Just posted minutes from today's Finance WG meeting: https://www.loomio.org/d/JHTaN0Ek/meetings-of-the-finance-committee-2022-when-why-who-where-what-fun-/5
I'm so proud that the person who taught me to love reading and writing is lending her voice to ensure sustainable funding for libraries.
Today's @dailycamera: https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/08/11/letters-to-the-editor-even-poor-old-banks-have-fallen-on-hard-times/ @welovebplibrary
I'm really interested in this announcement from @laterpress, a creator publishing platform planning to bake in strong creator governance without formal equity sharing: https://www.laterpress.com/blog/announcing-user-governance
Can shared governance be meaningful in a for-profit corp w/o shared ownership?
@CaitlinWaddick @LeoSammallahti @GuerillaOntologist @CaitlinWaddick @mattcropp thank you for organizing!
Eeee! I just got my copy of #RadicalFriends, the new book on art-DAO-ness from Ruth Catlow @furtherfield and @pennny_rafferty, so full of friends and friend-crushes.
Get it: http://torquetorque.net/publications/radical-friends/
@jonny PLEASE tell me if you find any!!
@jonny and cancel entire line! Something I'm glad we at least still have in Emacs.
Another week of heartbreaking letters to the Celsius bankruptcy judge. This is only a subset of the excerpts I'm posting to https://blog.mollywhite.net/celsius-letters/
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How many cooperative Mastodon instances are there? Cooperative meaning democratically owned, governed, managed, moderated. Is there a list somewhere? Is social.coop the only one? Please boost.
¿Cuántas instancias de Mastodon cooperativas hay? ¿Cuáles son?
マストドンの協同組合的インスタンスはいくつあるか。URLは?
Combien d'instances Mastodon coopératives existent-ils? Lesquelles?
This from @americamag again, except replace Trump with Manchin, the Catholic who neglected to read Laudato Si. https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2017/05/31/trumps-war-environment-war-young-and-unborn
@CaitlinWaddick @Matt_Noyes @GuerillaOntologist @mattcropp @redoak @idmyn @nicksellen @flancian @akshay @sam @michaelafisher @emi unfortunately pretty unlikely for me. On a family trip and have little control over time.
In at least one way, some of my favorite Boulder restaurants are following the lead of the anarchists who once ran Barcelona: tip abolition. https://boulderreportinglab.org/2022/07/13/fair-wage-fees-are-replacing-traditional-tips-at-some-boulder-restaurants-is-it-a-more-equitable-payment-model-for-restaurant-workers/ via @BoulderRL
@LeoSammallahti saw this co-op Wikipedia edit-a-thon and thought of you: https://ncbaclusa.coop/blog/ncba-clusas-cooperative-development-program-celebrates-the-100th-international-day-of-cooperatives/
I've been working on a newsletter about ideas for building a just and sustainable world. It's called Notes for a Living World.
Check out this week's post about Cooperative Home Care Associates, the largest worker co-op in the US. https://livingworld.substack.com/p/caregivers-in-charge?r=1f2gnp&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
@emi @SocialCoop @socialcoop@a.gup.pe Y'all are the best.
Profsr: @cumediastudies @MEDLabBoulder / Authr: #Coops #Occupy #God / Regulr: @AmericaMag @TheNation / Orgnizr: @exittocommunity @start_coop @zebras_unite