Anticipation.

Off to volunteer our help for a friend who owns the local bookstore. She needs some bookshelves and their contents moved.

You know you're old when you start taking aspirin in anticipation of the day you're about to have.

#OldPeopleOfMastodon
#FreeLabor

A very thoughtful post from Disroot [1] regarding the time we share.

> In the world we currently live in, the most common thing that all living beings have and share —time— has become a scarce, exchangeable, and marketable resource. We work, produce, consume, and rest within a system that measures, regulates, and captures that time, turning it into an economic unit. What was once a shared, vital flow is now managed like a commodity. And as everything seems to speed up, we find ourselves with less and less time of our own.

> We're surrounded by platforms that present themselves as spaces for connection, collaboration, or entertainment, but their real business is the time of the people who use them. They don't provide services: they extract attention, data, free labor, and creativity and turn it into profit. Every interaction, every click, every message generates economic value for someone else. In this unequal exchange, we as users don't just give information, we give hours of our lives. Meanwhile, those who manage these infrastructures have built a well-oiled system of time trafficking: a gigantic transfer of human energy to corporations that give back nothing but dependency and precariousness. In this context, self-hosted, self-managed, open, and community-driven projects don't just propose a different technological model but also a different relationship with time.

1. https://disroot.org/blog/disnews-25.12

#Attention #Time #Creativity #FreeLabor #CommunityDriven