Notices by Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop), page 102

Tired: we're all inside a massive simulation
Wired: we're all inside an Electron app

"Exposure to economic words might be enough to inhibit compassion and concern for others, even among experienced executives. (...) Executives who unscrambled sentences with economic words expressed significantly less compassion. (...) After thinking about economics, executives felt less empathy"

https://evonomics.com/more-evidence-that-learning-economics-makes-you-selfish/

Just imagine what a 5yrs long economics couse does to a 20 something learning that stuff for the first time... Universities worldwide are basically sociopath factories.

Hello world!

I joined Mastodon a while back as @michel_slm - and decided to join #socialcoop as the logical follow-up to having a decentralized, federated platform.

I've been involved in open source, especially #fedora for a while, and have been passive members of co-op businesses before but would like to be more active this time round.

Thanks to @vmatekole for fixing the technical issues that were causing a backlog for new accounts!

Keeping the other account for general toots.

#introduction

@samtoland I would encourage social.coop members to check this out, since it affects us all.
#participation #ourstohackandown

There's an ongoing discussion about our structure, whether it is time to consider incorporation or should be keep working with the current model (Open Collective + Bylaws + Loomio).

I have started a poll to help crystalise the conversation.

https://www.loomio.org/d/R3HE7CbL/registering-social-coop-as-a-legal-entity-under-maltese-law-pros-and-cons-

RT @burgerdrome@twitter.com
NERDS: Wow it sucks that a small amount of people control all the currency and profit off that control unfairly

SOCIALISTS: Hey yeah, see, if we reorganise our economy, we could create a fairer and mor-

NERDS: The solution is magic coins which live in my computer

cyberbunk: a world where tech is based around dream technology
cyberdunk: a world where we developed stronger and deadlier forms of basketball
cyberfunk: established in a different post, cool as hell
cybergunk: gross
cyberhunk: everyone gets a robot boyfriend
cyberjunk: society built from future trash
cybermonk: religious technocracy, got a neon-catholic kinda vibe
cybersunk: atlantis but with rayguns and capitalism and shit

There's only reason we must depend on an architecture that is financed by the entertainment and videogames industry escalating the power of the personal computer all the time whilst offering less of what the user actually needs.

The reason is that neoliberalism needs to keep building things more complex and unapproachable to protect their position, using the sacrosanct construct of "intellectual property" to defend it.

Modern software running on mainstream computing systems is insecure as fuck, wastes energy and resources, and works against the personal, social, and economic interests of most people.

It's about time we start to abandon these systems and their shackles, not just social media alone.

Eventually web browsers and mainstream PCs and mobile devices need to be seriously rethought as well.

#Cloudflare Terminates Service to Sci-Hub Domain Names

The CDN provider was compelled to take this action in response to a permanent injunction the American Chemical Society obtained late last year. While Cloudflare previously objected to a similar request, there is no sign of protest this time around.

The site is currently still available.

https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-terminates-service-to-sci-hub-domain-names-180205/

#scihub #decentralize

@mayel I know so many people who might be good at this

I'm leading a project for Moodle: https://moodle.com/moodlenet

We're looking at ActivityPub-based open source starting points such as Mastodon and Hubzilla.

Has anyone used the latter to do anything more than experiment? I'd appreciate your comments on good/bad/ugly! https://project.hubzilla.org/page/hubzilla/hubzilla-project