Josh Davis @GuerillaOntologist@social.coop

@mattcropp Three startup brewery co-ops here in North Carolina.

Many #coop success stories I've read about seem to be about taking root in a community and meeting needs that aren't going away anytime soon: food, houses, childcare, etc.

Can #techcoops ever follow that model? Most tech work uses ephemeral tools to meet transient needs, and tech firms are rootless by default. Are there any meaningful generalizations we can draw from the exceptions?

The Broken Spoke bike coop in Oxford is fundraising to move to a new home - send some solidarity their way if you can spare anything!

They do DIY workshops, mechanics courses, cycle training, events for underrepresented groups, and lots more great stuff.

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/keep-broken-spoke-pedalling/?

#bikes #coops #oxford

Hi #SocialCoop, I'm a PhD student in computer science (doing programming languages research) and some kind of libertarian socialist. I've been living in #Paris for almost a year, but I'm moving back to #Boston soon. I'm new to participating in cooperatives, but have some background in labor activism and organizing.

some assorted interests:
#anarchism
#socialism
#coops
#politics
#ecology
#municipalism
#programminglanguages
#typetheory
#rust
#freesoftware
#RPGs
#tabletop #gaming

#introduction

Let's take a breather from the Article13 mess, and focus on some good news:

#PeerTube has just passed the 50% mark on its crowdfunding with 15 days to go 🎉

Lots of people are unhappy with #Google's #YouTube, it is treating its users like it owns them 🤑 👎

The video world really needs the kind of ethical alternative that PeerTube offers 😎 👍

Help the video world declare indepdendence by contributing and/or sharing the crowdfunding:

https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free-and-federated-video-platform

#DeleteYouTube #DeleteGoogle

Juneteenth celebrates the announcement of the end of slavery in the confederacy (june 19, 1865: 2 years after the emancipation proclamation).

about 6 months later, the 13th amendment is ratified, which abolished slavery-- except as a form of punishment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth

#introduction hi it's noemi! i'm interested in the intersection of tech and post-left anarchist stuff. trying to use code to fix things ^^

Peertube, an ActivityPub based alternative to YouTube, is running a crowdfunding campaign https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free-and-federated-video-platform

Comes at an important time, with YouTube blocking legitimate videos on (incorrect) copyright grounds, such as MIT's OpenCourseWare videos and the Blender Foundation's videos https://torrentfreak.com/youtubes-piracy-filter-blocks-mit-courses-blender-videos-and-more-180618/

@GuerillaOntologist Woah WFP endorsed Crowley??

So, yeah. My straw vending machine idea won't work in the USA, because American money is pretty much uniquely dysfunctional.

Consider this an encouragement to go to the bank, swap some smelly, ugly, wrinkled worthless one-dollar notes for dollar coins, and get them into circulation.

Want!

#YouTube makes money from videos promoting extremism. Its algorithm radicalises viewers, because it wants people to be angrily clicking on more videos.

YouTube is tearing society apart by encouraging us to hate each other:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/18/extremism-pays-why-silicon-valley-not-shutting-it-down-youtube

The most promising ethical alternative to YouTube is #PeerTube, which is decentralised and in beta testing.

You can support development of PeerTube to a release version at its crowdfunding page:

https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free-and-federated-video-platform

#DeleteYouTube #DeleteGoogle