bhaugen @bhaugen@social.coop

> On August 22, 2020, the ORCAO paramilitary organization looted and burned two Zapatista coffee warehouses in Cuxuljá, Chiapas. This is the latest in an accelerating series of attacks on the Zapatista project since the current administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) took office.

> Many of you will remember that in 2017 as Trump took office, the Zapatistas sent four tons of their coffee harvest to migrant and other communities in struggle in the United States as an organizing resource. Now we need to organize our own coffee solidarity effort — not only to help recover the cost of the lost harvest, but to show there is widespread solidarity with the Zapatista project.

https://roarmag.org/2020/09/23/zapatistas-need-solidarity-after-coffee-harvest-burned/

This is scary dystopian https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/sep/27/uk-schools-told-not-to-use-anti-capitalist-material-in-teaching we need to stepaway to built alternatives before this become illegal. Simple problem to solve #OMN

Stop saying antifa.

Start saying anti-fascist.

Make them say out loud what they’re really afraid of.

@aseem

Arguably we pay to those projects by spending time doing things like editing and writing Wikipedia, creating commons for Archive, replying to questions in #Debian or helping to find and fix bugs in apps etc.

Yes, they also need some money for server costs etc, please donate if you have the money, but it’s not as if those orgs are gonna put all of us volunteers (which could include you♥) on a payroll any day soon.

Let’s be careful so we don’t turn commons culture into a pyramid scheme where all the money goes to Linus and Jimmy while there are thousands of people that are collectively doing a lot of the labor and getting zilch.

This photograph ranks #1 in terms of the most profound influence on our understanding of the universe

This is the photograph which provided the first experimental confirmation of the theory of general relativity

This is why we need more diversity of platforms, and more user/participant ownership.

For videoconf / webinars specifically, see, for example: https://www.org.meet.coop/
https://jitsi.org/
https://www.zinc.coop/convene/

RT @nerdosyndical@twitter.com

Zoom refusing to allow SFSU to broadcast a Leila Khaled event on the grounds that she is a terrorist should make everyone very angry.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/nerdosyndical/status/1308779849113382912

De Facto Closed Source: https://13brane.net/rants/de-facto-closed-source/

“[W]hat these people are doing is privately governing us, and they have no humility about the limitations of their worldview.”

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RT @AnandWrites
The joke and tragedy of Silicon Valley is that some of the most socially unintelligent men on earth ended up in charge of remaking social interaction.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/24/writer-anand-giridharadas-on-techs-billionaires-are-they-even-on-the-same-team-as-us/
https://twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1309481781515767819

social media gets the goods

Hi pals!

I'm Cinnamon. You may have seen me around Scuttlebutt for the last couple of years, mostly thinking about usability and harassment prevention.

My current project is Earthstar, which is similar to Scuttlebutt but designed for usability from the beginning. https://github.com/earthstar-project/earthstar/blob/master/docs/tour.md

Also: procedural art, music, drawing, photography.

#introduction

Amid no fanfare at all the app has launched. I don't think I'll be downloading it. An immediate problem is that you can only designate yourself infected if you get tested, and the test system is in chaos so many people can't get tested anyway even if they have symptoms.

Basically it's a dog's breakfast.

If anyone teaches about this in future decades it should be as an example of how technology alone doesn't solve problems unless it is integrated with other social systems, like the health system and social security.

Also if notified by the app they you're supposed to self-isolate for two weeks, but there is no financial compensation for that, or equivalent logistics, so many people who are notified are going to ignore the warning anyway.

I worked with NOVA Web Coop to launch a new site for Uber, Lyft and other independent drivers unionizing in Colorado.

We used #LibreOrganize , a #FreeSoftware web platform built for unions.

#MovementTech

https://cidu-cwa7777.org/

I can't wait either!

RT @KateRaworth@twitter.com

Next Tuesday (29th) we launch Doughnut Economics Action Lab. An online community for teachers, communities, cities, businesses, governments & anyone who is working to bring humanity into the Doughnut.

I pretty much can't wait.

Join us at https://doughnuteconomics.org/ @DoughnutEcon@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/KateRaworth/status/1309086709078949888

♻️ timeless protester vs police advice

sunbeam.city/@radikalgrafitio/…

♲ @radikalgrafitio@sunbeam.city:

"A PSA to XR activists: If you want to keep protesting the climate crisis, you need to smarten the fuck up"

freedomnews.org.uk/a-psa-to-xr…

Please help my friend Juno escape her abusive household. Any little amount helps, with rent and travel and whatnot. Seriously, any amount can make a difference. Please share this around!

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/yyoiiick

The public beta announcement of @Are0h 's new blogging platform, Fipamo, was enough to finally get me off my ass and set up a blog for the lab, my lab log, now available at https://lab-log.reclaim.technology/

Thanks, Ro!

@kawaiipunk @dreadpirateyarr The politicians would prefer that we die conveniently. Survival is resistance. The pandemic won't last indefinitely, but it could be a rough year or two.

So if you've been following me for awhile, you've seen me mention Fipamo from time to time as one of the projects I've focused on.

Fipamo at it's core is a blog platform that started as I promise to myself to get writing again but only with software that I built so I can add features that I need and to share it with other folks that want something easy to use and have full control of their data.

It took a bit but it's finally in beta.

https://fipamo.blog/

#latestagecapitalism

DRM needs to die. In hellfire.