saturnø 🐹 @saturno@octodon.social

“Thank God repressions are handled by such incompetent idiots. My family remembers full well how it was when they were carried out by professionals.”

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/17/17246150/telegram-russia-ban

Another reason to dislike Elon Musk: https://www.revealnews.org/article/tesla-says-its-factory-is-safer-but-it-left-injuries-off-the-books/

I really worry about this "Move fast and break things" approach to business. Using your customers as guinea pigs instead of doing proper testing. Business models that rely on breaking the law until you've got enough money to change the law, with the risks outsourced to workers. Long hours that lead to accidents. I dislike this arrogant culture.

Hello fediverse! https://lib.reviews/ is a free/open/nonprofit alternative to proprietary review sites like #Goodreads, #Yelp, #IMDB.

It plugs into #opendata sources: #Wikidata, #OpenLibrary and #OpenStreetMap (OSM integration is very basic at this point). Still a long way to go but we have a small community and lots of reviews already. On GitHub at: https://github.com/eloquence/lib.reviews - IRC: #lib.reviews on irc.freenode.net - Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#lib.reviews:matrix.org

#introductions

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“A developed country is not when the poor have cars. It is when the rich use public transportation.” Gustavo Petro, socialist candidate for Colombian presidency

@peter @saturno If it fits under this rubric, it counts as a #coop: https://ica.coop/en/whats-co-op/co-operative-identity-values-principles

Key features include democratic member control and operation on a not-for-profit basis towards members by returning profit on the basis of use (the #PatronageRefund).

We at #socialcoop should put together a #howto on running a #Mastodon #instance as a #coop

#fediverse #instancesolidarity

@saturno opensocial.africa are just getting set up and looking to use a similar model.

I've been reading @JeffGoodell@twitter.com's book The Water Will Come and Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 at the same time, and it's a trip. It's almost like they collaborated on the two books. (Also: lots of co-ops in NY 2140)

The deep entanglement of sea level rise & land value appreciation as a primary means of economic "growth" is going to get messy, and fast.

American Chemical Society gets carte blanche to seize all new #scihub domains, including those still unregistered. That leaves TOR as the most viable alternative way to access the service. I recommend bookmarking this website https://whereisscihub.now.sh/
https://torrentfreak.com/publisher-gets-carte-blanche-to-seize-new-sci-hub-domains-180410/

#publishing #openaccess #academia

Happy one year anniversary to #socialcoop! Big thanks to all those who made the original Medium article happen (https://medium.com/open-collective/social-coop-a-cooperative-decentralized-social-network-c10980c9ed91) that brought a lot of people to this instance. Proud of what we're building together. :)