What’s Been Happening at Our Drop-ins?
We launched our four community drop-ins at the start of the year, and we’re now a couple of months in. Here's some of what we've learnt – and when you can drop in and join us next.
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Our plan to build bottom-up resistance to billionaire technology
We shouldn't need platforms owned by the biggest losers on the planet to live happy, healthy, connected lives. Our fledgling network of technologists and organisers aims to make tech billionaires obsolete by co-creating our own means of production.
Have you noticed how our lives feel louder and lonelier every year?
Frederic Jameson famously said, “it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”. GFSC believe alternatives are not only possible, they’re already happening. Find out about our mission to build the digital and physical infrastructure people need to feel human again.
Full Meta Jacket: How corporations colonised queer life and what we can do about it
Big tech, especially Meta, is synonymous with queer and trans organising. Kim gets into the weeds exploring how this happened, and suggests some routes out of it including GFSC's own Trans Dimension initiative.
How to establish a Community Technology Partnership
Let's retire the endless magic bullets and solve problems together instead. Kim lays out a methodology for how we can start building technology by thinking about people, not products: and guess what, it's rooted in ✨ existing community networks ✨.
GFSC's April Roundup
New writers, new stickers, new articles. Here's your monthly roundup to see how the GFSC community is growing including our first livestream (an immersive client simulator x dolmio sauce mascot appreciation crèche) and an interview with the creators of the Vote Out Covid webapp.
Can you subvert YouTube's battle for your eyeballs?
YouTube's homepage is a slot machine: brightly lit, loud, ephemeral, provocative, uncertain, and there to make money for the house.
Exposing its design principles is a surprisingly complicated task. Micah has a crack at it, investigating how a browser extension might take away the house's edge.