Jeff Hardin @BeechMtn@social.coop
One part dreamer, one part idealist, and three parts curmudgeon.
Folks in Portland might want to kick the tires, too. Sounds like they have a conference coming there in November.
hey if this post gets 1000 boosts then i'll be ashamed of a thousand of you
US pol, Good cartoon
So, I'm having a conversation about the value of #FairTrade with a fellow who is advocating for the "nice capitalists" to swoop in and do a better job. He shared the linked research from London on the fair trade coffee's impact on African growers. Anyone know anything about the study, the agency, etc?
(Side note that I didn't know so many people hated Fair Trade. Curious as to why.)
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@mattcropp I think you may have seen this woman before. 😆
https://twitter.com/ShortFormErnie/status/1011362726243905538/photo/1
Ideas for improving Mastodons CWs to make them work better for everyone.
Instead of having a user try to imagine what could trigger someone perhaps it would be more productive to encourage all users to tag their posts with things such as politics, abuse, nsfw, etc. This provides two benefits
1. Posts can be easily filtered with added CWs or muted for users who desire it
2. Posts are better categorized for searching
And instances could have default CW tags list that could be edited by users
This fucking sucks and I am disappointed. https://medium.com/@cassolotl/i-left-mastodon-yesterday-4c5796b0f548
A lakeside meditation in Southeast North Carolina. About 10 minutes of breath, ambient sound and the breeze blowing over me. The early birds are happy here. #DailyMeds https://social.coop/media/bso7YcAsDf-zrN3eQV8
Hi everybody! Working with a self-managed Croatian #workercoop the last 3 years, me and a good friend have been producing customized #t-shirts and other garments for music bands, trade unions and inviduals.
Now we are exploring the #platformcoop world looking for inspiration, join forces with like-minded people and eventually create more impact!
I believe in grassroots worker activism, enjoy a good meal and play the drums in a band :)
Looking forward to this! #socialcoop
Another great episode of Upstream. It discusses the coops of Mondragon, and the challenges they faced as they got bigger and brushed up against the global capitalist system. And discusses Cooperation Jackson and their learnings from Mondragon. Emphasises the need for strong political direction in addition to forming coops.
I like the metaphor of islands of coops forming in the sea of capitalism, and eventually they all join up.
@mattcropp @tbeckett Did you see this? #Coops #WorkerOwnership
Gillibrand Announces Her Bipartisan Employee Ownership Bill Included In National Defense Bill
@elomatreb @wxcafe Sun Tzu was an artist, he even wrote a book about it
A beautiful morning in Raleigh, perfect for a 10 minute walking meditation focused on breath and sound. #DailyMeds
I love how dystopian the automated TSA announcements sound
"we're not just trying to build cooperatives for cooperatives' sake. We're trying to build vehicles, very explicitly and very intentionally, of social transformation."
Nice Q&A with Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson.
"There was much rejoicing this week over the photo of Trump being harangued by the other G7 leaders. But when I saw it, I thought: “The stitch-ups engineered by people like you produce people like him.” The machinations of remote elites in forums such as the G7, the IMF and the European Central Bank, and the opaque negotiation of unpopular treaties, destroy both trust and democratic agency, fuelling the frustration that demagogues exploit."
Zero chill, all truth.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/13/trump-nafta-g7-sunset-clause-trade-agreement