🦋 Benjamin West - 🐒🌻
A curious human being focused on creative disruption and making change for the better.
A “seasoned” campaigner and community organizer. An anxious Canadian 🇨🇦 adjusting to living with a #disability (inner ear issues/ sometimes vertigo).
These days i can be found working remotely, exploring decentralized decision making, coordinating a grants program and spending time with my dogs.
Writing a book called The Monkey Flower Experiment, it’s about a group of people trapped together at an off grid university on the side of a mountain after a terrible storm. It could be described as a #SolarPunk Lord of the Flies. Stay tuned.
This is now my primary account.
Interests: #ClimateSolutions, #FOSS, #governance, #strategy, #urbanism, #PublicEngagement, #privacy, #cryptography, #interoperability, #infoSec, #CyberSecurity, #OSINT, #decentralization, #biomimicry, #StreetArt, #transRights, #IndigenousRights, #humanRights, #juggling, #jokes and #memes.
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@CanadaPlus @SpectralPineapple Ive been using Plenary on Android which does a pretty good job of pulling full articles when available. Don’t think its FOSS but its seems to be focused on privacy to a certain extent. I love that it can create a custom widget that can replace the google surveillance oriented click bait feed.
I’ve been experimenting with a few different options on desktop. @thunderbird has been the go to for me for a long time. Since playing with Google Reader lifetimes ago.
@dark_stang yeah good call, at least the battery is reverse compatible for powering your home
Wild that the F150 is the biggest selling automobile in North America by a long shot. Would be great to at least get these folks off fossil fuels but…
@Stillhart @dark_stang Also have you seen that stupid thing? siiiigh
@pixelpop3 @admin happy to send you an invite if you want one. Especially if it helps you leave the bird site. DM me
The fediverse is way better. Interesting to check out what people are building… at least a bit. I find myself wanting to come back here way more than any of the other options.
@stabby_cicada its still collective action at the end of the day if you hope to have an impact.
I would suggest strategic boycotts can have an impact at times. Generally voting with your dollars is most useful when supporting local alternatives where your individual dollars really have a big impact.
The danger with individual responsibility campaigns is they tend to shift focus away from those with the real power (as has been stated here by others).
Take a look at the history of the Make America Beautiful campaign to see how corporations have intentionally pushed this narrative to shift focus off of them.
@yum13241
VOIP numbers work ;)
@SSUPII @technology