I just realized that @cisacyber is gone.
So now that infosec.exchange no longer hosts a government official, will those servers that defederated from it federate back with it?
(Just curious! Starting a conversation! ๐ฌ)
[#]federation #blocklist #block
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What is Solarpunk - An Intro with resources:
So solarpunk is an artistic aesthetic, literary genre, and social activism.
The artistic aesthetic tends to focus on the elements of solarpunk (discussed later) in an uplifting, colorful, and hopeful presentation. While it has no set limitations, popular aesthetics are art nouveau and studio ghibli styles.
The literary genre is "protopia" in style. It shows a pragmatic utopia while addressing present day social concerns. Some of it shows the ideal within a hopepunk and/or cozycore plot. Others have higher conflict and show the current social concerns being addressed and remediated.
The social activism side seeks to bring about that protopia world in the present day. The focus is to bring about a post-scarcity world where everyone has the basics of life covered while emphasizing increasing time for rest, luxury, the arts, culture, and community.
While these themes are covered in other movements (many of which are not opposed and work well with solarpunk), the solarpunks themselves seek to use modern day (and near future) technology to assist in this post-scarcity world. Technologies such as automation, renewable energies, and economies of scale - currently utilized by various ruling classes - to instead be used by the working class. Further efforts are made within degrowth (removing technology for technologies sake, and consumption for consumption's sake).
While not solely limited to anarchic politics, many of the approaches are non-hierarchical in nature and when they are hierarchical, they often focus on local political structures, decentralized, and distributed, with cooperation between various local groups for a national and inter-national co-op structure.
Long and short, solarpunks were tired of being warned of the present dystopia of cyberpunk without solutions to overcome that dystopia. They yearned for positive stories and art that showed a direction to pursue. And they wanted to act in the now to bring about that change.
Solarpunk is not the only movement towards protopia and progressive social change. And it should not be the only movement. But it adds its take on how to approach remediating current social and environmental and material crises.
The areas of focus are (but not limited to):
Post-scarcity: Food, Water, Shelter, Healthcare, Education, Transportation, and Energy (energy is focused on renewables, efficiencies, and lower energy requirements)
Social and environmental justice, minority and worker rights, equitable distribution of resources
Arts, beauty, aesthetics, culture
Rest, leisure, community bonds, and protection for individual rights
Some good places to start are:
Some sample solarpunk projects:
Beware:
Green Washing - Just cause its pretty doesn't mean its sustainable or solarpunk or non-exploitative.
Beware Capitalist Co-option - They like to sell back everything, including the concept of tearing down Capitalism
Solarpunk is a vibrant and living philosophy, style, and approach. It's not the end all be all and its not meant to be the end all be all. It has it's issues and legitimate criticism. But its an approach that generates hope and it committed to dealing with actual issues using actual pragmatic solutions within the constraint of actual ethics.
During a time when we're all beat down and exhausted and fearful - solarpunk pushes back and says Fuck That. I'm going to live. I'm going to be happy. And I'm going to work to ensure that everyone else lives and is happy.
[#]solarPunk #mutualAid
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In this time of search engine decline and AI flooding the net with trash...
...it's time to bring back curated information. Expert reseachers and tomes of information.
This is the age of the librarian.
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Following up on what we actually accomplished at last night's first local Food Not Bombs meeting:
I can't help them organize as I'm focused on organizing my own mutual aid groups (food rescue and free fridges), but I participated in the meeting, gave information and my own experience, suggested next steps, and I'll probably be able to volunteer with them.
Big thing for me, is I'm looking for places I can drop my food off that others can distribute. So they're a great group to work with on that.
Heck, in Richmond the Free / Community Fridge group and the Food Not Bombs group got together and leased out a Free Kitchen!
Check that out here: https://richmondmagazine.com/restaurants-in-richmond/matchbox-mutual-aid/
Next steps, since a lot of us aren't experienced in Food Not Bombs directly, we're going to make a trip down to Richmond and up to DC at some point soon to join their Food Not Bombs on one or more of their cooks and distributions.
We'll help them out and gain experience and hands on training that we can then bring back to our town.
Mutual Aid Groups mutually aiding other Mutual Aid Groups.
This shit stacks and scales, yo.
[#]solarPunk #mutualAid #community #foodNotBombs
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Does your job help further the fascist regime?
You know all those things you hate from those coworkers who don't get anything done and just make things worse?
What if they're the good guys?!?!
What if you could JOIN THEM?!?!
Here is an excerpt from the CIA Simple Sabotage Field Manual:
General Interference with Organizations and Production
(a) Organizations and Conferences
(1) Insist on doing everything through "channels." Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.
(~) Make "speeches," Talk as frequently as possible and at great length., Illustrate your. "points.. by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate patriotic comments,
(~) When possible, refer all matters to 'committees, for "further study and consideration." Attempt to make the committees as large as possible - never less than five.
(1) Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.
(ยง) Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.
(Q) Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the
question of the advisability of that decision, CD Advocate "caution." Be unreasonable and urge your fellow-conferees to be "reasonable" and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.
(!!) Be worried about the propriety any decision - raise the question of whether such action as is contemplated Hes within the jurisdiction of the group 01'whether it might conflict with the policy of some higher echelon.
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(b) Managers and Supervisors
(1) Demand written orders.
(~) Misunderstand" orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders. Quibble over them when you can.
~ Do everything possible to delay -the delivery of orders. Even though parts of an order may be ready beforehand, don't deliver it until it is completely ready.
(1) Don't order new working' materials until your current stocks have been virtually exhausted, so that .the slightest delay in filling your order will mean a shutdown.
(Q) Order high-quality materials which are hard to get. If you don't get them argue about it. Warn that inferior materials will mean inferior work.
(Q) In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first. See that the important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers of poor machines.
(1) Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products; send back for refinishing those which have the least flaw. Approve other defective parts whose flaws are not visible to the naked eye.
(!!) Make mistakes in routing so that parts and materials will be sent to the wrong place in the plant.
(Q) When training new workers, give incomplete or misleading instructions
(10) To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.
(11) Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.
Multiply paper work in plausible ways. Start duplicate files.
(13) Multiply the procedures and clearances involved in issuing instructions, pay checks, and so on. See that three people have to approve everything where one would do.
(14) Apply all regulations to the last letter.
(c) Office Workers
(1) Make mistakes in quantities of material when you are copying orders. Confuse similar names. Use wrong addresses.
(~) Prolong correspondence with government bureaus.
(~) Misfile essential documents.
(1) In making carbon copies, make one too few, so that an extra copying job will have to
be done.
(5) Tell important callers the boss is busy or talking on another telephone.
(~) Hold up mail until the next collection. Spread disturbing rumors that sound like inside dope.
(d) Employees
(1) Work slowly. Think out ways to increase the number of movements necessary on your job: use a light hammer instead of a heavy one, try to make' a small wrench do when a big one is necessary, use little force where considerable force is needed, and so on.
(~) Contrive as many interruptions to your work as you can: when changing the material on which you are working, as you would on a lathe or punch, take needless time to do it. If you are cutting, shaping or doing other measured work, measure dimensions twice as often as you need to. When you go to the lavatory, spend a longer time there than is necessary. Forget tools so that you will have to go back after them.
(~) Even it you understand the language, pretend not to understand instructions in a foreign tongue.
(1) Pretend that instructions are hard to understand, and ask to have them repeated more than once. Or pretend that you are particularly anxious to do your work, and pester the foreman with unnecessary questions.
(.ยง.) Do your. work poorly and blame it on bad tools, machinery, or equipment. Complain that these things are preventing you from doing your job right.
(ยง) Never pass on your skill and experience to a new or less skillful worker. Snarl up administration in every possible way. Fill out forms illegibly so, that they will have to be done over; make mlstakes or omit requested information in forms.
(!!) If possible, join or help organize a group for presenting employee problems to the management. See that the procedures adopted are as inconvenient as possible for the management, involving the presence of a large number of employees at each presentation, entailing more than one meeting for each grievance, bringing up problems which are largely imaginary, and so on.
(~) Misroute materials.
(10) Mix good parts with unusable scrap and rejected parts.
(12) General Devices for Lowering Morale and Creating Confusion
(a) Give lengthy and incomprehensible explanations when questioned.
(b) Report imaginary spies or danger to their police.
(c) Act stupid.
(d) Be as irritable and, quarrelsome as possible without getting yourself into trouble.
(e) Misunderstand all sorts of regulations concerning such matters as rationing, transportation, traffic regulations.
(f) Complain against ersatz materials.
(g) In public treat axis nationals or quislings coldly,
(h) stop all conversation when axis nationals or quislings enter a cafe,
(1) Cry and sob hysterically at every occasion, especially when confronted by government clerks.
(j) Boycott all movies, entertainments, concerts, newspapers which are in any way connected with the quisling authorities.
(k) Do not cooperate in salvage schemes
[#]WhatCanIDo #fascist
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So the local Food Not Bombs meeting went well!
It was the first meeting. We all introduced each other and got a feel for skills and experience.
I pegged one person as being an undercover cop.
(They had a very open disdain for police - insisting on saying ACAB when the conversation had nothing to do with police, etc. They used outdated terms or caricatures and stereotypes of how people who aren't leftist see leftists. They had no connections to the community or other similar projects and appeared to have "just materialized" into this movement. They tried real hard to ingrain themselves as likable without contributing much. Basically a try hard.)
(Edit to add based on responses: They were not socially awkward or a newbie or neurodivergent - We had plenty of those folks too and they were welcomed. The above behaviors are distinct to undercover cops - and distinctly different from your run of of the mill awkwardness or sociability issues or just being new to a group or movement)
Quick aside on this... Undercover cops join mutual aid groups generally just to monitor them. Generally after a while, they get bored and move on only to check in on time to time. Cool.
IF they decide to disrupt the group, they'll do it in one of two ways (or both):
So, how to deal with this?
First, is to assume "compromise". Just accept that there's a couple undercover folks there. Neat. A fact of life.
Second, don't do anything grossly illegal with public groups. Misdemeanors will happen. Look at Food Not Bombs Houston when they were (are) targeted by the city and get little fines every time they serve homeless folks. Also INTENTIONAL civil disobedience is a thing - but the entire group (undercover cops and all) will openly acknowledge it, understand and prepare for the consequences, and you'll know what you're getting into. (See sit ins and other direct action protests). But don't go off and commit illegal acts. ESPECIALLY if someone asked you to do it.
Third, call out anyone publicly and openly who advocates illegal acts (even and especially if they approached you privately). Use it as a way to gentle-parent correct the undercover cop (or misguided sincere colleague) on what proper action is.
Lastly, get the suspected undercover cop to engage in your goals. Get them to feed people! Watch for sabotage and check their work a bit more closely of course, but hey! the more hands the better! ๐
Edit also to add: DON'T TRY TO DETECT OR ROOT OUT UNDERCOVER COPS! - Like... I have a suspicion on this guy... but I really don't care. If you try to find the myriad of bad, you'll start to think everyone is bad. Instead... just treat everyone the same - regardless of whether you suspect them or not. If someone wants you to do something illegal... don't do it. Even if you think they're a normal person. - See my entire section on how paranoia can also destroy a group.
(Okay, not a quick aside. I'll just conclude here, lol)
[#]solarPunk #mutualAid #community
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Community meetings that I have scheduled:
Tonight:
6pm - Local Food Not Bombs (folks are attempting to restart it. I'm not leading this effort but I might be able to help them as I work in food in my town as well)
7pm - Local NAACP (they have a food initiative that I might be able to work with - yay mutual aid efficiencies!)
Next Week:
A lot of cool stuff going on in my town. This is just food (and not all of it... there's still the food bank / food pantries and the local hot food places). There are even more meetings and groups in other areas of mutual aid.
What community groups have you found in your area?
[#]solarPunk #mutualAid #community
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Just heard AOC say:
"If there are no more good people in the world, then I want to be the last one."
I think I'll go to sleep for the night on that one.
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As for myself, I've been completely wrecked. Just destroyed. There's been days this week where I could not get out of bed.
I can't describe how dark my thoughts have been and low I've gotten.
So I slept it off as I could. Survived as I can.
I'm going to get up and go have some biscuits and gravy and meet a new friend.
I can't do any of this alone.
But I can lend my shoulder to my town and my community.
We'll get it done.
[#]mutualAid #community #solarPunk
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An amazing thing is happening in my town...
With all the bullshit that is going on in my country (USA), so many people in my town are rushing to do something about it. Folks are organizing now to start up a Food Not Bombs program, food rescue and free fridges are building, the LGBTQIA+ groups are going into overdrive, ICE watches are springing up.
Nothing like a terror and a monster to band people together...
[#]mutualAid #community #solarPunk
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Waking up early as I've been promised a breakfast of homemade biscuits and gravy!!!
Im headed over to a persons house to meet with them. A mutual aid colleague in town has to step down and rest so she's introducing me to another woman who is going to take her place. We're meeting over a meal to swap ideas and initiatives.
I suck at organizing people. I'm good at building programs. The person I'm meeting with is good at organizing people if there's a program apparatus to plug into. I think we'll get along fine.
[#]mutualAid #community #solarPunk
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Don't just react to whats coming down the pipe.
Fight against the current status quo or build something better (we need both).
Make them react to what we bring down the pipe.
Tired of standing flat footed clutching my pears. Got shit to do.
(edit: I'm keeping the typos, lol! ๐)
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Find your LGBTQIA+ groups in your town. Find out when they're meeting and lend support.
Everything flows... food, housing, medicine, immigrant rights, LGBTQIA+ rights, religious rights...
...your rights.
Now is the time to find and join and build community.
We're here. We're organized. We're acting.
You need to join us.
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What a beautiful morning.
Let's see what opportunities we have to stick a wrench into the gears of fascism with one hand...
...and commit acts of feeding, clothing, sheltering, and protecting people with the other.
Time to bring out the punk in Solar Punk.
[#]mutualAid #postScarcity #solarPunk #foodRescue #freeFridge
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Presented without comment.
ICE has a Tip Form.
[#]ice #immigration #deportation #raids
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And we're in open and outward fascism now.
Get plugged in to your local community. Join the NAACP (even if white). Join local immigrant rights groups.
You have to get plugged in.
If you ever wondered what you would do in Nazi Germany - this is it. You're doing it now.
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Like... at this:
I'm searching for how much water will a tomato plant need during its lifetime.
In the article, this is the section on "water usage":
"As your tomato plant grows, it will drink up the water from the Kratky reservoir, causing the water level to drop. You'll need to keep an eye on this and top up the reservoir as needed if the plant isn't ready to harvest yet."
THAT'S WRONG!!!!
THAT WILL KILL YOUR PLANT!!!
The whole point of Kratky Hydroponics is you give the plant as much water as it needs during its entire lifecycle. If you REFILL the reservoir as directed above, you will smother its air roots and DROWN the plant!
Not only is the AI wrong. It gives you advice that will destroy your project. It's giving the OPPOSITE of right.... not sure not accurate, but completely abjectly wrong.
[#]AI #LLM #google #DuckDuckGo #hydroponics #kratky
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Every "how-to" article in the search result is a preloaded AI question-answer.
And that sucks because non of these how-to articles are correct.
It's the same "how to say nothing in a thousand words or less" article over and over.
[#]AI #LLM #searchEngine #google #duckDuckGo
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At my local greasy spoon...
A pork sausage, egg, and cheese sandwich on bisquits (American) with sausage gravy over the top.
I've requested this custom so many times that they've named the dish!
It's called "The Volcano!"
[#]food #foodie
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At my local greasy spoon...
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