Ross Schulman @ross@social.rbs.io
Father, husband, lawyer, coder. Decentralization, infosec, crypto, surveillance. RT != Endorse. PGP: rbs.io/5BBE56EE.asc
Mi ankaŭ parolas iom Esperanto.
Noëlle the 8-Bit🏳️🌈🎄
There was a young man
From Toulouse who got lim'ricks
And haiku confused
it is now time to leave
If money really originates as a representation of labor time, or the ability to command labor, then we need dispersed labor rather than the concentrated labor of Sillicon Valley startups. Those startups really just piggyback upon the dispersed social labor time of thousands of FOSS developers worldwide.
Maybe this is where some kind of cryptocurrency needs to exist. A commons currency, or something like that. It would need to be something which doesn't easily concentrate and so isn't attractive to venture capitalists.
Going back into the history of labor there was once also the idea of "labor notes". Usually dismissed as an archaic concept. Probably the closest which exists today are time banks. Perhaps a FOSS time bank could be what's needed.
But of course I don't have the answers here. These are stupendously difficult problems and I'm just throwing ideas around.
"I'd rather be divisive than indecisive" - Alexander Hamilton (via Lin-Manuel Miranda)
Just because a meeting is scheduled for an hour does not always mean that it has to take a full hour.
There can be no tolerance for hatred and fascism, no civility for those ripping brown and black families apart.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
At every stage of my son's development I'm amazed by his growing personality, humor, and the fact that anyone ever has a second child.
adding a new NPM module to a project
For those who missed it last night: In a world where our identities are controlled by centralized entities, either corporate or governmental, what does it mean to say "This is Me"? Decentralized Identity can help: https://rbs.io/2018/06/this-is-me/
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RAICES necessita traductores voluntarios que hablan las lenguas mesoamericanas indígenas (#zapotec, #nahua, #man, #quiche #kichee, #maya, #mixe, y #mixteco). No es necessario que usted esté en Tejas o en los EEUU. Puede traducir remotamente.
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It takes me a while, but I wrote a thing! In a world where our identities are controlled by centralized entities, either corporate or governmental, what does it mean to say "This is Me"? Decentralized Identity can help: https://rbs.io/2018/06/this-is-me/
Tearing children from their parents w/o any means of reuniting them is a High Crime. It is a crime against humanity and against international law. Trump must be impeached, arrested, tried, and thrown into jail.
For all of you who are dedicated to the open internet, #privacy, #security, #decentralization, and other related issues, proposals are now being accepted for this year's #Mozilla Festival! Come join us for an awesome event! https://mozillafestival.org/proposals
Holy crap... I think my Mastodon setup is running again!
Other #admins: Has anyone managed to get latest mastodon installed on Debian stretch? The ruby dependencies won't build for me, I think because of an old version of g++.
I've updated my brief introduction to Mastodon with a new heading: "How private is "Private"?": https://gist.github.com/joyeusenoelle/74f6e6c0f349651349a0df9ae4582969#how-private-is-private
I've reprinted it here because it should be read.
I cannot stress this enough: Private toots are not encrypted or secure.
The admin of your server can read any toot posted on their server, as well as any toot sent to a user on their server. This is a necessary security precaution.
This is a fascinating piece on where the nation state and globalization goes from here. I'm still chewing on it but it jibes with a lot of what I've been thinking lately. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/05/demise-of-the-nation-state-rana-dasgupta
Wtabsolutef is going on with downtown #dc traffic?
