Hi, I'm Rachel. This site is a place for me to play recklessly with CSS and share some suggestions with the public. There are two special interests that tend to preoccupy my attention: First, let's become the movement to petition and transform the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank into the international clearing union (ICU) described in 1944 at a conference called Bretton Woods. The international monetary system restructured that way is more likely to serve the "stabilizing" purpose upon which its legitimacy in the public eye is based. Its regulatory operations should be mediated by publicly-overseen and owned infrastructure, including the software and hardware it uses.

That brings me to the second special interest of mine: free open source software licensing and the question of intellectual property. Free open source software (FOSS) and hardware are indispensable parts of any hopeful democratic state and by state I just mean geographically-bound groups of people. To support FOSS and open hardware alternatives to proprietary, predatory apps and tools controlled by "Big Tech" I boycott the bankrolled platforms (e.g., [X]itter, Facebook, Instagram) and quit using Apple software and hardware for communications. This is something I did clumsily out of desperation and an obsessive curiosity about whether or not such a thing was even possible.

It's not necessarily going to matter much that I and some handful of others manage to live without participating on certain platforms or in certain tech "ecosystems" that prey on people, but it is also just one of many parallel processes that are aiming at broad, systemic change that would favor the people and limit the One Percent. Hopefully the increasing political unrest all over the world can make our world an inhospitable place to the kind of corruption and oppression that has so long persisted as the status quo. I'll keep working on that... with everyone and anyone who is working on it with me. Indivisible is at least associated with people in the US gathering for protests and demonstrations against fascist trends in policing and so-called governance... and DiEM25 and the Progressive International at least state what I think needs to at least be stated, if we stand any chance that democratic expectations will ever be met.

In the meantime, you can find me in the Fediverse, for example on Mastodon. You can also check out some of my collages here if you like.

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