Dazinism @dazinism@social.coop
food, trees, land, tech and people collaborating to manage them
I've been on Mastodon over at
https://social.weho.st/@dazinism
I'm based in the UK and into food, land, tech and people collaborating to manage them.
I'm involved in a few projects -
https://www.ourfieldproject.org/ 40 people using online tools to collaborate managing a field
http://travellingtoolbox.org.uk/ is a mobile hackspace/workshop set up to help environmental & community projects build & fix tools and infrastructure
http://farmhack.org/wiki/soilhack-wiki Soilhack is a peer 2 peer learning network
An idea: a solidarity economy footprint chart (commons chart, p2p chart, platform coop chart...) showing where in your life you do and don't use cooperatives, commons, sharing, etc. and where you don't. (Food, Energy, Banking, Music, Education, Clothing, Sex?, Sports, Buying, Work, Travel, Housing...) ideally with an easy-to-use form & cool graphics with links to solidarity economy resources.
Level Two: your intercooperation footprint...
Inspired by @tbeckett post
Together with the Governance Working Group, I've just posted a proposal to clarify the language in the #SocialCoop Bylaws: https://www.loomio.org/p/1PSop0v2/bylaws-revision-clarify-proposal-process Please participate. The proposal is open for 10 days.
A thing I mentioned: the toot.cat news page reports both federated instance outages and governance concerns from marginalized community members, which I think is such a great illustration of Mastodon culture https://mew.toot.cat/mw/Main_Page#Mastodon_News #osb18
Great long read explaining how things stand 10 years after the financial crisis
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n13/john-lanchester/after-the-fall
"So thats where we are with markets. Non-change change, in the form of bonus regulation and ring-fencing
no change or change for the worse in the case of complexity and shadow banking and too big to fail
and no overall reduction in the level of risk present in the system
We are back with the issue of impunity. For the people inside the system that caused a decade of misery, no change"
'He's a political prisoner': Standing Rock activists face years in jail - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/22/standing-rock-jailed-activists-water-protect
'He's a political prisoner': Standing Rock activists face years in jail - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/22/standing-rock-jailed-activists-water-protectors
This morning I'm #reading @ryanfb on "Browsing With #Privacy in 2018"
Baumann, Ryan. “Browsing With Privacy in 2018.” Ryan Baumann - /etc (blog), 27 Jun 2018, https://ryanfb.github.io/etc/2018/06/27/browsing_with_privacy_in_2018.html (accessed 27 Jun 2018).
Zotero: https://www.zotero.org/users/465/items/YPGMPF82
RSS: http://ryanfb.github.io/etc/feed.xml
"This blog post is just a short note on how I’ve switched my web browsing habits in an attempt to regain some control over privacy."
@rysiek This illustrates nicely one of the most powerful things about federation, namely that the entire network can't just disappear due to the closure of one organisation. For this reason, I'd bet that the fediverse will outlive all the current centralised social networks.
So quitter.no is closing:
https://quitter.no/notice/6360708
We have made huge strides, as #Fediverse, since the times of identi.ca. When identi.ca switched to pumpio (and thus dropped off of the federation), that was a huge blow. This was the biggest server, by far, and it left a gaping hole in the Fediverse.
These days a big server closes, and as sad as it is, people move on, Federation continues.
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Another must-listen. A critical take on #cooperativism, #solidarityeconomy, and #socialtransformation, in #Mondragon and #Mississippi and beyond. Really well done.
Cheap roomba!
Co-ops, democratically run and emphasizing long-term sustainability over short-term profits, are a key part of the #SolidarityEconomy.
Earlier this month, Wired UK published a brief but interesting profile of "CoTech, a growing network of tech co-operatives in the UK. There are currently 30 tech businesses united under the CoTech banner, which range from filmmakers to programmers; they collectively employ more than 250 staff and have revenues of over £10.2 million."
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/cotech-tech-cooperatives-blake-house-outlandish
97%...
#PeerTube v1 is really close to being funded!
Y'all are giving us so much hopes !
#freesoftware #federation #video
https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free-and-federated-video-platform
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.
Interesting looking project on kickstarter
#opensource platform for journalists and/or activists to organise collaborations
Pursuance Project by Barrett Brown — Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/85883596/barrett-browns-pursuance-project
By now, I have submitted my Google "Takeout" over a month ago and still nothing! Matter of fact, just checking now and all it says is "No completed archives available." Click "View history" and all I get is one archive of 50 products worth 1 megabyte.
wtf? Also, zipping folders in Google Drive will fail every time once it becomes large enough. These fuckers are going to make me do everything piecemeal.
"If everything was legal for like twenty-four hours I'd start a communal garden."
#thepurge #purge #latestagecapitalism
Anyone in Tokyo tonight? Journey to the End of the Night: dash around the city and complete challenges at five checkpoints while evading pursuit.
We have over 250 people registered. It's free! We've been organizing for months!
Toky0.org
@Matt_Noyes @nev I can’t speak for the general membership of course but this is something that stands out prominently to me and I really want to fix. That’s part of the reason I joined, to try to get involved addressing it even though at first that fact did put me off quite a bit. I decided to try to address from within. And I agree with Matt here about the status of one such initiative, the equity initiative. Not sure it’s going to end being the best approach but am heartened ppl care to try.