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when the capitalists die out either thru global warming or revolution will we be able to start homegrown internet
been reading about dual power and how to grow my own tomatoes and i’m wondering how and if we’ll be able to start commie internet lol
like obviously the internet is this huge electric capitalist controlled hardware infrastructure thing so after all that shuts down is there a way to do it ourselves lol
i want to come home from a hard day on the communal allotment, kiss my Wife, crank up my generator, and start sharing meams!
GOOD NEWS: the homegrown commie internet is in the works! Across the world, people fighting against censorship and for a more democratic internet are building mesh networks (meshnets) of long-range wifi (LoRa)
Since wifi is just a standard for sending data through radio waves, and radio waves can go a pretty long way if you use ‘em right, it’s not that difficult to connect two computers by wifi from across town. Then you just keep adding more computers to the network and you’ve got internet!
Small antennae, like for connecting across the neighborhood, can literally be built out of trash
And a larger, more accurate one can be built pretty cheap too
(You can also reuse an old satellite TV dish, or really anything else that’s roughly parabolic)
There are LoRa meshnets in places like New York, India, and all over Europe: Spain (pictured below), Greece, Austria, Germany, etc
As for sharing fresh mëmês, the network to go to is Scuttlebutt. Unlike most social media, Scuttlebutt posts are stored on your computer and sent directly to your friends’ computers (rather than being stored on the cloud and sent to a central server). It works just fine over traditional internet, but you can also view and interact with it offline, and it has protocols for connecting over any means that two computers can share information - that includes LoRa, as well as hardwired connections, sneakernet (basically mailing a USB stick back and forth), etc
What that means is you always know that your info is just as safe as the network it’s sent on and the computer that receives it - no one even theoretically has the ability to collect and sell it all. And, since it’s all run on your computer, there’s no servers to go down or companies to go out of business that could destroy the whole thing
You can read more about this kind of stuff here (or here if it’s cloudy in Barcelona)!
there’s also the work being done by the DCPT, left-behind Detroiters meshing together their neighborhoods to share overpriced high-speed connections among the community and producing these good good educational documents, especially this rad resource page. building meshnets to share a global uplink is very similar to building meshnets for the purpose of intracommunication and these resources are useful in both cases
I’ve had a couple people ask about how to join/organize something like this, which is great! The best list of active projects I know of is here, though you should also do a search online if you don’t see one in your area in case they missed it. For those without a nearby group, put a pin here and try contacting nearby pins as well - you can use the instructions on buildyourowninter.net as well as the DCPT’s resources as linked above to get set up!
Please reblog this version so others can get involved!
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From “Tokyo: A Certain Style” by Kyoichi Tsuzuki. One of my favorite books. Released in the US in 1999 but the photos are from 1992. Definitely check it out if you get the chance.
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Got beaten up and arrested by a police officer. Few staples in my skull and a bruised rib. At least I got that raccoon aesthetic going on.
I don’t really post personal stuff on here, or have many close friends, but if somehow you have extra money burning your pockets, I’d love you forever for help with legal fees.
https://www.gofundme.com/murk039s-legal-fund
Stay safe out there. It’s not always a kind world.
[image caption: photo of OP with a black eye drinking out of a raccoon mug. end caption.]
help this murk get a lawyer!(via dobescrusher)
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happy independence day let’s impeach the president
The only 4th of july post i care about
I can top it: yesterday, NPR made a series of tweets that Trump supporters called “propaganda” and “trash words” to insult Trump and push NPR’s agenda.
NPR was tweeting the Declaration of Independence.
And that, folks, describes about 75% of Trump’s voter base.
Some exammples of the Trump followers vs NPR thing
So they are admitting Trump is a dictator?
Some Trump supporters thought NPR tweeted ‘propaganda.’ It was the Declaration of Independence.
oh my fucking christ
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Because Sometimes You Can’t Not Make Nazi Comparisons
Fact: Godwin’s Law no longer applies, Godwin himself said so.
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Libertarians are probably in nirvana right now
OK BUT THE THREAD??? Tumblr this is what kills me, you screenshot an amazing Tweet but don’t link to the source or UNROLL THE THREAD! So then I have to go read Twitter myself and lose my entire goddamn mind. Anyway!
here’s the OP and here’s the followup:
There was another amazing thread on how fucked the Domino’s pothole-filling squad was, but this was from the same poster so it was easy to find. The other thread was about the concept of “prevailing wage” and how Domino’s was surely paying their workers minimum, meaning the job wasn’t going to skilled tradesmen and is further aiding the slippage of the former middle classes into poverty, but now I can’t find it. Anyway! There’s some underpinnings for that punchline.
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Elon Musk, a white European who benefitted from his upbringing is apartheid South Africa, is mad that a bunch of people pointed out to him on Twitter that he’s constantly lying about retaliating against Tesla employees’ unionization efforts while simultaneously threatening to retaliate, so now he wants to be the judge of what is truth. Fucking unreal.
ahahahahaha eat shit you fucking weasel
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-23/musk-filed-for-pravda-business-months-before-scorning-the-media
The guy literally has been planning this for months now. He’s not suddenly in a tizzy about Fake News, he’s literally astroturfing this shit and making people think he gives a shit about what they think about his idea that he TOTALLY came up with just now.(via kangarooweed)
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