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『she hacked you』 is like a pokèmon, evolving into a larger + more complex community project
How could you possibly be bored at the end of the world?
Climate instability is a small component of impending total cascading ecological collapse.
In academia? Struggling for grants for what? Measuring the collapse in scientific papers that are ignored. Sooo then what?
Unfortunately, SHY is and can not be the solution; realistically, there probably isn't any solution. SHY is not proposing our goal is to fix the world, or stop impending ecological collapse
About Us
A community of scientists, and data shows mostly computer scientists
But also makers, hackers, academics, communists, eco-terrorists, anarchists, nurses, hardware and software engineers, socialists, ecologists, electrical engineers, lawyers, mycologists, programmers, journalists, artists, designers, arsonists, kopimists, nomads, writers, union organizers, educators, witches, musicians, environmentalists, arboreals, activists, narco-terrorists, luddites, night-timers, day-dreamers, exiles, and party-crashers
Ultimately, and Ideally a diverse group of people and skills bound together by similar goals: 1. Participate in a project larger than themselves 2. Collaborate on a project that seeks equitable treatment + dignity for all Terran life
All languages +cultures +nationalities +political-affiliations (including apolitical) +identities +religions +age-group are invited to participate
Unique perspectives divergent opinions presented in good faith are appreciated + will be discussed
Rules
Essentially none; you are free to be stupid, post about anything
SHY seeks to mimic the freedom of expression found on the early internet; but also includes freedom to endlessly ridicule, embarrass, insult, and shame stupid posts; it goes both ways
Preferably, cultivate Interpersonal communication skills, be comfortably wrong, and be able to learn from others
Racist, fascist, + classical to neo nazi- will wish they got banned; instead of consequences like oddly bricked devices Go ahead, post, put all your devices on the line to test if serious.
Origin Story
SHY originally was only free educational computer science courses streamed live weekly; it needed music for the stream, so a music project was created, needing students to avoid an empty stream, a social media presence on Mastodon+Reddit was created and grew rapidly.
Over time, the essence of SHY began to change. Always intended to be nucleation point for a community, but who was in it and shaped it, and so what it means are still open questions: it requires all of us to answer them.
Will this work? Who knows? Probably not, but we can only find out if we try
Contact
The founder and current administrator of the community is Mastodon.social@ekis
Until I regret this decision, anyone can contact directly + immediately via email:
Gladly accept love letters, but not fond of death threats; but don't censor yourself.
Use XMPP? Join our chat [email protected]
Or, Instant Message Ekis [email protected]
Support & Donations
Contributing financial support will speed up growth of this community via paypal or via ko-fi
SHY is already tied to an established CA non-profit with a dedicated bank account. Revenue and donations will be held in a dedicated business account, community audited, and control will rest with the SHY community; it may fund open source projects or other yet undefined community objectives.
Work will begin to convert the organization into a non-profit workers' cooperative; demonstrating how cooperatives can be operated democratically, and without C-Suite executives. Completely worker owned, operated, non-profit cooperative (but we will be designing our own instead of using the new standard California model).
Goal of a non-profit workers cooperative:
- Transparency
- Democracy
- Exerting force within the organizational ecosystem
Creating an organization within the current organizational ecosystem, explicitly with entirely different goals and motives combined with no board of directors, makes our design incredibly efficient by comparison; in addition, willing to lose profit for achieve other goals, will make SHY dangerous entity within the ecosystem*
Bitcoin Donations
Never buy & give them to SHY to sell:
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Give Me Your Coins!
And, of course, you can personally shower me (Ekis) with your cryptocurrency.
Made an obscene amount of money? And you haven't already sent some? I'm offended!
Will even take your esoteric fork-coin; but no regaling me with tales of extraordinary properties. Really don't care-
Interested In Leadership Roles?
SHY is an ambitious project that exist beyond this site; already connected to an established CA non-profit. Members wishing to have democratic control will be required to join the SHY non-profit cooperative.
We are looking for community organizers, and we need department leaders for different types of skills. If you have been doing UX design for a long time, and could help newer people getting into it, we would to hear from you. The same writing (technical writing, but not exclusively), 2D artists, 3D artists, etc. We want find people with talent in each field they can share with others and build "departments"(until we have a better word) around these individuals. They will have weighted voting during decision making votes, not massively but noticeable.
We will be building new federated platforms, while providing fixes for existing ones.
We require modifications to an existing CA non-profit structure; writing new articles of operation, to provide for a unique cooperative structure.
The goal of establishing a entirely worker owned and operated non-profit cooperative is a very rare; it will serve both as a demonstration while empowering the SHY community to be more than bystanders.
We will redefine economic disruption
founded 11 months ago
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I want to eventually expand this beyond just my writing; I will start with helping Mastodon instance operators but from there I would like it to become a place people can submit their research, and possibly even do some peer review. So far I have been working on CSS I can put inline for free until I can create my own system that gives me the features needed for discussing computer science topics easily
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No rules, means like "copying is not stealing"
If you try it, you will likely be sucked in, it is very very good. But only 10 issues, so can be read in an afternoon.
I read a lot: sci-articles code fiction nonfiction + yes comics books
Got into comics so late I skipped DC/Marvel, was given "Watchmen" (only DC ever); it was good, but best of all time?
the artform is so different, so much better
Rick Remender is one of the best living scifi #authors
From "Low", "Tokyo Ghost", "Black Science", +more but those are sufficient to make the cut
I personally uploaded copies of the first 8 issues to my own server with no ads, or wait times, or anything else
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https://drive.proton.me/urls/ACXVTQD9Q4#geB9iW7Qih9T
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I was first inspired by this concept when reading the book Makers. Have you ever read the book "Makers" by Corey Doctorow?
He had a very clever solution which I wanted to try; bought the parts but lacked the motivation. Because the person I do projects with is very detail oriented and organizes things very well.
But the concept was you put an RFID on every physical item you want to index. Then you put a reader in a collection of bins. Then you just randomly put the items in the bins without thinking about how its organized.
Then you can write software to be able to do a search of your physical items that have the RFID (or even the newer low power Bluetooth would work too, didn't exist at the time of writing the book).
So when doing a physical search, the idea is that it lights up the container its in, then you can go directly tot that container and obtain the physical item without needing to do any organization.
I have other ideas; but that one is the first one that comes to mind, I highly recommend the book; and all his books, I'm a big fan. I never really got into his site Boing Boing but his writing is stellar.
If you can't afford it, or can't find it; let me know and I will post the audio book for you or the EPUB. Whichever you prefer.
With newer Bluetooth protocols, more complex versions of this is definitely possible.
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We don't want it all in one thread, we want individual threads so we can learn each person by name; you can choose not to disclose things you feel are private, and keep it minimal but a POST just for you lets us ask questions and gives the community a chance to associate you with your name (since we don't get avatars :\ )
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I'm a software developer who fell in love with teaching. Unfortunately many companies providing an education in writing code are scams, and I'm sad to say I'm working for one right now. I've been playing with the idea of having free "learn to code" streams, to give people the education without ripping them off.
I also am interested in getting into music production ( I have a year of piano lessons under my belt! humble beginnings lol), and I have an eccentric art style if there is a desire for visuals that don't feel derivative and samey like most modern art efforts. Attached is my most recent art piece.
I'm not just interested in teaching, really I want to just find other people who also enjoy creating and sharing information. I don't care about being rich or going viral. I just want a social ecosystem where "Wouldn't it be cool if..." is likely to be followed up by "Yeah, we should try it", or "No I already attempted that, but here is what I learned."
Anyways I'm here to help how I can!
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This should support more than one image; there are a lot of issues with this service but it was one of the reasons I wanted to experiment with it.
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Wrote up an idea about using profile images to store metadata for syncing open-source apps
(www.alanwsmith.com)
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You are free to express yourself here, hate is not tolerated, but there are more fun and effective ways to remove these bad actors than a simple ban; and it will be fun if they let us explore the options available to us. It would be the biggest regret post of their life.
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Song file got corrupted so it was "finished" or rather saved in #audacity
Download @
https://shehackedyou.bandcamp.com/track/f-licette-2
https://soundcloud.com/shehackedyou/felicette
#Soundcloud downloads enabled + #bandcamp is pay what you want
