also even Christians can't agree on what it means--do you know how many fucking schisms Christianity has? (and don't ask about the one which created the Southern Baptists...)
I’m personally kind of a prude and am uncomfortable with oversexualization but I don’t think this puritan, regressive path is the way to go.
the thing to remember is: it's perfectly fine to be uncomfortable with some things--this is a normal part of existing in spaces with other people and it's important to set boundaries for yourself. but in general it's also not necessarily someone else's problem to tailor their online existence to your discomfort.1 it's good if they respect your wishes of course, and especially if you're close with them it's probably worthwhile to see if they'll respect some of the ones you have. but with exceptions for the most heinous content it is mostly going to be/should be incumbent on you--at least as possible with the tools at your disposal--to curate your online experience so that you're not exposed to that stuff.
this is especially true in what are essentially public spaces like Twitter, rather than smaller and more tailored communities ↩
on the news front, i think we can both do better than this story (which seems to center on one redditor being duped, from a quick skim) and the New York Post, a tabloid which isn't exactly known for its quality.
every time i look at Texan urban planning, i die a little inside. most US urban planning is bad, but it's so uniquely bad in Texas that it's not even funny, and there's almost no way to systematically improve it short of nuking the suburbs and starting over because of how bad the sprawl is
Graeber is basically "must read" as far as i'm concerned; for anarchists and would-be anarchists, i'd say a comparable figure is Peter Gelderloos.
on the more obscure end, i've found the bibliographies of Walter Rodney and Amílcar Cabral to be quite good; perhaps not broadly applicable to modern socialism, but both definitely profile worthwhile international and historical perspectives (Rodney with Caribbean, Guyanese, and Black socialism; Cabral with the liberation war fought in Guinea-Bissau against the colonial Portuguese) that shouldn't be forgotten. since they're lesser-known you probably can't find their stuff in print, but most of their works can definitely be found on libgen
In the meantime, do you have any suggestions for a provider to host such a space?
hmm, good question. i've paged other people who i think are better able to socially or technologically answer this one than i, and hopefully they'll be able to direct you and others toward something
this is just another effort by another city to chase unhoused people out of an area, rather than, oh i dunno, building a mother fucking housing complex.
the bar is actually much lower here technically, because an easy solution would be to just provide the service generally. you don't even need housing to solve this specific facet of the "problem" (although nobody should be homeless and we should build housing and rehouse them, to be clear!)
The residents don’t want the homeless hanging around outside the library and turning off the wifi would reduce their incentive to be there.
i mean bluntly, sucks to be them? but get over it. homeless people are people too! the obvious solution is to provide them with social services first if this is the objection (which, to be clear, it generally isn't--it's that homeless people exist and aren't out of mind)
this is less of a dichotomy than i think is described here, though: almost all people in the second category were at one point people in the first and end up there because the support described in the first category disappears. when you become homeless, that frequently means you lose almost everything--and it's really, really hard to build up from nothing in modern society because the expectation is that you have money to survive, and there's only so far people are willing to pay your way forward.
(there's also the reality that even if you have something, there's only so long you can make that last without a job--and for a homeless person getting one can be functionally impossible, no matter how menial. housing is also catastrophically expensive, so even if they clear the job hurdle once they're down, the housing one may be likewise impossible to clear. this treadmill is a big part of why so many people become visibly and persistently homeless)
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