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HeliosPi

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On the peripheries.
Towards freedom's receding
yet effervescent horizon.

Or seeing -- just -- be-yond!
Oh damnation to domination!
Or seeing -- just --

Aptly we homo-sapiens are
better-labelled: "those who believe",
rather than "wise, intellegent".

So glad to be alive on the Earth right now
Words to reality a wind gust
Imagining the present
But placetime bro.
Oh multitude of human worlds!
In seeing is being seen.
An eternal stranger glancing
Passing, through the window
Of their car.

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@ninsiana0@mastodon.social avatar ninsiana0 , to bookstodon group

I'm currently very interested in SOLARPUNK, an offshoot of HOPEPUNK, that asks the questions, "What if the future was good, actually?" and "How do we heal our relationship with the earth & each other?"

Give me your recommendations, please. I need some hope.

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Some examples of Solarpunk I've read & loved: PLANETFALL by Emma Newman WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIME by Marge Piercy A PSALM FOR THE WILD-BUILT by Becky Chambers A PRAYER FOR THE CROWN-SHY by Becky Chambers A HALF-BUILT GARDEN by Ruthanne Emrys TOO LIKE THE LIGHTNING by Ada Palmer
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Hear hear! More utopia please. And utopia in the present now.

@oatmeal@kolektiva.social avatar oatmeal , to AcademicChatter group

Columbia gives up academic freedom for $400M

What made the university capitulation so devastating wasn’t just the individual policy changes, but how quickly institutional autonomy collapsed once the principle was breached. Columbia’s agreement follows this same pattern: transferring disciplinary authority from faculty to administrators, adopting government-mandated speech definitions, submitting to external monitoring, screening international students for ideological compliance, and reviewing curriculum content. The university justified each concession as necessary for survival, just as German institutions did.

Colleges in Nazi Germany thought giving in to government demands would save them https://www.alternet.org/universities-in-nazi-germany-and-the-soviet-union-thought-giving-in-to-government-demands-would-save-their-independence/

The agreement effectively allows the federal government to dictate campus speech policies, disciplinary procedures, and academic content through funding leverage, fundamentally altering ’s institutional governance structure.

https://apnews.com/article/columbia-trump-deal-00eef5dca9f003e593d2cb151f5cce17

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HeliosPi ,
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@oatmeal academicchatter@a.gup.pe icon AcademicChatter group histodons@a.gup.pe icon histodons group As pointed out elsewhere Columbia admin. want these authoritarian reforms and the Trump admin. demands allow them to do so with less pushback and accountability.

@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social avatar GrapheneOS , to random

ICEBlock is making incredibly false privacy claims for marketing. They falsely claim it provides complete anonymity when it doesn't. They're ignoring both data kept by Apple and data available to the server but not stored. They're also spreading misinformation about Android:

https://www.iceblock.app/android

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@GrapheneOS Thanks for the insights. Are y'all aware of the ICE Tea watch app? https://icetea.peoplesrebellion.org/

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    HeliosPi ,
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    @gerrymcgovern @PaulWermer
    @alcinnz
    And what capitalism has always been. But humanity on the other hand has a diverse history, and beyond, of different social organizations and ethos and pathos. Such as how indigenous people have been stewards of nature for a long time for mutual benefit.

    HeliosPi ,
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    @Torstein @gerrymcgovern @PaulWermer
    @alcinnz

    People of the distant past were far more populous than previously assumed. This summary from 'Beyond kingdoms and empires", for example:

    "Tropical landscapes that resisted terrestrial survey are giving up their secrets. In place of blanks on the map, we’re now able to see highly cultivated landscapes with massive infrastructure stretching back to the early centuries BCE. Road networks, terraces, ceremonial earthworks, planned residential neighbourhoods, and regional settlement systems ordered into patterns of geometrical precision can be traced across Amazonia, from Brazil to Bolivia, as far as the eastern foothills of the Andes. In certain parts of Amazonia, the forest itself turns out to be a product of past human interaction with the soil. Over time, this generated the rich ‘anthropogenic’ earths called terra preta de índio (‘black earth of the Indians’), with levels of fertility far in excess of ordinary tropical soils. Scientists now believe that between 10,000 and 20,000 large-scale sites remain to be discovered across Amazonia. Similarly startling finds are emerging from Southeast Asia, and we might reasonably expect them from the forested parts of the African continent too."
    https://aeon.co/essays/an-archeological-revolution-transforms-our-image-of-human-freedoms

    Then according this study "People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years",

    "... the cultural shaping and use of ecosystems and landscapes is not, in itself, the primary cause of the current extinction crisis, and neither is the conversion of untouched wildlands, which were nearly as rare 10,000 y ago as they are today. The primary cause of declining biodiversity, at least in recent times, is the appropriation, colonization, and intensifying use of lands already inhabited, used, and reshaped by current and prior societies."
    https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2023483118

    @AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

    shrugs

    I dunno what anyone wants me to say; McBride doesn't speak for me and the situation is terrifying. By that same measure however, I told you that these folks were going to happily toss trans people to the wolves to make out with fascists and those of you arguing with me that this wasn't the case were just blatantly ignoring that the Democrats were ALREADY DOING so to court suburban cracker voters that picked Trump anyway. Superficial representation isn't liberation and I told you so.

    HeliosPi ,
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    @AnarchoNinaWrites That's understandable sentiment. Similar occurred in France under Nazi domination, but there were wide underground networks to smuggle people to safety and to resist in other ways.

    Crimethinc has rad analysis here of what can be done now and later:
    https://crimethinc.com/2024/11/20/the-case-for-resistance-what-were-up-against-and-what-it-could-look-like-to-fight

    Here's several ideas from jewish anarchists:
    https://itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do-nothing-20-things-you-can-do-to-counter-fascism/ Such as make soup and invite people over for soup.

    Black Rose Rosa Negra also has some solid advice:
    https://www.blackrosefed.org/dont-panic-organize-trump-election/