Notices by Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop), page 98

Does anyone know of any studies that compare effectiveness of hierarchical/non democratic vs. democratic/worker-owned organizations side by side? #workercoops #studies #statistics #socialsciences

Someday I hope we'll see a major push for repairable free and open-source software. The fact that software is free and open source is rarely actually of material importance until you need to fix something.

Don't get me wrong, there are *ideological* reasons for free and open-source software, but there's plenty of software that's effectively proprietary because only the author(s) can understand how it works.

my #introduction: I study #physics, am interested in #politics, inclined towards #anarchism and #communism (but not really sure - the more you learn, the more you know your own stupidness and so on). I like the idea of decentralization, so I deleted my facebook and twitter accounts a while ago. Hope that Mastodon & friends will grow strong and eventually replace twitter! Facebook‘s already declining, anyway.

My team needs a kickass UX designer. @Greenpeace #gpp4 team is made up of Earth shakers! Come work with us: https://workfor.greenpeace.org/vacancies/details/user-experience-designer/

This is the most interesting #password management option I've come across in a while

https://lesspass.com/

#FOSS

#ExtendedProfile Pin:
* I studied #Genetics. I'm a big fan of GE tech ("#GMO"); AMA!
* Generally pretty #brightgreen.
* I enjoy #programming in #Python, #Golang, and #Rust.
* Currently working on my #machinelearning & #datascience
* I worry about how easy it is for viewpoints to self-reinforce.
* I'm a utopian technologist..but I don't see much value in _impractical_ utopianism.
* I don't use CWs much, sorry. You can rely on me to CW traumatic subjects, but not 'politics' or 'selfies'.

What are the best options out there right now for a fully #libre laptop? Primary use cases will be #development and #photography. Ideally I’m looking for something thin and around 3 lbs. I was thinking about an ASUS Chromebook C201 with #LibreBoot, but I don’t know if that will have enough juice for editing RAW files, and the 16GB storage capacity is kind of a bummer.

Science reveals the secret to extreme wealth: SHEER DUMB LUCK.
“The results are something of an eye-opener. Their simulations accurately reproduce the wealth distribution in the real world. But the wealthiest individuals are not the most talented (although they must have a certain level of talent). They are the luckiest. And this has significant implications for the way societies can optimize the returns they get for investments in everything from business to science.”
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610395/if-youre-so-smart-why-arent-you-rich-turns-out-its-just-chance/amp/

"The researchers found profit from ride-hail driving to be “very low”. On an hourly basis, the median profit was $3.37 per hour, with 74% of drivers earning less than the minimum wage in the state where they operate."

When shit's so bad, even TechCruch can't hide it anymore.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/02/mit-study-shows-how-much-driving-for-uber-or-lyft-sucks/

@webmind @StuC @mayel those are the best: fuck capitalistm, fuck productivity

@Antanicus @mayel fight back, make it unacceptable to get up early....

Use analog snarky comments,: "You were'nt here at 18:00, so I did it for you" or "off home already? What a life!" or even "You left the light on in your office, I didn't want people to think you were working late, so I turned it off"

Refer to the WC as "The early shift's reading room"

Suggest grumpy coworkers "Get up a little later to improve their mood."

Push back! ;)

"These traits are determined by genetics and are extremely hard to change. What’s more, the research is finding that if we fight our chronotypes, our health may suffer."

Fuck you capitalism for literally taking bits of my health off me every time I have to wake up earlier than my body wants to!

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/2/27/17058530/sleep-night-owl-late-riser-chronotype-science-delayed-sleep-phase