Notices by Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop), page 116

Reading a 1895 history of the medieval university in PDF on a whim and thinking the @internetarchive (where I got it) is a remnant of what the internet was supposed to be.

90% off all Verso ebooks until January 1st. The largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world. Give 'em a bit of solidarity and get a book on politics for a couple of quid.

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3543-verso-end-of-year-sale

I just got The Next Revolution collection of essays by Bookchin, score.

I'm looking for a non-profit or three who need a not-quite-full-time software engineer, preferably remote or in PDX. I'm burning out on working full-time for profit-seeking or capital-seeking startups and want something sustainable long-term doing something good for the world.

Mainly skilled in back-end dev in Django / Python, but flexible and self-educating.

Nice blog post on #socialcoop from @rowan of Good Good Work! https://blog.rowan.website/2017/12/24/mastodon-and-coops/

@mayel Absolutely agree. There are aspirational hobbies and interests, and real hobbies and interests. Sticking with hobbies and interests involves finding ones that are inherently enjoyable to us.

friendly reminder:

the fediverse is build and maintained by volunteers. If you can support those doing it, you help to keep the infrastructure alive. (if you can't at the moment, that's perfectly fine. And we're happy having you here)
If you're not shure how, you can ask your instance admin.

#WeWashing: "when organizations refer to renting and selling services as 'sharing' and/or use terms like 'community' in misleading ways":

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/leesean-huang/wewashing-when-sharing-is_b_6879018.html

"At worst, [the #sharingeconomy label] is a way of obfuscating commercial transactions as 'sharing' as a way of evade the reach of regulation and oversight."

(via Frank Pasquale, https://twitter.com/FrankPasquale/status/944754728612913152)

Tu pars en vacances ? Tu cherche un stage (sur #lyon) au 1er semestre 2018 dans une asso sympathique ?
Framasoft te propose de venir nous aider à booster le collectif #CHATONS
https://contact.framasoft.org/recrutement/

#FaisTourner

@inmysocks Honestly, over the last year I have become convinced that Musk has seen too many Bond films as a child.
Then he decided to model himself on Drax from Moonraker.

If only his parents had let him watch The Man Who Fell to Earth. He could have tried to become Thomas Jerome Newton.

#Google is trying to eat the web, one service at a time. Now they are even eating external news websites with #AMP.

This is a really disturbing development. Please resist, don't visit AMP pages if you can avoid it.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/19/open_source_insider_google_amp_bad_bad_bad/ #googleamp

“The whole point of #distributed #ledgers is to have a group of computers coming to consensus in such a way that we don’t have to #trust any one person,” Dr. Baird [#holochain creator] says, but such “#consensus #algorithms” can be built a number of other ways than with #blockchain, a technology, he argues, still lacks in #fairness.

"Beneath bitcoin: the quest for a new layer of Internet technology"

https://www.theworldweekly.com/reader/view/magazine/2017-12-14/beneath-bitcoin-the-quest-for-a-new-layer-of-internet-technology/10418/