Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr@social.coop

I'm thrilled to see @commonwealmag run a piece on the great priest-economist and New Deal architect John Ryan: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/social-justice-warrior

He has been an important guide in my work on the legacy of cooperative enterprise: https://nathanschneider.info/open-work/truly-much-can-be-done-cooperative-economics-from-the-book-of-acts-to-pope-francis/

Good to see that at least one country is willing to try laying bare the economy that underlies social media. Wages for Facebook. https://gizmodo.com/uganda-goes-through-with-social-media-tax-and-people-ar-1827287611

What punishment is appropriate for people who attach a little logo image to every email that their recipients have to download and save over and over and over?

Together with the Governance Working Group, I've just posted a proposal to clarify the language in the #SocialCoop Bylaws: https://www.loomio.org/p/1PSop0v2/bylaws-revision-clarify-proposal-process Please participate. The proposal is open for 10 days.

Reading more on the history of the internet makes me want to start capitalizing the word again. It really ia a very specific thing, not a general type of thing.

Colorado employee ownership leader @jkbriggs asks a great question of ESOP execs: how much do mainstream management books apply to you?

I just voted in the first @savvy_coop member election on benefit corporation conversion. Reminds me of how much say Etsy users got in their platform dropping its B Corp status.

Just posted an updated version of the proposal to clarify the existing decision process in the #SocialCoop bylaws. Thanks to all from the #Governance Working Group who helped with this! https://www.loomio.org/d/yHg35x6D/clarity-on-decisions

This @hackernoon article is called "Tokenize the World" but it could just as easily be "Cooperativize the World" before the word "blockchain." https://hackernoon.com/tokenize-the-world-why-do-i-own-starbucks-stock-if-i-dont-drink-coffee-912301a287e9?gi=31312a625760

"Happily, the Web is so huge that there's no way any one company can dominate it." - @timberners_lee, _Weaving the Web_ (1999)

Looks like once again Jaron Lanier has the problem sort of right and the solution mostly wrong. Nothing like victim blaming from one of the masters of the universe. https://nytimes.com/2018/06/13/books/review/jaron-lanier-ten-arguments-for-deleting-your-social-media-accounts-right-now.html

Looks like once again Jaron Lanier has the problem sort of right and the solution mostly wrong. Nothing like victim blaming from one of the masters of the universe. https://nytimes.com/2018/06/13/books/review/jaron-lanier-ten-arguments-for-deleting-your-social-media-accounts-right-now.html

Note: This is not the final decision proposal, just the proposal for passing it in the Governance working group before bringing it to all of Social.coop.

I've just started a proposal for amending the language on decisions in our bylaws here: https://www.loomio.org/d/yHg35x6D/clarity-on-decisions

"It is only children called away from play who seem appropriately outraged at the injustice of the colonization of time by capital" - Nichole Marie Shippen, _Decolonizing Time_

Anyone want to start a self-hosted, co-op instance of Zotero whose main differentiating feature is not being ugly?