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Author: ugrnm <ultrageranium@bleu255.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2025 14:50:28 +0100
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-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.
-
-Technology is the active human interface with the material world.
-
-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.
-
-This is not an acceptable use of the word. “Technology” and “hi tech” are not
-synonymous, and a technology that isn't “hi,” isn’t necessarily '“low” in any
-meaningful sense.
-
-We have been so desensitized by a hundred and fifty years of ceaselessly
-expanding technical prowess that we think nothing less complex and showy than a
-computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called “technology” at all. As if linen
-were the same thing as flax — as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs,
-aspirin pills, were natural objects, born with us like our teeth and fingers —
-as if steel saucepans with copper bottoms and fleece vests spun from recycled
-glass grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe...
+Brew the base
+=============
+
+Find your main ingredients, intentions, and inspiring places.
+
+Every collective starts with a feeling — curiosity, frustration, anger, hope or
+refusal. Before thinking about tools or topics, think about the emotional and
+spatial ground that will hold your work.
+
+Permacomputing isn’t a movement of optimization — it’s a practice of attention,
+care, solidarity and critique. You do not need to be a computer expert to start
+reflecting and countering the environmental and human harm done by the most
+dominant and extractive forms computational culture.
+
+**Suggestions**
+
+- Start from what moves you — not from what’s missing in tech.
+- Let your personal background shape your entry point — art, activism, economics, biology, engineering, etc.
+- If you can, anchor your practice in a real, inspiring place: a studio, forest, kitchen, community house or community server. Choose a location that encourages conversation and reflection over production.
+- Find others who share your interest in finding ways computer technology could be used for other things than surveillance, war, production and control.
+
+**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)
+
+> Technology is the active human interface with the material world. (sdjkfhjksdh, 666)
+
+> 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)
