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Dr Kim Foale
@kim.town
She/they. Studio lead @gfsc.community. Aka kimadactyl. Community organiser, software developer (attempting to retire), researcher. Trans and very tired. Mastodon: @kim@post.lurk.org Work: https://gfsc.studio WIP blog: https://kim.town
i know everyone's been thinking "my tech politics discourse doesn't have enough astrology in it" i got u gfsc.community/towards-a-lu...
Towards a Lunarpunk Practice, Part 1: The Sun
Big tech is a modern day sun-empire that everything orients itself around: even the alternatives. How can we banish the golden geese, re-enchant our tech practice, and make all this stuff feel fun aga...
gfsc.community
rip gilles deleuze you would have loved calling LLMs organs without a body
in other news a fancy restaurant near me is now advertising a "girl dinner" snacking mezze and all i can say is, our culture is not your costume,
in the noughties if you wanted to feel actualised politically (or in almost any way tbh) you needed to commit to maintaining a space for that thing that necessarily meant you had to hang out with people and get along with them even if you didn't like them very much
How health technology is replacing care with surveillance Surveillance technology in health and social care like Oxevision is intrusive, coercive and not fit for purpose, and much of its development links to warfare. Why is it being commissioned, and where could we find alternatives?
How health technology is replacing care with surveillance
Surveillance technology in health and social care like Oxevision is intrusive, coercive and not fit for purpose, and much of its development links to warfare. Why is it being commissioned, and where…
gfsc.community
"bold policy proposals, including hefty wealth taxes on billionaires, sharp reductions in working hours, a change in diets and a shift of investment..." these are incredibly far from "bold proposals", its almost comical how far the overton window has shifted www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival
Global report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions
theguardian.com
personally i'm happy for the police to be at pride as long as they are throwing bricks at themselves
if mamdani was an influencer he'd be banned from entering the UK i stg
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3mo ago
How can we fully support people and communities holistically? How can we see them as more than customers to be sold or rented software? We help communities build and own their means of production. More of the manifesto will unfold over this week, but you can read it in full below
The Geeks for Social Change Manifesto v1.0
GFSC's goal is “help people use technology to do community stuff”. Today we're launching our manifesto for building this real world impact: shared infrastructure over products, capability over deficit...
gfsc.community
thankyou so much for having me, my quest to expose everyone to anarchist literature is going well i see 😅
Not In Our Name (NION) Women@nionwomen.bsky.social · 3mo agoA lovely gathering in Macclesfield last night for @macctech.bsky.social. Hearing from @kim.town on how we’ve lost our focus in community in tech, and sharing the NION women story with a compassionate crowd was encouraging. Thanks to MyCWA and MaccPride for convening such a warm crowd 💜
if you're ever in any doubt about the labour party's commitment to white patriarchy, remember they could have picked literally anyone in the country to fast track to PM and they picked... andy burnham, with seemingly zero consideration to other options
This has been a big penny drop for me on Starmer's psyche. I think starmer assumed when he got in that he was the next Blair, a generational PM who would leave a lasting legacy. He's turned out to be a useless drone but the cognitive dissonance must be killing him observer.co.uk/news/politic...
Keir Starmer: I want 10 years in No 10 and will fight my ...
The prime minister sets out his project of ‘renewal’, which includes a scheme to open up Europe for young people, admits Labour needs to act on its election drubbing, and questions donations to Reform...
observer.co.uk
started watching supernatural, forgot how ubiquitous lip gloss was in the noughties
Community & Impostor Syndrome in the Games Industry gfsc.community/th/ The games industry is a big one. It's easy to feel like an intruder. Ben writes: Here's how I got into game-development, and three events which showed me the merits of community and cooperation in this solitary line of work.
Between Solitaire and Monopoly: Finding Community in the Games Industry
The games industry is a big one, and it's easy to feel like an intruder. How'd I get in? In truder window! In actuality, I got in by making the games I wished existed and meeting a community of other ...
gfsc.community
starmer saying he "takes responsibility for the election losses" and to prove it, appointing an advisor who miserably lost the only general election he stood in very funny and on brand
Community infrastructure: what it is, and how GFSC plans to fund it. gfsc.community/our-social-b... - a new blog post by @kim.town
How GFSC plans to sustainably fund community infrastructure
My last post we explained what GFSC does and why. Now the practical bit: how do we actually pay for it? And to answer that, we need to talk about something we've lost: shared distribution.
gfsc.community
what's the betting wes streeting goes to work for palantir the second he gets voted out of office
wrote a thing about what i've been working on recently gfsc.community/our-vision-f...
Our vision for the ‘community’ in community technology
Our goal is to help community organisations do things together rather than individually. Each project is a different expression of that. Read our plan to build shared community infrastructure.
gfsc.community
what if we just reframed al the specific anti- X / amazon / google / microsoft / palantir et al. activism as simply the don't rent software from paedophiles campaign feels like that should work across the board?
Incredibly disappointing from @theproudtrust.bsky.social, who took away our only non profit queer space in the city centre and now are evicting grassroots organisers who are trying to reinstate it. Without this, The Proud Place isn't an LGBT community centre, it's an office space with gay branding.