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Author: brendan <brendan@web>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2025 10:11:36 +0100
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**Quotes**
-> Its technology is how a society copes with physical reality: how people get and keep and cook food, how they clothe themselves, what their power sources are (animal? human? water? wind? electricity? other?) what they build with and what they build, their medicine — and so on and on. Perhaps very ethereal people aren’t interested in these mundane, bodily matters, but I’m fascinated by them, and I think most of my readers are too. (blablabla, 2050)
+> It was meant to be a single event, but people asked if it was recurring — so it became weekly.[...] Because it’s weekly, it feels non-committal, but consistent enough for reflection. — Ana, London
-> Technology is the active human interface with the material world. (sdjkfhjksdh, 666)
+> Start small — a table, four people, and an idea is enough. [...] We announce it as an informal meetup so people feel they can just come, drink something, and talk. — Brendan, Berlin
-> But the word is consistently misused to mean only the enormously complex and specialised technologies of the past few decades, supported by massive exploitation both of natural and human resources. (sdkfsdfjkljklfsdjklsdf, 1999)
+> It’s not a workshop — it’s a living situation. People do what they like, together. — Michal, Prague
+> Our spaces of gathering are completely digital. Our main one is an XMPP group, where we discuss and share constantly. We also publish in our social network (Akkoma) to know more about our daily lives. Finally, and more rarely, we use Mumble to hear our voices and chat. — Archipiélago I
+> A lot of people just are intrigued by the idea actually. I've had a lot of conversations where I'm selling somebody a book and they look at the flyer and they say “what is permacomputing?” and I go into my little spiel. People want to learn more about this stuff. — Steve, Philadelphia
+> Here people interested in permacomputing are those who live the most remotely because they have a need for a kind of resilience. At least in Ireland, that's what I've noticed. When I ran the online [workshop], I was expecting a bigger diversity of people in terms of geography but I was wrong. People from even further away [joined] and they were glad to be able to join online. [...] there are lots of people who literally, as soon as there is a minor storm, lose power and they lose Internet. [...] So, it's really a question of need. — Colm, County Mayo
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+> Somebody – a very nice person who studies at HKU (Utrecht School of the Arts) and is traveling at the moment, came by Varia and had a lot of energy and time and was keen to start it. Then we made a Signal group and a little pad. — crunk and d1, Rotterdam
