Hackers tribes

Projects
Participants	Becha
Skills	Community building
Status	Planning
Niche	Community
Purpose	World domination

Hackers Tribes

About hackers in general

• http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/26/the-war-on-hackers/

(related projects, with links: Internet_Governance_and_hackers,

• Which Side are you On -- http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=68&id=16&mode=txt

Why are hackerspaces like tribes?

"... Internet’s spirit of permissionless innovation, open entry, diversity and competition." http://www.internetgovernance.org/2013/10/20/plans-for-internet-commission-on-internet-cooperation-revealed/

• http://becha.home.xs4all.nl/hackers-philosophers-utopian-network-dec-2012-becha.pdf

On Consensus

• http://p2pfoundation.net/Consensus

• IETF draft https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-resnick-on-consensus/

• Wired 3.10: How Anarchy Works www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.10/ietf.htm

• http://www.unconference.net/facilitating-consensus-process/

• http://starhawksblog.org/?p=631

• 10 Common Mistakes in consensus by Tree Bressen: http://www.intellitics.com/blog/2011/10/13/tree-bressen-the-top-10-most-common-mistakes-in-consensus-process/

• on asking questions in questionaries, surveys , pols & consensus building: http://www.people-press.org/methodology/questionnaire-design/question-wording/

Other hackerspace related project

• http://www.tog.ie/2013/10/dublin-hacks-disaster-smart-cities/

Why are tribes important?

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_B

• http://www.davidsheen.com/b/

1) The Great Forgetting

2) The Boiling Frog

3) The Collapse of Values

4) Population: A Systems Approach

5) The Great Remembering

• The parable of tribes, Andrew Bard Schmookler

• http://secessio.com/vol-2-no-1/to-each-his-tribes-from-contract-to-pact/

Becha's Talks and Presentations

• September 2013, (h)ACTA Open Day, Amsterdam Hackerspace Technologia Incognita (slides to be added later)

• October 2013, RIPE67, synopses for the undelivered talk Hackers_tribes:42_questions

Beyond Civilization

Books

• Daniel Quinn

http://www.ishmael.org/Origins/Beyond_Civilization/

• Derrick Jensen: Endgame

http://www.derrickjensen.org/work/books-dvds-cds/

• Guy McPhearson

• (2011), Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed: A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It

http://crisisofcivilization.com/book/

• NOT to be confused with
  • "The CLash of Civilizations", Samuel Huntington, also criticized with "The Clash of Ignorance" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clash_of_Ignorance

Culture

Quotes on Sharing, spirituality, Culture or "the new way of thinking" Hackers_tribes_quotes_culture

• In the Absence of the Sacred, Jerry Mander

• Born and raised in captivity...

• The Great Turning

"somebody will take care of it... that's their job..." == THAT'S MY JOB!

Are we distroying the planet just to be a little bit more comfortable for a short while? Dimitry Orlov

What does a life well lived look like?

Art

• "We are the Vogons" (spoof of "We are the robots" by Kraftwerk & HHGttG"

Animations

• MAN http://www.youtube.com/embed/WfGMYdalClU

(and unrelated, but worth it: http://stevecutts.com )

• There is no tomorrow", animation

http://www.popularresistance.org/video-can-this-current-way-of-life-continue/

• Michael Pollan's Food Rules vimeo.com Based on Michael Pollan's talk "Food Rules" given at the RSA, this animation was created in the context of the RSA/Nominet Trust film competition. Using a mixture…

http://vimeo.com/35444471

• http://vimeo.com/35554292 take nothing for granted

Video & documentaties

• "There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside, first." - Jim Morrison // The sustainable Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9pDfxdWT2js#t=24

• What a way to go - LIfe at the end of the empire // WhatAWayToGomovie.com

http://www.youtube.com/embed/h2em1x2j9-o

• Crisis of Civilization

http://crisisofcivilization.com/watch/

Music

• Pearl Jam: Yield , album inspired by Ishamel (Daniel Quinn)

Problems

• Peak Oil
• Climate change
• Overpopulation
• Over-Consumption
• NTE

Limits to Growth (Oil, Population, Consumption)

• video from '69 by albert bartlett, on laws of sustainability: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI1C9DyIi_8

• and transcript

http://www.albartlett.org/presentations/arithmetic_population_energy_transcript_english.html

• quote:

       "You cannot sustain population growth and / or growth in the                  
       rates of consumption of resources."
                                                                                                                                                                                         

• quote

"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is                                                            
our inability to understand the exponential function."                               

• http://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-09-15/albert-bartlett-on-message-about-exponential-growth-to-the-end

• "There is no tomorrow", animation

http://www.popularresistance.org/video-can-this-current-way-of-life-continue/

• There is no unlimited happiness http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-myth-of-immaterial-growth-and-infinite-happiness/2013/10/15

• The Dream of the Earth, Thomas Berry; "The Great Wok"

Food = Totalitarian Agriculture

• We eat "fossil fuels" "Against the Grain" (a book) Richard Manning (Last Stand, too),

• " Civilization will eat itself" Ran Prieur & "Superweed"

• Peak Soil -- http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/earth-insight/2013/jun/07/peak-soil-industrial-civilisation-eating-itself

• Acheiving food security in the face of climate change

http://ccafs.cgiar.org/sites/default/files/assets/docs/climate_food_commission-final-mar2012.pdf

• http://www.thecroforum.org/food-and-its-impact-on-the-risk-landscape/

• Feast or famine: http://www.lloyds.com/the-market/tools-and-resources/research/exposure-management/emerging-risks/emerging-risk-reports/business/foo-dreport

Overshoot

• "Overshoot" -- the ecological basis of revolutionary change

• Footprint & "energy slaves" = equivalent of human work , done by machines, using energy & resources

• "Unguarded gates" Otis Graham

Climate

• http://guymcpherson.com/climate-chaos/

• http://climate.diplomacy.edu

• [Going beyond two degrees? The risks and opportunities of alternative options] // [PDF]

• "The Paryt's Over" , Richard Heinberg

• The World according to Pimm, Stuard Pimm

• Grassland, Richard Manning

• http://www.rtcc.org/2013/11/01/france-cranks-up-climate-diplomacy-ahead-of-2015-un-summit/

IPCC 5th report

• 27 sept 2013 the 5th IPCC report got published, and results from their year study are summarized :

http://www.ipcc.ch/news_and_events/docs/ar5/ar5_wg1_headlines.pdf http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/communication/news-archive/2013/ipcc-report-released-today-stockholm http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929360.200-climate-science-why-the-world-wont-listen.html#.UkVjjKw4_T0 http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/27/ipcc-climate-change-report-ar5-live-coverage http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24292615

• Climate Scientists calling for Revolt & Revolution, Naomi Klein http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/10/science-says-revolt

the revolutionary nature of climate science http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/10/science-says-revolt

"our entire economic paradigm is a threat to ecological stability."

challenging currents economic paradigm is humanity’s best shot at avoiding catastrophe

"ditching of this cruel system is no longer a matter of mere ideological preference but rather one of species-wide existential necessity"


"we have an economic system that fetishises GDP growth above all else, regardless of the human or ecological consequences"


"Today, after two decades of bluff and lies, the remaining 2°C budget demands revolutionary change to the political and economic hegemony"


Water Shortage =

The Global Search For Liquid Gold, Urban Times, 11 June 2013 http://act.sumofus.org/go/2394?ak_proof=1&t=5&akid=.1859150.b05Aq7 Bottled Life: The Story, Bottled Life, 1 January 2012 Water Facts, Food and Water Watch http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/interesting-water-facts/?ak_proof=1

Near Term Extinction

• Has runaway greenhouse guaranteed near-term extinction? https://program.ohm2013.org/event/180.html

• http://guymcpherson.com/2013/01/climate-change-summary-and-update/

• http://www.vice.com/read/near-term-extinctionists-believe-the-world-is-going-to-end-very-soon

• Previous mass extinctions : ....

• Devouring all life & resources on the whole planet:

• "The World is Blue" (a book)

• A Good House" (water shortage!)

Collapse

• "Collapse" , Jared Diamond? Another guy?

• "5 stages of collapse" & "6th stage"

Partial Solutions

Bright Side

• Always look on the bright side of life...

• Comedians! (Russel Brand, Ship of Fools....)

• http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2013/oct/30/letters-comedy-in-campaigning-global-development

• "Revolution will be Hilarious" http://www.standupplanet.org/

• OSTE (anti-commercials for Norvegian housing corporation) (thanks, Patrice!)

• Annoying peasant, Monthy Python http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAaWvVFERVA&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DrAaWvVFERVA&app=desktop

Changing Culture

(see "quotes") Hackers_tribes_quotes_culture

• "My name is Chellis and I'm in Recovery of Western Civilization"
• Off the Map , Chellis Glendinning

• "Pirates are the only hope that culture has left" http://falkvinge.net

• "Pirate Cinema", Cory Doctorow

No Fossil Fuels

• Low-Carbon Society
  • International research network http://lcs-rnet.org
  • http://2050.nies.go.jp/index.html
  • http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14693062.2012.738016
  • ... too slow (November 2013) http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/blog/transition-low-carbon-economy-fails-pace-report

• [Climate policies in a changing world context: is a paradigm shift needed?]

• Thrivability as a criticism to sustainability http://p2pfoundation.net/Thrivability

• Permaculture (alternative food production ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture

• Transition Towns http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_Towns

Alternatives to Consumerism

• http://www.alternet.org/activism/people-across-america-are-waking-effects-disaster-capitalism-much-better-way-life-possible?paging=off&current_page=1#bookmark (alternatives to Disaster Capitalism & to economic, energy, environment crisis) 26 Sep 2013

• http://www.popularresistance.org/ten-things-you-can-do-to-democratize-the-economy/

• President of Uruguay September 2013 http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=45989&Cr=general+debate&Cr1#.UnTdeBZEB3Y // http://en.mercopress.com/2013/09/25/mujica-blasted-consumerism-and-called-for-political-heads-to-rule-the-globalized-world // http://thewanderlife.com/human-happiness-and-the-environment-address-by-uruguayan-president-jose-mujica-at-rio-20-summit/ // http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw-9XvcoHXo#t=54 //

Economy of No Growth

• http://www.reddit.com/r/AskSocialScience/comments/1pevhm/are_there_any_wellestablished_economic_theories/cd25sd0

• "steady growth" http://steadystate.org/top-10-policies-for-a-steady-state-economy/

• Sweden : http://www.slate.com/articles/business/billion_to_one/2013/10/sweden_s_billionaires_they_have_more_per_capita_than_the_united_states.html

Cooperation

• Cooperation in a village in Serbia: http://afflatusnews.com/Serbia/1/Svi_stanovnici_jednog_sela_u_Banatu_su_se_udružili_da_bi_svi_ziveli_bolje

• Marinaleda : A Terra de Todos - The Land of Utopia (Cooperative / Utopian village in Spain) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rlqT4NPM9E

• http://opensourceecology.org The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts. - See more at: http://opensourceecology.org/#sthash.0FWPjs5Y.dpuf

• Sustenance Farm

Protests & Revolutions

• http://news.psu.edu/story/292702/2013/10/25/research/penn-state-doctoral-student-creates-digital-map-global-future

• anarchists & why not to vote http://libcom.org/blog/dear-messrs-webb-lustig…-01112013

• Russel Brand (see below)

• Swarmwise, Falkvinge: http://falkvinge.net

• How to start the revolution, Meaning conference (link later)

Small Steps

Clean-up

• Green Cross International http://www.gcint.org

Practical Survival

• http://yearzerosurvival.com

• Self Building http://selfbb.nl

Science

• Visualization: http://dev.informationisbeautiful.net/?attachment_id=6268 / http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/how-many-gigatons-of-co2/ / http://infobeautiful2.s3.amazonaws.com/IIB_Gigatons_CO2_PDF.zip

• http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/09/27/2681861/15-things-ipcc-report/

Misc

• The 6th collapse (briefly covering the five collapses) http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-23/guest-post-sixth-stage-collapse

• http://www.wildfoodschool.co.uk/ && http://www.green-shopping.co.uk/the-fast-wild-food-cookbook.html?utm_source=GraphicMail&utm_medium=email&utm_term=NewsletterLink&utm_campaign=gs-sept-2013.html&utm_content=

• http://www.tog.ie/2013/10/dublin-hacks-disaster-smart-cities/

• UN urges humans to become vegans http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jun/02/un-report-meat-free-diet

• https://micromag.evidenceandinfluence.org/?issue=environment-and-justice

• Noam Chomski, old video about Peak Oil etc (one of many) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQCTTKvNkic

• http://roarmag.org/2013/10/crisis-representation-autonomy-self/

To overcome the crisis of democracy and reaffirm our autonomy, we first of all need to liberate our empty self from mindless consumerism and conformity.

Representation places the source of legitimacy outside of oneself. Whether it is a corporate brand name, political party, an ideology or slogan, one looks for objects of representation through which something inside can be projected out onto the world.

Slowly Boiling Frog (just like in "the story of B")

People are moving more and more outside of electoral politics. A call is arising for a new type of governance, for a real democracy where each person participates directly and manifests their own voice. This is a political act, but it is also much more. The current crisis of democracy is a crisis of representation. Images that perpetuate illusions about ourselves can no longer sustain our humanity.

Russel Brand

• "Before we change the world, we need to change the way we think." http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/10/russell-brand-on-revolution

• http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/oct/25/russell-brand-crisis-civilisation-what-now

• http://www.channel4.com/news/russell-brand-jeremy-paxman-anti-capitalist-revolution-bbc

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YR4CseY9pk Paxman vs Brand // With transcript! http://www.broadsheet.ie/2013/10/24/viva-brandanista/

• http://gawker.com/russell-brand-may-have-started-a-revolution-last-night-1451318185

• http://rt.com/news/russell-brand-bbc-revolutionary-interview-701/

• http://roarmag.org/2013/10/russell-brand-resonance-revolution/

• http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/05/russell-brand-democratic-system-newsnight

• ... and supporting argument: http://libcom.org/blog/dear-messrs-webb-lustig…-01112013