neil @neil@social.coop

The Countries With the Most Military Spending, 2019. http://dlvr.it/RxSFsz

Why has the number of worker-owned cooperatives grown 20 fold in the UK since 1970?

A new article on Mutual Interest, a a free online media cooperative owned by readers & writers.

https://www.mutualinterest.coop/2021/03/why-has-the-number-of-worker-co-ops-increased-20-fold-in-the-uk-since-1970

Become a founder member here and help distribute our funds using participatory budgeting:

https://opencollective.com/mutual-interest-media

what do people do for mobile phones these days.. The last one I bought that I liked was a google nexus 4 - that I could flash with Lineage..

but ever since that got stolen, I just buy cheapest android phones I ever find - and ignore the spyware/crudware apps on them

Is it possible to get a decent phone for less than £100 ?

HALT AND CATCH FIRE SYLLABUS 🔥

This has been on my mind for a long time, and now it's a real thing!

https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/halt-and-catch-fire-syllabus/

Let's make a colour together! <3

#RGB

I love you

Once imagined as a space of liberation, the internet today is a rabble of corporate monopolies, oppressive governments and hate mobs. Much of its empowering potential has faded or been trampled. But perhaps there is a way forward.

#Freedombone is a home server system which enables you to run your own internet services, individually or as a household. It includes all of the things you'd expect such as email, chat, VoIP, wikis, blogs, social networks, and more. You can run Freedombone on an old laptop or single board computer. You can also run it on an onion address. Reclaim the internet, one server at a time.

Free software becomes a standard in Dortmund, Germany

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/04/02/free-software-becomes-a-standard-in-dortmund-germany/ #freesw

#Pine64 donating 100+ original 11.6” Pinebooks ... Seeking your suggestions

https://www.pine64.org/2021/04/03/help-us-help-others/

Did I mention that we at Igalia are hiring? We're hiring! Join our respectful egalitarian flat cooperative structure and let's build free open source software together. ❤️​

https://www.igalia.com/jobs/

For students we also offer a CE programme:

https://www.igalia.com/coding-experience/

Several areas of work are possible.
We're very remote-friendly.

I just published a delightful conversation with @FreeScholar. She shares her experiences with @agaric, cooperativism, free software, and much more.

Listen and/or read here: https://realcoopstories.org/micky-metts-agaric/

🌲👩🏼‍💻🌲

Analysis of the decline of social democracy focuses too much on policies and not enough on organising methods.

The analysis of organising methods focuses too much on unions and not enough on the equally important role that cooperative and mutual businesses used to play.

The three pillars of Labour organising, that were most successfully implemented in the Nordic countries consisted of organising:

- Workers into unions
- Consumers into cooperatives
- Voters into social democratic parties

Wikimedia is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer that will work closely with my team(s)!

https://grnh.se/553bd7491us

Let me know if you have any questions.

Boosts appreciated :)

#hiring #floss #opensource #jobs #flossjobs

@Matt_Noyes @neil @mike_hales I think the same could be said about free software. Both coops and free software are non capitalist, but in and of themselves aren't a strategy to end capitalism or even a real threat to the capitalist system. In the worst vein, they provide a strategy for a privileged few to avoid some exploitative aspects of capitalism. There is enormous potential to organize within these movements to actively struggle against capitalism. But I'm not sure how to do this.