Thanks for this, it’s the first time I hear about this and it certainly sounds very interesting. I’m gonna look more into this as soon as I find the time. In the meantime, if you know more about them and feel like sharing about your experience using them, or anything actually, I’ll be glad to have your input.

May I also suggest something? Perhaps add in the post title something like anti-marketplace or anything like that, so that it is a bit clearer what they are for those of us who don’t know. (English is not my first language and just woke up, but still silly me, by reading the title I thought they were currency exchange apps. And now my coffee is ready!)

Of course cultural appropriation of spiritual indigenous narratives from westerners is something that has been happening for decades. And I totally see the point of your analysis.

In a way, what I was trying to say is that even tho this kinds of appropriations need to be fought so they don’t take over the political discourse about ecology, by itself this doesn’t seem enough imo. In order to fight the power imbalance that colonisers have created throughout the centuries, I believe there is also a need to consciously take into consideration, as well as incorporate the suggestions and approaches of indigenous people in the relevant discourses in western politics, ecology, and their intersections. Certainly, without the element of appropriation, but as as equals.

I tend to agree with this article, but it is also a very slippery slope.

We must be careful not to erase once more indigenous/local narratives because we don’t like the vocabulary used. We risk to contribute into reproducing the colonisers’ power imbalance by disregarding local knowledge, just because it is presented in non-western way (i.e. cultural burnings).

I thought of adding an invidious link to this video, because for me it says Video unavailable - The uploader has not made this video available in your country

Maybe, I really don’t know. Do you perhaps have a relevant tutorial to share?

I wouldn’t recomend lasers. Cats get a pleasure not only from chasing but also from catching things. Lasers can never be caught so the end feeling that is accumulated is of devastation for never fulfiling their end goal.

There are plenty of great ideas here for making them toys. I will add a couple more that my cats have loved much bettter than any toy that was bought.

• Carton roll of toilet paper
• Carton roll from electrical adhesive tapes
• Get a stick and attach an elastic string to it. At the end of the string attach something else - like a cork, a rolled sock etc. Personally I don’t use plastics for toys, but I also don’t stop them from playing with one that accidentaly fell on the floor. When they are done playing with it, I just make it desapear.

Remember that:

• they don’t have the same color palette we do. I don’t know the official terms but we see with 3 colors, they have 2, so bright colors are not of importance to them
• the time you spend playing with them, is bonding time.
• don’t be rough or attack them (in the sense to take them by surprise sudenly). We are a giant to them size-wise. Even tho they see us as equals, we need to ackgnledge that they are much smaller creatures. If you don’t respect them they will start attacking you out of the blue, and a vicious circle will be established.

I only know that it is both casually used as a park and that they are also regularly doing stuff there.

That was a very refreshing take. I just realised that the part where he talks about what anarchism is not good for is something rarely if ever mentionned. Usually the focus is on what capitalism does bad or others in general, and the more I think about it the more problematic it seems to be. I wish I knew people like Jason irl.

Currently, I’m not participating in something like that but I have dedicated plenty of time and efforts in one relevant projects. It’s on purpose that I won’t go into any detail.

Well, we were pretty much doing the typical stuff. Pay attention to what the locals say and want, stay in the mountain, publications (online or otherwise), informative videos & podcasts, organising events in cities near by, like talks, projections, music. That’s it more or less, I think.

How did this projects go? The main goal was not achieved. But everything has been delayed for so-so many years. They still haven’t started. I believe that this is something important. Project is still going on but with less people due to some internal problems, lets put it this way. Even tho I cannot participate in it anymore I am glad they keep doing it bc these things take such a long time.

Hmm I’m not totally sure that it is something you exactly find first and deploy after. Of course there are a tone of things to read, discuss etc but I have the impression that you find some parameters and then it’s a trial and error process. Maybe.

Sometimes there are already people doing stuff like that near you. In a squat or a non-hierarchical collective nearby? Sometimes these collectives do not exist in our area, so maybe try to find other people with similar interests close to where you live and start something all together? As it says in the article:

It doesn’t matter how small you start, just start and see how it grows.

I dunno. From my experience in doing similar stuff for the first time I learned something else. Long story short, the things I imagined or feared etc, had nothing to do with what happened in reality. And doing the project felt great also because it opened the door to new kinds of interactions with other people.

I’m not trying to be lovey-dovey or something. With time, challenges emerged, some tough, some easy and badly handled, you name it! But what you describe reminded me of some of my “fears” before starting a project for the first time, this is why I thought of mentioning the above.

The federal police in Brazil is a civilian investigative force.

I’m not sure what you mean, in the sense that the info wiki has presents a quite typical police body. For example, it says:

The Federal Police of Brazil (…) is a federal law enforcement agency of Brazil and one of the most well-known nationwide police forces of the Executive Power of Brazil.

and

It is subordinate to the Ministry of Justice and Public Security.

I suppose they are ‘better’ than the military police that Brazil has? If we think of uniforms, only firefighters can be ok.

Edit: Several stuff. I stop now

I totally find this statement to be valid, and the way I would interpret it in relation to this article is that maybe this indigenous leader is corrupt. This is one possibility for sure.

Nevertheless, due to my personal distrust in the police, I wouldn’t be surprised if this was not the case, and that the police is acting on behalf of the rich people’s interest in order to eliminate the power given to these indigenous people by the state or some of its branch. Btw this is a 2023 report on Violence against indigenous people in Brazil, and the police is mentioned a lot in it.

Anyways, thanks for the post. I will keep an eye out to see how this goes. If you have news on this, please share!

Thank you so much. Doing this immediately!

Maybe I should have specified that where I live it’s summer now, so windows are always open and will be so for many more weeks. Meaning, releasing it outside would not prevent it from coming back in.

To my understanding, trees are the best carbon sink among plants. Weeds can be extremely important for healthy ecosystems, but are not considered as “carbon sink” per se because they have small roots compared to trees and other plants. (Btw if you have a link to share that talks about weeds as important carbon sinks, I would be very interested to take a look at it. So, please share.)

This technique utilizes invasive weeds to make pellets, instead of cutting trees.

Of course, that’s exactly what I’m saying.

As long as it is implemented within capitalism, it will never be neutral. Capitalism is destructive because it exhausts all natural resources and disregards all living creatures and ecosystems, for the sake of monetary profit and infinite economic growth. All these, on a finite planet. Clearly, eternal growth is a cancerous way of development, and it has nothing to do with sustainability.

I see things differently than the way they are analysed in this text.

AI by itself is nothing. What it is depends on the context, and the context here is capitalism. This is very obvious because most, if not all, the problems atributed to AI in this text, actually derive from how capitalism works. Maybe I should I say how AI works under capitalism.

So the problem for me is not the tool itself, it’s who is holding it. Meaning, going after AI, doesn’t change how capitalism operates. It’s by unstiching capitalism that the broader social and economic relations get the chance to reconfigure.

As you say, and the fact that there is a list of environmental killings makes it even worst. So many more activists have been killed this century than the previous one, and we’re just 25 year into it.

Among other things, there is a need for transparency on material creation, that copyrighted products do not provide. It seems to me this plant-based thingy is in this category, they don’t provide info on the material used, they just claim things.

Here is a recent article on this topic:

Eco-friendly or eco-threat? The environmental risks of natural and semi-synthetic fibers