I Tried To Make Something In America
#SmarterEveryDay #DestinSandlin #MakerCulture #MeansOfProduction #ReIndustialization
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTGwcHQfLY
#meansOfProduction
take back the means of production
#art #mastoArt #mixer #standMixer #MeansOfProduction #labor #resist
If you poke your head in my office you’re going to get an indefinite lecture about the following…
- FOSS
- Linux
- Fediverse
- HR-friendly hints at the inevitable dystopian end state of capitalism
… until either I convert you or you stop poking your head into my office.
#CarlMarx #Marxism #AntiMarxism #Communism #AntiCommunism
Carl Marx, who died in year 1883, is obsolete. Economy made of transistors 1947, Eliza app 1964, #ChatGPT 2022, robots, air drones, smartphones, Linux, #OpenBSD , #WikiData & WikiPedia, intelligent machines running "means of production".
Investing in world-wide science changes the world, BIG time. Computer Science of knowledge changes all other science.
Social class is a function of one's relation to the #MeansOfProduction. If you work for a wage, it doesn't matter if you're a ditch-digger or a college professor, you are #WorkingClass.
The real reason for American #publiceducation declination owes to the #gatesfoundation administration’s push for metrical #accountability over #responsibility (even here the former trumps the latter hashtag) while gaslighting the public to gin up “public demand for accountability.” This is the origin story of all #STEM idiocy strangling teachers to churn out cheap #productmarketfit engineers—#meansofproduction now being replaced at #microsoft #google etc. by their own labor.
@mattyroses Really exciting concept behind your #meansofproduction library software. The Discord link on the MeansOfP site isn’t working, but I am hoping to see a demo or even live instance of this so that I can build consensus among friends and neighbors in my community that this is something worth trying.
As a teacher of budding scientific and technical professionals, I’m again and again struck by how little sense of personal autonomy is part of today’s education, our modern ›Paideia.‹ Students hope to master the fundamentals of, say, one of the branches of engineering, get a ›good job,‹ come up with some lucrative ›innovation‹ and live happily ever after. Very often they simply lack any sense that they might reflect upon, talk about, and seek to realize an independent, personal understanding of life’s possibilities. Thus, the autonomy of technology often comes to the fore when ascertaining people’s sense of basic priorities. But the intellectual and moral autonomy of today’s students, employees and citizens? Not so much.#LangdonWinner on #Technopoly reference #JaquesEllul and #KarlMarx "who always knew who was in charge..
... surprises and troubles attributed to technologies that seem to have become ›autonomous‹ can often be traced back to the persons and groups that are ›in charge.‹ Marx describes the kinds of mechanical apparatus that fully claimed the bodies and minds of factory workers in his day. As he explains such calamities in his h#TheoryOfCapital, it’s clear that the owners of the #MeansOfProduction bear full responsibility for what happens.#AgenticShift
@bsmall2@mstdn.jp
This Casey Muratori quote below is spot on for most other "creative software", incl. generative art/design tools/frameworks... In this context, it also doesn't matter if these are #OpenSource or not, since 99% of people are engaging with these offerings purely as consumers and will be left stranded/struggling once the day of reckoning will arrive (nothing lasts forever, regardless of enshittification)...
Many subfields of digital art/design/engineering currently have one (or a couple) incumbent monopolistic tools/frameworks consuming/sucking the attention of most practicioners in those fields. Each time, the main issue (for users) should be learning, developing, extracting, abstracting reusable skills, underlying metaphors/terminologies, techniques and thought patterns which are more general and independent from those tools, actively exercising the breaking of mental (and practical) dependencies to free & shape one's own creative practice/process.
Artists too (rather: them especially) should own and keep control of their means of production, or at the very least understand them (in some detail)!
Yet, in the bigger picture, the appetite for exactly these things seems to be continuously waning and the "AI" hype theatre is just accelerating & strengthening production dependencies and the strict separation between infrastructure owners & practioners... These are choices each one of us has to and does make, but how many of us are doing so consciously/intently and how many are even just willing and/or able to support others working towards such goals (e.g. by embracing anti-framework and anti-monopolistic design philosophies)...
Another related quote here by Gualter Barbas Babtista (already shared previously):
“If you don’t develop your own technology, you will need to adapt to the language and patterns of the technology someone else developed – maybe in contradiction to your cultural values.”
Check out this thread: https://librarysocialism.social/@mattyroses/110814721894239497
It is to setup a #lending #library that can be versatile enough to handle lending a variety of objects.
@hydroponictrash the #meansofproduction product is one effort towards this - by allowing communities to represent themselves as a #library, we can provide a #federated platform to share resources with local control.
The difference is the #ownership of the #MeansOfProduction. As long as a tiny minority of the rich owns it, the rest of us will be marching toward #shantytowns.
...unless we #SeizeTheMeansOfProduction
#capitalism #ClassWar #exploitation #luddite #technology #socialism #communism
If you've got questions, objections, or anything else you'd like to know about the #meansofproduction project, reach out!
A similar sort of network has developed in many places with the #buynothing networks. And this is something that #meansofproduction can support as well - after all, a gift/buynothingitem is just a #loan that never expires.
One advantage of a permanent loan over a gift, though, is that it does incentivize people to keep items withing the system, and not sell it back to the mainstream #capitalist economy.
But a couple problems still exist - how do I setup libraries, especially for things that don't currently have libraries, like #tools
Well, you can go the traditional route - find a space, and make it a #library. #meansofproduction means that you will have software to help you with this ready to go!
But spaces are expensive, particularly in #urban environments. So MoP also supports a newish idea, #distributedlibrary .
at this point we have a bunch of libraries which can all talk to one another.
Part of the #meansofproduction is also developing front ends - #webpages and #apps - which can then use federation to search for items nearby in many different libraries!
So what is #meansofproduction?
MoP is open source software being designed to power libraries. It has two key features - the ability to create a #distributedlibrary, and the ability to #federate between many different libraries.
We'll handle each of these items separately, then dive into the tech stack, status, and later features!
If you'd like to get involved, please let me know!
A 🧵on the ongoing #meansofproduction project - which is designed to enable #librarysocialism along with #federation of all types of libraries, especially #toollibraries, and even #Housing
You can find more info at https://meansofp.org/, and the codebase is #opensource at https://meansofp.org/.
We have a discord at https://discord.gg/DxUrwhDg - but also moving lots of the discussion here to #mastodon!
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