Notices by neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop), page 17

This article points to Switzerland and Zurich in particular as examples of more active housing co-op markets.

Although it doesn’t give much insight into how to get to that point from our current position in the UK.

Despite a lot of interest, there’s only a small amount of co-op housing in the UK. Most non-profit housing is charitable housing associations. Large housebuilders have a hold of the market overall.

"the Swiss example shows how these non-state and non-capitalist actors can build quality housing at a mass scale, if they’re encouraged — and that they can create a model of housing provision that moves beyond speculation into something more democratic and innovative."

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/06/switzerland-housing-coop-cooperative/

You are now entering the warehouse district

Hackney Wick
#London

You are now entering the warehouse district

Hackney Wick
#London

@jrss I'll take Wednesday thanks. But hey - let's keep Sunday as well.

@greg big moon

@sunconscious Nice work. I hear that. I know exercise has a huge +ve effect on my mental health but somehow my brain manages to find that not pertinent when making executive decisions sometimes...

@michel_slm Oh wow that's great to hear. I didn't know it was international.

How recent was that? I sometimes wonder how OU is faring in distance learning with a number of online learning platforms having popped up recently.

Remember this chestnut from Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google at time?

"We don't need you to type at all. We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about"

That was nearly 9 years ago.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/04/google_ericisms/

Wow, Jennie Lee and Nye Bevan - now that's a relationship with a pretty epic dynasty. (Drivers behind the Open University and the National Health Service respectively).

A current Labour policy is for the creation of a National Education Service, seeing education as a lifelong right rather than a commodity you pay for. Issues with 'national' / 'state' anything aside, putting an emphasis on socialised education again is great.

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/06/the-open-university-at-50/

"He likens ML and AI to steel mills. Sometimes steel is used to make incubators for babies, he says, but sometimes steel is used to make guns."

Amazon's ML/AI is not a raw material. It's shaped (and sold) by a cadre of people at Amazon.

Do they build in any accountability mechanisms to their algorithms?

They're making a loaded technology. They're making the guns, and he's saying "hey - it's not our responsibility to add safety catches."