@nev I've been thinking that the challenge we're having cohering a narrative to convey to people who were not in the moment is itself symptomatic of structural issues.

Because of the lack of formal delegated governance authority, any "official" narrative must be agreed to by a majority of the whole membership, and by 90% if anyone blocks. Which makes this work of listening that you're undertaking super important.

Thank you for doing it. 💙 #SocialCoop

**Karl Schultheisz** @kdsch@social.coop · Sep 11, 2018, 02:04

**Karl Schultheisz** @kdsch@social.coop · Sep 11, 2018, 02:04

Sep 11, 2018, 02:04

Karl Schultheisz @kdsch@social.coop

David Ackley's ideas about computing can be seen as anarchistic. The von Neumann architecture is the centrally-governed state; memory is passive, incapable of doing anything without executive action from the CPU. But this doesn't scale and isn't robust. It's optimized for speed.

Ackley says we have to forego determinism in order to build robust, scalable computations. But it seems that this requires a radically new conception of what it means to compute or even to program.

**Karl Schultheisz** · Sep 10, 2018, 17:20

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**neville park** @nev@social.coop · Sep 10, 2018, 17:20

Sep 10, 2018, 17:20

neville park @nev@social.coop

social.coop meta, request for feedback

So, if for nothing else than to help people learn from our mistakes, I'd like to start compiling accounts of the unravelling/failure of social.coop.

I will be reaching out to particular people over the next few days, but if anyone out there left/chose not to join social.coop for Reasons and would be willing to talk about it (anonymously if you want), please DM.

Please boost for visibility.

#meta #socialcoop

**Karl Schultheisz** · Sep 05, 2018, 19:57

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**The research fairy** @bgcarlisle@scholar.social · Sep 05, 2018, 19:57

Sep 05, 2018, 19:57

The research fairy @bgcarlisle@scholar.social

Stop me if you've heard this rant from me before

Legalise Sci-hub

Abolish copyright on science ⚛️

Then every journal will be an open access journal

**Karl Schultheisz** · Sep 03, 2018, 23:36

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**Edward L Platt** @elplatt@social.coop · Sep 03, 2018, 23:36

Sep 03, 2018, 23:36

Edward L Platt @elplatt@social.coop

#SocialCoop has been upgraded to mastodon 2.5

**Karl Schultheisz** · Sep 02, 2018, 15:08

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**Charles Stanhope** @cstanhope@social.coop · Sep 02, 2018, 15:08

Sep 02, 2018, 15:08

Charles Stanhope @cstanhope@social.coop

It's my impression that most mastodon instances are operated under the "benevolent dictator" model, but is that the case? Is there a survey of the instances and how they govern themselves?

**Karl Schultheisz** · Sep 01, 2018, 17:03

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**neville park** @nev@social.coop · Sep 01, 2018, 17:03

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neville park @nev@social.coop

You can read the full paper here: https://pepso.ca/documents/the-generation-effect-full-report.pdf

Executive summary: https://pepso.ca/documents/the-generation-effect-executive-summary.pdf

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**Karl Schultheisz** @kdsch@social.coop · Sep 01, 2018, 16:56

**Karl Schultheisz** @kdsch@social.coop · Sep 01, 2018, 16:56

Sep 01, 2018, 16:56

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The fediverse needs a taoist quote bot.

**Karl Schultheisz** · Aug 29, 2018, 17:10

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**Charles Stanhope** @cstanhope@social.coop · Aug 29, 2018, 17:10

Aug 29, 2018, 17:10

Charles Stanhope @cstanhope@social.coop

@brainblasted When people ask me questions, before I answer, I like to remind myself that *nobody* knows everything, and I am ignorant of many things and always will be (despite my best efforts). Anyway, I get more joy in sharing knowledge than lording knowledge over people. I wish everyone shared that feeling. :/

**Karl Schultheisz** @kdsch@social.coop · Sep 01, 2018, 16:30

**Karl Schultheisz** @kdsch@social.coop · Sep 01, 2018, 16:30

Sep 01, 2018, 16:30

Karl Schultheisz @kdsch@social.coop

> The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness.

https://katherine.cox-buday.com/blog/2018/07/18/the-utility-of-a-cup/

**Karl Schultheisz** @kdsch@social.coop · Aug 31, 2018, 16:00

**Karl Schultheisz** @kdsch@social.coop · Aug 31, 2018, 16:00

Aug 31, 2018, 16:00

Karl Schultheisz @kdsch@social.coop

transparency in work

I'm not a worker who blindly accepts tasks. They have to make sense to me. I require transparency.

One way for management to get around this is to obfuscate the source of nonsense. "Our experts say X, so we must do Y."

I'm calling their bluff. My experiment is to comply, knowing that doing Y will go poorly. But playing dumb, as they wish me to be. Then they can deal with the consequences themselves.

Selfishness can be an externally imposed constraint.

**Karl Schultheisz** @kdsch@social.coop · Aug 30, 2018, 20:38

**Karl Schultheisz** @kdsch@social.coop · Aug 30, 2018, 20:38

Aug 30, 2018, 20:38

Karl Schultheisz @kdsch@social.coop

nurturance

Suppose that the essence of our movement is nurturance as opposed to strictness. Care for others as opposed to discipline. Empathizing and identifying with them rather than preferring that they be self-sufficient.

Many of us are immensely privileged. But privilege is relative. Some of our friends are much less privileged than us.

Being nurturant often entails giving up privileges. It means sacrificing freedom to care for others. It means prizing their well-being above personal gain.