neil ๐
HELLโข by Darren Cullen.
https://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/businesshell
"All the business people are sent to Hell but they end up taking the place over and running it for profit, industrialising the torture process and making everything much more efficient and terrible."
neil ๐
@Antanicus Fucking hell.
neil ๐
neil ๐
Really good interview with Mark Bray covering some history of anarchism, discussion of different tendencies, where it overlaps and differs from Marxism and other revolutionary socialist approaches. Current approaches to organising. https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/anarchism-philosophy-and-history-with-dr-mark-bray
neil ๐
@tbeckett No but now I've read the publisher's page about it and I want to read it. Thanks for sharing!
Christine Lemmer-Webber
@Wolf480pl @nolan @david_ross Ha... well I'm not trying to compete with anyone. But I do think it would be good if we could push our society towards using machines for longer and making them more user-repairable.
cliffregis
Thank you #SocialCoop for accepting me! I love the #platformcoop movement!
I'm in the process of starting a platform coop version of LinkedIn and Glassdoor.
Interested contributing to the movement and chatting with like-minded folks.
Thomas Hodgson
I'm very interested in the idea of collectively owning social media (among other things).
I'm a philosopher. My professional interests are philosophy of language and metaphysics.
I use FLOSS when I can.
I'm in Dublin, Ireland. ๐ฎ๐ช
andrewbrum
#introductions Looking forward to joining the platform co-op community. Interested in technology. Software developer by trade. Interested in learning all the ways that neoliberalism doesn't work! and general progressive political movements in Europe
Ed Summers
I work at the intersection of information technology and anthropology, and am interested in how web & archival practices are enacted in people's daily lives & as part of their communities.
I've worked as a software developer & designer in the open source community for the last 20 years. (Oh, shit, I guess that means I'm old.)
Thanks for the opportunity to join you all here on social.coop!
Paul Lindner
Greetings social.coop folks. Glad to be here!
I'm here because I want to help promote Platform Coops. This is the future I always envisioned back when I was on the Gopher team in the early nineties.
Currently supporting Resonate music coop effort, Riot/Matrix, Known, Mastodon, and OpenCollective.
Interests include Digital Preservation (developer on Perkeep) and decentralized protocols.
Day job is at Google, but I'm not your typical Googler.
More at http://1500wordmtu.com
Will Murphy ๐น
Neoliberalism was sold on the promise of lower prices. They neglected to mention that the price it was designed to push down the most was that of your labor.
neil ๐
@douginamug I haven't, but it's firmly on the to-read list now.
neil ๐
Really interesting, I had not heard of the theory of collective action, another debunkable so-called 'tragedy' of the commons.
"Ostrom noted that Olsonโs model of collective action[...] is another model which predicts that the commons will be ruined. Olson (1965) examined political and social movements and was critical of the idea that support for a particular ideology or set of policy demands was sufficient to persuade individuals to become politically active in a group."
neil ๐
"Often it is asserted that human nature shows we are intrinsically competitive by those on the right, or intrinsically cooperative by those on the left. Ostromโs approach was to reject such broad generalisations and her anti-essentialism made her suspicious of unchanging foundations of human behaviour." -- Derek Wall, #Ostrom's Rules for Radicals
Important point. To hope that everyone would be naturally predisposed to cooperation is naive.
neil ๐
If you're #london based, a few listed here: https://www.commonhouse.org.uk/links/
neil ๐
Finding #Ostrom's rules for governing the commons far less radical than I was expecting (or perhaps hoping): boundaries, monitoring, policing, sanctions, fines (paid to those policing!), a judiciary. It feels like tacit acknowledgement of the commons 'tragedy' and a need for coercion, just whereas Hardin advocated it through private property or state ownership here it simply moves to the local level. Am I missing something? Does direct local participation make policing benevolent? #readinggroup
neil ๐
Overworked? Tired?
Tough shit, that's just the way the world is mate. Buy some Advanced Fizz and get on with it.
neil ๐
@eloquence Great stuff! I met the developer of a project called neotoma recently, seems like there could be some synergy with freeyourstuff - https://github.com/neotoma/documentation
Erik Moeller
freeyourstuff.cc, mostly a browser extension, now also has a command line downloader for your contributions to proprietary sites, using #puppeteer. It's still a bit experimental, but you can check it out here:
https://github.com/eloquence/freeyourstuff.cc/blob/master/cli/INSTALL.md
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