Notices by Stephen Dioxide :TwinPines: (steve@social.coop)

@inthehands Is there an equivalent to evaluate accessibility of PDFs?

The President is a rather dim former celebrity. Russia has invaded a neighboring country. Apartheid is in the news.

Is anyone else having flashbacks to the mid-'80s?

@bmacDonald94 It also explains their dislike and distrust of science. It provides an emerging view of objective truth, which they can't control or define to fit their purposes.

@bmacDonald94 It follows from this that tyrants and their supporters are the ultimate moral relativists (despite what they might tell you).

@maskedscheduler I'm convinced he's malicious enough to do that. I'm just not convinced he's smart enough to do that.

@JoshuaHolland For many years, they said they hated regulation, but what they really hated was accountability.

@dajb I found that intensely annoying, especially since I had six different Gmail accounts open at the same time, which is a lot, even for me.

I can't change my workflow at work, but at home, my workflow is Obsidian-> pandoc.

@dajb It calls to mind @pluralistic's debunking of the phrase, "If you're not paying for the product, you're the product." Here we are, paying for the product, and yet, we are the product at the same time.

@heybenji @ntnsndr By the time the news becomes public, it's too late to change it. The way to get people to consider creating co-ops is to plant the idea in their heads well before they're even considering a major change.

It's not too late to have more new or converted co-op instances, though!

@cwebber I'm glad to hear you say we need tech that's cooperative. I agree in the broad sense, but I also agree in the specific sense that I think Mastodon servers could be adapted to serve as the "platform" in platform co-ops. I have some early thoughts on ActivityPub extensions that could operate the business logic. There's a lot to learn along the way, but it seems very promising. I'd be curious to know if anyone else out there has similar thoughts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_cooperative

@FantasticalEconomics

@ntnsndr @pdbowman Nathan, I'm talking with Paul about beefing up my co-op's cybersecurity, possibly including moving to a server outside the US. Seems to me that MayFirst would be a good option. Is this a thing we could request as part off our hosting plan? Are others talking about doing this?

@ntnsndr The who?

I spend a lot of time thinking about how white supremacy is at the core of the Trump campaign, and at the same time, the Trump campaign has laid bare how dishonest, ridiculous, and futile white supremacy really is.

Waiting to watch @ntnsndr speak

@ntnsndr I almost skipped this webinar, but I'm glad I'm here. "Gig labor co-ops" like mine really need benefits to take our next big step forward. I'm thinking something loosely modeled on Lagun Aro. But, it's really hard, because health systems are so scattered and disconnected. I'll be curious to see if the ESBA can help.

@Wileymiller It's paywalled. Perhaps you could summarize or provide a pithy quote.

@ntnsndr Lost, like tears in rain.

@Brandi_Buchman I can only assume once he has his spear and magic helmet, he'll be off to kill the wabbit.

@ntnsndr Dartboard?