the real raccoon Ⓥ Ⓐ @therealraccoon@octodon.social

(It's almund mulk, of course.)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/katrin_aka_kimy/3621626659

I am making a Big Zotero Bibliography of Digital Studies for my preliminary exams

Please add things that you think are essential and (so far) missing from the bib! I am still in the process of adding citations too but this work is boring on your own.

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2352063/digital_studies

Just putting it out there: if anyone ever wants help - debugging, problem-solving, tutoring, whatever - with the Linux CLI (bash/ksh93, GNU coreutils..., vi, emacs, sed, awk) and/or git, I'll help.

I won't make you feel bad for anything you don't already know. I promise. (Nobody ever should.)

I'll reiterate every once in a while. Boosts appreciated!

Hello fediverse!
We would like to introduce ourselves. We are working on a film about the effects of burnout on our movements, the reasons for it, as well as collective&individual strategies for preventing and/or dealing with it better.

Due to illness, the project has taken longer than planned but the film is nearing completion.

On our website you can learn more about the film. There are also interesting links around sustainable activism. When the film is finished we will post it there, as well as more in depth interviews.

The film will be in documentary format of around 1 hour. Please contact us if you would be interested to organise a screening in your community or want to support the project somehow.

Addressing these issues is key to building movements that grow from strength to strength, that have the stamina needed to be successful, and effect the change needed. Too often, people burn out and are forced to leave their movements, and with them goes their knowledge, their skills, and the relationships and networks they have formed.

Blog: https://radicalresilience.noblogs.org/

Love and Rage!

Three Months of Insurrection : An Anarchist Collective in Hong Kong Appraises the Achievements and Limits of the Revolt https://crimethinc.com/2019/09/20/three-months-of-insurrection-an-anarchist-collective-in-hong-kong-appraises-the-achievements-and-limits-of-the-revolt?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

So apparently XR people are now asked to write letters to cops detailing planned action to cops.

At this point I kind of believe extinction rebellion is a coup by the climate destroyers to get rid of as many climate activists as possible and prevent further action.

This does not only endanger those who do it but everyone else at the action as well.

Say hello to Heinz 🕊️ .

Heinz is a young pigeon 🕊️ with bad health, who found shelter at our place.

A friend rescued Heinz from the street (probably after an unfortunate encounter with a car).

Heinz breathes, moves, drinks and maybe eats.

We hope Heinz will make it. 🙂

#animalrescue #pigeon #gbcam

We should celebrate teenagers that take action against climate change & can't be harsh on them for seeking reformist solutions and not understanding capitalism yet

We should be VERY critical of the politicians/NGOs/media who celebrate some hand-picked teenage climate activists while ignoring organizations like Ende Gelande or Hambach occupation or the indigenous organizers that have been in this struggle for decades

They try to steer the conversation in a direction that protects the powerful.

A series of popular extensions and utilities for the Chef configuration management system were pulled offline by the developer when the dev came to learn that Chef was selling professional services to ICE.

Chef in response used prior installs of the tools to produce a fork with the original dev's name removed from the credits.

While Chef has the right to fork the code under the Apache license, they did not have the right to strip prior credits from it in the way they did-- they've since undone that change, but the fork remains up, and is now credited to the original dev despite his desire that his code not be associated with stuff used by ICE.

This is why "Just do whatever" licenses carry a degree of risk. This guy pulled his git repo down with a clear statement that he didn't want to support ICE and Chef just.... put a mirror up, and there's nothing he can do.

Also fuck Chef; it's the worst of the CMS systems out there anyway.

"The fight to free Mumia enters historic new phase"

https://www.workers.org/2019/09/20/the-fight-to-free-mumia-enters-historic-new-phase/?fbclid=IwAR2fb0xARo1f1YfgGueDIQUrR3b5pQojvWRiBTyavM2hp9K_Ts-pMatPEyo

Reflections inspired by #ClimateStrike, on being part of a #coop, doing small things, and the futility of it all. https://rhiaro.co.uk/2019/09/reflections-climate

So, I realize I haven't shared with this timeline my quick pitch for "There his hope for human infrastructure starting this year" pitch.

This includes both social aspects (a reliance on rare materials is unsustainable) and technical aspects (better options didn't exist until now).

Firstly:

A huge battery breakthrough this year, making bulk energy storage cheaper and accessible via large sodium ion batteries:

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-sodium-lithium-boost-sodium-ion-battery.html

#Indonesia, where religious conservatives have been gaining power for some time, and a battle to defend the country's diversity has been raging, is to pass a law criminalizing sex outside of marriage. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/19/asia/indonesia-criminal-code-reform-intl-hnk/index.html

guess i'm moving to Ansible

https://blog.chef.io/2019/09/19/chefs-position-on-customer-engagement-in-the-public-and-private-sectors/

The widespread misperception that the climate crisis will cause things to spin out of control fails to see how the climate crisis will most definitely inspire unprecedented *increases* in control, at borders, in cities, as geoengineering projects, and in a million other forms.

Just got an email informing me that the OpenDyslexic font (available from https://gumroad.com/l/OpenDyslexic via https://opendyslexic.org/ ) is now SIL-OFL licensed, so there shouldn't be anything standing in your way if you want to use it in a project.

I'm not dyslexic but I appreciate the scanability of the font and really like the concept overall.

"But it’s clear that confronting the climate crisis will require something more radical than just making data greener. That’s why we should put another tactic on the table: making less data. We should reject the assumption that our built environment must become one big computer. We should erect barriers against the spread of “smartness” into all of the spaces of our lives."

hell yeah