Josh Davis @GuerillaOntologist@social.coop

When faced with competition from IOFs, a fishermen's co-operative needed to figure out a way to maintian member loyalty to continue selling through the co-op.

The key? Admin! Fishermen don't like doing admin, so the co-op decided to take care of more of the admin in order to keep members

#icaresearchconference #ica #coopresearch

I know I've kicked a platform co-op Etsy around on here before (can't remember who with since it's been so long). Anyway, just ran across this article from 2016 about #Fairmondo: https://www.shareable.net/qa-with-felix-weth-of-fairmondo-the-platform-co-op-thats-taking-on-ebay/

Their software is #opensource source, and it looks like they have co-ops in Germany and the UK so far. Anyone have any experience with them and/or want to start one in the US?

https://www.fairmondo.de/global

#coop #cooperative #platformcoop #etsy #etsyalternative

RT @aral
Private means “private by default” not “private by configuration.” This is PR. Don’t fall for it.

How can you know? Because if Google actually began respecting your privacy, it would go bankrupt. Its business model is based on violating your privacy.

https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/11/google-maps-incognito-mode-new-change-even-private-11653643/

Last night I told a few coworkers who were drunk and holding forth about how children need to be protected from pedophiles that they have nothing to worry about because not only are their children ugly, but they're too ignorant to compensate by offering stimulating conversation.

Which is what they get for pressuring me to drink.

Medical and mental healthcare are 2 of the biggest obstacles keeping ppl from getting out in the streets. A cop can bust you up once and have you out forever. If we can get rid of those two it’ll be like getting your hands free after and abduction. We still gotta untie our feet n break outta this trunk but now we got 2 free hands.

#ElectionShit

So mental healthcare is definitely included in Sanders M4All proposal. JUST from & activist/organizer standpoint this would save so many activist lives. It was what Erica Garner tried to get folks to understand in one of her last interviews. How she had 2 carry everything on her own Her fathers Murder/Police harassment/Family issues/Pregnancy/Protesting/Gov bureaucracy for FOUR years until she could afford 2 see somebody about her struggles. Organizers aren’t mechanical soldiers.

My samba reggae band Arrasta is playing this Sunday at the farewell party for Popi's Pastries, a food cart in the Mercado pod on Foster.

It was going to be a fundraiser, but she's closing up shop, so instead there's no charge, you can just come and hang and dance to some fast and loud* drumming, taught to us by our Bahia-born capoeira instructor.

Search "popi's pastries facebook" for the event page.

* maybe bring ear protection

Often I see a repeating theme in historic activism.

White supremacy and colonialsim creates a problem.

Indigenous and other poc rise up against it, resist, protest, do everything in their power but are seen as a nuisance, are killed or jailed by the state, are ignored and disregarded by almost the entirety of the population.

Time passes.

The problem is now impacting white people, and its damaging either to a subgroup of people or to the survival of our species as a whole.

BIPOC resistance continues on as usual... until.. out of the clouds an angel descends, a white person, to liberate the peoples, to speak on the issue that BIPOC have been leading the charge on for sometimes hundreds of years.

The white savior from the heavens is protrayed as revolutionary, a true hero, standing up for themselves and what is right, "its amazing they were brave enough to come forward and talk about why _______ is harmful, if only someone spoke up sooner"

There was no apology, no offer to cover the missed pay. For them, it was a blip. For us, it was the precarious lively hood we depend on that in an instant was taken away, and might very well be again. We have no rights, and aren't shown even the smallest displays of respect from the apps we slave away for at all hours.

Attempts to appeal over email, and help line were met with cookie cutter responses that again vaguely reference community guidelines.

Many of us waited for the local office to open the next day and demanded answers. Eventually, it was admitted that this was a mistake on the company's end and that we all need to re-agree to the terms of service to be accepted back onto the platform.

There was no specific violation mentioned, and the emails specifically said that this decision cannot be appealed.

Keep in mind that this was a mass layoff with no notice right before Christmas. For some, their accounts were deactivated while in the middle of a delivery and weren't able to close the call or get paid for their work.

Last night all of us doing app based deliveries in town had our accounts deactivated saying that we had violated the community guidelines

Capitalists: under communism you will only have one car model to choose from

Also capitalists: