Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr@social.coop

Considering that we may be the only sentients in the galaxy, Musk, Bezos, and Branson are committing crimes against our descendants around countless systems. Space tech, like computer tech, was seeded by public money and must remain public. With this trend, there is no Federation in our future. We aren’t even the Borg. We’re the Ferengi.

I made this a thread on Loomio, so please feel free to comment, question, suggest.

https://www.loomio.org/d/Ci7uHcyG/should-social-coop-join-the-online-meeting-cooperative-

@dajbelshaw @mlncn @jdaviescoates @ntnsndr @nicksellen @mike_hales @LeoSammallahti @yasu

Some reading to do: http://www.easyessays.org/

Peter Maurin's "Easy Essays"

"When the organizers try
to organize the unorganized,
then the organizers
don’t organize themselves.
And when the organizers
don’t organize themselves,
nobody organizes himself,
And when nobody organizes himself,
nothing is organized."

oceaneditors.com is an #E2C
"exit 2 community" startup. Our target is a #workercoop structure. Had a great conversation with @ntnsndr
on E2C, which fits our objectives quite well. If you're also interested in E2C please reach out! Follow, and I'll follow back.

You can read more about E2C here:
https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/exit-to-community

Lots of great pieces have come out recently calling upon those of us in the free/open-source software to go further in making ethical tech.

* @ntnsndr on the culture war in open-source https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/the-culture-war-in-open-source-is-on
* @CoralineAda on **ethical** open-source software https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/a-six-month-retrospective-on-ethical-open-source

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware

TOMORROW May 1st and the first of every month - GENERAL STRIKE https://generalstrike.mayfirst.org

Thank you to the #jitsi folks who have created a platform for people to connect, and a strong alternative to proprietary platforms. You all rock.

Investor Owned vs. User Owned Platforms https://ioo.coop/2020/04/investor-owned-vs-user-owned-platforms/ https://t.co/KBXUL4StdU

RT @austinrobey_@twitter.com

I wrote this for Internet of Ownership @internetowners@twitter.com
https://ioo.coop/2020/04/investor-owned-vs-user-owned-platforms/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/austinrobey_/status/1251618997486923783

In case you haven't logged on to loomio in a while, we're asking social.coop members to update their profile with their social.coop username since it's hard to know who is who!

We have a check poll going and so far 19 members have updated! Thank you!!

https://www.loomio.org/d/mILsHUPB/adding-your-social-coop-handle-to-your-loomio-title

"If groups plan ahead for making hard decisions and defining roles, they have a better chance of weathering the challenges sure to come." ~ @ntnsndr #MutualAid

https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/04/01/how-build-mutual-aid-will-last-after-coronavirus-pandemic

COVID-19 support fund for the Northern Arapaho https://fundly.com/northern-arapaho-covid-19-support-fund #colorado #southdakota #wyoming