Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦Nov 27, 2022
Thinking about the idea of #ParallelPolis … I was listening to Marci Shore (unfortunately not on Mastodon yet) lecture about #Ukraine Maidan 2014 https://youtu.be/Gg_CLI3xY58 and she mentioned how these (I guess mostly a bit lefty, as she probably would consider herself to be) students on #Maidan loved this idea of the Czech #Catholic #Christian #conservative dissident Václav Benda. And yet, the same idea is loved by the ultra-conservative Catholics with their #BenedictOption. Strange world!
Timothy Snyder: The Making of Modern Ukraine. Class 20. Maidan and Self-Understanding

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Parade du Grotesque 💀Nov 22, 2018

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Some may argue that the #BenedictOption for techies is precisely what #SDF and others are trying to accomplish: non profit communities or cooperatives based on self-reliance, self-hosting and Federation instead of using the services or hosting provided the big providers and big ISPs.

I will soon have to work with Azure because $WORK, but I'll make sure some... ahem... "enhancements" offered by Azure are disabled on all the instances I create.