Published Date 2/21/16 3:07 PM Would like to test some bits from banggood for cheap offgride life. If you would like to push me a donation on the button on the left would help to make this happen. Here are 2 potentially useful pieces of off grid kit 12000mAh 12V Car Jump Starter Car and…
We face a digital cliff the open internet may be over
Published Date 2/11/16 5:30 PM Here are two views on this subject: We have Phil Windley who thinks the open internet was a historical fluke http://www.windley.com/archives/2016/02/decentralization_is_hard_maybe_too_hard.shtml here he is talking about the very real view that the internet is finished, that the commons have been enclosed by the #dotcons silos and what remains outside are…
A evil tainted favour leads to a renewable energy mess
Published Date 2/10/16 9:55 PM To illustrate what a mess we are currently in. Solar power over the last 10 years has plummeted in cost and crept up in efficacy, leading to a shift to sustainable energy in many western country’s. This decrease in cost had nothing to do do with western entrepreneur and the…
There s no such thing as society
Published Date 2/8/16 5:21 PM At the end of the 20th century we had a forceful right wing ideological push to reshape western society’s. The Thatcher/Ragion years started the push to create a world were “There’s no such thing as society”, as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared “There are individual men and women and…
A big socerty community center the Hive Dalston
Published Date 2/6/16 5:05 PM The Hive Dalston – big society community centre a product of voluntarism and activist fashion with dose of hipster. Started out as an exciting project between radical (free party/activist) squatters and a more mainstream arts groups. The idea was to take up and use the Tory “big society” legalisation that…
Looking back looking foward Village Hall or Church Hall
Published Date 2/1/16 6:52 PM Am writing this for people who are actively leave the mainstream 9-5 society and move into disrepute subcultures to live their lifes. Issues of group organisation crop up reugally and are generally badly resolved leading to a consistent life sapping churning of bad will and trails of failed groups. For…
Training video livestream local meetings
Published Date 1/27/16 7:49 PM I have my doubts with this would be effective but it has the potential if you could get groups of people to actually use the technology consistently and setup the online infrastructure to back it up then I think actually might/could have an effect. Using mobile phone with an external…