James Smith @Floppy
Now wondering who else I can send it to when I get the inevitable rejection...
Outline application send in to the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust for a bunch of work on the OpenPolitics platform, to make it reusable for others. Fingers crossed, it would be a nice way to spend my time for a couple of months.
@amcewen yep, either of those :)
Considering sleeping in the garden
Wondering how to get a plan together. I've got proposals to write, plenty of jobs that need doing, but I don't feel like I have a *plan*. Maybe that's OK... I miss working with other people though. I'd like to make that happen again, on my own terms.
Turns out there might be a ban on [state-mandated] encryption backdoors from the EU, that sounds great https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/19/eu-proposes-banning-encryption-backdoors/
@somethingnew hello 😄
@agentGav that sounds awesome :)
In other news now the surprise election is almost over, I *will* be upgrading this server soon. Sorry for the delay!
VOOOOOOOOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE
@ej welcome 😀
Turns out proposing things for a party manifesto for #GE2017 is easier than I thought! Well, it is when the party is as clued-up on digital as @somethingnew See my proposal at https://votebot.openpolitics.org.uk/proposals/537 (and the manifesto itself at https://openpolitics.org.uk/manifesto)
Now that end-of-job and local-election fever is done, I should have a bit more time to get this instance upgraded. Sorry if you lot have been missing the new features!
Our two #GE2017 candidates for @somethingnew are now confirmed on the ballot; one in Horsham (me), and one in Ross, Skye and Lochaber. Yay!
And of course, we're crowdfunding to run the campaigns, and we need your support! Everything helps! https://www.crowdpac.co.uk/campaigns/2379/something-new
"Reckon you've seen some stupid security things? Here, hold my beer..." https://www.troyhunt.com/reckon-youve-seen-some-stupid-security-things-here-hold-my-beer/
2: So with the modernist project approaching its own singularity - the reductio-ad-ego that Harari lays bare - not to mention the small problem of impending destruction by means of its own accumulated externalities,
the most important thing I can think of is to work on this:
https://www.meetup.com/Project-for-a-Progressive-Ethics/
1: OK, so this saves you reading Yuval Noah Harari's books: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-39706765
Now I call myself a pragmatic utopian, but sometimes it doesn't help me decide what to do.
Anti-dystopianism gives more direct guidance.
ed balls
Here's a podcast about Open Collective http://pca.st/SR9j
--- and don't forget you can help fund mastodon.me.uk at https://opencollective.com/mastodon-me-uk // @Floppy