Michel Salim @michel_slm@social.coop

Gritty isn't necessarily a "co-op" value, but I'm not sure that worker co-ops could succeed without it.

#coops

https://workersparadise.org/2020/03/28/the-unnamed-co-op-value-gritty/

A sobering read by Ed Yong that ends with two visions of the future, one of which I hope comes to pass while the other is consigned to history as a temporary aberration.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-will-coronavirus-end/608719/

#COVID19 #USA #Culture #Society

Hey, everyone in #London, don't be a #COVIDIOT, please #StayHomeSaveLives.

Everyone already #notgoingout: thank you.

RT @s8mb@twitter.com

This is so embarrassing.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/s8mb/status/1241398825274802176

Despite the administration’s effort to obtain tests for the virus, its request has been denied by WHO on the grounds that AANES (commonly known as Rojava) is not a state and hence cannot be dealt with directly. The administration has no option but to send  test cases to Damascus, which is under the control of the Syrian government. Transportation takes much time, and there is no way to ensure the quality of the procedure.  
http://www.heyvasoruk.org/

For GenZ and younger Millennials: You're living through a time comparable to, possibly more consequential than, 9/11 for the GenX crowd.

Possibly closer to major political upheavals or wars: Fall of USSR WWII, Great Depression.

Your lives will likely be divided into "pre-Coronavirus" and "post-Coronavirus".

Life, institutions, worldviews, life trajectories, politics, personal lives, will change. Quite probably long-term. In unexpected ways I cannot predict.

Pay attention.

#covid19

While rest of the world was busy demutualising #coops (converting them into capitalist firms), France mutualised a large number of banks.

Been trying to find more info on this. Can't find almost anything except this short reference in a book about demutualisation.

Anyone has any info? If it worked out well, it could give more weight to the case @ntnsndr makes in this article titled:

"Breaking up the banks might make things worse. Instead, let's take ownership"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/14/breaking-up-banks-public-bailouts-ownership

Question of Scale - good post by @trent @trentyarwood https://yarwood.id.au/question-of-scale

RT @gretathunberg
Today a court hearing starts that will decide if @PreemSverige will be allowed to expand their oil refinery in Lysekil, making it the biggest CO2 source in Sweden.

I wonder where in the IPCC’s CO2 budget anyone might think there would be room for this #greenwashing ...

Open Source Initiative bans co-founder, Eric S Raymond - https://lunduke.com/posts/2020-03-9-b/ these are turbulent times for #opensource...and all the opens

Sabotabby explains how our society relies on unpaid labour, undermining the notion of "wages" and "productivity" entirely

"Uyghurs for sale:
‘Re-education’, forced labour and surveillance beyond Xinjiang."
https://www.aspi.org.au/report/uyghurs-sale

No, Boeing, really didn't actually check their systems, that can't be true!
(Sarcasm and nationalize Boeing)

This was a really difficult thing to read, but for anyone outside the U.S. who is perhaps not intimately familiar with how heartless and deadly our healthcare system is, this is illuminating.

https://newrepublic.com/article/156664/insulin-became-poster-child-medicare

Liz Warren's pride, or her lack of instincts or whatever is keeping her in this race is gonna lose her a Senate seat and then some inbred fucking Kennedy is gonna vote against Bernie's agenda. It sucks

"The dominant economic system treats physical resources as if they were infinite and then locks up intellectual resources as if they were finite. But the reality is quite the contrary. We live in a world where physical resources are limited, while non-material resources are digitally reproducible and therefore can be shared at a very low cost."

https://theconversation.com/design-global-manufacture-local-a-new-industrial-revolution-82591

#Manufacturing; #capitalism; #decentralization

This is how you handle public disclosure of the current situation. This is the Singapore Ministry of Health dashboard with details about the spread:

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/7e30edc490a5441a874f9efe67bd8b89

The main page where they post the latest updates: https://www.moh.gov.sg/covid-19