neil 🍄 @neil@social.coop

1/2 off sale this week on TESA games including Co-opoly, Strike! and Game-Changer...

https://store.tesacollective.com/collections/games

Next Monday it's **commons.hour** again!

In our 2nd session we'll have Ela Kagel from Supermarkt Berlin/Platform Coops Germany

to kick off the debate about social and economic relations, open contributions, value flows and how to assure everyone can be activist

https://opencollective.com/meet-coop/updates/invitation-commons-hour-session-2

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📆 25Oct 18h UTC

cc @Matt_Noyes @matslats @jdaviescoates @coopsmark @msavoritias @coopcloud @donestech @Stacco @jamiem @fredsultan @Sybille_Saint_Girons @disco_coop @agaric @oli @platformcoop

Search your feelings

@neil This type of weapon has been around since the mid 2000s. They were initially developed for the Iraq war, and had tracks or large wheels rather than legs initially. Military drones were controversial, but the ground based semi-autonomous mini-tanks were more so. Some people in universities objected to developing this stuff, but they were a small minority and since the US is a military Keynesian economy there wasn't much opposition or alternative employment available. There have been people campaigning against military robots - particularly the autonomous variety - for about 15 years.

The talking points to watch out for are:

- The robots result in less casualties (for our side). Fewer people "in harm's way"
- Because they are robots they will make impartial autonomous decisions, untainted by human prejudice or battle fatigue

I think in future robots like this will be used to carry out genocides. There will be deniability because they will say a bug or glitch caused undefined behavior in the swarm planner. The rise of military robots wasn't the main reason I stopped working in that industry, but it was a background factor.

Can't believe there isn't a http://godreads.com as a [[goodreads]] alternative

Figured some people here might be interested:

The Maintainers are funding 4x $10k fellowships next year for people "whose maintenance, repair, and care work has substantial and practical engagements with the environment, and who are passionate about cross-disciplinary and interprofessional collaboration."

Applications due Nov. 4

https://themaintainers.org/call-for-movement-fellows22/

“Repair Lowers Carbon Emissions” is theme of today's #RepairDay but #software #obsolescence is increasingly dictating end of life of devices and becoming a threat to their repairability and reusability. I support the idea of an #UpcyclingOfSoftware - the publication of software necessary to run a device under a Free Software license after end of support - to help extending usage lifetime of hardware: https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/sustainability/sustainability.html#upcycling-of-software @fsfe