Vesna Manojlovic @becha@v.st

Anaïs Nin on why emotional excess is essential to writing and creativity https://www.themarginalian.org/2012/09/03/anais-nin-on-emotion-and-writing/

Working without electricity: Kosovo’s great experiment
https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/articles/working-without-electricity-kosovo-great-experiment

@necrosis obligatory https://cybersquirrel1.com/

I'm looking to learn about the legal concerns in the Fediverse.

If you can take a minute to complete this five question Google Forms survey it would be a great help!

https://forms.gle/FuPPNhseDcGyaSQv5

English Nursery Rhyme c. 1764

'They hang the man and flog the woman
that steal the goose from off the common,
but let the greater villain loose
that steals the common from the goose.

The law demands that we atone
when we take things we do not own,
but leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who take things that are yours and mine.'

#enclosures #inequality

"This process is local, reactive, belated and sometimes conflictual. [...] It looks more like firefighting, or sailing through a storm, than like the rationally planned, harmonious effort advocated publicly by experts in the Global North." Sailing through the storm: learning from local knowledge about the #ClimateCrisis in the Global South. https://www.undp.org/acceleratorlabs/blog/Collective-Intelligence-for-the-Climate-Crisis

Let me write something and say it out loud, very very loud:

#OFFDEM <3 <3 <3 <3

People / folks / attendees / participants / organizers / helpers in #OFFDEM <3 <3 <3 <3

"We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it." Excellent piece by @danmcquillan
https://www.danmcquillan.org/chatgpt.html

I suggest you read the whole thing, but some pull quotes:

"ChatGPT is a part of a reality distortion field that obscures the underlying extractivism and diverts us into asking the wrong questions and worrying about the wrong things."

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“Green growth” doesn’t exist in a world where we have already broken most planetary boundaries. Humanity must shrink its usage of materials and energy, and associated waste and pollution, or ecological, economic and societal collapse will follow. Even IPCC reports have started to mention degrowth.

#degrowth
#climate #tippingpoint

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/02/pursuing-economic-growth-will-kill-us-all-in-the-end

Catastrophic (and to be frank - hugely depressing)

This new research in @PNASNews suggests earth will cross the 1.5 degrees C temperature increase threshold in the next decade (within just 10 to 15 years) and is likely to exceed 2 degrees C by around 2060.

This should be THE lead story on the news today (and onwards) and the lead action point for our governments. It should trigger a massive call for real global action to combat the #climateemergency - sadly though I fear this news will barely register.

We have to stop believing the siren calls of future technology solutions and #carbonoffsets - the immediate need is a rapid end to the use of #fossilfuels and a massive rollout of #renewableenergy

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2207183120

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

Did you ever hear the joke where

"a dozen employees from the United Arab Emirate’s state-owned oil company have apparently taken up roles with the office of the UAE’s climate change special envoy, who will host this year’s Cop28 UN climate summit."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/03/uae-oil-company-cop28

Just learnt about #OFFDEM. loving the vibe and what it stands for.

https://ps.zoethical.org/pub/free-software-under-attack-an-offdem-manifesto

"Capitalism is everywhere

So are we."

#CounterCulture

A meta analysis of 850 peer-reviewed papers by Tim Parrique and others supports what Zoe Cohen writes in the @TheGuardian

#GDP, resource use, and #GHG emissions cannot be decoupled.

Much like a malignant tumor...

...Growth = Death.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab842a