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interesting resource
https://www.learningmetacurrency.org/
Read More interesting resourceOpen Source Intelligence
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3445357/what-is-osint-top-open-source-intelligence-tools.html
Read More Open Source IntelligenceQuick Instructions
when you click on the link above you start in the editing mode Green Houses are tradersRed cycles are business accountsandBlue pins are LACsThere are 3 layers OK? If you put your cursor on the map you can scroll in and out Search in the top bar for your name say “Roy member” Click You…
Read More Quick InstructionsTransfer from other blog
https://www.greengeeks.com/tutorials/how-to-transfer-your-wordpress-content-from-one-blog-to-another/
Read More Transfer from other blogIs it only, me?
Post thumbnailwhen I am stressed I find other people very irritating
maybe it is me?
I remember when I gave up smoking, everyone attacked me, bastards, why would they do that?
The next time I gave up smoking I didn’t tell anyone I had given up smoking and they still attacked me
whoops
Read More Is it only, me?Inquiry into workplace bullying
Post thumbnailIn 2012, then Labour Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Employment and Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten announced a review into Bullying in the Workplace, by the House Standing Committee on Education and Employment. The review examined the nature, causes and extent of workplace bullying and considered proposals to prevent bullying cultures developing as well help…
Read More Inquiry into workplace bullyingScrapers
Better to use python
Read More ScrapersBrandolini’s law
Post thumbnailBrandolini’s law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle, is an internet adage that emphasizes the effort of debunking misinformation, in comparison to the relative ease of creating it in the first place. It states that “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.”[1][2]
Read More Brandolini’s lawChildren get bullied
Post thumbnailBullying behaviour is often motivated by a desire to meet basic needs for recognition, attention and approval. It is a misguided attempt to increase your popularity by making other people look small.
Read More Children get bulliedOpen Source
Post thumbnailThere are a few competing definitions for ‘open source software’. However, generally for software to qualify as
I can help with this
open source, users must be able to freely (in relation to rights, not payment) copy, study, adapt, improve and distribute the source code of the software.
Read More Open SourceFirst outline – can you help?
Post thumbnailIndex
Table of Contents
License 1
Authorship 1
Index 2
Introduction 2
This Document 2
The CES 2
The BrisLETS Management Committee 2
Managing the BrisLETS Community Exchange System (QLD) 2
Managing our Website 3
Access; Admins. Editors 3
Making Posts and assigning categories 3
Publishing the Newsletter 3
Backups 3
Getting Help 3
Newsletters 3
Facebook Groups 3
Trade days at The Peace Hall 3
Managing Membership 3
Terms and conditions 3
The Constitution 3
Promotion 3
Managing Conflict 4
Complaints Policy 4
Best practices in Trading 4
CES for Traders 4
Nash equilibrium
Post thumbnailIf each player has chosen a strategy – an action plan based on what has happened so far in the game – and no one can increase one’s own expected payoff by changing one’s strategy while the other players keep theirs unchanged, then the current set of strategy choices constitutes a Nash equilibrium.
Read More Nash equilibriumreverse dominance hierachies
Post thumbnail To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
Voltaire
Antonia Scatton is framing the debate
Post thumbnailI think there is a lot in the idea of “defensive messaging”, if we are constantly defending ourselves – shit sticks
We are better to support “bodily autonomy” for women than defend against “foetal right”
Read More Antonia Scatton is framing the debateBlemish
Post thumbnailI was trained in TA, seriously, for work as well not just as a hobby. I particularly like the ideas about “games” ‘Blemish’ – this falls into the party games category and is a game in which you are insecure about yourself and cannot feel comfortable in any interactions until you have found some sort…
Read More BlemishDemands versus requests
Post thumbnailPeople rarely respond willingly to demands while they might respond to requests and the key idea is it is OK if they don’t. “We can help others trust that we are requesting, not demanding, by indicating that we would only want the person to comply if he or she can do so willingly. Thus we…
Read More Demands versus requestsa collation
What is community (one)
Post thumbnailI am having this chat with someone about BrisLETS “community”The young people are yearning for community I think you are part of a community if you get COVID and two people check in to see how you are and if you need something ? See What is community two
Read More What is community (one)What is community (two)
Post thumbnailI also think that we have been conned into buying services as a substitute for community – age care, support workers etc Q: Does your $20 BrisLETs fee buy you a lifetime community ?A: NO, you can’t buy community you have to reach out to people and build a community. It can’t be couriered to…
Read More What is community (two)Gotta do that good old blogroll
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Read More Gotta do that good old blogrollHow should we manage passwords ?
Post thumbnailI think -roy- next step This needs be documented as a procedure put into actionandIn a timely manner, procedures should be approved by the MC and published as part of the association’s documentation (updated oct 31)(updated jan 29)
Read More How should we manage passwords ?On trust
Post thumbnailThe poem goes When love has gone there is always justiceWhen justice is gone there is always forceWhen force has gone there is always love someone Most of us would prefer to live in a loving trusting environment but things happen and so we cooperate with each other based on law and professionalism. It works……
Read More On trustOnly hurts the one’s that give a stuff.
Post thumbnailI used to work with Richmond Fellowship, which at the time was a therapeutic communityEvery morning we would have a therapeutic group. One morning someone said “I am very angry with someone here but I’m not saying who it is” All day long we thought about it, is it me?, what did I do?Every one…
Read More Only hurts the one’s that give a stuff.update your PHP today
Your WordPress site can be faster, and more secure, and you can make this happen! This page will explain why this matters to you, and then how you can fix it. Why PHP Matters To You PHP is the codi… Source: Get a faster, more secure website: update your PHP today – WordPress.org Forums
Read More update your PHP todayHow to handle bad faith arguements
Credit: JakeOlimb/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty ImagesOnce you recognise these weak tactics, you can easily outwit them
So we should focus on that relentlessly and never get distracted by bullshit, bad faith arguments.
Read More How to handle bad faith arguementsI have a censorship policy
Post thumbnailI don’t censor and this ain’t Facebook
If someone says something shitty
It stays here
Making Money
Post thumbnailQ: Where does Money come from
A: It is printed by the government and carries an enormous profit
Q: Where do UNITS come from.
A: We create them when we trade and there is no one taking a profit
Endgames of Bad Faith Communiction
Post thumbnailSome people enter into a conversation `for productive and honest reasons, “Good Faith”
Some people come for mischief, in “Bad Faith”
How do we tell the difference and what can we do about it?
Read More Endgames of Bad Faith CommunictionWe all know that calling someone an “idiot” is unaceptable
Post thumbnailI would like to suggest that saying “some people here are idiots” is also unacceptable
Read More We all know that calling someone an “idiot” is unaceptableHello world!
This is a blog where I (Roy) pontificate grandly on the subject of Mutual Credit, more specifically Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS), more specifically again using the platform of the Community Exchange System (CES) as I negotiate my way through *Brislets
Read More Hello world!One year on, El Salvador’s Bitcoin experiment has proven a spectacular failure
Post thumbnailA year ago, El Salvador became the first country to make Bitcoin legal tender – alongside the US dollar, which the Central American country adopted in 2001 to replace its own currency, the colón.
Read More One year on, El Salvador’s Bitcoin experiment has proven a spectacular failureOriginal LETS design manual
Post thumbnailLETSystem Design Manual
This version was supported and published by the Birmingham Co-operative Development Agency.
Written by Michael Linton and Angus Soutar for Landsman Community Services Ltd of Canada.
Don’t Trust the Police
Source: Reid technique – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEACE_method_of_interrogation there was a court decision that the police alre allowed to tell lies
Read More Don’t Trust the PoliceHow Mondragon Became the World’s Largest Co-Op
Post thumbnailIn Spain, an industrial-sized conglomerate owned by its workers suggests an alternative future for capitalism. Source: How Mondragon Became the World’s Largest Co-Op | The New Yorker
Read More How Mondragon Became the World’s Largest Co-OpInoculation against disinformation
A strong defense against online misinformation may be to administer a digital vaccine: Exposing yourself to common deception methods may help you recognize sensationalized headlines, misleading TikToks, or social media fabrications in the future. In collaboration with Google and its tech unit Jigsaw, a team of psychologists added short videos to YouTube’s ad lineup, educating people about how to spot common misinformation tactics. In an online campaign, they found these clips were an effective way to get people to identify what’s real and what’s fake news.
Read More Inoculation against disinformationGrassroots Economics – Launching Community Inclusion Currencies
The cumulation of a huge amount of work has gone into 14 Community Inclusion Currency Launches last week. So proud of the team and grateful for all the hard work. Source: Grassroots Economics – Launching Community Inclusion Currencies
Read More Grassroots Economics – Launching Community Inclusion CurrenciesNo, I Will Not Debate You
Civility will never defeat fascism, no matter what The Economist thinks. Source: No, I Will Not Debate You
Read More No, I Will Not Debate You(Untitled)
In mechanism design, a Vickrey–Clarke–Groves (VCG) mechanism is a generic truthful mechanism for achieving a socially-optimal solution. It is a generalization of a Vickrey–Clarke–Groves auction. A VCG auction performs a specific task: dividing items among people. A VCG mechanism is more general: it can be used to select any outcome out of a set of…
Read More (Untitled)Intergenerational transmission of disadvantage in Australia
Globally, there is a widening divide in the wellbeing of people at the top of the
socioeconomic ladder and people at the bottom. Despite tremendous economic
growth, more than 75% of people in developing countries are living in societies that
are more unequal today than they were in the 1990s (UNDP 2013). In Organisation
for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, the ratio of average
disposable income in the top versus the bottom decile now stands at 9.5; up from
around 7 in the 1980s (Keeley 2015).
Escalation of commitment – Wikipedia
Escalation of commitment is a human behavior pattern in which an individual or group facing increasingly negative outcomes from a decision, action, or investment nevertheless continue the behavior instead of altering course. The actor maintains behaviors that are irrational, but align with previous decisions and actions.[1] Source: Escalation of commitment – Wikipedia
Read More Escalation of commitment – WikipediaMetaphor and war: Lakoff
Post thumbnailMetaphors can kill. The discourse over whether to go to war in the gulf was a panorama of metaphor. Secretary of State Baker saw Saddam Hussein as “sitting on our economic lifeline.” President Bush portrayed him as having a “stranglehold” on our economy. General Schwarzkopf characterized the occupation of Kuwait as a “rape” that was ongoing. The President said that the US was in the gulf to “protect freedom, protect our future, and protect the innocent”, and that we had to “push Saddam Hussein back.” Saddam Hussein was painted as a Hitler. It is vital, literally vital, to understand just what role metaphorical thought played in bringing us in this war.
Read More Metaphor and war: LakoffAntonia Scatton
Post thumbnailNow, for the first time, Antonia is taking her extensive knowledge and making it available to the whole community. Her hope is to help us develop mastery of critical framing and messaging skills and to encourage a productive conversation about innovation and increasing community participation in the political campaign process.
Read More Antonia ScattonAzolla – Climate Foundation
Source: Azolla – Climate Foundation
Read More Azolla – Climate Foundationgaslighting
Jonathan Fishman GASLIGHTING: What is ‘Gaslighting’? Gaslighting is an dishonest, abusive, manipulative technique which leads it’s victims to doubt their own perceptions, judgements, memories, experiences, mental competence or sanity. Gaslighting, makes a victim question their reality, it makes its victims think that they’re losing their minds. Gaslighters override your own reality, and may lead you…
Read More gaslightingWordPress Image Sizes
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Read More WordPress Image SizesWhen Does Equality Flourish?
Post thumbnail“In a broad sense, this research gives us a picture of how dominance, in the abstract, works to sustain itself. If you’re at the top of a very hierarchical society and are absolutely determined to stay there, then you want three things. First, you want people to fear your power, so that they’re unwilling to risk toppling you. Second, you want to occupy people’s minds—and potentially, their bodies—so thoroughly that they’re mentally exhausted and oriented more toward hierarchy and authority than toward equality and justice. Finally, you want to make sure that those you dominate are unable to meaningfully communicate—or that, if they can, they are loath to trust one another in the long run. Division is your ally. Power wants the powerless to be scared, thoughtless, and alone”
https://www.newyorker.com/…/when-does-equality-flourish
We are human we have the cognitive resources to maintain equality our potential masters can stay potential
Read More When Does Equality Flourish?Dictatorship to Democracy; A Conceptual Framework for Liberation
Post thumbnailOne of my (Gene Sharpe) major concerns for many years has been how people
could prevent and destroy dictatorships. This has been nurtured in
part because of a belief that human beings should not be dominated
and destroyed by such regimes.
Squatting
Post thumbnailA celebration and documentation of Australians putting abandoned and disused property to good use.
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