Sometimes I reach out to an #NGO for an interview, and they often offer some white guy in #Europe.
In this case, I asked can I speak with your Indonesia staffperson instead? They...don't seem so keen. After a few days of back & forth, I decide to just reach out to the Indonesian via LinkedIn directly, and he responds within 10 minutes, happy to speak. 🤪
„Amid ongoing bombardment in the Gaza Strip, UN agencies and humanitarian partners continue to provide desperately needed food, water, healthcare and other services to the more than two million people living there.“
Ukraine Stove Donations - If willing and able, please consider donating to deliver stoves to front line areas (they also can pool partial donations) 💜 🔥
Schools were shut and non-essential construction was banned around #Delhi as the #AirQuality index in the city almost hit 500 – the highest the measurement will go and 100 times the limit deemed to be healthy by the #WorldHealthOrganization.
The #UN and #NGO chiefs, including the leaders of #UNICEF, UN Women, the World Food Program, the #WHO and Save the Children, described the killings of both Israelis and Palestinians over the past month as “horrific”.
Mal nach langer Zeit wieder was farbenfrohes und fröhliches zum #StraßenSamstag:
Am letzten Samstag vor den Missionen der #AitaMari und #SeaEye4 organisierte die lokale #NGO#AuroraSuport ein Basketball-Turnier, an dem Teams aus beiden Schiffen, von Aurora, der Werft und Personen aus der Stadt teil nahmen.
Das ganze Event war nicht nur eine gelungene Veranstaltung nach innen, bei der alle nochmal Kraft für die kommende Mission tanken konnten, sondern auch nach außen, um der Stadt den ganzen NGO-Haufen❤️ näher zu bringen.
🤩 Aren't you just delighted by all those proprietary software apps for the #Fediverse?
😮 Don't be. Each time you choose proprietary you help turn the fedi slowly in the direction of the usual corporate hellscape that the rest of the Web already is.
😨 And then we end up in an online space where for years we can complain to each other how we squandered an opportunity and how #capitalism won once more.
🎯 Use #FOSS apps instead, created by the public for the public.
Why do all alt grassroots events have the same speakers
I start to understand why all alt/grassroots events have the same speakers. Looking about, you send out invites to everyone who has done it before. To reach out to new people would be taking a risk, would be hard work to hand hold them though the process. The lack of time and resources leaves little focus than to just repeat the past. This is a hard realization and incite into poverty.
Am starting to feel slightly ashamed of not knowing this before. Ideas please, we do need to fix this.
“To be honest, you should be commended for putting it all together in the first place. No one else is doing it and it’s essential. Every form of direct action is worthy and amazing given the world we live in.”
“1 a bit of mentoring goes a long way
2 offer expenses and look for some funding – either grant funding or crowdfunded
3 offer speaker training events”
Your idea would work if we had the time and the funding, time is relative, but funding for alt/left is tiny and hard to get. Almost all left’ish funding is dispelled in #NGO and #fashernista pointlessness. Ideas for diverting some of this waste might be a start? Actually it is a good time to try this, who is up for it?
Take a moment to think about basics: activism/campaigning is about building resistance to the mainstream to change its flow in progressive directions. Were #mainstreaming is about shifting activism to reduce these resistances to the mainstream flow. Thus, it’s good to understand that #mainstreming is a #NGO agender to build the jobs of the people involved and is in turn funded to this end. Good not to get the shit mixed up.
Lifestyle is a way of forming a tribe inside this mainstream flow. The problem for activism is that this old school tribalism is obviously a BLOCK on social change, as looking and talking right are MORE important than being right. Being right would be “resistance” and lifestyle is about going with the counter flow.
On the other hand, the are advantages to “modern” tribal and lifestyle activism – it functions as social glue to hold campaigns together and provides a “uniform” flag to rally round. You notice I do not use words like anarchist, socialist, liberalism here as these have a different role in social change thinking – they are the ideas – the clothing is what I am taking about #fashernista is the hashtag.
#Revolution is about blowing up the flow of the mainstream so it floods into a different path, with much “calcollateral” damage in the process as we live inside a highly urban complex society. Both paths can be useful, both have costs.
The is an unspoken negative effect of traditional foundation funding agendas on grassroots #openweb projects. These grassroots projects often have different priorities and goals than traditional organizations, and the formal processes used by existing #NGO projects, such as decidim.org and loomio.org, may not be well-suited for them.
#The#OMN team aims to address this issue by focusing on empowering communities through decentralized decision-making processes. Their experience and track record make them well-suited to carry out this mission.
If successful, the #OGB project could have a significant impact on the way communities make decisions in the future. By empowering grassroots movements and organizations, it could help to ensure that their voices are heard and that their needs are addressed.
If I simultaneously run a local build on my machine (which happens to be a Linux box) and run the game within the Unity editor, I can create a host in one and a client in the other. They play together happily.
I also made a MacOS build and downloaded it on a separate machine. I can run the game there and create a host.
Strangely, if I then try to create a client from the other machine (either the local Linux build or within the editor), I get this message:
This only happens if there is an instance running on the Mac!
Of course, the only time you would want to create a client is if there is another instance (a host) running. It's as if the game running on the Mac and the one running in the Unity editor think they're the same program, and therefore refuse to make a "second" network connection.
Resource use is an issue with the #mastodon codebase, it's not a #block on using it but is an issue to think about using a different #activertypub codebase instead.
With Mastodon going down the #ngo path and wedded to feudalism as "governance" we also face these common issues for tech projects.
@Zenoka
Online #video itself is not sustainable, and required special deals and #cronyism. That's mostly what breaking #netNeutrality was about — and its wrong.
We talk about an ethical #streaming video-format that can combine higher resolution stills with 12 fps video max.