Notices by Travis Southard (travissouthard@jawns.club)

Does anyone know a slow fashion specific #fediverse server? My spouse is looking to join.

I tried looking at fedi.garden and didn't find anything.

Maybe it's been a bad idea to let enormous, regionally-monopolized, for-profit corporations control our medical treatments?

Why It’s So Hard to Find a Therapist Who Takes Insurance: https://projects.propublica.org/why-i-left-the-network/ by @ProPublica

#healthcare #medicareforall #singlepayer

Less specifically: Fuck the Supreme Court for consistently ruling against the people.

More specifically: It is vital to our survival to connect with our neighbors and build local support networks. Give to your local community fridge. Share tools.

"Our belief that when the lights go out, our neighbors are coming over with a shotgun precludes our own option of going over to their house with a covered dish and a casserole." -- @pluralistic https://jacobin.com/2016/02/cory-doctorow-boing-boing-homeland-little-brother-snowden-poitras/

Every once in a while I disable my adblocker to see what the difference would be on a particular site, and Y'ALL: The web is genuinely so much better with an adblocker.

Please do yourselves a favor and add one. It is as easy as adding a browser extension! I use https://adnauseam.io/ which works so well!

#web #adblocker #privacy

"If we’re going to have a meaningful debate about AI that results in good policy and good products... I think it’s time to fight sci-fi fire with sci-fi fire. I think we need the Butlerian Jihad... In the deep lore behind the Dune universe, humans collectively decided to abandon and prohibit AI and even computation more broadly... In a way, this is another vision of 'AI from the movies'"

https://www.solarshades.club/p/the-case-for-the-butlerian-jihad

#solarpunk #ai #tech #dune

@skyfaller What weather app are you liking? I remember searching but not finding anything that checked all my boxes

Join the Philly Social Justice Hackathons weekly Hack Nights each Thursday in March leading up to our weekend-long event April 5-7

Sign up to discuss challenges faced by Philly community, participate in ideating and brainstorming solutions, learn/share about related technology and skills, and get to know everyone over pizza!

Sign up for this coming Thursday: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/philadelphia-social-justice-hackathon-challenge-projects-pizza-night-tickets-851037274397 #philadelphia #civictech #socialjustice #legalservices