Toward Ecosophy

Yes, I'm aware that Dreamwidth has been down for long stretches today -- one of many sites affected by some kind of outage nobody seems to want to talk about. (My suspicion is that something or other was being covertly funded by cash from USAID, doubtless filtered through a couple of NGOs for the sake of plausible deniability, and the sudden loss of funding is causing problems to cascade through various corners of the internet. As the moment, though, that's just a suspicion.)

It's quite possible that this will turn out to be a temporary glitch and Dreamwidth will return to its usual relatively stable functioning from here on. If that's not the case, I've already got a backup plan in the works, and will switch all activities to that if it becomes necessary. I'll post something to my blog at https://www.ecosophia.net/ if that happens; check there if Dreamwidth is down for a prolonged period.

In the meantime, if you're worried about losing access to anything that's been posted here, copyright law gives you the right to download one copy of anything for personal use. Might be worth considering...

Update 2/13/25:  Interruptions in service have continued -- none of them lasting more than a relatively short time, but worrying. I'm going to begin the process of launching an alternative, which will use the same private hosting firm that hosts my blog. I'll post details as things start up; my plan is to run the two sites in parallel for a while, and then stick a placeholder announcement here to direct remaining traffic to the new site. Stay tuned!