Morning, fuckers.

Situation down here in my little Argentinian Transtravalandia still hard. Backbreaking work last night for a fundraiser to keep open our trans/queer friendly single-room high school; outdoors soup kitchen tomorrow afternoon; at both events we have our folks asking desperately for help with some urgent need or another.

Like me right now: I couldn't pay my power bills so I'm in the dark, can't cook unless I build a fire (and I'm lucky to live in a place where I can!) and mooching off electricity for my phone and computer wherever I can.

And my case is the mildest of the mild. We have people in jail or homeless or desperately sick. I have freedom, a house, my arms and legs, still most of my brain... you get the picture.

Our #TransMutualAid group, the Ollita Travesti, is always glad to receive donations. Every little bit helps. PayPal USD or EUR us at [email protected], or send us ARS via MercadoPago at ollitatravesti; thanks in advance: you're our lifeline.

Boosts are welcome too!

And ask me anything. All the ways to reach me short of snail mail or drone strike coordinates here. Allow for a few hours to more than a day for a reply, life sometimes gets... complex.

#MutualAid #Trans #Argentina #LaPlata

My first job was building out the first mega-datacenters. 2005-2007, I was a datacenter assistant monkey working from Google working somewhere in the Chicago suburbs, swapping out hard drives and ram and writing shell scripts, as myself and my friends unknowingly laid down the prototype for the kinds of datacenters we all see today.

And so it is with some significant expertise that I say:

Fuck datacenters. Datacenters are an anti-pattern.

I'm doing a bunch of work on digital sovereignty, so this is just a Robin Berjon fan account now.

https://berjon.com/digital-sovereignty/

You all know that Bandcamp is owned by Songtradr, who gutted it a lot. But don't fret, we have a new and better alternative now. It launched yesterday:

https://www.subvert.fm/

It is a #CoOp, so it is not in the hands of big money but in the hands of us, the consumers and creators.

✊️