They aren’t volunteering so it’s recommended to just call it slavery.

I have written and moderated courseware for education students focusing on digital literacy. A requirement for graduation, pass/fail. I was so excited to start the project. I was so disappointed by the end.

The teachers to-be had very little digital literacy overall, and very little ability to recognize that or care. Too many passed, by design of the department heads. It was saddening to realize that most of them were headed out into the world with indifference to social media processes and little ability to recognize digital manipulation, and to share that indifference with children.

I always took it to mean that people are fed shit information by design and we should fix that.

Or, maybe it has something to do with who owns print and broadcast media, social media and other algorithmic psyop structures, and is leaning hard on educational curricula.

The social narrative. The information water most people swim in. It’s owned by the adversaries of universal suffrage.

Billionaires own the legacy media and most social media.

In other words, they control the means of social reproduction.

Buckminster Fuller, who was smart enough to predict the geometry of the most common object in space, the ‘Bucky Ball’ and designed geodesic domes, thought that eating steak was more efficient than plants because the cow focused the nutrients.

Stay in your lane, experts.

It’s not just too small. It’s a torture chamber for echolocation and intelligent beings that can swim vast distances.

Think of gitmo with stress positions and metallica blaring nonstop and the lights are always on.

Apple doesn’t want people using the mouse with the cable attached because it would cost them a fortune due to failed charging ports within the warranty period. It’s a wireless mouse. Using it plugged in will fuck it up.

I fix computers and an apple mouse with a bad charge port is just a throwaway.

Mac Mini M1 when it was released was a good deal compared to same form factor machines at similar prices. Same for the M1 MacBook Air, despite the base RAM.

That advantage lasted a while, too, considering battery life and build quality.

I can corroborate that it gets crazy even in courses expecting high literacy. I had the painful experience of teaching a 3rd year course in communication studies that was part of the media production stream. It required writing preproduction documentation and a script. There were a lot of questionable attempts but there’s always a range of interest and skill, right? One student, and let me remind you this is third year at a university, I called into office hours. I’m a fan of poetry, so I just had to be sure that she wasn’t cleverly lampooning Gertrude Stein in some ironic way. Sadly, no, she just had no fucking clue how to write ANYTHING coherent. Amazing.

iMac G4.

The iMac G5 started the fat monitor on a leg design.

I’m the one who is awake by the fire when the sabretooth shows up at midnight. I’m the one going around telling everyone to get outside, the house is on fire. I’m the one who is suddenly at the bottom of the small cliff, still steaming and naked from the hot tub, doing first aid assessment on the partier who fell off. I’m the one who burns for 14 hours and gets the team to push that working build out minutes before going live.

There’s dopamine in there. We’re starved for it daily so we can go hard in some way when it counts.

Did you have one in mind? Or are the words synonymous?

“Land Back” is relevant to North America and Australia etc. because the genocides and expropriations are within living memory and in some cases ongoing.

Respectfully, carbon footprint as a measure is just a measurement and is really useful in the right context. It’s important to remember that it’s the misapplication to individuals that is a con game.

When Rees and Wackernagel came up with ecological footprint as a measure, it introduced a systems analysis to human activity that we really needed. Carbon footprint is just a subset of that and ignoring it is futile. Just apply the analysis where it matters: militaries, mining, transport, energy, civil engineering, etc etc.

Yes and it would have been funny if any rent was involved.

Edit, oh wait you mean they are SAving 5k a month, whoosh missed that

Other savings built into collective infrastructure:

• super cheap fast internet. They pay about $5/ month and when I am visiting I get 1ms ping to speedtest servers, amazing.
• tools, the workshop is set up for tool sharing as well
• laundry room, no coins
• car sharing is easy
• bulk buying groups naturally form
• event facilities, guest rooms just need booking (big deal in Vancouver eh)
• profit control: fewer middlemen to feed for maintenance and management
• dozens of tiny efficiencies that add up
• village settings are naturally designed for mutual aid, good cohousing is a microvillage

You are familiar with the concept of #cohousing, right? I don’t think anyone is renting there, all owners. Land values have been fucked in Vancouver since capitalism arrived, and in fact when the group bought the three house lots they needed, they had to deal with one of them being shadow-flipped during the purchase.

Still, pooling resources did make it very possible for the group. The hard-to-swallow expensive part was actually building to passivhaus standards and dealing with bureaucracy, if I understand correctly.

Me too, most of us would be happier and richer living like that.

Vancouver BC