Jens Finkhäuser

Trying to build a better Internet. In the meantime, I enjoy reading.
I'm @jens@social.finkhaeuser.de elsewhere on the fediverse (I only follow other bookwyrm accounts here).
FYI, I'm shelving books in "Dad's Library" that my father owns, which I will eventually receive. We have a long-standing agreement that he will give me his SF&F, or I inherit them eventually.

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2023-09-08 07:32:50

"Abolitionists are not just trying to decrease the number of cops and prisons until both disappear. They are also coming up with better ways of keeping people safe.
To do so, Davis argues, it's essential to "let go of the desire to discover one single alternative system of punishment." The point is not to replace prisons with pseudo-prisons (...), but to assemble a "constellation of alternative strategies and institutions" (..).
(..). together they can form a fabric that can "lay claim to the space now occupied" by the institutions that abolitionists are working to eradicate.
Davis and her abolitionists give us the basic blueprint for deprivatizing the upper floors of the internet." -- "Internet for the People", page 156
If that isn't a metaphor for the fediverse vs. big social media, I don't know what is.
But also, I like that this celebrates diversity and small scale. A bunch of worker cooperatives instead of a large consulting firm, etc.
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