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I use #Peopleverse as a concept/vision (not a name) to indicate the state where our offline and online worlds seamlessly integrate and are enriching to our daily lives.
In this, the name of the online space stays Fediverse, but is more technical. Same as "internet" is. Peopleverse is inherently human and social.
It is also not "the" Peopleverse, but "a" Peopleverse. It is diverse, there isn't but one. It can be personal. Emerging on the Fediverse.
May consider adopting the term
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> May consider adopting the term
Which term? Also, was that a suggestion or a mental note?
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I think we have many MP's from the Don't Know Party, following the Haven't A Clue manifesto.
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> I think we have many MP's from the Don't Know Party, following the Haven't A Clue manifesto
I love this, can I use it? I'm seriously thinking about getting a bunch of pranksters together to register the Don't Know Party for 2026. If that happens, I'd love to called our manifesto Haven't A Clue : P
nostr:npub1l3gpk6vrudg8r67swqlex5alv9ch59s4lw46kk6hekuxe2n3aczsyqvu48 This is a theme that runs through a lot of the documentary series Adam Curtis does too. The Power of Nightmares and The Trap: What Happened to our Dreams of Freedom are two great examples.
This is a major theme in All Watches Over by Machines of Loving Grace too. Although I think that one is overly influenced by Fred Turner, and his throwing out of counterculture hacker babies with the Silicon Valley capitalist bathwater.
nostr:npub1l3gpk6vrudg8r67swqlex5alv9ch59s4lw46kk6hekuxe2n3aczsyqvu48 Sadly, Turner's narrative has been very popular with crypto-conservatives(1) who use it to dismiss the entire software freedom movement as Peter Thiel style neo-reactionaries(2).
1. centre-right neoliberals who call themselves "liberals" in the US, and "leftists" elsewhere, since "liberal" is mainly a term of abuse outside the US and nobody else self-describes that way
2. Crypto-conservatives call them "libertarians" even though they're clearly not, in any meaningful sense of the word
nostr:npub1l3gpk6vrudg8r67swqlex5alv9ch59s4lw46kk6hekuxe2n3aczsyqvu48 This is a theme that runs through a lot of the documentary series Adam Curtis does too. The Power of Nightmares and The Trap: What Happened to our Dreams of Freedom are two great examples.
This is a major theme in All Watches Over by Machines of Loving Grace too. Although I think that one is overly influenced by Fred Turner, and his throwing out of counterculture hacker babies with the Silicon Valley capitalist bathwater.
nostr:npub1l3gpk6vrudg8r67swqlex5alv9ch59s4lw46kk6hekuxe2n3aczsyqvu48 Sadly, Turner's narrative has been very popular with crypto-conservatives(1) who use it to dismiss the entire software freedom movement as Peter Thiel style neo-reactionaries(2).
1. centre-right neoliberals who call themselves "liberals" in the US, and "leftists" elsewhere, since "liberal" is mainly a term of abuse outside the US, and nobody self-describes that way
2. Crypto-conservatives call them "libertarians", even though they're clearly not, in any meaningful sense of the word
nostr:npub1l3gpk6vrudg8r67swqlex5alv9ch59s4lw46kk6hekuxe2n3aczsyqvu48 This is a theme that runs through a lot of the documentary series Adam Curtis does too. The Power of Nightmares and The Trap: What Happened to our Dreams of Freedom are two great examples.
This is a major theme in All Watches Over by Machines of Loving Grace too. Although I think that one is overly influenced by Fred Turner, and his throwing out of counterculture hacker babies with the Silicon Valley capitalist bathwater.
nostr:npub1l3gpk6vrudg8r67swqlex5alv9ch59s4lw46kk6hekuxe2n3aczsyqvu48 Turner's narrative has been very popular with crypto-conservatives(1) who use it to dismiss the entire software freedom movement as Peter Thiel style neo-reactionaries(2).
1. centre-right neoliberals who call themselves "liberals" in the US, and "leftists" elsewhere, since "liberal" is mainly a term of abuse outside the US, and nobody self-describes that way
2. Crypto-conservatives call them "libertarians", even though they're clearly not, in any meaningful sense of the word
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> I think the thing that keeps collective action at bay is the culture of toxic individualism
Ae, and this is not an accident. Capitalists and their lackeys have been scattering toxic individualism seeds around since the counterculture era. Doctorow writes about this too, in the context of Milton Friedman's comments about making sure their ideas were the "ideas lying around":
https://archive.org/details/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_445
#podcasts #CoryDoctorow #MiltonFriedman #ToxicIndividualism
nostr:npub1l3gpk6vrudg8r67swqlex5alv9ch59s4lw46kk6hekuxe2n3aczsyqvu48 This is a theme that runs through a lot of the documentary series Adam Curtis does too. The Power of Nightmares and The Trap: What Happened to our Dreams of Freedom are two great examples.
This is a major theme in All Watches Over by Machines of Loving Grace too. Although I think that one is overly influenced by Fred Turner, and his throwing out of counterculture hacker babies with the Silicon Valley capitalist bathwater.
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This is very true. I think the thing that keeps collective action at bay is the culture of toxic individualism, which is especially prevalent here in #Texas
nostr:npub1l3gpk6vrudg8r67swqlex5alv9ch59s4lw46kk6hekuxe2n3aczsyqvu48
> I think the thing that keeps collective action at bay is the culture of toxic individualism
Ae, and this is not an accident. Capitalists and their lackeys have been scattering toxic individualism seeds around since the counterculture era. Doctorow writes about this too, in the context of Milton Friedman's comments about making sure their ideas were the "ideas lying around":
https://archive.org/details/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_445
#podcasts #CoryDoctorow #MiltonFriedman #ToxicIndividualism
nostr:npub1trdnqrfstufc45awha43p6xy2n0v6czuhapzh4r09hap08dg0c6s9gussx Was only a light watcher of Dr Who so don't know the reference, but will take your word for it.
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The weird thing is it looks more like a Dalek than a CyberMan. But that's still what the Majestic Centre reminds me of.
#TIL about #Feed2Toot:
https://gitlab.com/chaica/feed2toot
A program written in Python that automatically checks an RSS feed (eg from a blog), sees that there's a new post, and posts it to a fediverse account.
#fediverse #AppVerse #Python
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> Majestic Centre
For some reason this building always make me think of the Cybermen from Dr Who...
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Wouldn't QR codes have a risk of some kind of race condition if someone is able to scan it before the intended recipient?
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> Wouldn't QR codes have a risk of some kind of race condition if someone is able to scan it before the intended recipient?
The way it works in China is :
1) I order fried tofu from a street food cart
2) I use my payment app to scan the QR code on the side of their cart
3) I type my PIN into my app
4) The vendor checks their app and sees that the payment has been made
5) My part is done, and the vendor gives me my friend tofu
Me:
> the 7% Labour lost has most likely gone to TPM (up 3%), Winston First (up 1%), and TOP (up 2.5%)
That leaves 0.5% unaccounted for. The Greens lost about 0.5% on the last poll:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2023_New_Zealand_general_election
So I'm guessing the Don't Know Party picked up about 1% from the left, which almost makes up for the 2% they lost to ACT. If the Don't Know Party had registered a party list, I reckon we'd be looking at 6-7 Don't Know MPs after the election too : P
Are you a citizen of Aotearoa? Want to vote for a party that's pro-business, but without being in the pocket of monopoly capitalists?
ACT talk a good game about kiwi battlers and our businesses. But they're funded by the 0.1% wealthy, squatting Smaug-like on their ill-gotten capital gains. The nuts and bolts of their policy are bad for small business.
Have a look at TOP. They hit 4% in the latest poll, giving them a realistic chance of getting over 5% by the time Oct rolls around.
#NZPolitics
The latest Roy Morgan poll is going to be spun as terrible news for Labour, and the prospects of them leading the next govt:
https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/9302-nz-national-voting-intention-july-2023
But as John Campbell and Simon Wilson (amongst others) have pointed out, the last few polls have actually been terrible news for the NatLab's informal grand coalition, whose neoliberal agenda has ruled the country since the 1980s. In the RM, the grand coalition got less than 60% of the party vote.
(1/2)
#NZPolitics
Secondly, Labour's loss is *not* National's gain. The Nats' numbers are down on the last 2 polls. Yes, ACT have picked up about 2%. But they're more to have come from the Don't Know Party than Labour. Instead, the 7% Labour lost have most likely gone to TPM (up 3%), Winston First (up 1%), and TOP (up 2.5%). All of whom are now polling over, or just under, the 5% threshold.
This will embolden their supporters, and I'm now picking that both NZF and TOP will have MPs next year.
The latest Roy Morgan poll is going to be spun as terrible news for Labour, and the prospects of them leading the next govt:
https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/9302-nz-national-voting-intention-july-2023
But as John Campbell and Simon Wilson (amongst others) have pointed out, the last few polls have actually been terrible news for the NatLab's informal grand coalition, whose neoliberal agenda has ruled the country since the 1980s. In the RM, the grand coalition got less than 60% of the party vote.
(1/2)
#NZPolitics
Titter in turned, was built on tech created by nostr:npub1eu5yg8uclgwnqgvgxmt59kn674qmws0qsqdl4fdvx480cq7xraaq943nau and co for Indymedia. Our activist news sites were among a handful in the late 90s/ early noughties that pioneered hosting "user-generated content". Or Open Publishing as we called it, riffing on Open Source.
Sometimes I look at the dominant social media landscape and feel ashamed.
But then I remember that the first fediverse apps were in turn inspired by Titter, and the activist software culture Indymedia contributed to, and I feel proud.
"[In 2006] some might have had a blog, but people ordinarily posted only to small, closed online networks. That’s how Facebook still worked, and LinkedIn too, and Orkut, may it rest in peace. Social networks were initially designed around communities of trust. Twitter and then Instagram are to blame for expanding the act of posting to the world."
#IanBogost
"Now, underneath the friendly and familiar blue icon with a white bird, that letter alone was displayed—X—as if my iPhone was affirming that Elon Musk’s Twitter had become an error."
#IanBogost
I welcome the millions of new members who have joined the fediverse.party since late last year. We value quality over quantity. Every one of you that participates in community here, in good faith, makes the verse a more valuable experience for evening else.
Thanks : )
#ShowerThoughts: Imagine political parties that were global, instead of per-country, and never have to face elections in which they're accountable to the public. Social media platforms are pretty much that.