This is a loaded blog post
North End community member Juju was arrested and is spending the weekend in Monore County lockdown.
From what I was made to understand by Baba Blair is Julian was on his way to a protest in our state capitol and was locked up for being a longhaired hippy punk.
The retrograde-idiocracy is getting loud.
Detroit has been Wakanda since the 1960s, but we are at the street-level introduction to the politics of using advanced technologies to improve community resilience.
I mean this ain’t Firesticks and Bitcoin for sex, drugs, weapons, and free movies, this is something else.
At the same time, neighbors are making leaps and strides to include tech, nerds, and especially Blerds (Black Nerds) in community conversations regarding now that the cat poop has hit the fan and sprayed everything with the stench of out collective stupid, where do we go from here?
Let’s face facts the last 150 years of technological development (radio, telephone, automobile, Television, refrigerators, microwave ovens, and personal computers ) has done little if anything to improve human relationships inside small urban geographies in America.
Yes, you can keep up with your friends, real and imaginary, all over the world, but you ain’t really developing deep attachments to the people on your block in any meaningful way. Not many people want to admit or really think about it, but a big part of the reason these technologies don’t serve us in a wholesome manner is how affluent people feel about and treat the people who produce and use advanced technologies as a service. Some of us are spoiled enough to know our local Butchers, Bakers, and Candlestick Makers, but many people still base a huge portion of their human value in the ability to go into debt so that they can travel great distances in order to spend future money on cheap trappings and emblems of conspicuous consumption.
CAD/CAM – CNC (computer numerical control) 3D printing and Additive Manufacturing systems have been available for decades.
The development of these technologies has made 3d printers and CNC easy to use and affordable enough for casual artists and everyday hustlers to get into the game.
And a point of conversation in social activism.