Mastodawn

Mike Jan 25, 2024

Nick Chase Jan 24, 2024

Tomorrow Katie Shepherd will talk about how to make permaculture more inclusive.
https://permapuheet.fi/katie-shepherd-accessing-permaculture
#permaculture #permapuheet

Katie Shepherd - Accessing permaculture

Accessing permaculture - positives, challenges and suggestions for a more inclusive permaculture. In this interactive workshop Katie Shepherd will be talking about how her own experience of long term illness fuelled a journey of exploration into how accessible permaculture learning and experiences are for people with chronic illness and/or disabilities. https://www.ktshepherdpermaculture.com

Permapuheet

Mike Jan 25, 2024

Electronic Frontier Foundation Jan 24, 2024

The proliferation of DRM and walled-garden game vendors has eroded ownership rights over video games, and risks the same fragmented subscription frustrations we see with film. #copyrightweek #videogames https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/fragging-subscription-model-comes-gamers

Fragging: The Subscription Model Comes for Gamers

We're taking part in Copyright Week, a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different elements of copyright law and policy, addressing what's at stake and what we need to do to make sure...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Mike Jan 25, 2024

Electronic Frontier Foundation Jan 24, 2024

VICTORY! Ring has announced it will no longer facilitate warrantless police requests for footage to Ring’s users. This comes after years of sustained pressure from EFF and other civil liberties and privacy advocates. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/ring-announces-it-will-no-longer-facilitate-police-requests-footage-users

Victory! Ring Announces It Will No Longer Facilitate Police Requests for Footage from Users

This is a victory in a long fight, not just against blanket police surveillance, but also against a culture in which private, for-profit companies build special tools to allow law enforcement to more easily access companies’ users and their data—all of which ultimately undermine their customers’ trust.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Mike Jan 25, 2024

Timnit Gebru (she/her).Jan 24, 2024

Our politicians folks

"The push to develop Artificial General Intelligence, or super-intelligent AI, that would be so powerful and
capable that we would see it as a “digital god."

Smh. How is this even a thing???

https://www.schumer.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/8Opening%20Statement.pdf

Mike Aug 30, 2023

HishamZerriffi Aug 30, 2023

New study gave $7,500 to 50 unhoused people.

Guess what?

"They did not spend more money on alcohol or drugs, contrary to what people believe, and instead they spent the money on rent, food, housing, transit, furniture, a used car, clothes. It's entirely the opposite of what people think they're going to do with the money."

Congrats to my UBC colleague Jiaying Zhao on this study.

#Unhoused #CashTransfers #UBC #IRES

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/a-b-c-study-gave-50-homeless-people-7-500-each-here-s-what-they-spent-it-on-1.6540030

A B.C. study gave 50 homeless people $7,500 each. Here's what they spent it on.

A new B.C.-based study undercuts the persistent stereotype that homeless people can't be trusted with cash, according to the lead researcher who says it also highlights a different way to respond to the crisis.

British Columbia

Mike Aug 25, 2023

Jorge Caballero, MD Aug 25, 2023

It ain't the flu, folks: flu test positivity is currently at 0.87% but COVID test positivity is currently at 13.4%. If you have symptoms of a respiratory infection, kindly test yourself for COVID and wear a mask at least until the symptoms resolve. Please and thank you.

Mike Aug 10, 2023

A cappella Aug 10, 2023

100+ Perennial Vegetables for Your #Permaculture #FoodForest

A beginner-friendly guide to turning your annual garden into a food forest, with a list of over 100 edible perennial vegetables for a variety of climates.

https://www.permaculturewomen.com/perennial-vegetables-for-food-forest/

100+ Perennial Vegetables For Your Permaculture Food Forest

A beginner-friendly guide to turning your annual garden into a food forest, with a list of over 100 edible perennial vegetables for a variety of climates.

Permaculture Womens Guild

Mike Aug 3, 2023

Nuts & Bolts Foraging Troupe Aug 2, 2023

Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut are 3 of the most densely populated US States. What kind of future do we want for our communities? Unsustainable monoculture lawns, hot paved surfaces, or shaded walkable neighborhoods with fruit trees and places to gather? The choice seems simple to us.

Check out some of our friends that are creating the building blocks of an ecological future here in RI:
PVD Bike Collective: www.pvdbikecollective.org
Harvest Cycle Compost: www.groundworkri.org/harvest-cycle-compost/

#permaculture #solarpunk #ecology #gardening #socialecology #lifewithouttheinternet #rhodeisland #massachusetts #connecticut