Decentralized storytelling

Amelia Winger-Bearskin talks about this in an interview, titled "Decentralized storytelling, from Native tradition to the metaverse". She says it quite beautifully: My mom is a traditional storyteller from our tribe. Being a storyteller for the Seneca-Cayuga Nation is something that is a cross between being a historian, being a performer, being a creative writer, and being a leader within the culture.

Winger-Bearskin also emphasizes the importance of decentralized storytelling as a way of passing on our ancestors' values to the generations to come. She then notes that decentralized storytelling is nothing new to this generation, as seen in game worlds (she uses the example of Minecraft); we'd rather participate in the storytelling in our own way rather than just passively receiving it through a single source.

On indigenizing the Internet
Author: Jake Advincula
Source:https://reading.supply/@notfromjacob/on-indigenizing-the-internet-Khgo5N

PeachCloud & Bioregional Computing

A bioregion is an "ecologically and geographically defined area", contrasted with ways of dividing land such as states and legal jurisdictions, which are human-created, and not necessarily in connection with living ecosystems. The trend of globalized computing seems to go further in this direction of disconnection from nature and context — the status-quo internet, often symbolized by "the cloud", is imagined to be both everywhere and nowhere, and sometimes seems like it does not exist in a place, even though in the end every computer exists in the material realm somewhere. In short Bioregional Computing is a call to bring awareness to where computation happens and where it comes from, to the people who build the software and the datacenters, and to the hardware that the software runs on. All of which is frequently invisible, or ignored, often by design. Bringing awareness to the infrastructure and resources we use can also help us be more mindful about the energy and materials they require. A sort of intentional reversal of "out of sight, out of mind".

PeachCloud & Bioregional Computing
Author: Max Fowler
Source:https://canalswans.commoninternet.net/posts/bioregional-computing

How have you been feeling about websites today?

I'm supposed to be awake all the time, but sometimes I stare at my monitor, without doing anything. A few tabs of useful articles are already opened but I'm not really looking at them. I tend to turn on my laptop as if it's a daily ritual, but I often space out with it. I need those moments for sure, but I often denied them, feeling as if I'm wasting time. With an idea that I should be productive, letting time just flow on the web seemed extravagant to me. But now I finally have to claim that it's fair to space out on the web too. It’s a bit off-topic but a while ago I had a conversation with someone about reading books. I told him I feel bad that I don’t end up fully reading a book I had bought. But then he said that holding a book and even fidgeting with it is a part of reading. He is quite right, indeed. Not doing anything doesn't necessarily mean not doing anything. It can be a part of processes. It's totally okay to stare at the screen for a moment. Thus I've made this room to space out. It's a celebration of my (self) emancipation from the fantasy of productivity on the web browser. And hereby I share it with you, in case you want to do the same too.

A luxurious life on the web: A room to zone out
Author: Nami Kim
Source:https://hub.xpub.nl/sandbot/Nami_Researchlog/issue1_room/issue1.html

How have you been feeling about websites today?

I'm supposed to be awake all the time, but sometimes I stare at my monitor, without doing anything. A few tabs of useful articles are already opened but I'm not really looking at them. I tend to turn on my laptop as if it's a daily ritual, but I often space out with it. I need those moments for sure, but I often denied them, feeling as if I'm wasting time. With an idea that I should be productive, letting time just flow on the web seemed extravagant to me. But now I finally have to claim that it's fair to space out on the web too. It’s a bit off-topic but a while ago I had a conversation with someone about reading books. I told him I feel bad that I don’t end up fully reading a book I had bought. But then he said that holding a book and even fidgeting with it is a part of reading. He is quite right, indeed. Not doing anything doesn't necessarily mean not doing anything. It can be a part of processes. It's totally okay to stare at the screen for a moment. Thus I've made this room to space out. It's a celebration of my (self) emancipation from the fantasy of productivity on the web browser. And hereby I share it with you, in case you want to do the same too.

A luxurious life on the web: A room to zone out
Author: Nami Kim
Source:https://hub.xpub.nl/sandbot/Nami_Researchlog/issue1_room/issue1.html

Tending to my garden...