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there's been no new Mezzano release since Demo 5, nearly five years ago :-(
just found a treasure trove of extremely obscure BBS history stashed away on IA
thank you hard-working book scanners for preserving this rarity.
if you're familiar with BBSing in the 90s, you'll remember just how fast the vast majority of boards disappeared in 1995. it went from multinode 24/7 bbses to disconnected phone numbers in just a few months
this book accounts for the very small number of BBSes that made the transition from telco-only to "telBBS" or telnettable/web-accessible boards
3/4 of the book is a carefully curated list of 500 boards with screenshots of their homepages and bbs login/title screens. most importantly, the URLs of these boards is preserved so we have a chance to look them up on WBM some day.
As part of our efforts searching for #CommunityEvents in #Adelaide #KaurnaYarta , we've found enough weekly/monthly/fortnightly events to fill up the month! There's all sorts of social events, #activism , support groups and heaps of niche interests🌱
We only put ones we've recently found in the newsletter because it would take up too much space🤯, so here's where you can find the full list:
https://news.adlsolarpunk.net/ongoing-events-and-services/
Please send us any we've missed!
the year is 2025 and donald trump is the president of the united states.
there is a famous quotation by an australian indigenous woman named lilla watson that changed my view of the world forever. it reads:
“If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”
this is especially true in the international struggle for women's liberation.
lately, men, and especially young men, have become a key demographic in society driving the slide into fascism. these men think they are better than women, and that they should dominate, control, and silence them.
i want to say to them--be careful what you wish for, because you might just get it. even if they achieved their abhorrent mission, i do not think these men would be satisfied.
in fact it would be the opposite. we men would be lonelier, angrier, more immature, and just as lost existentially as ever.
why? because it is impossible for slaves and masters to be in communion. by definition, one is a person, and the other is their property. a man cannot simultaneously have a mother, a sister, an aunty, or a partner if they are also his complete possession.
for us to smash this system of patriarchy, we men are going to have to stop blaming women for our insecurities, and our own perceived inadequacies, and open our eyes to the fact that we have a lot in common with women.
this international women's day i want to signal that when it comes to the liberation of the other half of the global population, we men really, really owe it not just to women but also ourselves as men to do some (any!) personal reflection.
women's liberation is good for men. the far right movement, all dominated by men, are not going to get what they want by oppressing women. should they ever win even more power, it will not matter. their method, bloodthirsty and vengeful, is ultimately futile.
men will only win their own proper recognition in history by also recognising women. and by being enthusiastic about it.
someone once said, "women hold up half the sky". never a more true word was said. women are doing it right this very second. as far as i can tell, this sky-holding will continue for a long time, whether or not the fact is hidden, disparaged, or made a secret.
men owe it to themselves to acknowledge the sacrifice and suffering women go through their whole lives. they do it with such grace and composure. not a single man could withstand this way of living. every one of us would fold within seconds of being placed in a woman's position.
a sexist man is NOT a real man.
blair vidak.
8 march 2025.
never forget that the reason some cis people do not realize trans people exist is that our existence has been scrubbed from their world. we are ancient and they can never destroy us, but that ignorance is them sure damn trying.
A question I've often struggled with - in a consumer- and worker-owned #cooperative , how is balance maintained between the interests of the workers and the consumers?
There are typically more consumers than workers, so I expect the former could always outvote the latter in conflicts. Which is unfair.
You could cap the number of consumer-members to be equal to the number of workers. But now consumers are not accurately represented...
what your self-hosted fediverse software says about you:
- mastodon: fuckin nerd
- pleroma/akkoma: fuckin nerd
- misskey/foundkey: fuckin nerd
- gotosocial: fuckin nerd
QLB is looking for transgender Indigenous people, Young People, and Sex Workers to speak at the upcoming Trans Day of Visibility - National Day of Action rally. Support will be provided in the form of a speech writing workshop on Tuesday the 25th of March 4-6PM at the Boorloo Activist Centre (15/5 Aberdeen St). Please DM us if you're interested.
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Published 19 May 2017.
This was an attempt to capture the gist of the foundations of Marxist economics in pamphlet form.
It comes in at about ten A5 pages in PDF form. In many ways it was an exercise in learning how to explain something very complex in as simple words as possible.
i do this thing where i go on linkedin and i scroll through the suggested contacts and i make sure i stay on top of what all my former psycho lawyer slash career politician peers are doing right now.
I'm poking around with go lang and it isn't bad. Though I think it is pretty neat I can cross compile plan 9 binaries from my linux machine.
well, it's the end of an era.
probably switching to xfce4 forever.
since my ryzen amd workstation died in august last year, i have been scraping by on an old second generation i5 processor with 8 GB of RAM.
the hardware on this workstation was first released in 2011. its end of life with intel was 2019. i am pretty sure i got it by going out of my way at the council waste processing centre, and asking about it.
after noticing how much faster xfce4 was than MATE on my similarly old and underpowered TV media PC, i am making the switch for good.
getting better hardware will not be an option for some time. i may have to wait until a special opportunity presents itself.
having to use nothing but e-waste to do all this complex and technical work is painful. the waiting, the constant locking up, only being able to use--realisitically--one "modern" bloated program at a time...
i wonder--is anyone else having this experience? how are you meant to do anything on the internet now, with any significant mass social attention, with any money?
the hard problem is the web, and everyone here i know, knows this. no-one here is sitting around on their arse merely complaining about the modern web.
this does not make the problem any less excruciating or unimportant. too many people are doing every little computing task on their phone. when i heard about major tiktok influencers doing the bulk of their video work on their phone, i think a part of me died.
sometimes i try and make myself feel better by thinking about whether i still have a good definition of the problem:
- the modern web is currently controlled by a small number of powerful and wealthy capitalist firms.
- virtually everyone accessing the internet uses the web and phone apps these firms own.
- the web is being used as a tool for a mere single purpose. economic profit.
possible conclusions:
- create an alternative method for accessing the information, and performing the tasks people do on the internet
- free software web browser
- alternative web apps for major platforms
Oh yeah, I've been running through lipu sona pona to learn toki pona which is pretty good, but about halfway through it goes from trivial grammar to dropping a lot more complex grammar and sentence structure without bothering to explain it thoroughly, so I went from pretty confident to very confused. Maybe I need to get the official book
the apartment is adjacent to the intersection between hill street and wellington street.
i noticed very early on that many people walked past my window every day, so i decided to make use of the posters inside my green left newspapers.
they were blu-takked them to the window, facing out into the street. i have cycled through several posters now since 2022, of which i only have six photos.
in this latest instalment of the series, we welcome temika! she is my favourite person the whole world, and my girlfriend.
since we have been living together, in addition to sitting up until the early hours of the morning solving all the world's problems, we watch the most gripping movies, play the most immersive video games, and, best of all, eat the most delicious food.
this is our home. we have made it our own.
temika, i love you, bubby!!
🥰🥰🥰
blair vidak.
9 march 2025.
