True that. I recently discovered this project;

https://annas-archive.org/faq

In many ways we are winning. But the scholars are still labouring in the academic sweatshops, and that too needs to change.

Yup. Jesus said he was giving us a new commandment, to love everyone, as an earthly channel of the divine love, and so many people forget to read the rest of the Bible in that context (especially the Old Testament stuff).

Revelation, like The Matrix, is fascinating when see through a gnostic lense. It's sad so many people take it literally, turning it into a horror story I don't believe it was ever meant to be.

Ughh, how do I do that? Other than a brief experiment with BitCoin mining about 2011, and a failed attempt to set up a wallet for some Ada tokens a friend gave me, I'm a total crypto virgin 😆

BTW I'd love to see that video on a PeerTube server, or some other decentralised video network, instead of Vimeo ; )

What software are you using to host that?

It depends on your values and the nature of your projects, and what your technical needs are. I use CodeBerg a lot, but nothing I'm involved in requires complicated deployment pipelines.

Drew DeVault is a contemptible human being, but I tend to agree with his technical takes, and I hear good things about SourceHut from people who want a minimal GUI on top of decentralised Git and its email functions.

Well caught. Just fixed the link. Odd though, I've never seen a trailing slash cause a URL to fail like that before.

Thanks, I'll have a read, and come back to you if I have any question.

I was raised Anglican, so I see the Gospels (and maybe Acts) as the crucial texts. Everything else is footnotes, included to provide context for those : )

I knew of Aaron's CC connections, but as I say, I never had the pleasure and sadness of learning about Bassel until seeing your post.

In my experience, modern institutions don't admit their mistakes. But if Aaron's dream (and mine) of wresting control of scholarship away from corporatists and their professional-managerial lackeys is ever successful, then we might finally get justice for his memory.

Wow, I wonder if Ekhardt Tolle knew he was borrowing ideas from the Gospels? Actually he did, because they're among the spiritual classics he quotes in his books.

Maybe they just like to scuba dive and go to raves? Koh Phanang is fantastic for both.

Actually they are. Ads became obsolete once the web and search engines went mainstream. Surveillance advertising is not a perversion of an honest and necessary service, it's the last ditrch attempt by an obsolete industry to save itself from oblivion.

I agree with Adbusters. We don't need advertising and we need to work towards its abolition. Industries like journalism and free-to-air entertainment need to look for new revenue sources, because ad funding is not coming back to save them.

Thanks for introducting me to the name Bassel Khartabil. A quick skim of his Wikipedia page gives me the impression he was the Aaron Schwartz of Syria. But Bassel was murdered directly by the government of his country, rather than psy-opped into doing it for them, as Aaron was. In both cases, a tragic loss.

Especially considering that since MicroSoft bought GitHub, there have been projects underway to enable self-hosted code forges to interoperate with each other. Replacing the 'everyone's there' network effects of GH;

https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/List_of_Community-Hosted_Code_Forge_Instances/

GH has been getting increasingly awful since MS bought it, and the only thing that gives it any value or usefulness to MS is the fact people keep using it.

There was a *lot* of dystopia, for a long time. Not just near future dystopias (V for Vendetta, Revolution, V) and far future dystopias (Alien, Terminator, The Matrix), but also young adult dystopias (Hunger Games, Maze Runner, The Giver), fantasy dystopias (Dark City, City of Lost Children), zombie armageddons (Walking Dead, etc), disaster porn (2012, The Day After Tomorrow).

David Graeber wrote an article positing that this was caused by a failure of imagination. Writers were finding it easier to envision the end of the world than the end of capitalism.

That is part of the sign-up process. You can sign people up faster by not doing it then, and leaving them to learn that key management exists, and how to do it. But that's a pretty big missing stair.

The single most common device in the world is a mobile running Android. Which has Chrome preinstalled, and integrated as deeply as MS wanted Internet Exploiter to be in Windows, but were limited by the antitrust case against them. Also any Electon app has most of Chrome built-in, and there are probably a bunch of other vectors.

"Have you thought about replacing the Discord with a flotilla instance and a relay the moderator controls?"

It would be great if groups on Flotilla (or Simplex) were actively bridged to Matrix and XMPP (maybe even Delta Chat). Until such time as we can all converge on a single protocol for decentralised chat protocol that ticks everyone's boxes.

"The success of bitcoin as an investment asset does not guarantee the success of Bitcoin as a peer-to-peer electronic cash system."

I'd go further. It has effectively prevented BitCoin ever taking off as a day-to-day payment systems, outside of a niche of true believers. Once the tulip mania took off, the tokens became way too valuable to buy pizza with, and their value far too variable.

Now that the initial mania is over, a huge numbers of wealthy individuals and institutions are holding BTC as a speculative investment. It seems even less likely to work as an everyday payment system, and more likely to be the prototype for a federated clearing system between banks.