[hackerspaces] Fwd: Re: Hacking, making, learning?

[hellekin]

Markos,

I completely agree with you that given the right tools ordinary people
will "do the chemistry". Yet with information alone we cannot change
anything. Before the Snowden Apocalypse we knew something was wrong, and
Snowden brought the proof: yet seven years later, not much has changed
and if the struggle works down the line of breaking systems, its pace
remains relatively slow compared with the harm broken out to the world
by powerful systems ; even inertia beats the good waves any time. For
years, we've had pollution measurement kits
(https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=pollution&go=Go),
water-oriented hackerspaces (Yachachiq in Peru, Hackerfleet, Waterspace
in the Philippines), yet no single coordinated action has taken place
like for blinkenlights or hackerspace hardware, the space program or
microcontrollers: there's an attention-shifting issue at work here.
Despite the yearly radical shake up of CCC, few inter-hackerspace
projects focus on matters of life, except maybe in threatened places
where such matters do count right now.

I was only questioning the quotes around (water) "for all": were you
quoting something I missed, or expressing some kind of limitation on the
outreach of "for all"?

Cheers,

==
hk