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#localization

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Miss Gayle

Food sovereignty, IMHO, means growing affordable local food first and foremost for local people, and only afterwards sending excesses to the regional or global marketplace.

That is the opposite of how predatory & extraction capitalism works - taking the best farmland and using it exclusively for export, leaving little or nothing affordable for local people to eat.

Link: resilience.org/stories/2025-06

Towards Food Sovereignty Michel Pimbert, originally published by Radical Ecological Democracy June 13, 2025 At its heart, food sovereignty is a people-led response to the existential threats and multiple crises facing agri-food systems. Indigenous women exchange food and medicinal plants through barter markets and gift relations in in the Andean mountains of Peru (Photo credit: Michel Pimbert). "At its heart, food sovereignty is a people-led response to the existential threats and multiple crises facing agri-food systems. Led by peasant farmers and agricultural workers, indigenous peoples, pastoralists, and fishers, as well as citizens, activist scholars, women, and youth, these proliferating social movements and citizen networks are seeking to fundamentally transform agri-food systems in terms of conviviality, equity, ecological sustainability, resilience, and justice. Emphasising the need to rebuild food governance from the local to global, Michel Pimbert argues that food sovereignty cannot be achieved without participatory direct democracy, economies of care, gender and intersectional justice, and diverse regenerative agroecologies."
#FoodSecurity#Agriculture#Farming
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Miss Gayle

Glad I passed on buying "Abundance" at the Symposium Bookstore here in Providence.

The main premise of this book is false.

We cannot trust centralized or top down governance to make good choices for local conditions & local issues.

In fact, the opposite is true.

Link: strongtowns.org/journal/2025/6

"The Strong Towns approach rejects the entire pursuit of permanence. It recognizes that healthy communities must be able to evolve."

"The Trouble with Abundance" by Charles Marohn 6/9/25 Abundance looks to reform from above. We think you shouldn’t wait for permission. "...If only we can clear away what holds us back. That’s the energy behind "Abundance," the new book by Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein. It’s a hopeful, energetic manifesto that diagnoses a key American failure: We’ve forgotten how to build. On its face, the argument is hard to disagree with...Housing is scarce and expensive. Infrastructure takes decades & costs multiples of what it should. Clean energy is stalled. The economy feels sluggish...because...we’ve created systems that smother them. The authors offer a compelling case that America needs to remember how to say “yes” again, to homes, to projects, to change. And yet, while I found much to admire in "Abundance," I also found myself uneasy. Not because I reject the goals, or the urgency, or the frustration with the status quo. But because I’ve seen this movie before. A generation ago, Thomas Friedman gave us "The Lexus and the Olive Tree," a book that married globalization with a vision of enlightened, technocratic governance. It...carried a familiar tone: one of confidence in centralized solutions, managed from above by the right people with the right insights. It assumed that the core systems of governance and economics were fundamentally sound, they just needed to be updated, optimized, or liberated from parochial interference. "Abundance" carries echoes of this same mindset."
#Sustainability#Housing#Economy
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Miss Gayle

PODCAST

"How might we rekindle a sense of enough in a world that constantly tells us we need more? As globalization begins to retreat, what small but meaningful steps can we take to relocalize our lives and reconnect with each other? And what kind of futures might be possible if we centered our communities around systems that regenerate the very places we call home?"

Link: resilience.org/stories/2025-06

Helena Norberg-Hodge — Globalization End Game: How Localization Builds Resilient Communities & Economies Nate Hagens, originally published by The Great Simplification June 11, 2025 In this episode, Nate is joined by Helena Norberg-Hodge [pictured] – a leading voice in the localization movement – to explore the deep systemic challenges posed by economic globalization. About Helena Norberg-Hodge Linguist, author & filmmaker, Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of the international non-profit organisation, Local Futures. She is also a pioneer of the new economy movement, the convenor of World Localization Day, and an expert in understanding the ecological, social, and psychological effects of the global economy on diverse cultures. Additionally, Helena is the author of several books, including ‘Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh’, an eye-opening tale of tradition and change in Ladakh, or “Little Tibet”. Together with a film of the same title, Ancient Futures has been translated into more than 40 languages, and sold half a million copies. Helena has continued to produce several other short films, including the award-winning documentary ‘The Economics of Happiness’. Helena specialized in linguistics, including studies at the University of London & with Noam Chomsky at MIT. Her work, spanning almost half a century, has received the support of a wide range of international figures, including Jane Goodall, HH the Dalai Lama, HRH Prince Charles and Indira Gandhi.
#Sustainability#Community#Localization
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Louis Ingenthron

Please boost for reach! Which would you prefer from a self-funded indie game studio that can't afford translation services:

1) Don't translate the game at all. Just leave it in English.
2) Use LLMs to translate the games, but have a crowdsourcing system to correct errors.
3) Have a crowdsourcing system and only make languages available when the crowd completes them.

· 45 people · Closed
#GameDev#IndieDev#GameDevelopment
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Miss Gayle

There is nothing inevitable about predatory capitalism. Cities, counties, and states should *do their job* and refuse to grant licenses to companies that pay sub-living wages, pollute the environment, or are known to be engaged in criminal activities (like ICE detention facilities who are falsely imprisoning legal immigrants).

We allowed these corporate monsters to exist, and it's time we started pulling the plugs.

Aral Balkan @aral@mastodon.ar.al AI isn’t an existential threat to humanity, capitalism and corporations are. You see, we created capitalism, a religion modeled on cancer, and the corporation, a new, artificial species; a parasite that co-opts human beings to do its bidding; an organism that’s psychopathic by design and grows by extracting from and exploiting us and our habitat. And we now find ourselves ruled by this religion and driven to ruin by these parasites as they drain our humanity, destroy our habitat, and condemn our future. Your enemy is capitalism. Your enemy is the corporation. This is an existential battle against a cancerous ideology and an invasive species for the survival of our own.
#Capitalism#Pollution#Economy
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Stefan Bohacek

Reminds me of the localization efforts on Mozilla's Firefox OS several years ago.

"Ibrahima Sarr, a Senegalese coder, led the translation of Firefox into Fulah, which is spoken by 20m people from Senegal to Nigeria. “Crash” became hookii (a cow falling over but not dying); “timeout” became a honaama (your fish has got away). “Aspect ratio” became jeendondiral, a rebuke from elders when a fishing net is wrongly woven."

archive.is/2025.01.09-014218/h

#technology#language#linguistics
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Miss Gayle

"I feel bombarded by articles on the U.S. housing crisis, which inevitably display suburban tract homes sprawling across the landscape or promote skyscraper apartments instead. I look at these patterns on the landscape and think, “What an utter waste.” We are doubling down on a way of life that has no possible good future."

Article: resilience.org/stories/2025-05

Growing the Shire, Not the ‘Burb: Facing the Housing Crisis with Ecological Sanity Jason Bradford, originally published by Resilience.org May 27, 2025 By putting this idea out there – that we can respond wisely to the polycrisis by building ecologically savvy agrarian villages – I hope to capture the imagination & fruitful energy of some of you. "In early 2025, the U.S. human population is about 340 million. The housing stock is 150 million, so that on average there are 2.3 people per home. Home size is large, with newly constructed homes averaging 2,600 square feet. New homes sell on average for $665,000, which works out to $250 per square foot. This enormous sum, allocated among 2.3 people, is around $290,000 per person. It’s a lot of money, and, this is key, each of these residences is tied to an infrastructure that locks it into industrial-scale flows of energy & materials that are paid for by wage earners. Now I’m going to bring up something that is almost never discussed in the context of housing, let alone road building, career choices, or the future of college football, but is absolutely critical to all of these and much more: planetary boundaries...You should quickly make the cognitive leap (actually only a tiny hop) to understand that the life-support systems of Earth are undermined by normal daily living in industrial modernity...which needs to be reduced by about an order of magnitude to have any hope of keeping Spaceship Earth conducive to Homo sapiens."
#Sustainability#PolyCrisis#Housing
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Miss Gayle

"An economic system is the way in which a society organizes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services...For the Economy for Life to qualify as a system, we would start with some assumptions:

- Economic growth cannot remain the core objective (this is the mission of DeGrowth)
- Sufficiency and well-being should become the core objectives of economic activity..."

Article: resilience.org/stories/2025-05

The Economy for Life Is Ready to Replace Capitalism Vlad Bunea, originally published by Economy for Life May 27, 2025 In this mess we are in today, with fascism on the rise, with the risk of war, with burnout and anxiety, there are many reasons for hope. If we fight to get rid of capitalism and transition to an economy that truly values life, I think we can win. "Mainstream economists, as they practice today, operate with their own assumptions, which I may qualify as delusional. Many of them think that: - It is impossible to imagine an alternative to capitalism - Proportionality, dispossession, and hierarchies are fundamental requirements for any economic system. Proportionality is about linking power to property, such as in how one share gives one vote in the ownership of corporations, dispossession is about removing property from its owner in order to transform it into profit-making capital, and hierarchies are the methods by which capital is managed in a top-down pyramid-like structure in corporations. - Profit is the only way to motivate people to participate in the economy - Economies of scale are the only way to achieve efficiency - Property must be defended at all costs, even against the common good - Money is the only way to properly measure value The Economy for Life, as an economic system, would begin by opposing the delusions of many mainstream economists."
#Economy#Sustainability#Community
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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

5/

So, not just Decentralized Social (DeSo), but instead —

Decentralized Social (DeSo), Federated Social (FeSo), Localized Social (LoSo)

The goal is 'social' that is simultaneously — 'Decentralized', 'Federated', and 'Localized', all at the same time.

RE: mastodon.social/@reiver/114551

Mastodon@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: (@reiver@mastodon.social)Decentralized Social (DeSo), Federated Social (FeSo), Localized Social (LoSo) RE: https://mastodon.social/@reiver/114406141298522537
#ActivityPub#ActivityStreams#Decentralization
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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

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Localization is important to make Decentralization work and last.

Decentralization without Localization can be susceptible to Centralization.

Decentralization with Localization spreads out decision-making and power to groups (that could consistent of a single individual) with a personal stake in the outcome of the decision-making.

Which creates incentives that lead to greater resilience to Centralization.

RE: mastodon.social/@reiver/114172

Mastodon@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: (@reiver@mastodon.social)Localization is important to make Decentralization work and last. Decentralization without Localization can be susceptible to Centralization. Decentralization with Localization spreads out decision-making and power to groups (that could consistent of a single individual) with a personal stake in the outcome of the decision-making. Which creates incentives that lead to greater resilience to Centralization. #Decentralization #DeSo #Fediverse #governance #Localization
#Decentralization#Federation#Fediverse
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