Small is more careful vs. Small is beautiful - E.F. Schumacher
Small is more careful
So 'Small is beautiful' yes but with more of a precise word like 'careful' it's a bit a bit more measurable.
So careful could be be better imagined as:
● portable / transportable
● scaled down
● practical
● individually manageable
● low consumption low hoarding
● hand assisted almost only
Overall need
Less ● people,
Less ● tools,
Less ● wrong can happen / more adjust-as-you go or "on-the-fly"
● Smaller mistakes
Less ●waste and ●risks a lot less.
Video is just a side note to the above perhaps:
●‘Small is Beautiful – Economics as if People Mattered’ (1973) E.F. Schumacher
https://invidious.dhusch.de/watch?v=leglMoxrRDA
#ecocide #technology #economics #green #politicalhistory #environment #pollution #ecologicalcrisis #extinctionrebellion #climate #climatecrisis #consuming le$$
Few days late tweeting this, but ...
new analysis of the UK’s adaptation investment priorities from the Climate Change Committee with warning:
"A lack of leadership is preventing essential investment to prepare the UK for climate change"
https://www.theccc.org.uk/2023/02/01/a-lack-of-leadership-is-preventing-essential-investment-to-prepare-the-uk-for-climate-change/
Greed Trumps Need - Palmer Report
Their biggest mistake was choosing United Healthcare. They routinely deny coverage. That's how their CEO is able to receive a 65 million dollar salary. When I was insured by UHC I was forced to appeal 2-3 times per year. No other insurance company has caused me to appeal even once.
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/greed-trumps-need/48837/
Truth is a process, not a property:
“The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. Truth *happens* to an idea. It *becomes* true, is *made* true by events. Its verity *is* in fact an event, a process, the process, namely, of its verifying itself, its veri-*fication*.”
William James (1907). Pragmatist’s conception of the truth. https://doi.org/10.2307/2012189
Few quotes follow: 🧵👉
#PhilosophyOfScience
#PhilSci
@philosophyofscience
@philosophy
#Truth
#Pragmaticism
#WilliamJames
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Answering the call... The Hero's Journey...
The Hero's Journey...Answering the call...
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=s8nFACrLxr0
Quite the summary of my life somehow!
MORE INFO BELOW...
FINDING JOE feat. Deepak Chopra, Robin Sharma, Rashida Jones, Sir Ken Robinson and more...
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=s8nFACrLxr0
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2,438 Comments
Mar 19, 2020
In the early 20th century, while studying world mythology, Joseph Campbell discovered a pattern hidden in every story ever told and he called it �The Hero's Journey�. A truly inspirational film, FINDING JOE takes us on the ultimate hero's journey: the journey of self discovery. As you slay dragons and uncover treasures, you just may find that the holy grail you seek is closer than you think.
If you've seen this film then you know how much of an impact it could make in the world!
A message from the Producer:
"If you haven't seen it then you are in for a treat! This is hope, courage and love all wrapped up in an 80 minute burrito of inspiration. I promise who ever you share this with thank you. Please share this with as many people as you can... the world needs this message now! With Maximum Love ~ Patrick Takaya Solomon"
The official full length version of FINDING JOE: A story about Joseph Campbell and The Hero's Journey.
Starring:
Deepak Chopra
Rashida Jones
Robin Sharma
Sir Ken Robinson
Mick Fleetwood
Brian Johnson
Robert Walter
Rebbecca Armstrong
Alan Cohen
Tony Hawk
Laird Hamilton
Gay Hendricks
Justice is Local & Remote Justice...
Justice is Local & Remote...
●Local Action
●Remote Considerations/Actions...
- Always a mix.
- We are responsible locally and remotely
(to all others)
- What you don't do locally or work towards for others far away, is being less responsible or completely 'irresponsible' in an overall human sense (to the whole species).
It's never been just about only yourself and always been mixed of [you]+[I]+[planet]
●you and I
●planet
BUT also now more than ever we are connected and there is a Domino Effect even by using computers and less using what people think... less upgrading the older miindsets in people and more just 'users'.
Still the 'people work' and 'evolution in mind' is what needs rewarding / increment more often no matter which tech or way we use.
Talking about this constantly as part of every day and week helps upgrade *people*. All the games have changed or expanded (especially from what parents knew or taught us as 'correct' or 'concrete' on some quite sketchy grounds now.
So now is the time to learn..
(ask me anything). And just make best we can with what game-makers/authority have decided more and more to trap us in.. and not love / care our way out of..
@rmondello my go to is “non-technical friend”
EVERYONE IS TO BLAME (EVERYONE HAS RESPONSIBILITY)...
It's everyone who doesn't know what they are doing...
(for example buying coffee by the ton and thinking it's / can come ethically because they said so or now they put on a tree or frog logo suddenly)
Responsibility is increased by others who leverage the masses BUT ANYWAY TO START WITH You AND Everyone HAD TO KNOW:
IT COULDN'T EVER BE THIS EASY WITHOUT FALLOUT / REDUCING OTHERS.
Finding peace and humanity only through war is worrying...
Finding peace and humanity only through war is worrying, AND bad practise when countries stress each other other to contribute more stress/escalate/hide intentions of furthing war... which I think ALL are doing through cheating people using money/debt based economy.
So just the 'head' of snakes and war 'heads' are not the only contributing factor... it's everyone who doesn't know what they are doing (for example buying coffee by the ton and thinking it's / can come ethically because they said so or put a tree or frog logo suddenly).
Published in 2016, this brilliant comic by artist Joe Dater somehow feels even more timely in 2023. #art
The DoS attack against mastodon.online and mastodon.social is not very sophisticated. The attacker is using Digital Ocean to send various HTTP requests from multiple IP addresses at the same time. It's enough to exhaust Nginx worker connections. The useragents are spoofed. That's basically it. It will be mitigated, and this will make the network stronger. #ActivityPub #DDoS #InfoSec
These two photos show my packing area. I operate in two small rooms, containing 4 desks: disassembly area, soldering/hacking area where I work on mainboards, OS installation area (photo with cute osboot logo showing) and table for packing materials.
I run a tight ship.
How to get out of a Ponzi scheme? (borrowing / debt based economy)...
How to get out of a Ponzi scheme?
How to get out of borrowing from people (and banks) that are in debt themselves and find it hard / imposdible to pay back ?
Another loan from same bad system doesn't work / only makes it worse! / speeds up debt
Jevons Paradox = Adding highways as Tech 'solutions' only for them to fill up... ANSWER =Focus on actions - not on measurements...
Jevons Paradox - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
TLDR= Adding highways as Tech 'solutions' only for them to fill up...
Answer= Focus on actions - not on measurements...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Keywords:
#Tech #congestion
#urbanplanning #traffic #cities
#JevonsParadox #transportation
computers like #cars
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https://mastodon.online/@BrentToderian/109385967288757785
Nov 22, 2022
Brent Toderian @BrentToderian
"Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity." - Lewis Mumford in 1955.
We’ve known this for a long time, but we’ve put a massive amount of money, space, time & energy into pretending we don’t know it.
#InducedDemand #lawofcongestion #traffic #congestion #cities #JevonsParadox #transportation #mobility #urbanism #urbanplanning #cars
2. " Focus on actions - not on measurements... "
A Plea for Climate Justice - Report from the IAB Workshop on e-Impact
Vesna Manojlovic — 19 Dec 2022
This resulted in suggestions that were well received by workshop chairs and quoted in the follow-up sessions:
10% yearly decrease of energy & materials consumption for ICT;
Focus on actions - not on measurements;
Support for adding "Sustainability Considerations" section to each RFC!
what should be considered "the Internet": core? edge? whole ICT?
I also disagree with a focus of this paper* on "increasing energy efficiency" , because I believe that the focus should be on decreasing the consumption.
While I do find encouraging the existence of a group of technology vendors, service and content providers would be interested in "Greening of Streaming", I find their focus on increasing energy efficiency is misguided, because of "efficacy myth"♢ and Jevons paradox☆.
♢ https://computingwithinlimits.org/2022/papers/limits22-final-Makonin.pdf
Question: What to do with old 48x CD-ROM or a DVD-ROM drive at end of life?...
● Question: What to do with old 48x CD-ROM or a DVD-ROM drive at end of life?
Imagine it's dead (which it isn't just keep making slipped disc noises)
It's quite heavy like literally A BRICK to use the mobile phrase but this has the dimension of real ■brick■ too !
Not sure if I'd even want to attempt fix
...could be belt drive and anyway sometimes newer is best for these things right? (Not to end with scratched discs? laser gives after a while? )
It's about changing / opening our minds...
I give people time and I thnk that's the difference to others online who really don't have or give time and give up on people really easy... (don't mean to be competitive, no put-downs, just I more dedicate time to others and weave us together).
So you don't even have to read any of this because EVERYTHING needs time + communication and without that a lot is broken and even less human even if it's for good...
Just follow and put notifications on to TEST MY FEED.... the rest below is just over-info for most poeple.
Open Learning School or Freedom University...
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A lot you might be at length and depth, but if you're easy about it, you can take the best and even take me along to understand life with others!
To learn and do everything practically! (this is a practical living (and gets stuff done as much as we can).
Fan of Fediverse!
Quick Look - peace-loving work / services:
█ Mini-Podcast (few mins each, examples below)
█ Picture remixes / video remixes
█ Lessons without being too 'teacher' about it. Teacher has teeth for eliminating doubt.
█ Food for thought as gentle soul also.
█ Unique ideas - often impossible for professionals (they are burdened by financial repsonsibility and therefore associational risk in saying things). I'm more diverse and occasionally direct (with respect, though I don't shy away from reminding people).
█ Not too embarrassing to say "I don't know" but can still chase things.
█ More responsive than casual users usually because people think having 'job' is enough in life. I say it's not! And even faimily is of no use if it's only getting worse (in everything!).
Podcast Examples:
1. Gary Ackerman's thoughts on AI
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/111867522723922385
2. The Little Prince book
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/111845561003150354
3. Fantasy genre from a fan's perspective
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/111845709367492677
I help people create audio / edit educational audio / podcast / music / visual short videos / transcript text
+ I like to add a bit humour while being quite strict in my own politics (opinions) but open / inviting for others to tell me what I should do if they can explain more than just a short comment (I don't mind it's healthy for me at least if you have logic and can stand yourself explaining).
FreeSchool is about Learning towards Freedom (which is about Uniting everyone slowly, even "1 by 1"... Easy with The Fediverse!
Not virtue signalling here only, but practise of EVERYTHING as we go. Judged by getting in contact (many have) and having courage to communicate (or seeking it from others is ok, EVERYONE needs a bit of courage or hand-holding to make big personal changes). Who else is there for example if family doesn't understand?
Learning and watching can be good and staying out of people's way, BUT better is doing something every day and helping each other with some tough decisions / lessons... and then being bold enough to do them. 1... 2... 3 that is all that's needed.
Let my posts do most of the talking.
Put me on notification (click bell that appears after follow ia accepted) and if it's not interesting switch off after and tick me off the list of potential people to follow daily!
Media version of my posts here... open link for later... good for visual scrolling version and judge me on that I don't mind...
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/media
I'm usually impressed with my media gallery as I work on posts a lot usually or hit the "Aha!" moments and capture it (other people may forget it for years, not me!).
Freedom is about *making it work together* better like using #Mastodon on the #Fediverse daily for better platforms with more #bestpractices and 'best' people to help us which I kind of collect here and
when it's #1 comment!
I am measurably better because I reply and stick to everything to the end(!)
No cancelling friendship suddenly without saying why or being moody!
Freedom is to Learn, Respect and Love eventually and ️to Unite!
Practically it's also like Tetris - add yourself to the puzzle and watch it all happen...
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talk more on Mastodon and the Fediverse and puzzle it all out using better ways to less use the other bad commercial / extractive people...
L£$$ of the less caring people like the ggl's / ytb / gmail / mainstream communication points etc who are offering lots of space 'free' and it's not free of peace there.
We GIVE to real people (TIME NOT JUST MONEY).
There's no buy-in solution - we have to make it with selotape or whatever we have - it's not shameful to bring whatever you have.
FreeSchool is terminology put together from many good things from past (coined in 1950's/60's. I / we become it eventually through being.
It's a movement for Freedom via Learning it all (learning self included and less active stuff) and doing the learning *together* --> https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeschool.
I encourage you warmly to participate with me as a I have time and then spiral out naturally to others (we are part of humanity and so naturally a sort of evangelism or ecological pyramid of life as we choose to spread lesser suffering while accepting consuming is part of it).
Less-commercial in orientation (in everything) and happy to think / work for free.
Naturally you will hesitate if someone is sure of themself or ok standing on shoulders what we copy do the best from humbly but not too sterile either.
Based on just emotions ruins almost everything, which seems very common - very ungraceful - so don't disconnect... do it gracefully at least!
A "school" of thought is here you can interact / ask and make best together as free/low cost as possible.
Even a bad answer you can take best from (of course I won't know all your situation when I suggest something but I don't need to answer 100% - you also need to help me!).
Leave perfectionism, we are all imperfect humans! Let's do it... Choose something ANYTHING and keep the thoughts rolling together...!
All content under the Creative Commons license CC-BY-SA-NC. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/?ref=chooser-v1 Thereby, ideally, only using tools and resources that are #FLOSS #OpenSource. #nobot