mike_hales 💔*!?¿* @mike_hales@social.coop

MayFirst Movement Technology published a statement around Covid, movement organising and tech infrastructure
https://mayfirst.coop/en/post/2020/content-call-our-movement-lets-talk-strategy-now/
It’s a manifesto or statement of intent, rather than an analysis or work plan. But it will be good to note the online venues where the group will be holding its explorations and work processes, on this agenda.
It’s not 100% obvious to me where these venues are! When I get it better sussed, I’ll post here! If anyone is aware of venues and online ‘cells’ do reply?

Recently I’m referring back to a tradition of design that may be unfamiliar to cooperators & hackers here. So some references. Scandinavian 80s/90s tradition of work oriented design of computer artefacts, and a collective resource tradition of codesign with labour unions. From days before P2P code hacking, web apps & digitally mediated organisation, invites remixing in today’s coop practice. Tool notions, coproduction principle and weaving of tech, theorising and democracy are valuable. 1of2

@liaizon @Matt_Noyes I started in fed wiki about 6 months ago - thanks Silke Helfrich. Here are some resources.
A personal wiki
http://mh.federated.wiki
Pattern language
http://pattern.resources.federated.wiki
Navigating in wiki
http://pattern.resources.federated.wiki/view/welcome-visitors/mhresources.federated.wiki/how-to-fedwiki
How federatation works in wiki
http://mhresources.federated.wiki/wiki-literacy.html
Fed wiki folks are keen on graphs. A few links here
http://mhresources.federated.wiki/wiki-features-alphabetical.html
There's been discussion in Loomio open app ecosystem group, including how to create your own wiki
https://www.loomio.org/d/r7T9o6b2/fedwiki/6
@yala

I've had an awareness for a couple of years, of Zuckerberg's intention to steal banking from the bankers, and pull the world's poorest smartphone users into a sticky platform-banking web. On cue, here comes #libracoin!
See @matslats of the #OpenCreditNetwork, on Libracoin
https://opencredit.network/2019/07/24/our-position-on-facebooks-proposed-libracoin/

And more here on class war among the old and new bankers
https://www.noncorporate.org/build-global-moneyless-trading-system/
Slugging it out soon with China?

Puzzled . . @mako makes a clear pitch on "Free software production needs free tools" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_nK6nP_RCY&feature=youtu.be
And is very clear on #commons and #P2P (though says most code comes from solo not collaboration!). Yet not a hint of coop ownership of #platforms to keep tools honest & open (GitHub!). Surely tools today become platforms? And platforms require collaboration even if code doesn't? So why doesn't #coop follow automatically, as we talk tools? How does libre not equal coop in FLOSS world?

“Stand out of my light” indeed. Get out of my face. Give me my life back. Stop drinking my oxygen. Or as Burroughs said in Nova Express: “Boards, syndicates, governments of the world - give it back. Give it all back.” This rage in the face of consumerist mind-fucking is more primitively radical than any rationalist Bill of Rights?

Chapter five - Empires of the mind (Churchill quote) - is the best plain scan of advertising and the desire machinery of consumerist capitalism that I’ve seen, since Vance Packard’s Hidden Persuaders kick-started me on the ‘ethical’ road of anti capitalism in the 60s.
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Google whistleblower philosopher . . Worth prompting people to read, I would say. From a horse’s mouth . .
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/3F8D7BA2C0FE3A7126A4D9B73A89415D/9781108429092AR.pdf/Stand_out_of_our_Light.pdf
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@Matt_Noyes D'you want a quick chat now, or is everything clear?

@Matt_Noyes
Meeting with The Online Meeting Coop
See you tomorrow, Friday
https://ca.meet.coop/b/mik-a8z-njk
15:00 UTC
Agenda
https://pad.disroot.org/p/Matt-Mike-Meet-plans

An English friend who lives in Boston posted this to a group of Brits . .
>the Spanish Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca is exactly what is needed here in the US and probably in the UK too. Evictions and foreclosures are going to hit at the end of this month and we shall see a crisis of homelessness and emiseration that doesn't bear thinking about.

James Lawson @ John Lewis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOxpSPT5PnI
Isn't this close to being a manifesto for the commons-cooperative movement? US local content, *human* intention - for the grandchildren's grandchildren

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> Green parties don't seem to have a united, holistic vision of a utopian society
Sure. They're just some of the threads in the fabric. Not privileged with a master (sic) vision.

This harks back to early C19 pre-mass-party 'associationist' forms of socialism-before-socialism in industrialising countries, before statism and collectivised-professionalised (eg Fabian) socialisms got the upper hand, in an unholy electoral-administrative social-democratic alliance.
@bhaugen @LeoSammallahti

This London urban-commons project is pretty well self publicised but may be new to you
https://medium.com/@TessyBritton/tomorrow-today-streets-2a6159ee78f0
There are diverging views of the politics of this, the local council is central as a regeneration funder, Big Time. It's not clear to me how its community/BIPoC politics runs. It's strongly design led and system-minded, in a way that seems very sophisticated. Interesting and not uncomplicated class politics, I suspect.

This London urban-commons project is pretty well self publicised but may be new to you
https://medium.com/@TessyBritton/tomorrow-today-streets-2a6159ee78f0
There are widely diverging views of the politics of this, the local council is central as a funder, Big Time. It's not clear to me how its community politics/BIPoC politics runs. But it's strongly design led and system-minded, in a way that seems very sophisticated.