crabmusket

crabmusket@aus.social

Christian anarchist, reluctant technophile. Web developer, co-founder at <a href="https://pylon.solar" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://pylon.solar</a>

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Post #2522050
On the repeated pattern of US-backed regime change in the struggle to control the earth&#39;s natural resources: &quot;[He] feared that [Lumumba] was making a mistake when he made explicit his wish for the Congo to take control of its strategic resources. &#39;To be candid&#39;, he reflected with regret in 1966, six years after independence, Lumumba believed that &#39;the United States would not make him suffer the blow of Mossadegh if he persisted in wanting to sell raw mat...
Post #2522049
&quot;These men are more than happy to sell a story, a system that trains all of us, but particularly young people, to become entirely dependent on and subservient to computational machinery; they are more than happy for us to sacrifice our cognitive capabilities, our creativity, our agency, our decision-making, our morality, to solidify their crude oligarchal dreams of total efficiency, total financialization, total domination.&quot; https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-final-bos...
Post #2522048
I&#39;m part of Sydney Cohousing, a local community volunteer group that wants to promote more collaborative and less profit-driven approaches to housing. We&#39;re running an Intro to Cohousing event in Camperdown this Sunday! If you&#39;re interested in alternatives to the developer-led profit-driven housing system we have in Australia right now, come along. There&#39;ll be some great chats as well as the formal seminar. #SydneyCohousing #Cohousing #HousingCrisis #HousingCoop...
Post #2522046
Incredible article. &quot;The commander who has worked through this learns to see the way an eye adjusts to darkness, not by getting better light but by staying long enough to use what light there is. ... Clausewitz called what unfolds when you refused to notice friction a “war on paper,” a plan that proceeds without resistance because everything that connected it to the world it was supposed to act on has been taken out. Air power is uniquely vulnerable to this. The pilot never sees what...
Post #2522044
&quot;Open software and infrastructure are poorly supported within today’s academic environment. Meanwhile, market forces seem to drive almost every “open” company towards acquisition, enshittification, or both. As we learned more about worker cooperatives, and our individual careers fortuitously aligned, we decided to jump: we are starting a worker cooperative to build, maintain, teach, and support open source scientific imaging software.&quot; https://image.coop/blog/posts/2026/03/16/...
Post #2522038
Love this from @jimniels &quot;As software moves towards “scale”, I can’t help but think that systematic rules swallow all decision making because localized exceptions become points of friction — “We can’t require an experienced human give thought and care to the design of every single dialog box.” What scale wants is automated decision making that doesn’t require skill or expertise because those things, by definition, don’t scale.&quot; https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/systemic-vs-...
Post #2522034
&quot;Nonstandard, experimental forms of living together are possible in Zurich precisely because cooperatives reject the notion of exchange value in architecture. The resulting high use value benefits not just current residents but future generations. Nonspeculation has immediate implications for design. This is especially true within a heated real estate market with virtually no risk of vacancies, such as Zurich. Whereas for-profit developers tend to see a hot market as a reason to follow...