Paul Lindner @lindner@social.coop
If you really want to play games with the algorithms change your locale from en-US to en-GB. You'll soon be getting Royals, FIFA and Daily Mail clickbait.
https://medium.com/s/douglas-rushkoff/the-real-value-of-facebook-19d1d6cb3003
Native Ads in your News Feed Circa 1903
Only 1 week left to enjoy Youtube Annotated videos...
You can find this engraved sign in the Shreve Jewelry Store elevator in San Francisco.
I asked the staff about it. They said that fixing the light would require replacing the entire panel. But that would trigger a building-code upgrade for the whole elevator system. Total cost? $80,000.
Cost of sign? $3
"Known Issues"
"Without the efforts of the workers the company would not have value so the idea that the workers and owners ought to be the same cohort has a great deal of attraction."
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/1/233510-a-people-centered-economy/fulltext
Finally! a way to re-platform your Google+ data before the April 2019 shutdown.
https://gplus-exporter.friendsplus.me/ exports to Wordpress, Blogger and other places. Hoping that this allows for communities to transition to new hosting or for individuals to go #indieweb
I started selfhosting my Known instance at https://1500wordmtu.com
The folks at withknown.com are nice, but their focus isn't on end-users these days and I need to get this on SSL, plus would like to use more plugins. [And if all goes well this posts to my social.coop mastodon account!]
Another data point for @ntnsndr -- Six Apart Japan, who maintain the original Movable Type blogging platform had an employee buyout a couple years ago:
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Leaving NYC for Nashville
http://wesmckinney.com/blog/leaving-nyc-for-nashville/
(submitted by happy-go-lucky)
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I love the tiny, expanding Gopher network. People hosting small public access shell servers, sometimes with only 128MB RAM, sometimes more, access via a restricted shell, sometimes with git, sometimes with a weird publishing system, all of them with Gopher hosting. 😍
gopher://cosmic.voyage
gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space
gopher://republic.circumlunar.space
gopher://consensus.circumlunar.space
gopher://dome.circumlunar.space
It feels like the old days!
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The somewhat Darwinian competition mentality among the tech giants is backfiring. Facebook reacted to it's scandals by publishing articles critical of other tech companies. This will backfire as people will turn against all tech giants, laying the ground for alternatives like the #platformcoop movement.
The principle 6 of cooperatives, cooperation between cooperatives, is an alternative to the Darwinian death match. #platformcoops must think "how to collaborate with [x]", not "how to win [x]".
Direct action gets (some of) the goods:
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How do we measure the performance of a software engineer? https://anaulin.org/blog/on-software-engineer-performance/
(TL;DR: there is no magic formula.)
Hi #governance friends.
Looking for feedback on how to best implement the #GoogleWalkout demand for employee board representation.
Here's some interesting reading from way back in 1986 -- "Why America needs, but cannot have, corporate democracy."
It's time for #GoogleWalkout
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The Tree of Life Synagogue is holding a fundraiser to support medical bills, funeral costs, and building repairs needed after a Neo-Nazi from Gab.ai shot up the synagogue during Shabbat morning services.
Please turn out to support them if you can. This is one of the worst individual antisemitic attacks in recent American history
Small world.
@anaulin is on social.coop. Welcome!
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Episode 022 - Transforming Technology, Part 1
In which we begin a three-part series on Andrew Feenberg's 2002 book: "Transforming Technology".
This book "rethinks the relationships between technology, rationality, and democracy, arguing that the degradation of labor--as well as of many environmental, educational, and political systems--is rooted in the social values that preside over technological development."
http://generalintellectunit.net/e/022-transforming-technology-part-1/
Next up webhosting.coop.
- Looks good, even has phone support.
- Mentions 'townhall' system for member participation.
alas...
townhall 404s, recaptcha broken on contact form, no response to email for past two days. Disappointing...
still looking...
