufacturers from imposing barriers that deny consumers the ability to repair and modify their own consumer products.” | Wikipedia
This is happening because of:
Planned Obsolescence: companies are purposely building their products to break faster, so you have to pay to replace them sooner.
Unfixable Products: some products will have their components soldered, glued, or riveted, to stop people from being able to repair.
Brand-Specific Parts: These parts may cost more than buying a new product. As well as that, some companies refuse to let independent repair technicians purchase their parts to try and force costumers to only use the product company for repairs.
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RIGHT TO REPAIR
A big fight is happening world-wide to push governments to ensure people can repair the products they own.
“The right to repair refers to proposed government legislation to forbid manufacturers from imposing barriers that deny consumers the ability to repair and modify their own consumer products.” | Wikipedia
This is happening because of:
Planned Obsolescence: companies are purposely building their products to break faster, so you have to pay to replace them sooner.
Unfixable Products: some products will have their components soldered, glued, or riveted, to stop people from being able to repair.
Brand-Specific Parts: These parts may cost more than buying a new product. As well as that, some companies refuse to let independent repair technicians purchase their parts to try and force costumers to only use the product company for repairs.
Restrictive Programing. For these, the programs refuse to let you fix your own products (a large example of this happens to farm equipment, where farmers have to hack their own equipment if they want to repair on their own).
Repair cafes are typically community-run events where volunteers gather to fix the broken items of strangers for free. My town started doing it a long time ago, and it was so popular that it now happens several times a year.
People bring in stand mixers, vacuums, computers, items that need sewing repairs, and more. Often, the person is very willing to explain the repairs as they do them.
In other places, repair cafes have become more permanent. For example, in Austria, the government started paying those who repair.
Repair cafes not only save people money, but they also can greatly reduce the amount of waste produced by saving those repaired items from the landfill.
Sepp Eisenriegler loves giving second chances: To the defunct electrical appliances awaiting repair or refurbishment, the hundreds of unemployed people he’s trained as skilled repairers over the decades and even the two rescue dogs that follow him de…
I imagine it depends on the repair cafe. But where I go we just have generic consumables, e.g fabric, thread, solder, glue, batteries (most volunteer provided, some in common). No so much specific parts - fixers will help determine what part is needed and where it can be found, if possible and feasible.
It always blows my mind that we’re such a car centric hellhole but when I was in college living in an apartment I’d have to sneak to work on my car because there wasn’t any DIY garages and it was against lease terms to work on cars on the property.
I’d have to wait until 5/6 at night right before it got dark and rush to change my oil or brakes before it got too dark to see.
These days I give my younger coworkers the pin and 24/7 access to my garages if they want to work on their cars or any projects really.
I first met Kali Akuno in 2018 — the same year that the “Deep Adaptation” paper was published1. Despite a lack of wider circulation, the paper went viral in climate movement circles.
Ich hab mir über die letzten Wochen viele Gedanken zum Thema „Sharing im Fediverse“ gemacht. Das Thema kommt zwar immer wieder und scheitert dann auf die immer gleiche ähnliche Weise, trotzdem (oder vielleicht gerade deshalb) fasziniert es mich seit jeher.
Als gestern dann auch noch @stefan mit seinem „Fediverse Sharing Button“ um die Ecke kam, dachte ich: Der perfekte Zeitpunkt um die naheliegendste Version eines „Share-Icons für das Fediverse“ vorzuschlagen! Gebt es zu, die Idee ist grandios (nur die Idee, nicht die Umsetzung)!!!
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Heute wurde mir ein kleines Päckchen übergeben, und darin waren zwei so wunderschön gestaltete Flaggen! 🏳️🌈 🥰 Die Idee und Design sind von Imdat Celeste – Vielen lieben Dank!!!
Meine kleine Tochter hat dann nach einem langen Auswahlprozess (!) sich für folgende Flagge entschieden … Aber es wird wöchentlich gewechselt! 😅
Heute wurde mir ein kleines Päckchen übergeben, und darin waren zwei so wunderschön gestaltete Flaggen! 🏳️🌈 🥰 Die Idee und Design sind von Imdat Celeste – Vielen lieben Dank!!! Meine kleine …
Heute wurde mir ein kleines Päckchen übergeben, und darin waren zwei so wunderschön gestaltete Flaggen! 🏳️🌈 🥰 Die Idee und Design sind von Imdat Celeste – Vielen lieben Dank!!!
Meine kleine Tochter hat dann nach einem langen Auswahlprozess (!) sich für folgende Flagge entschieden … Aber es wird wöchentlich gewechselt! 😅
PSA: After some discussions and brainstorming (and calculations), and double-checking with the artist ( @thatfrisiangirlish ), I have decided to make the following offer to the community here on Fedi:
I will get these designs printed as flags, size 150x90cm (~5x3ft). The material is Velum, light shines through. The quality is such that you could leave it outside for about 6-12 months under normal weather. It is NOT fire-resistant or fire-safe.
Please check out the photo (1) I have attached on how it looks like. You can also see the seams and hooks (photos 2-4). They are strong.
This is all Made in Germany.
I will wait if I can get enough interest to be able to order about 100 of these (in variations), otherwise it would be too costly. Please note that ordering 100 means that I have to pre-pay them all, that's a lot of money - but I'm willing to do this, because these flags are absolutely amazing.
Current estimate is that each one would then be available for EUR 25 + Postage.
Edit5 (re shipment): It seems, I can add 2-3 into a single envelope for shipping, so if you order more than one, the shipping cost doesn't need to double. But I'll let you know how many I can stuff into one padded envelope once I have them all 😂
Payment is, unfortunately, only via PayPal because I don't have anything else (and don't have the spoons to setup anything else; after all, this is just a hobby)
Edit3: If you are a resident of the EU, there is also the option of paying via Wire Transfer, which should cost (at most) only EUR 0.50. I'd send you my bank details.
Please NOTE: If I ship, I’ll do it with DHL, tracked and insured with up to 50 EUR. The value put on the customs will be EUR 20. So, in worst case please check dhl.com for the smallest (35 x 25 x 3 cm, max 2 Kg + Insurance/Tracking).
I have no idea if there will be any customs you have to pay in your country or no.
Some of you have received a progress pride version and can say how beautiful it is.
The difference of what I pay for the flags and what you pay (25 EUR) will be 100% sent to the artist. I have no interest in making any profit off of it, but I have the printer at hand and know how to handle it. And I think, artists should always get paid for their work, because these flags are just too beautiful to not share.
Also, a single print would cost about 50 Euro. If I can aggregate so many, I can bring the price down enough that anyone can afford it.
Here is another offer: if you can afford more than 25 EUR for a single flag, I’ll take anything above it to pay for someone who can’t afford it at all. The promise is this: I’ll use your share to pay for the flag (up to 25 EUR each) and pay for shipment out of my own pocket to the person who can’t afford the 25 EUR. Deal?
Edit: I have added the currently designed flags below in three posts (maybe there will be more). Please let me know which ones you'd like.
Edit2: I will let you all know when I start production. Then, you can send me your address and I can send it out to you all. I'll keep boosting this post for a week or two.
Edit4: For all those who said they'd like one (or two or three or more): I am bookmarking your post, but also putting your request into a spreadsheet, including with a link to your profile, so I don't lose it. I also wrote down your order. Once I have enough requests, I'll contact you again. Don't worry, I won't forget you 💜
EDIT: The deadline is over, I can't accept any more orders, sorry.
Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
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Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
The concept of progress is at the heart of humanity’s story. From the present, it is possible to imagine a future of abundance in which our great challenges have been addressed by the unique human ability to modify the universe toward our own ends. Many believe that we will attain this future through a combination of expanding human knowledge and advanced technologies.
This article explains how our current idea of progress is immature: it is developmentally incomplete. Progress, as we define it now, ignores or downplays the scale of its side effects. Our typical approach to technological innovation today harms much that is not only beautiful and inspiring, but also fundamentally necessary for the health and well-being of all life on Earth. Developing a more mature approach to our idea of progress holds the key to a viable, long-term future for humanity.
The way we understand what progress is and how we achieve it has profound implications for our future. Ultimately, it shapes our most significant actions in the world—it affects how
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The concept of progress is at the heart of humanity’s story. From the present, it is possible to imagine a future of abundance in which our great challenges have been addressed by the unique human ability to modify the universe toward our own ends. Many believe that we will attain this future through a combination of expanding human knowledge and advanced technologies.
This article explains how our current idea of progress is immature: it is developmentally incomplete. Progress, as we define it now, ignores or downplays the scale of its side effects. Our typical approach to technological innovation today harms much that is not only beautiful and inspiring, but also fundamentally necessary for the health and well-being of all life on Earth. Developing a more mature approach to our idea of progress holds the key to a viable, long-term future for humanity.
The way we understand what progress is and how we achieve it has profound implications for our future. Ultimately, it shapes our most significant actions in the world—it affects how we make changes and solve problems, how we think about economics, and how we design technologies. Whatever is not included in our definition and measurement of progress is often harmed in its pursuit. Its side effects (or externalities) occur in a complex cascade, often distributing harms throughout both time and space. The second- and third-order effects of our actions in the world can be difficult to attribute to their original cause, and are frequently more significant than we realize.
As technology gets more powerful, its effects on reality become increasingly consequential. On our current trajectory, these effects will end civilization’s story long before we merge with machines, or before we have built a self-sustaining colony elsewhere in the solar system. We are not as close to a multi-planetary future as we are to the kind of damage to the biosphere that either destroys or significantly degrades civilization. If we continue to measure and optimize progress against a narrow set of metrics—metrics focused primarily on economic and military growth, which do not account for everything on which our existence depends—our progress will remain immature and humanity will continue its blind push toward a civilizational cliff edge.
In this article, we use the phrase “the progress narrative” to refer to the way we think and talk about progress in society. The progress narrative is the pervasive idea within our culture that technological innovation, markets, and our institutions of scientific research and education enable and promote a general improvement in human life. This article questions the accuracy, incentives, and risks of this narrative, examining the reasons that the idea has held such a central role in shaping the development of our global civilization. In doing so, it attempts to outline the progress narrative earnestly and clearly, noting that it is often driven by an honest desire to see positive change in the world. The intention is not to point the finger of blame, or to deconstruct for the sake of argument. It is to inform a way forward and outline a path ahead toward potential solutions.
Drawing on a range of sources, the article takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring the reality of humanity’s current trajectory. Several prevalent progress myths are reexamined, including apparent improvements in life expectancy, education, poverty, and violence. The roots of these inaccuracies are exposed by widening the aperture of our view. Even if we are living longer, many measures of the quality of life we are living are in decline. Our educational outcomes are in many ways deteriorating, even if access to education is improving. At a global level, despite the common narrative, it is not clear at all that poverty is actually reducing. And the tools of violence have increased vastly in scale of impact since the end of World War II; we now routinely create the kind of weaponry previously reserved for dystopian science fiction.
To convey a sense of the extent of unintended consequences that can result from a single innovation, the primary case study explores the invention of artificial fertilizers. This development enabled a significant increase in the amount of food (and therefore people) that could be produced. The externalities of this innovation have had far-reaching consequences for human health and the wider biosphere. An assessment of these side effects helps us to open our eyes a little more widely, so that we may glimpse a fraction more of the complex reality that is generally omitted from the simplified narrative of progress.
Our idea of progress needs to mature. If humanity is to survive and thrive into the distant future, we must transform and elevate the very idea of progress into something truly good and worthy of our shared pursuit and aspiration. As we understand more about the universe and find new ways of changing it with our technologies, we must account for the endless ripple of cause-and-effect beyond our immediate goals. We must factor both the upsides and the downsides that will continue to impact reality long after the technologists of today are gone.
For our idea of progress to be mature, it must take account of its side effects and plan to resolve them in advance—it must internalize its externalities. In the second part of this article, four specific methods for internalizing externalities are outlined, alongside some clear examples of what such a process might entail.
The possibility of a mature kind of progress is both grounded and optimistic. It’s a proposal that the human capacity for both wisdom and ingenuity is far greater than we currently imagine. We are capable of holding the unknowable complexity of reality at the very center of how we take action in the world, and mitigating the consequences of the gaps in our knowledge in advance. This enables a real kind of progress that reduces suffering, builds a better understanding of the universe and our place within it—and increases our chances of both surviving and thriving into the distant future.
The cybersecurity company CrowdStrike said Wednesday evening that some of the company’s private information on the hackers it tracks had been posted online, and that the hacker behind the leak has threatened to release information that’s even more se…
Now that the alpha version of NodeBB v4 has been released, it means that people are starting to look into using NodeBB for testing (or if they're really looking to have fun, production.)
While a little bare-bones at the moment, I've written up a brief summary of what NodeBB brings to the ActivityPub landscape, as well as a run-down of various settings/toggles/switches, and how to switch over to the code branch that enables ActivityPub integration.
What I don't know is what's missing. There's a lot about NodeBB's integration that's very obvious to me, since I built it, but what don't you see that you'd like me to write about? Let me know.
Yes, Peter Thiel was the senator’s benefactor. But they’re both inspired by an obscure software developer who has some truly frightening thoughts about reordering society.
Moldbug didn't get radicalized at Berkeley in the early 90s but his elder brother was definitely a libertarian back then. Curtis was just chilling with hallucinogens and a room full of giant lizards in his geek house.
This comes from g0v, a very cool (and IMO pretty solarpunk) group. It started as a militant group doing "shadow version" of government agencies in Taiwan, making them better and less "political". They made a ton of interesting things, one of the core founder is an interesting character
Root repository for ⿻數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy by E. Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang and the Plurality Community - pluralitybook/plurality
Yes! That's precisely what this is from. Trying to outgovernment the government in order to get adopted by the government is such a clever idea and I hope this happens in more countries.
I really think there is a strong potential in these things. Don't get fooled by the simplification of seeing opinions in a 2D graph. It helps to explain, but the reality of what these things can (potentially, not sure about this particular implementation) do is to really find across the thousands of dimensions of the debate space, statements that may help you bridge groups.
Imagine person A, strong humanist, no-border, intransigent on human rights. Imagine person B, authoritarian, xenophobic and traditionalist. They are unlikely to agree on statements like "ethnicity X are subhumans" (strong reject by A) and even a middle ground in the form "citizen of ethnicity X should have slightly less rights" is going to be (understandably) rejected by A. The idea is not to find a middle ground on strong disagreements but to find nuggets of agreements in their views from which conversations can started. Statements like "Police should obey the law of the country" is maybe not going to be enthusiastically endorsed by A and B but is a possible ground for agreement.
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I really think there is a strong potential in these things. Don't get fooled by the simplification of seeing opinions in a 2D graph. It helps to explain, but the reality of what these things can (potentially, not sure about this particular implementation) do is to really find across the thousands of dimensions of the debate space, statements that may help you bridge groups.
Imagine person A, strong humanist, no-border, intransigent on human rights. Imagine person B, authoritarian, xenophobic and traditionalist. They are unlikely to agree on statements like "ethnicity X are subhumans" (strong reject by A) and even a middle ground in the form "citizen of ethnicity X should have slightly less rights" is going to be (understandably) rejected by A. The idea is not to find a middle ground on strong disagreements but to find nuggets of agreements in their views from which conversations can started. Statements like "Police should obey the law of the country" is maybe not going to be enthusiastically endorsed by A and B but is a possible ground for agreement.
One of the most positive effect is that both groups can be genuinely surprised by some of the other group opinions. B may not realize that A actually agrees on some anti-smuggling measures and A may not realize that B actually strongly approves of preserving native American rights. Reasons may diverge, implementations diverge, but fishing for agreements is a precious tool in order to mend societies.
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This is fitting. The top topic on Xitter right now is of course the global Crowdstrike/Windows clusterfuck. But the AI summary of the discussion is hilarious, b/c it summarizes a bunch of sarcastic posts and makes it sound like a positive (or at least can-do) story.
Zach Vorhies (who made leaking Google stuff to Project Veritas his entire identity) has the worst possible take: twitter.com/Perpetualmaniac/st… (lemme gather my thoughts and explain why in the next comment)
Fair warning that I'll be ranty because I hate losers talking about DEI hires.
So why is memory address 0x9c trying to be read from? Well because... programmer error.
So what happened is that the programmer forgot to check that the object it's working with isn't valid, it tried to access one of the objects member variables...
This is a huge assumption. ~~The last rumor I've read from actual cybersecurity people is that Crowdstrike's update files were corrupt~~ (update: disproven by Crowdstrike's blog post). If this is true it's likely still from programmer error at some level, but maybe not as simple as "whoopsie I forgot an if (data == nullptr) teehee".
He, like the rest of us that don't work at Crowdstrike, has no idea what happened. I have seen computers do the weirdest gosh darn things. I know better than to assume anything at this point. I wouldn't even rule out weird stuff like the data
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Fair warning that I'll be ranty because I hate losers talking about DEI hires.
So why is memory address 0x9c trying to be read from? Well because... programmer error.
So what happened is that the programmer forgot to check that the object it's working with isn't valid, it tried to access one of the objects member variables...
This is a huge assumption. ~~The last rumor I've read from actual cybersecurity people is that Crowdstrike's update files were corrupt~~ (update: disproven by Crowdstrike's blog post). If this is true it's likely still from programmer error at some level, but maybe not as simple as "whoopsie I forgot an if (data == nullptr) teehee".
He, like the rest of us that don't work at Crowdstrike, has no idea what happened. I have seen computers do the weirdest gosh darn things. I know better than to assume anything at this point. I wouldn't even rule out weird stuff like the data getting corrupted between release qualification and release yet.
It turns out that C++, the language crowdstrike is using, likes to use address 0x0 as a special value to mean "there's nothing here", don't try to access it or you'll die.
This thread is full of these sorts of small technical inaccuracies and oversimplifications so I won't point out all of them, but nothing in the C++ standard requires null pointers to refer to memory address 0x0. Nor does it require that dereferencing a null pointer terminates the program.
Windows died not because C++ asked it nicely to, but because a driver tried to access an address which wasn't paged in.
Crowdstrike should have set up automated testing using address sanitizer and thread sanitizer that runs on every code update.
The funny thing about accessing into non-paged memory in kernel space:
It will crash regardless of if it's running under Asan or not, sanitizers are literally irrelevant based on what we know so far
The Asan version he linked to is for user-space. In the windows kernel you'd need KASAN instead.
(If this was a simple nullptr dereference on bad input data then perhaps a fuzzer would have helped. Fuzzers are great though I have no idea how hard they are to use with kernel drivers)
C++ is hard. Maybe they have a DEI engineer that did this
Dude would probably call me a "DEI hire"; but I bet I could beat him in a C++ deathmatch so neener neener.
The .sys files causing the issue are channel update files, they cause the top level CS driver to crash as they're invalidly formatted. It's unclear how/why Crowdstrike delivered the files and I'd pause all Crowdstrikes updates temporarily until they can explain.
This is going to turn out to be the biggest 'cyber' incident ever in terms of impact, just a spoiler, as recovery is so difficult.
Also, and this shouldn't be left unsaid, we're talking about the Windows kernel here. A place with C++ code so cursed it is legendarily unhealthy to work in, as the cosmic horrors contained within slowly eat away at your sanity and warp the perception of time and space. Seeing that code for a few hours is enough to make a grown man cry. Seeing that code for a few weeks is enough to make you never cry again, as the terrible truth worms its way into your mind.
"DEI hire", hah! The creature makes no distinction for race or gender as it fattens itself upon your failure! Even a glimpse at the edge of its abyss is enough to trigger a cycle of revelation - all modern software lies upon a rotting pile of ancient mistakes.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a whil
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Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
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