🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

So I setup a list of maybe 30 highly active matrix rooms organized into Matrix Spaces on the QOTO Matrix server (though you can access them from any spaces enabled matrix server).

Just login to your existing matrix account on any server, or register for a free one at https://element.qoto.org (registration open to everyone). Then join any of the following spaces (make sure you turn on spaces in your config under labs first).

Please let me know if you have any rooms you'd like to suggest to be added to any of the below spaces. Also, feel free to create your own space and share it.

#QOTO_space:qoto.org - Rooms related to QOTO itself

#Fediverse_space:qoto.org - Various rooms from matrix servers that have a fediverse hosted as part of the same community.

#STEM_space:qoto.org - A collection of general topic STEM rooms like Electronics, Physics, Math, etc.

#Regional_space:qoto.org - Rooms specific to Countries, towns or regions around the world.

#Projects_space:qoto.org - Channels for various open-source projects

#linux-distros_space:qoto.org - Rooms for various linux distribtuion flavors.

#Matrix #Mastoadmin #OSS #FLOSS #FOSS #STEM @QOTO #QOTO

@Stuxhost Carpe up some god damn fucking Diem my friend!

When I was younger, I thought that the defining distinction between #theLeft and #theRight was **solidarity** — as in, the former necessarily _has_ to have way more of it than the latter.

Gradually I came to realise that characterisation is problematic for three reasons:

1. #Leftists want to _impose_ #solidarity, which is an oxymoron (by definition, you can't mandate voluntary inclinations, such as affection or desire, on people).
1. In practice, and at least in my own country (#Spain), the Left has become pro-independence and sympathetic towards secessionists (but more solidarity would require larger unions, stronger federations — not the richest regions going their own way).
1. Sometimes the Right puts in practice _more_ solidarity towards certain groups or causes (eg, non-elites, non-conformists, disadvantaged people who reject the orthodoxy) than the Left itself.

I now think that the **ratio _personal freedom_ vs _economic freedom_** better categorises Left vs. Right (cf #NolanChart). I like to think of those two dimensions as “#freedom to do what you please with your **body**” (food, drugs, euthanasia, suicide, sex, read, speech, thought, association, religion) and “freedom to do what you please with your **property**” (save, invest, buy, sell, donate, build, trade, settle).

This is not a defence of #anarchism or #libertarianism, by the way — I do believe _certain_ restrictions on both kinds of liberties are necessary for any society to function at all.

#programming #monday