This one could be interesting, teasing apart two political dimensions across diverse human societies. Dimension one involves a trade-off between #cooperation and #competition and gives rise to contestation over levels of #inequality and provision of #public goods. The second is about the trade-off between #autonomy and conformity, leading to contestation over the extent of social #control.

'the dual foundations provide a common evolutionary framework for studying human politics across geography, history, subsistence styles, levels of social organization, and academic disciplines. We end by outlining how quantitative approaches to studying the dual foundations beyond industrialized nations can advance research on both the anthropology and psychology of political ideology.'

#politics #anthropology

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/735619

Municipalism: A Historical and Contemporary Alternative to the Thanatic Megamachine

@sz_duras #Municipalism #Clisthene #Bookchin #Proudhon #Magnaghi #Bolo #Mumford #FabianScheidler #McKenzieWark #Degrowth #EcologicalCommunalism #ThanaticMegamachine #Decentralization #DirectDemocracy #Commons #Bioregionalism #AntiCentralization #MetabolicRift #Autonomy #Decolonial #Bureaucracy #Technocracy Municipalism-from the ancient Greek demes to Proudhon, Bookchin,…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/05/03/municipalism-a-historical-and-contemporary-alternative-to-the-thanatic-megamachine/

Autonomy & Manipulation

This stuff is more complex than I'd thought.

I've bought a #RedPlate and now an #ElderlyRelative is not rejecting their meal, or rejecting it so much less that all of it gets eaten.

I'd like to hear from other carers and also parents on when you think manipulation is ok, when it fits with autonomy, when it doesn't, when it's not ok, and things like that.

#Dementia #Autonomy #Manipulation #AgingInPlace

* Did you know?

The Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63) is not just history — it's the foundation of Malaysia.

✅ Sabah & Sarawak did NOT join Malaysia — they CO-FOUNDED it together with Malaya and Singapore.
✅ MA63 is an international treaty signed by all parties and witnessed by the UK.
✅ It promised special autonomy to Sabah & Sarawak in areas like immigration, education, religion, and resource control.
✅ Full MA63 implementation = a real federation, with equal partners — not central control from KL.
✅ Honoring MA63 is NOT anti-Malaysia. It is how Malaysia was meant to be: fair, united, and just.

We don’t need to fight to divide. We need to speak up to restore.

#MA63 #Sabah #Sarawak #EqualPartners #FoundersNotFollowers #MA63 #Sabah #Sarawak #Malaysia #Federalism #PoliticalScience #Decolonization #IndigenousRights #ConstitutionalLaw #InternationalTreaty #Autonomy #PostcolonialJustice #Sovereignty #EastMalaysia #BorneoRights #MalaysianHistory #SocialContract #PoliticalAccountability #HumanRights #Equality #politics #politicalscience #malaysia #sabah #sarawak #sabahsarawak

I'm excited to announce that I'll be attending the annual GLMA conference on LGBTQ health in Minneapolis. I'll be sharing work I've done with the Genital Autonomy Collective about the lived experiences of trans, intersex, and gender-diverse people.

Our project is titled "A Thematic Analysis of Transgender, Intersex, and Gender-Diverse Experiences of (Violated) Genital Autonomy".

#LGBTQ #Intersex #Trans #Autonomy #Research

I wish there was a good solution for gps turn by turn navigation if you're blind. I so like to do long walks autonomously. But almost all of the usual blind navigation apps do routing in the city and not along a route from ridewithgps or similar. None of those routing platforms are accessible. I'm looking at Wayband, N-Vibe, I've used OpenWay (promising, but not well maintained). Would the stellar trek be something? #blind #hiking #autonomy #accessibility

No matter the party, no politician is ever gonna do anything for you.
All the power to the people!

#anarchism #anarchy #Autonomy #election #directdemocracy #anticapitalism #politicalart #radicalart

Waymo Partners with Toyota, Opening Door to Sell Autonomous Vehicles to Consumers

https://fuelarc.com/tech/waymo-partners-with-toyota-opening-door-to-sell-autonomous-vehicles-to-consumers/

There once was a yacht of great fame,
Belonging to Lynch, who's made a name.
A salvage to begin,
For thirty mil' to win,
Hope it sails on smooth seas all the same.

#GuardianLimerick #Italy #Europe #Autonomy

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/29/30m-salvage-operation-on-mike-lynchs-superyacht-begins

Seems to me that the government and ‘equality’ comission tripping over themselves to find ways to exclude [but not exclude trans people] are essentially saying that all toilets are now available to everyone.
How else could you rationally or sensibly interpretation their nonsensical and contradictory pronouncements? Denying anyone a place to relieve themselves on gounds of their appearance is segregation, like historical racism segregation - It doesn’t matter if they are people of different ethnicity, people who do not loo k like some stereotype of ‘male’ or ‘female’. #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Toilets #ProChoice #Autonomy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g355v07l2o

What to do when good business runs counter to the prevailing narrative? #DEI #Autonomy

What to do when good business runs counter to the prevailing narrative? #DEI #Autonomy

New translation up on @igd_news: Statement on the Occasion of the 15th Anniversary of the Murder of Bety Cariño and Jyri Jaakkola

"Today marks 15 years of impunity. Fifteen years since the murder of Bety and Jyri. And, faithful to custom – and the necessary stubbornness of keeping memory alive – we return to this date with the same wounded but unshakeable dignity.

"In this digital era, our compañeros have been converted into a QR code, a WhatsApp message, an app, a song, a video that travels the world, a worn photo, a graphic exhibition. But they are not only that: they are a voice that resists in time, in the memory of those of us who refuse to forget."

https://itsgoingdown.org/15th-anniversary-murder-bety-carino-jyri-jaakkola

#Mexico #Oaxaca #Indigenous #mourning #autonomy #solidarity

On April 27, 2010, a solidarity and mutual aid caravan to the besieged autonomous Triqui community of San Juan Copala left the city of Oaxaca. Along the way, it was ambushed by government-backed paramilitaries belonging to UBISORT (Union for the Social Well-Being of the Triqui Region). Several friends of mine were shot, and Mixtec organizer Bety Cariño and Finnish solidarity activist Jyri Jaakkola were murdered.

One year after the murders, I had the opportunity to accompany Jyri's parents when they visited Oaxaca seeking justice for their son. There is nothing quite like the pain of a parent upon having a child stolen from them.

Today, dozens of people blockaded Federal Highway 190 between Oaxaca and Huajuapan to demand justice for Bety and Jyri. The killers remain protected by the state, and impunity reigns no matter which party is in power.

https://www.congresonacionalindigena.org/2025/04/26/pronunciamiento-en-el-marco-de-los-15-anos-del-asesinato-de-bety-carino-y-jyri-jaakkola/

#Mexico #Oaxaca #Indigenous #autonomy #solidarity

Statement from the autonomous Nahua community of Santa María Ostula, Michoacán:

Update: After a three-hour attack by members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) against our community, we want to report that our Communal Guard was able to repel these criminals, who, according to investigations, had planned an armed attack in order to enter our territory.

On this occasion we were again able to keep that from happening, nonetheless, containment this time does not mean an end to the attacks. This criminal organization is continually attacking our community.

We also wish to report that our Guard found bullet holes in a primary school, which clearly indicates that the CJNG attacks those who are defenseless and with it provokes terror.

We will continue defending our territory, and our community will remain united. We are very grateful for the dissemination of what we have reported as that is already an important contribution.

#Mexico #Michoacán #Indigenous #autonomy

Everything about this case seems wrong. Nothing is going to change the outcome. Posting her picture is unkind to any relatives or friends or partner she may or may not have. It strikes me there is an increase in the arrest and court appearances of people who have either taken medication to have a termination, or had a miscarriage, or even left a newborn for someone else to care for.
The questions that really need to be adressed are
Why was the medication taken?
Why did she go to hospital with a foetus?
Why was she charged and further distressed in such circumstances?
Why do some women hide a pregancy and abandon a newborn?
Coercive control? Cultural shame? Ignorance?
#Autonomy #ProChoice
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy639j97j2o

#ICYMI: Last month, I chatted to Benjamin Mottis from ANYbotics about #robots for inspection and maintenance.

Catch up here 🎧 - https://www.robottalk.org/2025/03/28/episode-115-benjamin-mottis/ or wherever you get your podcasts!

#Robotics #Autonomy

Those who claim to be protecting are so often the perpetrators…..
Those who lay down with dogs get up with fleas….
These are the groups and people that Starmer, Supreme Court justices and some media are aligning with.
These are the people Galbraith-Rowling is sponsoring.
#TransRights #ProChoice #Autonomy #TerfIsland #TERF https://mastodon.scot/@andrewducker/114391884420716738

"Johnson says that this affinity for the sex “woman” arose out of the work that her mother did to help people live, to allow her, the young Johnson, and her siblings, et cetera, to live. And what we call “femininity” in a political sense is that legacy—that history of life-making. We have to understand this history in this way. We have to understand these movements that I’ve listed as the substance of feminism. Which is to say that the goal of something called “feminism” is to generalize these conditions as daily life, not to escape them: to make everybody collectively responsible for the kinds of provision that Johnson’s mother produced."—Emma Heaney

On the Cisness of the Bourgeoisie >

https://pinko.online/web/on-the-cisness-of-the-bourgeoisie

#interview #Emma_Heaney #feminism #cisness #political_economy #motherhood #women #Marsha_P_Johnson #autonomy #feminity #Sophie_Lewis #unmediated_by_men #Cathy_Cohen #essentialism #womanhood #labour_split #social_relations #solidarity #femmephobia #whorephobia #reproductive_labour #penetrability #subordination #patriarchy #sexual_violence #social_value

All of this -
Transphobes and Starmer and the Supreme Court Judges really should read it and understand it.
#Transrights #Science #Autonomy
Beyond XX & XY—Human Sex And Gender Were Never A Simple Binary https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/human-sex-gender-nonbinary