It's good to see your enthusiasm for freedom and informed autonomy. The technologies are able to be used by moral actors to accomplish ethical goals. We have been living in an increasingly decentralised world for many decades. Open source encryption, operating systems, software, and hardware has been developed for many purposes.
One project of particular interest to me is making knowledge and technology anti-fragile for thousands of years. The interplanetary file system is one of the more gratifying developments in recent years. Decentralised knowledge systems are growing in scope and shrinking in cost.
Financial autonomy is also developing new levels of sophistication. People are and of right ought to be free.
I sorry but didn't read the entire stack. I share your goals and see the need to inform more people. I admire the depth of your caring. Thank you.
> Those at the forefront of breaking new ground take the time to learn simple physics, a programming language or two, and a bit of engineering. The more skills these cyber rebels learn, the more cyberspace can be reclaimed for noble causes.
REPLY: I agree with your article. I am a member of fsf.org for many years. The roots of what you explain have been the bedrock of fsf.org work. Bless you all.
Still we actually face an even greater difficulty. The poisoning of the Earth, via air, water, soil, food, and of course cyber space and our cognitive space. See Jessica Rose [ https://jessicar.substack.com/p/taking-the-c-out-of-confusion-on ] Taking the 'C' out of confusion: On-fusion - Disarming the confusion creators ...
Sadly even when we know who the corporations are that foul our ground water, we cannot make them clean it up. It maybe that the only way is via nature which can take thousands of years.
I applaud Cyber Resistance. The deep problem is health of body mind emotions and planet. In 1970s the USA was 4th in the world in health and longevity. In 2020 or there about the USA had fallen to 79th in health and longevity.
Is it hard to be healthy? It gets harder every year, with the continued onslaught of Corporate pollution and the pollution the people of the Earth make through ignorance. Everyone believes they are healthy. Do people really know what health is?
I worry that claims of a polluted information landscape are overblown.
I won't deny there are issues and that it's generally bad, but the crucial distinction is that this is largely an individual problem.
I can't "solve" somebody else's information environment. I can only point to tools and techniques that I've found helpful to tune out the noise and preserve what's important.
"Social media bad" is an easy drum to beat, but I can't help but notice that the "solutions" generally offered are awful. I don't want leaders, government, or corporations to "fix" the problem.
I want people to make use of the tools to rebuild genuine community on and offline without being beholden to corrupt institutions.
Pardon the rant. I agree with the main thrust of your point!
> I don't want leaders, government, or corporations to "fix" the problem.
REPLY: I would hate that also. That is why fsf.org has meant so much to me. It is a seat of your pants solution. Checkout Linus Torvalds office and compare with Gates. Open source and free software (free as in FREEDOM) are the way to go. Open Hardware is next!
Also people like Kevin McKernan call for open source science (Jessica Rose too). If we have Open Source science it would be impossible to have the madness of the last 4+ years. [ https://medicinalgenomics.com/team/kevin-mckernan ]
The problem with pollution really begins to roll with the Industrial Revolution. Why? Because then Corporate man (not the laborer) began making combinations of things that are very hard for nature to recycle. Also things like Aluminum which nature had taken out of circulation because it is toxic to life were once again put into circulation. Check out Bhopal India and the Union Carbide Disaster. Enough said.
Sorry for the newbie question, but how do see your page? I plugged that address into the search bar at mostr.pub or even added it after the URL with a /, but I can't see it.
Plus, the Greta Thunberg on their home page scares me a bit. LOL
It's cause threads is more establishment friendly, that site bridges the fediverse, threads, and nostr all together.
Both profiles can be seen from ditto.pub which is where I use nostr from these days.
You just throw the npub string into the address bar, because technically nostr profiles don't exist on any service but on the relays they're connected to.
It's good to see your enthusiasm for freedom and informed autonomy. The technologies are able to be used by moral actors to accomplish ethical goals. We have been living in an increasingly decentralised world for many decades. Open source encryption, operating systems, software, and hardware has been developed for many purposes.
One project of particular interest to me is making knowledge and technology anti-fragile for thousands of years. The interplanetary file system is one of the more gratifying developments in recent years. Decentralised knowledge systems are growing in scope and shrinking in cost.
Financial autonomy is also developing new levels of sophistication. People are and of right ought to be free.
Good day Gabriel,
I sorry but didn't read the entire stack. I share your goals and see the need to inform more people. I admire the depth of your caring. Thank you.
> Those at the forefront of breaking new ground take the time to learn simple physics, a programming language or two, and a bit of engineering. The more skills these cyber rebels learn, the more cyberspace can be reclaimed for noble causes.
REPLY: I agree with your article. I am a member of fsf.org for many years. The roots of what you explain have been the bedrock of fsf.org work. Bless you all.
Still we actually face an even greater difficulty. The poisoning of the Earth, via air, water, soil, food, and of course cyber space and our cognitive space. See Jessica Rose [ https://jessicar.substack.com/p/taking-the-c-out-of-confusion-on ] Taking the 'C' out of confusion: On-fusion - Disarming the confusion creators ...
Sadly even when we know who the corporations are that foul our ground water, we cannot make them clean it up. It maybe that the only way is via nature which can take thousands of years.
I applaud Cyber Resistance. The deep problem is health of body mind emotions and planet. In 1970s the USA was 4th in the world in health and longevity. In 2020 or there about the USA had fallen to 79th in health and longevity.
Is it hard to be healthy? It gets harder every year, with the continued onslaught of Corporate pollution and the pollution the people of the Earth make through ignorance. Everyone believes they are healthy. Do people really know what health is?
Thank you!
I worry that claims of a polluted information landscape are overblown.
I won't deny there are issues and that it's generally bad, but the crucial distinction is that this is largely an individual problem.
I can't "solve" somebody else's information environment. I can only point to tools and techniques that I've found helpful to tune out the noise and preserve what's important.
"Social media bad" is an easy drum to beat, but I can't help but notice that the "solutions" generally offered are awful. I don't want leaders, government, or corporations to "fix" the problem.
I want people to make use of the tools to rebuild genuine community on and offline without being beholden to corrupt institutions.
Pardon the rant. I agree with the main thrust of your point!
Not a rant to me as I am part of the choir.
> I don't want leaders, government, or corporations to "fix" the problem.
REPLY: I would hate that also. That is why fsf.org has meant so much to me. It is a seat of your pants solution. Checkout Linus Torvalds office and compare with Gates. Open source and free software (free as in FREEDOM) are the way to go. Open Hardware is next!
Also people like Kevin McKernan call for open source science (Jessica Rose too). If we have Open Source science it would be impossible to have the madness of the last 4+ years. [ https://medicinalgenomics.com/team/kevin-mckernan ]
The problem with pollution really begins to roll with the Industrial Revolution. Why? Because then Corporate man (not the laborer) began making combinations of things that are very hard for nature to recycle. Also things like Aluminum which nature had taken out of circulation because it is toxic to life were once again put into circulation. Check out Bhopal India and the Union Carbide Disaster. Enough said.
Keep up the good work Gabriel.
I think I am somewhere between Digital Nomad & Cyber Muse.
Would love to be more of a Cyber Homesteader though. Need to start putting more efforts into that...
Great resources.
I started a Noster (Primal) page as a backup for when I eventually get booted from X. I have a whopping 3 followers!
https://primal.net/p/npub1thhfcrj0shrg7t9qw22d8gcf6a59lxg7fd7mc7zjyaq900wa4cuq0l4zdh
Do you have a Nostr page somewhere Gabriel?
Yep, I have one for LSN:
npub127sumzfyvrxjm7v222y226ext4mh0xad79pq7lx8jgnn3vxsffsqz8uezu
I'm not great at keeping it up to date but I do use it occasionally!
You can also follow my main LSN account on the fediverse through the mostr bridge (mostr.pub)
npub1v5vuemdfxlv5pyqmllmecdcnw8fercus0knqdxvf005vyp76xvmqs9n0ys
Sorry for the newbie question, but how do see your page? I plugged that address into the search bar at mostr.pub or even added it after the URL with a /, but I can't see it.
Plus, the Greta Thunberg on their home page scares me a bit. LOL
It's cause threads is more establishment friendly, that site bridges the fediverse, threads, and nostr all together.
Both profiles can be seen from ditto.pub which is where I use nostr from these days.
You just throw the npub string into the address bar, because technically nostr profiles don't exist on any service but on the relays they're connected to.
So, I did this:
https://primal.net/p/npub1v5vuemdfxlv5pyqmllmecdcnw8fercus0knqdxvf005vyp76xvmqs9n0ys
and it gives me a page that has 43 notes and says: Joined Nostr on Apr 17, 2024, is that you?
Sounds about right!
Some great links! Thanks for sharing Gabriel. 🙏