loshmi @loshmi@social.coop

The Community Working Group Ops Team members will be receiving our stipends for December and January, which is the first time #SocialCoop has formally provided and form of compensation. You can track payments the co-op makes via this page on O.C.

https://opencollective.com/socialcoop/expenses

Now that that skeleton framework in the place, a goal for the month is to get a similar arrangement in place for the tech team...

Spending my cut on a 🌞 panel: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Newpowa-100W-Watts-12V-Monocrystalline-Solar-Panel-Off-Grid-Kit-for-RV-Marine/401288169023

Here's an idea: a #NoJS challenge.

Making a website? Avoid using JavaScript.

See how much of the functionality and design you were planning can be done using plain HTML, CSS and other web technologies that are now embedded in the typical browser without needing JavaScript code to do any of it.

Even if it seems impossible, look it up. It just might be possible.

There's so much stuff in there now, even a seasoned webmaster could be surprised.

#fedimeme

Also me when I'm cuddle you :3 #cuteAnimals

(my cat would kill me so much if I did this to him :c) https://social.wxcafe.net/media/fCcwxkKTfvNqMK831Mw

A waterfall in #Vermont :

Saying he was collecting material for an art project, the 31-year-old visual artist sneaked into a vault at a notorious private, run-for-profit university and quietly removed tuition contracts. Fried Potatoes – whose real name is Francisco Tapia – then burned the documents, rendering it nearly impossible for the Universidad del Mar to call in its debt – which he claimed was worth as much as $500m (£297m). “It’s over. You are all free of debt.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/23/chile-student-loan-debts-fried-potatoes

Courtesy of jwz (original post @ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/06/plane-loop/ )

What is the most profitable business in the world? You might think oil, or maybe banking. You would be wrong. The answer is academic publishing. Its profit margins are vast, reportedly in the region of 40 per cent.

Publicly funded researchers do the work, write it up and judge its merits. And yet the resulting intellectual property ends up in the hands of the publishers. They then sell it via exorbitant subscriptions and paywalls, often paid for by taxpayers too.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24032052-900-time-to-break-academic-publishings-stranglehold-on-research/

cat found a appropriately sized box to squeeze in to