Dorian Wood @dorian@litterae.social
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I majored in Classical Languages and Philosophy. I'm mashing together my love of ancient languages, philosophy, and FLOSS by working to build healthy communities on platforms that are community run. Together we can build a better internet, full of genuine human connection not mediated by advertising companies.
I’m intentionally not putting my pronouns here. Use whatever you want for me. I’m interested in seeing what gender you think I am.
Joined Dec 2020
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Well I guess I never really posted in #introductions so here goes!
I’m dorian, I’m an educator and caregiver, and I have a massive love for free software and the potential it holds to help us build resilient local communities building their own digital infrastructure.
One of my main hobbies is playing around with sysadmin stuff. I run this instance here and host my own blog over at threeraccoons.com.
I set out on a project to make a braided belt today. I ended up needing about twice as many strands as I was expecting to fill up a buckle and quickly got lost in a huge tangle. So I made a loom! I'm intensely proud of this creation 
@SummerSchool hey I'd like to advertise #summerschool in some academic circles outside of Mastodon. Am I correct in assuming a fediverse account will be required in order to participate?
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Sad & Useless: „Cutting Bell Peppers Is Much More Fun If You Add Googly Eyes”
Ha! Finally got the web fontend working again after my migration to Hometown! Phew. What a relief.
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"There's no such thing as a tree, phylogenetically"
https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-tree/
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I want to remind that #EUnomia is a research project funded with around 3 millions, also aiming to investigate the #fediverse.
companies leading #projectEUnomia are also involved in:
- mass surveilience
- military and law enforcment
- developing strategies and tools countering mass movements
- countering local journalism with clickbait
@Gargron is/was on their pay check with at least €63,290.
several month ago I made some research about them and puplished it here:
https://hub.libranet.de/wiki/paulfree14/The(20)critical(20)EUnomia(20)FAQ/Home
there's also an easy to remember shortlink available: https://frama.link/eunomia
“There is a romance brewing here
Between joy and I
I deserve her and she deserves me”
- Upile Chisala
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y'all! Julia Evans (@b0rk@twitter.com) is really neat and she made all her comics available online recently! they're very educational and you should check them out if you like to do the computering
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jstor, gender, cool
nice
> For centuries, woman-to-woman marriages in pre-colonial African societies seemed to indicate to Europeans that the strong correspondence between male to man and female to woman was not prevalent in Africa. This practice of same-sex marriage was documented in more than 40 precolonial African societies: a woman could marry one or more women if she could secure the bridewealth necessary or was expected to uphold and augment kinship ties.
https://daily.jstor.org/the-deviant-african-genders-that-colonialism-condemned/
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“Surveillance capitalism” isn’t a corruption of (an otherwise virtuous) capitalism. It is a precise means of describing modern-day capitalism. Opposing it doesn’t mean simply opposing surveillance, it means opposing capitalism.
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@pants @balrogboogie The statement that "proprietary ownership of software gives the owner unjust power" is perfectly correct, of course. Because software is a means. But this is true of all means. Private ownership of Amazon warehouses gives the owner unjust power. Private ownership of land gives the owner unjust power. Of apartment buildings. Of natural resources by governments.
The problem with the free software movement wasn't that it defends free access to knowledge.
The problem with the free software movement is that it made sure to sabotage itself, by putting its head in the sand about systems of power and pretending this is a matter of elaborate law codes like a programming puzzle.
This is how there was so much incredible work poured into Linux and BSD etc. only for the Web to end up the way it is today, for e-commerce, mobile etc. to end up the way it is today.
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The tragedy of the commons is a false and dangerous myth | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-is-a-false-and-dangerous-myth
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absolutely losing it over this pull request: "fix original typesetter's errors to reproduce cummings' manuscript"
https://github.com/ee-cummings-archive/cummings.ee/pull/51/files
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Please do not base your linguistic arguments on historical facts, e.g. "this pronoun was used in 1300s" or similar.
Because this legitimises other historical arguments, like for example those against genderless language in German, French, and similar.
Languages change all the time and we don't need something to have been around for centuries or decades to be acceptable. "Covid" or "corona" weren't really words used like today in any language before March 2020, now probably they are words in almost all living languages and one of the most frequently used words.
Please be careful to avoid legitimising unscientific and fallacious arguments unintentionally. It's eventually harmful to those who are the most oppressed by such arguments.
A poem
the heaviest things
weighing on the chest
are often best removed
by careful application
of the lightest breath
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hey all, here's a new computer thing I made! it's called the Nonsense Laboratory, and it's a series of weird little tools for manipulating the spelling and sound of words with machine learning: https://artsexperiments.withgoogle.com/nonsense-laboratory/
it's part of a series of projects launched yesterday showing the outcomes of the Artists + Machine Intelligence grant program, which you can learn more about here: https://experiments.withgoogle.com/ami-grants
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Childish humor do not open.
Especially with covid-19.
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- @dorian:threeraccoons.xyz
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I majored in Classical Languages and Philosophy. I'm mashing together my love of ancient languages, philosophy, and FLOSS by working to build healthy communities on platforms that are community run. Together we can build a better internet, full of genuine human connection not mediated by advertising companies.
I’m intentionally not putting my pronouns here. Use whatever you want for me. I’m interested in seeing what gender you think I am.
Joined Dec 2020