Colonial carceral legacies
Incarceration and "military-style patrols, surveillance and move-on measures" for some

"A victim of crime advocacy group has quickly risen to prominence in Queensland and has been consulted on sweeping changes to youth justice laws."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/voices-for-victims-rise-to-prominence-queensland-government/105007040

"First Nations human rights experts lodge UN complaint over 'racist' tough-on-crime laws"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/un-urged-to-rule-on-australias-youth-crime-laws/105116196

"First Nations people in Australia are the most imprisoned people in the world."
https://theconversation.com/first-nations-imprisonment-is-already-at-a-record-high-unless-government-policy-changes-it-will-only-get-worse-226612

"NT government-funded security patrol caught on camera kicking man in the head"
"Military-style patrols, surveillance and move-on measures."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/nt-government-funded-security-guard-caught-on-camera-kicking-man/105060870

Paris residents to vote on making 500 more streets pedestrian

"Parisians vote in a referendum on Sunday to decide whether an extra 500 of the city's streets should be pedestrianised and greened, in a new push by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality."

"This is the third such referendum in Paris in as many years, following a 2023 vote that approved a ban on e-scooters, and a decision last year to triple parking charges for large SUVs.For the past 25 years we've gradually been reclaiming public space for pedestrian traffic, for gentle traffic, and with 'garden streets', to create lungs within neighbourhoods, the places where we live."

"If approved, Sunday's referendum will eliminate 10,000 extra parking spots in Paris, adding to the 10,000 removed since 2020. The capital's two million residents will be consulted on which streets will become pedestrian areas. If Parisians vote in favour of the proposal, the 500 streets to be vegetated will bring the total of these "green lungs" to nearly 700, just over one-tenth of the capital's streets."

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/paris-residents-vote-making-500-more-streets-pedestrian-2025-03-22/
#cars #pedestrians #pollution #air #traffic #FossilFuels #climate #PublicSpaces #Bellingen

Bellingen, Hyde St.: We like speeding trucks and parking, parking and parking...

At least turn Church St. from a car park into 'green infrastructure'

Data Morgana is an online & locally broadcasted talkshow hosted by artist Julia Janssen.

Collaboratively produced by: @publicspaces, @at5, Public Library Amsterdam

It goes beyond today's internet issues & explores options to shape our digital future in conversation with experts, artists, scientists & entrepreneurs.

https://displayeurope.video/w/eUD8SGgYt1xsHMMdL23FLf

I was part of the editorial team for this first episode. Available online with subs for many languages @displayeurope

I am surprised it is as high as 1 in 10. In Britain public spaces (and I include all four nations) are treated as rubbish bins. Roadsides just as badly. 40 miles from ther nearest McFuckers, we still end up picking up the companies shit on regular rubbish trawls in the Borders. We see similar (if slightly more esoteric crap in the Highlands (6 empties of an expensive Claret?). BTW Westmonster stopped Scotland taklng some action.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/29/just-one-in-10-english-streets-and-parks-litter-free-report-says

PeerTube in practice: an interview with Beeld & Geluid

https://beeldengeluid.github.io/extending-peertube/2025/01/27/peertube-in-practice.html

Urban Minimalism in "Focus"

#photography
#TTArtisan50mmTilt

To cope with the extreme heatwaves from burning fossil fuels, Paris replaces 60,000 parking spaces with trees.
Bellingen is going the other way and turning green spaces into car parks.
>>
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/paris-trees-parking-spaces
https://cdn.paris.fr/paris/2024/06/28/planclimat_synthese_fr_web-tN0u.pdf
#FossilFuels #CaFreeZones #trees #parks #heatwaves #cars #parking #publicspaces #Bellingen #ClimateBreakdown

I'm very much looking forward to facilitating this awesome roundtable on #community-run online services as a tool to rein in #BigTech tomorrow!

The roundtable is part of the Tech and Society Summit in Brussels (sorry, registrations are closed now) and features among other speakers @rmack and @alexandrageese.

Wow! Zeer goed @publicspaces!

"In PeerTube Spaces bieden we publieke organisaties de mogelijkheid om het open source videoplatform PeerTube te gebruiken zodat zij op een #waardengedreven manier videocontent kunnen delen met hun publiek."

https://publicspaces.net/project/peertube-spaces/

Could #courthouses provide the #blueprint for #safe #transgender #bathrooms?

As states move to #exclude trans people from using certain #publicspaces, #courtroom #accessibility is key to ensuring that #jurypools reflect the makeup of the country, experts say.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Massachusetts #Boston #Inclusion #Accessibility #Representation #Culture

https://19thnews.org/2024/08/courthouses-transgender-bathrooms-jury-accessibility/

Esteemed #Fediverse

all the nice videos from #PubConf24 popped up in the peertube channel.

Our Talk on the Why and How of #ActivityPub is https://video.publicspaces.net/w/9USsJ37cHVy4tY9Pn7DX2X

An hour is incredible short, we should maybe demo the protocol on a large table rather in an expo space next year (?)

You can view all videos at the channell page
https://video.publicspaces.net/c/pubconf/videos

Ik ben al het hele weekend aan het nadenken over de #PublicSpaces conferentie. De onderwerpen waar ik de afgelopen jaren op heb gezeten worden in rap tempo politiek, het gaat van niche naar buzzword.

De aandacht verschuift: Hoe zorgen we dat we het aanpakken met het belang van de rechtstaat en de maatschappij voorop? Hoe pakken we het op in samenwerking met bedrijven, overheden en burgers? Wat moeten de spelregels daar bij zijn?

Dear #Fediverse -

not sure if I mentioned that #pubconf24 @publicspaces was wonderful.

Back home now.
Together with @bjoernsta and @BjornW
did a Talk and Workshop about the Why and How of #ActivityPub –

The whole Conf was filled with so much content around Open Protocols, ActivityPub and #federation
Photo is https://conference.publicspaces.net/en/session/a-sovereign-media-dataspace-in-europe with @Wtebbens
Lucille Verbaere of European Broadcast Union, @abaratsits of Display Europe cooperative, Menno Weijs, European Cultural Foundation and Lise Witteman.

If you missed the livestreams, you can just follow @pubconf or lookup https://video.publicspaces.net/c/pubconf/videos later.

Reijer Passchier over "De vloek van BigTech" Hoe #BigTech de #rechtsstaat als geheel ondermijnd. En dat het publiek van PublicSpaces dit waarschijnlijk allemaal al weet.

Als dit zo duidelijk is waarom blijven we dan BigTech diensten onderwijzen?

Volgend jaar maar eens alle schooldirecteuren verplicht naar #PublicSpaces sturen?

#RepareerHetInternet #pubconf2024
#opensource #onderwijs

Esteemed #Fediverse

did you know that the https://conference.publicspaces.net/en will bring #ActivityPub in a row for you ?
Intending to watch „Global Responses to Big Tech“ –
and then our „Escape the Social Media Trap“
https://conference.publicspaces.net/en/session/escape-the-social-media-trap will come with an an ActivityPub workshop included.

But wait. "what's next, you asked?"

Just after a coffee you could visit
„What's neXt?“
by @Eelcom @laurenshof and others …
https://conference.publicspaces.net/en/session/what-s-ne-xt
#publicspaces

I'll be at #publicspaces conference this Thursday and Friday, anyone else?

Last-minute heb ik toch nog een kaartje gekocht voor de @publicspaces conferentie komende donderdag (en vrijdag) in Amsterdam. Wie zie ik daar?