diff --git a/src/components/Card.astro b/src/components/Card.astro
index 05a53c6..0d7b1ca 100644
--- a/src/components/Card.astro
+++ b/src/components/Card.astro
@@ -10,15 +10,26 @@ const { title, bigTech, alternatives, bgClass } = Astro.props;
---
-
{title}
-
Big Tech Option: {bigTech}
+
{title}
+
+ Big Tech Option: {bigTech}
+
- {alternatives.map(alt => (
- -
-
{alt.name}
- {alt.description}
- Website
-
- ))}
+ {
+ alternatives.map((alt) => (
+ -
+
{alt.name}
+ {alt.description}
+
+ Website
+
+
+ ))
+ }
diff --git a/src/components/PointsOfUnity.astro b/src/components/PointsOfUnity.astro
index ec1d932..6c18374 100644
--- a/src/components/PointsOfUnity.astro
+++ b/src/components/PointsOfUnity.astro
@@ -1,64 +1,130 @@
Points of Unity
- Our community agreements and decision-making process describe how we work together. The points of unity are the broader philosophies that we're working towards as a group. Perhaps people aren't 100% aligned individually, but this is what the group as a whole believes in when showing up to the work.
+ Our community agreements and decision-making process describe how we work
+ together. The points of unity are the broader philosophies that we're working towards
+ as a group. Perhaps people aren't 100% aligned individually, but this is what the
+ group as a whole believes in when showing up to the work.
-Grounding
+Grounding
- We situate ourselves in our context - as Seattle residents and as users and creators of the technologies we aim to resist. We are seeing a long-spanning rise of fascism within national governments here and abroad. In parallel is the increasing power of tech companies over our lives through surveillance and the provisioning of everyday needs, from employment to how we get our internet utilities in the first place. There are rising income disparities across the nation, but also more specifically across everyone who can be considered a "tech worker": from a CEO, to a software engineer to a tech campus cafeteria worker to a child enslaved to mine cobalt in the Congo.
+ We situate ourselves in our context - as Seattle residents and as users and
+ creators of the technologies we aim to resist. We are seeing a long-spanning
+ rise of fascism within national governments here and abroad. In parallel is
+ the increasing power of tech companies over our lives through surveillance and
+ the provisioning of everyday needs, from employment to how we get our internet
+ utilities in the first place. There are rising income disparities across the
+ nation, but also more specifically across everyone who can be considered a
+ "tech worker": from a CEO, to a software engineer to a tech campus cafeteria
+ worker to a child enslaved to mine cobalt in the Congo.
- We know that technology intersects with and amplifies systems of oppression, from anti-Black racism to classism, ableism, cisheteropatriarchy, etc. Big tech permeates all aspects of life in Seattle, but to name a few ways:
+ We know that technology intersects with and amplifies systems of oppression,
+ from anti-Black racism to classism, ableism, cisheteropatriarchy, etc. Big
+ tech permeates all aspects of life in Seattle, but to name a few ways:
-
- - The rise of a Surveillance City in Seattle facilitates the tracking of out-of-state people seeking abortions, the kidnapping of migrants, and the increased surveillance and criminalization of sex workers, the visibly unhoused, and poor and racialized communities.
- - The environmental racism and community impacts of data centers, both from the AI bubble and the demand for more data processing that comes with surveillance capitalism.
- - The AI genocide in Palestine abetted by Google, Amazon, Boeing and Microsoft, all local Seattle employers.
- - Rising gentrification and income inequality that comes from financialization of real estate and the gentrifying waves of tech workers moving into the city.
+
+ -
+ The rise of a Surveillance City in Seattle facilitates the tracking of out-of-state people seeking abortions,
+ the kidnapping of migrants, and the increased surveillance and criminalization
+ of sex workers, the visibly unhoused, and poor and racialized communities.
+
+ -
+ The environmental racism and community impacts of data centers, both from the AI bubble and the demand for more data processing that
+ comes with surveillance capitalism.
+
+ -
+ The AI genocide in Palestine abetted by Google, Amazon, Boeing
+ and Microsoft, all local Seattle employers.
+
+ -
+ Rising gentrification and income inequality that comes from financialization of real estate and the gentrifying waves of
+ tech workers moving into the city.
+
- Some of us are employed by Big Tech companies, and we are all living on stolen Coast Salish land covered by the broken Treaty of Point Elliot of 1855; we understand that we are contributing - directly or indirectly - to these oppressions, and seek to use our skills towards more liberatory ends.
+ Some of us are employed by Big Tech companies, and we are all living on stolen
+ Coast Salish land covered by the broken Treaty of Point Elliot of 1855; we
+ understand that we are contributing - directly or indirectly - to these
+ oppressions, and seek to use our skills towards more liberatory ends.
-Theory of Change
+Theory of Change
- We are committed to fostering our collective understanding of resisting tech monopolies and building a constellation of alternative technologies that exist outside of exploitative, oppressive systems. We seek out radical possibilities by building connections across our communities with others struggling to resist tech monopolies and reject work that expands the reach of these monopolies.
+ We are committed to fostering our collective understanding of resisting tech
+ monopolies and building a constellation of alternative technologies that exist
+ outside of exploitative, oppressive systems. We seek out radical possibilities
+ by building connections across our communities with others struggling to
+ resist tech monopolies and reject work that expands the reach of these
+ monopolies.
- We don't need to passively wait around for somebody to come implement these solutions. Making improvements to our lives and our communities paves the way for collective liberation. Dismantling smaller elements of a system is practice for uprooting the whole and replacing it with a constellation of liberatory alternatives.
+ We don't need to passively wait around for somebody to come implement these
+ solutions. Making improvements to our lives and our communities paves the way
+ for collective liberation. Dismantling smaller elements of a system is
+ practice for uprooting the whole and replacing it with a constellation of
+ liberatory alternatives.
-Role of Technology
+Role of Technology
- "We believe our communities and organizing efforts can and should harness the possibilities of new technology." (Mijente) However, we don't innovate for the sake of innovation, but aim to create with intention, listen to the perspectives of those we hope to serve (including ourselves), and hold each other accountable in this work.
+ "We believe our communities and organizing efforts can and should harness the
+ possibilities of new technology." (Mijente) However, we don't innovate for the sake of innovation, but aim to create
+ with intention, listen to the perspectives of those we hope to serve
+ (including ourselves), and hold each other accountable in this work.
-Our Position in the Movement
+Our Position in the Movement
- We don't see ourselves as a vanguard organization - that is, we make no claims to being the sole authority on resisting tech monopolies and we will never tell a front-line community or group of tech users what they actually need. Everyone benefits from the work of resisting tech monopolies, and for that reason we do the work for ourselves as much as we do it for anybody we are in solidarity with.
+ We don't see ourselves as a vanguard organization - that is, we make no claims
+ to being the sole authority on resisting tech monopolies and we will never
+ tell a front-line community or group of tech users what they actually need.
+ Everyone benefits from the work of resisting tech monopolies, and for that
+ reason we do the work for ourselves as much as we do it for anybody we are in
+ solidarity with.
- However we also recognize our own privilege in being highly-skilled tech workers: because of this we center the voices of the people most vulnerable to various tech monopolies, and aim to share our expertise so that others can also become agents in co-creating technologies of liberation and resistance.
+ However we also recognize our own privilege in being highly-skilled tech
+ workers: because of this we center the voices of the people most vulnerable to
+ various tech monopolies, and aim to share our expertise so that others can
+ also become agents in co-creating technologies of liberation and resistance.
-Friendly Vibes
+Friendly Vibes
- Holding all of the above, we're also a group of friends here for the scrappy, hacky vibes. We don't take our work too seriously and we're here to work joyfully. This is first and foremost a community.
+ Holding all of the above, we're also a group of friends here for the scrappy,
+ hacky vibes. We don't take our work too seriously and we're here to work
+ joyfully. This is first and foremost a community.
-Acknowledgments
+Acknowledgments
- These points of unity were inspired by the Prison Library Solidarity Network, the Coalition of Anti-Racist Whites, Ruha Benjamin's work on Abolitionist Tech, and Mijente.
+ These points of unity were inspired by the Prison Library Solidarity Network,
+ the Coalition of Anti-Racist Whites, Ruha Benjamin's work on Abolitionist
+ Tech, and Mijente.
diff --git a/src/components/Services.astro b/src/components/Services.astro
index 05323df..9f4a2c3 100644
--- a/src/components/Services.astro
+++ b/src/components/Services.astro
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
Hire us!
diff --git a/src/components/WhatWereUpTo.astro b/src/components/WhatWereUpTo.astro
index 57033a3..ecec53b 100644
--- a/src/components/WhatWereUpTo.astro
+++ b/src/components/WhatWereUpTo.astro
@@ -1,56 +1,48 @@
What We're Up To
-
+
-
+
+
diff --git a/src/pages/index.astro b/src/pages/index.astro
index 3000473..61137b8 100644
--- a/src/pages/index.astro
+++ b/src/pages/index.astro
@@ -38,11 +38,10 @@ import Services from "@/components/Services.astro";
Do you believe technology can and should be used for good? Do you
- think a democratic internet could liberate us? Join us!
+ think a democratic internet could liberate us? Join us! We share this
+ vision, and we want to work together to achieve it.
- We share this vision, and we want to work together to achieve it.
-
-
+
@@ -47,7 +47,11 @@ import "../../styles/globals.css";
Try out Mastadon for algorithmless social media that won't sell
your data!
- Join Mastadon!
@@ -66,6 +70,8 @@ import "../../styles/globals.css";
Beginner's Guide to Self-Hosting!
@@ -81,6 +87,8 @@ import "../../styles/globals.css";
Get Started with Calibre!
@@ -99,6 +107,8 @@ import "../../styles/globals.css";
30 Days of Linux for Beginners!
@@ -116,6 +126,8 @@ import "../../styles/globals.css";
Learn the history and meaning of the keffiyeh!
@@ -134,6 +146,8 @@ import "../../styles/globals.css";
In-depth overeview of Ente Photos migration!
@@ -152,6 +166,8 @@ import "../../styles/globals.css";
Extensive PiHole Tutorial!
@@ -174,7 +190,11 @@ import "../../styles/globals.css";
Try out DuckDuckGo as a privacy-friendly alternative to Google
search and Chrome!
- Download Duck Duck Go!
@@ -195,6 +215,8 @@ import "../../styles/globals.css";
How to Build Radical Community!
@@ -209,6 +231,8 @@ import "../../styles/globals.css";
Learn about Neighbor Unions!
@@ -228,6 +252,8 @@ import "../../styles/globals.css";
Quickstart for JellyFin!
@@ -243,7 +269,11 @@ import "../../styles/globals.css";
Try out Meet.coop as an open-source, privacy-friendly, and renewable
energy-powered alternative to Zoom and Hangouts!
- Make a Meet.coop account!
@@ -252,7 +282,11 @@ import "../../styles/globals.css";
Free alternative: Jitsi
- Start a Meeting with Jitsi!
@@ -272,6 +306,8 @@ import "../../styles/globals.css";
Setting up Radicale Tutorial!
@@ -280,7 +316,11 @@ import "../../styles/globals.css";
Alternative: Proton Calendar
- Switch to Proton Calendar!
diff --git a/src/pages/projects/bookclub.astro b/src/pages/projects/bookclub.astro
index 1f3ca1c..c233c6c 100644
--- a/src/pages/projects/bookclub.astro
+++ b/src/pages/projects/bookclub.astro
@@ -26,18 +26,20 @@ import "../../styles/globals.css";
Current Book
- Teaching Community Technology Handbook - Detroit Community Technology
- Project (read for free
here
- )
+ rel="noopener noreferrer"
+ target="_blank">here)
Past Books
+ - Holding Change - Adrienne Maree Brown
- Race After Technology - Ruha Benjamin
- Common Circuits - Luis Felipe R. Murillo
- Internet for the People - Ben Tarnoff