Just before your post about Karrot I finally (re-)installed Agora on Yunohost as a collaboration suite. First few users onboarded and praying it works. It’s a bit ugly but does the job. Karrot looks to be more map-focused than Agora from a very fleeting look, I don’t think I’ve seen it in the Yunohost catalogue.

Is this a self-hostable platform? I just see a signup option.

Interesting writeup, thanks for sharing! Friendica seems … friendly and reassuringly boring, I did a test install and will have a look at the details in the next days.

Plywood and CNC - I’ve designed a few furniture pieces and really loved the process. How about the production of the plywood itself? Producing plywood seems to involve so many extra steps instead of just using just wood, or even branches in building and furniture. Stone, wood and earth and organic material right from the place where a house is built often work well enough in rural areas. For cities this system could be neat.

‘Tech Billionaires give all wealth away to end world hunger.’ ‘Tech Billionaires lobby for wealth tax with national governments.’ ‘Tech Billionaires realize they are normal people like anyone else, not super smart world-saving geniuses, and finally shut the fuck up.’

Now these would be news.

Please be careful with terms like “unused desert”. Whatever “green” developers call unused land is usually some kind of ecosystem with an established community of human and non-human inhabitants. They are forced out and big “green” money moved in, with their hydro, wind, solar, lithium mining …

Forest mountain landscape not far from here will be torn up for another green tech, lithium, because those who can afford it want to get to nice forest mountain landscapes in their eco cars, for their eco holidays. Pasture lands not far from here are now filled with the stupidest of solar installations: nothing but panels. They could have the same old herds of before clean the land between the panels, but instead its all fenced off and probably treated with roundup, or motorized machines. And people want more cars, more air conditioning because every summer it gets hotter, and the spiral of “ever more” continues.

Calling arid or not obviously landscaped spaces far away from you “unused” is dangerous and will expose the last wild landscapes of earth to abuse. It’s bad enough as it is.

Excellent writing, thanks!

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We need to revive the antipsychiatry movement. The article hits hard because for way too many years I was caught up in this shit myself, first as the teen (self-diagnosing before social media, based on books), then as parent. Now I tell my kid differently, but hell they’ve convinced so many of us that everything is fine and it’s us who have a problem.