John Abbe (aka Slow)
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Lover of #life, #community, #accountability, #commons, #nonviolence, #anarchy, #abolition, #wiki, #conversation, co-intelligence, #WholeSystems #Design, various people & groups, and 🍪. He/they. Parts of my ❤️ can still be found in #NewEngland, #BayArea, & #SriLanka, & now 20 yrs NW of Normal in #Eugene, #KalapuyaCounty (#LaneCounty), #Oregon. #PNW #Earth Sol System, Milky Way, Local Group, Virgo Supercluster, Laniakea Supercluster, Pisces Cetus Supercluster Complex #fedi23 #nobots #WaterIsLife
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John Abbe (aka Slow)
@slowenough@mastodon.social
Lover of #life, #community, #accountability, #commons, #nonviolence, #anarchy, #abolition, #wiki, #conversation, co-intelligence, #WholeSystems #Design, various people & groups, and 🍪. He/they. Parts of my ❤️ can still be found in #NewEngland, #BayArea, & #SriLanka, & now 20 yrs NW of Normal in #Eugene, #KalapuyaCounty (#LaneCounty), #Oregon. #PNW #Earth Sol System, Milky Way, Local Group, Virgo Supercluster, Laniakea Supercluster, Pisces Cetus Supercluster Complex #fedi23 #nobots #WaterIsLife
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John Abbe (aka Slow)
@slowenough@mastodon.social
Lover of #life, #community, #accountability, #commons, #nonviolence, #anarchy, #abolition, #wiki, #conversation, co-intelligence, #WholeSystems #Design, various people & groups, and 🍪. He/they. Parts of my ❤️ can still be found in #NewEngland, #BayArea, & #SriLanka, & now 20 yrs NW of Normal in #Eugene, #KalapuyaCounty (#LaneCounty), #Oregon. #PNW #Earth Sol System, Milky Way, Local Group, Virgo Supercluster, Laniakea Supercluster, Pisces Cetus Supercluster Complex #fedi23 #nobots #WaterIsLife
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@sidd_harth0_5h4h @futurebird Meanwhile, the ants are like, "Thank you for your service."
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John Abbe (aka Slow)
@slowenough@mastodon.social
Lover of #life, #community, #accountability, #commons, #nonviolence, #anarchy, #abolition, #wiki, #conversation, co-intelligence, #WholeSystems #Design, various people & groups, and 🍪. He/they. Parts of my ❤️ can still be found in #NewEngland, #BayArea, & #SriLanka, & now 20 yrs NW of Normal in #Eugene, #KalapuyaCounty (#LaneCounty), #Oregon. #PNW #Earth Sol System, Milky Way, Local Group, Virgo Supercluster, Laniakea Supercluster, Pisces Cetus Supercluster Complex #fedi23 #nobots #WaterIsLife
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John Abbe (aka Slow)
@slowenough@mastodon.social
Lover of #life, #community, #accountability, #commons, #nonviolence, #anarchy, #abolition, #wiki, #conversation, co-intelligence, #WholeSystems #Design, various people & groups, and 🍪. He/they. Parts of my ❤️ can still be found in #NewEngland, #BayArea, & #SriLanka, & now 20 yrs NW of Normal in #Eugene, #KalapuyaCounty (#LaneCounty), #Oregon. #PNW #Earth Sol System, Milky Way, Local Group, Virgo Supercluster, Laniakea Supercluster, Pisces Cetus Supercluster Complex #fedi23 #nobots #WaterIsLife
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Apr 05, 2026
@screwturn "People who actually are leaders are typically stressed, exhausted, and miserable, and find out that their actual power is very narrow and always comes at a steep price."
In autocratic systems, yes.
In healthy, leaderful groups, leaders care for themselves, better or at least know where they aren't & are working on it it 🤣. They get leadership includes being real about capacity (including their own), and try to adjust what they say and what they do so they match.
And lead together.
In autocratic systems, yes.
In healthy, leaderful groups, leaders care for themselves, better or at least know where they aren't & are working on it it 🤣. They get leadership includes being real about capacity (including their own), and try to adjust what they say and what they do so they match.
And lead together.
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John Abbe (aka Slow)
@slowenough@mastodon.social
Lover of #life, #community, #accountability, #commons, #nonviolence, #anarchy, #abolition, #wiki, #conversation, co-intelligence, #WholeSystems #Design, various people & groups, and 🍪. He/they. Parts of my ❤️ can still be found in #NewEngland, #BayArea, & #SriLanka, & now 20 yrs NW of Normal in #Eugene, #KalapuyaCounty (#LaneCounty), #Oregon. #PNW #Earth Sol System, Milky Way, Local Group, Virgo Supercluster, Laniakea Supercluster, Pisces Cetus Supercluster Complex #fedi23 #nobots #WaterIsLife
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John Abbe (aka Slow)
@slowenough@mastodon.social
Lover of #life, #community, #accountability, #commons, #nonviolence, #anarchy, #abolition, #wiki, #conversation, co-intelligence, #WholeSystems #Design, various people & groups, and 🍪. He/they. Parts of my ❤️ can still be found in #NewEngland, #BayArea, & #SriLanka, & now 20 yrs NW of Normal in #Eugene, #KalapuyaCounty (#LaneCounty), #Oregon. #PNW #Earth Sol System, Milky Way, Local Group, Virgo Supercluster, Laniakea Supercluster, Pisces Cetus Supercluster Complex #fedi23 #nobots #WaterIsLife
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Mar 07, 2026
@CrimethInc Very timely! CLDC just published this handy guide to help clarify the various abolition movements. https://cldc.org/know-your-abolition/
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John Abbe (aka Slow)
@slowenough@mastodon.social
Lover of #life, #community, #accountability, #commons, #nonviolence, #anarchy, #abolition, #wiki, #conversation, co-intelligence, #WholeSystems #Design, various people & groups, and 🍪. He/they. Parts of my ❤️ can still be found in #NewEngland, #BayArea, & #SriLanka, & now 20 yrs NW of Normal in #Eugene, #KalapuyaCounty (#LaneCounty), #Oregon. #PNW #Earth Sol System, Milky Way, Local Group, Virgo Supercluster, Laniakea Supercluster, Pisces Cetus Supercluster Complex #fedi23 #nobots #WaterIsLife
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John Abbe (aka Slow)
@slowenough@mastodon.social
Lover of #life, #community, #accountability, #commons, #nonviolence, #anarchy, #abolition, #wiki, #conversation, co-intelligence, #WholeSystems #Design, various people & groups, and 🍪. He/they. Parts of my ❤️ can still be found in #NewEngland, #BayArea, & #SriLanka, & now 20 yrs NW of Normal in #Eugene, #KalapuyaCounty (#LaneCounty), #Oregon. #PNW #Earth Sol System, Milky Way, Local Group, Virgo Supercluster, Laniakea Supercluster, Pisces Cetus Supercluster Complex #fedi23 #nobots #WaterIsLife
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Mar 07, 2026
@Bobblegagger @benroyce @Haste It's past time for an Andor-level, modern adaptation of Zelazny's My Name is Legion.
"Just before the system goes live, the hero expresses concerns about the possible misuse of such power to his superior, who gives him a chance to destroy his personal data before it is entered into the system. In taking this step, the hero becomes non-existent as far as the system is concerned." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Name_Is_Legion_(short_story_collection)
"Just before the system goes live, the hero expresses concerns about the possible misuse of such power to his superior, who gives him a chance to destroy his personal data before it is entered into the system. In taking this step, the hero becomes non-existent as far as the system is concerned." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Name_Is_Legion_(short_story_collection)
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John Abbe (aka Slow)
@slowenough@mastodon.social
Lover of #life, #community, #accountability, #commons, #nonviolence, #anarchy, #abolition, #wiki, #conversation, co-intelligence, #WholeSystems #Design, various people & groups, and 🍪. He/they. Parts of my ❤️ can still be found in #NewEngland, #BayArea, & #SriLanka, & now 20 yrs NW of Normal in #Eugene, #KalapuyaCounty (#LaneCounty), #Oregon. #PNW #Earth Sol System, Milky Way, Local Group, Virgo Supercluster, Laniakea Supercluster, Pisces Cetus Supercluster Complex #fedi23 #nobots #WaterIsLife
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John Abbe (aka Slow)
@slowenough@mastodon.social
Lover of #life, #community, #accountability, #commons, #nonviolence, #anarchy, #abolition, #wiki, #conversation, co-intelligence, #WholeSystems #Design, various people & groups, and 🍪. He/they. Parts of my ❤️ can still be found in #NewEngland, #BayArea, & #SriLanka, & now 20 yrs NW of Normal in #Eugene, #KalapuyaCounty (#LaneCounty), #Oregon. #PNW #Earth Sol System, Milky Way, Local Group, Virgo Supercluster, Laniakea Supercluster, Pisces Cetus Supercluster Complex #fedi23 #nobots #WaterIsLife
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Dec 03, 2025
@screwlisp @dougmerritt @robinhouston Rube Goldberg, move over.
This is the kind of zoom out where the real world analogy might be you're directly studying a living system for decades, and not seeing it, because it will take another three millennia for the pattern that is 'life' there to begin to be apparent.
This is the kind of zoom out where the real world analogy might be you're directly studying a living system for decades, and not seeing it, because it will take another three millennia for the pattern that is 'life' there to begin to be apparent.
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