Notices by christina b (christina@social.coop)

The amazing @dweb is hiring a part-time social media and community manager!

Details here. Apply before Feb 7th.

https://getdweb.net/social-media-comms-job-2025/

#job #FediHire #hiring

#WorthRereading from @DGI on the machinery of hopelessness

https://voidnetwork.gr/2011/09/22/the-machinery-of-hopelessness-by-david-graeber/

Hey fediverse, hive mind question:

Who is your preferred domain name service? Anyone doing this particularly well/ in an aligned, non enshittified way?

#technology #question
#EthicalTech

Our tech cooperative, https://www.socialroots.io/, is building a social coordination network for cross-group work.

I’d love to talk with more #SociotechnicalStack nerds about aspects we consider key to ethical social network dev and ownership:

What parts of group data governance are vital?

What are the biggest hurdles to humans with the agency necessary for self-organizing?

What intimacy gradients matter most to you? How do you navigate them?

Reach me here; boosts for reach much appreciated!

Been thinking a lot about intimacy gradients and human groups and relationships this month, both digital and otherwise.

Do you have thoughts/ good takes/ source links/ etc for interesting and useful ways to investigate this concept?

@blaise

Also my dad made a 10 minute documentary on Mondragón:

https://vimeo.com/119020232

@GANitak @quintessence

Hey what are your favorite tools and processes for coordinating and resource sharing?

I’ve been pondering on this article contrasting the network state with a network society and want to discover how folks think about doing things that support this kind of distributed sharing.

https://www.cip.org/blog/network-societies

@ntnsndr

The second: “On Stupidity”

by Robert Musil
from “Precision and Soul”

“We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little precision in matters of the soul.”

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo3774426.html

“…totalitarianism was the most menacing and murderous political form of stupidity, in the sense that individual qualities and needs, including different elements of stupidity, became socially imitated and turned into collective ‘arrogance’ by and in the ‘body politic’.”

@chmod777

@jalcine share your #bookstack ?

1/2 #LearnFromEurope
Anti authoritarian lessons from the bird site years ago. May they help us now:

Money in politics.
Corruption in courts.
Racism.
Misogyny.
Gerrymandering.
And more..

This is the legacy of trying to do democracy while sweeping genocide and slavery and, well, actual democracy, under the rug.

We need to relearn #HowToCitizen

Are you a #mycopunk?

If so - yay!
If not, why not?

See also https://mycopunks.gitbook.io/mycopunk-principles

How do we practice democracy in everyday life?

@ntnsndr talking with @Rushkoff on #TeamHumanShow about this and more on the launch of his new book, #GovernableSpaces just made my day. I’m getting a few copies for our local library and high school.

https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/284-nathan-schneider

cc @baratunde and the #HowToCitizen team

@ntnsndr I would be interested to hear you and @Rushkoff discuss student use of AI 🤖 #TeamHumanShow

@ntnsndr and then..?

@ntnsndr I’m curious what you ended up doing..?

@evan
You could start a #FireplaceFriday around here

I’m so grateful for all the people working behind the scenes to help make a more cooperative, healthy world.

Remember that many of the loud voices are busy looking big and shiny. Many more people are quietly helping others.

If you’re doing that, thank you.❤️

Them: "Mastodon is hard to use."
Me: _gets started easily_
#coops

Them: "The #fediverse is fragmented - hard to find anyone."
Me: _easily finds many folks here I know or enjoy_
?

Them: "It's just white male tech nerds"
Me: _discovers fairly robust presence of non-white, non-male folks_
✊

Them: "It's set up so it's antiviral"
Me: _sees more interest in my thoughts here than ever on the birdsite_
?

Them: "Local servers are like isolated islands."
Me: _finds a canoe to explore archipelago_
?

@bmann @evan

Thanks, Boris ?
And hi Evan, nice to meet you!