Thomas Beckett 🌲❤️🌲 @tbeckett@social.coop
Cooperative professional & activist, Southerner, Social-ist
@mike_hales @mako Cooperatives are a social hack. We create structures to fulfill our aspirations and to protect them from the lesser aspects of human nature. Our success at this is mixed, but we keep learning & keep trying.
Cooperatives I am a member of:
- People’s Intergalactic Food Conspiracy #1 (defunct)
- Weaver Street Market
- Hendersonville Community Co-op
- Durham Co-op Market
- Fertile Ground Food Co-op (startup)
- Renaissance Community Co-op
- REI
- Savvy Co-op
- Navy Federal Credit Union
- NC State Employees Credit
- Coastal Credit Union
You ought to be thankful a whole heaping lot
For the places and people you're lucky you're not.
You could be the branch from a #parkdale elm tree
Which this afternoon at a quarter past three
Came tumbling down on some poor fucker's car.
Did I ever tell you how lucky you are?!
so the Comcast outage today was related to major fibre cuts?
at least one in North Carolina
"Field Operations dispatched to the estimated failure location and upon arrival was advised by local law enforcement there was a truck that struck a utility pole, which then fell across the street and struck another pole, which then tore down the aerial fiber lines. In addition to the fiber lines being down, live power lines are down as well."
https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2018-June/011495.html
Watching for the pizza.
Toes are one of the more delightful aspects of the human condition. Especially baby toes.
From the Solarpunk Aesthetic tumblr:
Biotechnologist Marin Sawa and her University of London research group have created a proof-of-concept for printing solar cells onto paper using carbon nanotubes and cyanobacteria.
This technology is "[...] capable of generating a sustained electrical current both in the dark (as a ‘solar bio-battery’) and in response to light (as a ‘bio-solar-panel’) with potential applications in low-power devices."
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It's not just you. You're not alone.
DHS doesn't even try to hide their nazi nonsense Show more
Open Source Dumplings. Nutritious hacker dumplings with Naomi “Sexy Cyborg” Wu.
https://youtu.be/wKNXCk0pbbw
US pol, Good cartoon
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A really good example of that was the Personal Democracy Forum earlier in the year, sponsored by those companies and promanently fearuring Google and Facebook speakers. It's hard to discuss what democracy means, or should become, in the internet era if Facebook is dominating the narrative.
How to set up your own internet radio station
I wrote an article about this.
http://mixremix.cc/2018/06/26/how-to-set-up-your-own-internet-radio-station/
Not for everyone but if you're interested give me a read.
Co-op Cronies
imagine if tech wasn't constantly fucking fighting over possession of users, and instead, was accepting that users have a right to choose their preferred UIs and frontends
I was browsing a Peertube instance earlier and stumbled upon a copy of The Internet's Own Boy, a documentary about Aaron Swartz.
I haven't seen it before so I decided to give it a watch.
By the end of it I was in tears, I don't think I've seen anything in a while that made me cry like that.
Also, I had no idea he co-authored the RSS 1.0 specification, wow.
https://peertube.video/videos/watch/04af977f-4201-4697-be67-a8d8cae6fa7a
General strike on Amazon in the EU?
https://www.transnational-strike.info/2018/05/17/call-to-all-amazon-workers-in-europe-in-july-a-european-general-strike/
"It is for these reasons that we are promoting the idea of a European general strike in the second week of July. That is when Prime Day is, a day during which Amazon aims to sell millions of products in what is one of its most important days of sales. The idea is that if no concessions to the workers are made, that day will not take place."