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

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?

@Matt_Noyes
> I was always getting in trouble for reading in school
🙄 Myles Horton, in conversation w Paulo Freire

@Matt_Noyes
D'you know this 'spoken book' by Myles Horton & Paulo Freire? We make the road by walking (Temple University 1990). Horton = Highlander College.
>The question . . is how it is possible for us in the process of making the road, to be clear, and to clarify our own making of the road . . to clarify some theoretical issues . .

Lovely, moving book, cousin to Politics & Letters. But different home turf (poverty is central) so different voice and dynamic. Such conversations really matter?

Generative identity and the dangers of Self Sovereign Identity
Tellingly framed as social inclusion rather than social justice . . but interesting? https://generative-identity.org/about-generative-identity/
An initiative of Akasha Foundation
https://akasha.org/about/
More geek than roots? But it takes all sorts?

@bhaugen
D’you know the reason why
https://www.opencoopecosystem.net/
linked from the Bonfire (was CommonsPub) site, is full of UN blog posts, rather than coop ecosystem stuff?

Reading Roger van Zwanenberg's serialised 'Colonialism' . .
https://www.wealthandpower.org/part-2/13-understanding-colonialism-slaves-and-settler-societies
>Colonisation and slavery were the cornerstones of the Industrial Revolution. European industrialisation and Atlantic-American slavery as two structural global transformations must be understood as an integral whole.

I can hardly bear to acknowledge this is a 'new' story for Europeans, told in a plain way. Slavery always was 'somewhere else' - hidden background of the polite C18 country house novel.

Finding myself really enjoying Capital vol 1 Ch 33: The Modern Theory of Colonisation
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch33.htm
Laughing aloud at Marxian irony at the expense of English apologists for 'systematic colonisation' 😉 I'd almost forgotten what a writer he is. A wonderful account of just what kind of force wage labour is, in lands where it hasn't yet been successfully invented. And a reminder not to use the term 'capital' casually.
The whole Part VIII on primitive accumulation is terrific.

@Matt_Noyes
Was it you who mentioned #hylo a while back? And @bhaugen did you say you'd been connected with them (or #terran)? Perhaps about place-based mapping in particular?

I just viewed the crowdfunding launch event
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPC76Isw5-U&feature=youtu.be
and what's really interesting is that, for something that was originally VC, and is so intrinsically tech, there is hardly any highlight - in a two hour session - on tech stuff. It's all relationships and values, and seems to resonate. D'you know more?

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The best review I've heard, standing at a critical distance from commonplace free software tropes - 'free as in frreedom', autonomous creation and use, etc. But also, getting into serious tech: CoBox, dat
CoBox
https://cobox.cloud/how-it-works

Worth listening to, just for the vision of tools and protocols that support mutual aid, without a blockchain in sight 👏

Digital sovereignty - huh?
Dan Hassan & Jaya Brekke on a deep courageous walk-through the muddy swamp of sovereignty, property, supremacy, memory, individualist freedom and other stuff in the digital space.
Video
https://youtu.be/ZzCqacxXYCE
Transcript
https://cobox.cloud/web/digital-sovereignty-huh.pdf
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@amcewen
Do you fedwiki?

Hosting #federatedWiki . . are there fedwiki farms out there? I mean, formal fee-for-service hosting services, that have specialist fedwiki capability, and commitment to making the genre more widely used thro support, training, documentation, etc?

Or does the culture of self-hosting and hacker huddles prevail?

@Matt_Noyes @emi
You might want to look this over, in the context of your current research in the future of coops?
https://coopdescommuns.org/fr/platform-cooperatives-and-their-role-in-the-context-of-recovery/
Personally I find it hard to make sense of, long and threaded with typically opaque Eurospeak. There seems to be a new euroterm: 'territories' and 'the transition of territories'. It's very worthy I'm sure. And maybe there are helpful things to be done at the EU governmental level. But for me it seems a full-time job even to undertand Euro-English.

“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?