Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 @mattcropp@social.coop
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RT @MEDLabBoulder@twitter.com
TWO BIG THINGS.
Our new pamphlet is out today, "Community Rules: Simple Templates for Great Communities"
And our governance app CommunityRule just got a gorgeous facelift! Check em both out here: https://communityrule.info/book
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MEDLabBoulder/status/1415786563829645317
The Drivers #Coop is fundraising investment for their new #platformcoop rideshare alternative. Kick them a few bucks if you've got the means to do so, and patronize them if you live in #NYC! https://wefunder.com/driverscoop
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Got to the scene in #Loki where they introduce the concept of branching and my partner was like,
"Oh. This is all just git."
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Need to change browser. Android Firefox is too slow now. Need privacy, security, no bloat, tracking, ads, nor fingerprinting. Dark mode to save eyes & battery. Https everywhere. URL blocking. Clear all on exit. Sync bookmarks. Or at least export to something reusable. I'm using FF Focus for now, but it's lacking. Hope Mozilla doesn't spoil Focus too. Don't like deceptive Brave, might as well be Google. Prefer non-chromium. Or at least ungoogled chromium base.
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woah I'm back with a PhD and a much more solid self care routine 🙃 and using tusky now instead of mastalab it's a lot more approachable!
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Transform a passive-aggressive 
tweet into active antagonism with this One Cool Trick.
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The GEO Weekly Newsletter is out! @GeorgeCheney & @Matt_Noyes interview #cooperative researcher and consultant E.G. Nadeau, & Dru Oja Jay talks to Evan Henshaw-Plath about tactics for a digital #commons. 
Small win today amidst the generally dreary #climate news:
The consumer #coop #CSA organic veggie farm I'm a member of (and which supplies a significant portion of my diet) started solarizing our buildings yesterday.
This has been an ongoing conversation/goal for the past few years, and it's exciting to see it coming to fruition!
climate migration
Interesting article crossed my feed today that mentioned one of the #CooperationJackson founders is moving at least part-time to a lefty land project in #Vermont for climate refugee prep work. The article doesn't go into much detail, so I'll be curious to learn more: https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx5zb9/activists-are-buying-land-in-vermont-to-help-people-escape-climate-disaster
After a thorough check-up and tune at my bike shop, I rode the ebike that I crashed on for the first time since my accident today.
A few feels at the start, and I'm definitely riding more conservatively than I used to, but overall glad to be back in the saddle...
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If you know someone who stutters, the patient #platformcoop I'm a member of is recruiting folks for a paid study: https://gigs.savvy.coop/stutter/?r=mcrop
Also saw they're going to start beta testing a #TimeBank as a member benefit... ⏲️🏦
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Are there software consultancy cooperatives? #coop
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I just joined the Ampled Co-op as a community member. They are an artist-owned co-op for musicians with an economic model very similar to Cosmos. Good vibes from this gang...
"Direct support for all musicians. Collectively owned, community supported." #music #coop #artists #platformcoop
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Super interesting panel tonight!
Do we have free will? How much of our decision making, actions, reactions are conscious? Are we aware of consumer manipulation and the emerging ‘consciousness’ of the machine?
Watch it here 💙 ⚡ 👇
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I think one of the hardest things for people with traditional biz backgrounds to understand about #coops is that the #coop model seeks to de-commodify the firm.
In particular, that means that thinking in terms of % of #ownership doesn't work, which throws many for a loop. Instead, value is delivered to members as the return of profits that would have otherwise been extracted from their labor or custom, but the value of the firm itself is generally not part of the equation.
It's quite simple, yet seemingly challenging to make conceptually sticky for many people, in my experience.
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