That’s what a socialist party might aim to do, but it’s probably not the best tool and for sure it’s not main reason why such a thing would work. One core part of Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal is to deconstruct the narrative that the Bolshevik party was the main driver of the Russian Revolution, as if Lenin had a blueprint emanating from the center of the party that was executed at the periphery and then in the struggle itself. Nunes attributes the success not to the party form or how it was operating (the execution was good, but that’s not the point), but rather to the culture of mediation between conflicting powers that the party and Iskra were promoting in their political ecology. This clearly wasn’t framed as a protocol, but it had the same role.

The party form was a historical accident, that at the time was fit enough for the material and social conditions, for the culture, for the informational infrastructure of the time. Nowadays, it is very clear that parties are unfit for whatever they are trying to achieve and every battle is uphill, while in different conditions in the past they proliferated and grew.

One core tenet of the book is that organizational forms should follow the goals, strategy and environmental conditions and should be picked accordingly. It would be a mistake to start with the idea of building a party form and then find a problem to apply that form to.

any public space that intermediates people attention is eventually going to be spam by bots, proportionally to the number of people present. Lemmy doesn’t do much to avoid this. The public internet has no future and the fediverse should be building tools for federated community spaces rather than public spaces shaped in the image of attention-harvesting machines.

Why do you think there’s a true self if you’re not close to it?

This is a terrible take, but saying it doesn’t work in the comments of a news that says they work makes it even worse.

I’m sure an overworked rider struggling to get to the end of the month has time and money to spend on this just to get a basic right protected. Individual solutions to systemic problems never work.

I don’t keep anything relevant on my machine. It’s just a way to access data hosted somewhere more safe. Also files and folders are terrible ways to organize anything, even remotely like Google Drive or similar stuff. It’s Microsoft’s and Apple’s brainrot outliving the 90s. We should move forward.

Definitely Instagram.

While Lemmy is slowly making a dent in my reddit participation, it doesn’t do much for other things. I’m involved in IRL politics, food, and the clubbing scene, all stuff that is almost completely absent on the fediverse, especially the American-dominated side of it.

A full wallet among other wallets, perfectly disguised. Somebody left it there a few hours before. It was a guy from Scotland on a trip with his friends who went shopping for party clothes. He answered on Instagram (after much stalking) at midnight when I was already inside a club and they were on their way to the club too. So we rendez-vous at 6 AM after clubbing because they had a train at 8AM for another city. They left some joints at my place as a thank you. Also offered some ketch for a, I shit you not, “crunchy landing”.

I track everything private and professional on Notion.

I have dedicated databases for

• tasks, divided by type (reminders, activities, chores), by domain (job, household, politics, writing etc etc), by client, by status
• calls and meetings I have to set up
• credits and debits I have open
• classes and workshops I’m hosting

There’s a language field in the database to map the language too. The fact that there are only english-speaking communities is a temporary focus, because they allow to reach a broader target, but submissions in other languages are more than welcome. I’m actually not based in an English-speaking country and I’m not a native speaker, so for my own stuff I will eventually start contributing by mapping other spaces.

I made it! It wasn’t that hard, the API was quite straightforward.

Vintage Story in solo, but I gave up because it’s too cumbersome to play without a team. Necesse with a team, lol. Mechabellum in solo multi AoW4 as a filler

Do you ever make things harder for people around you intentionally? If so, why? If not, why do you think do that against you?

not a single word about crypto is present in the video

are you familiar with left-wing blockchain and that whole strand of research or you just talk because you have no clue about the fact that there’s always been plenty of anti-capitalist and post-capitalist in the blockchain scene?

Have you watched the video or just stopped at the title?

There’s a lot of lefitsts spaces in the blockchain. While they are minoritarian, they have a distinct political agenda and set of values, separate from most of the web3 world. They either envision the usage of blockchain for local economies (an evolution of circular economy and local currencies that were popular in the 90’s and 2000s), or more global scale realignment of incentives, either through socialist market economies or more planning-oriented solutions.

because it’s in Latin (or Italian)…

I know people that occupied the offices. They were perfectly aware they would be fired and the people selected for the action were the least vulnerable economically, because retaliation was certain. Anything else is journalistic spin.

solarpunk is inherently utopian. Utopias exist to inspire and to reflect on the present. It tells us that there can be a social system in which technology is good, but then if to be optimistic or not is very subjective. Many pessimistic people like utopias exactly because they highlight the ugliness of reality.