Notices by Old Tom (beckett@triangletoot.party)

@ducksauz @mweagle @blogdiva My perennial quip: private equity never met a business it couldn’t ruin.

@ntnsndr #exittocommunity Such as some Ace Hardware owners converting to worker ownership.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2021/10/11/more-baltimore-businesses-are-becoming-worker-owned-but-they-still-face-economic-and-pandemic-hurdles/

@mweagle True Value was a co-op that demutualized and sold itself to private equity. After draining it, private equity chaptered it and sold it to … a cooperative!

https://www.doitbestonline.com/2024/do-it-best-makes-bid-to-acquire-true-value-assets/

Fork Mozilla.

@Chrisdowney Because of the legal fiction/conceit that the exercise of state authority (jusrisdiction) is over the property itself, not the owner. If the *thing* is connected to a crime, then the *thing* can be seized by the state and ownership rights are not implicated - or at least subordinate to the penal authority of the state.

@peachfront @freediverx @mekkaokereke @PJ_Evans

@jonobie @inthehands @mathaetaes @homelessjun @MisuseCase @mekkaokereke
I believe cops sat on their hands nationally, being butthurt snowflakes drinking their own koolade who could not comprehend why people didn’t like them.
#uspol

@shovemedia @ntnsndr What’s the project, Nathan? Smart.coop has a thing in progress. Lots of interest in a doc bank among CPG, but low on resources and individual bakmdwidth. Do you have grant funds?

@shovemedia @ntnsndr I spits bylaws in my sleep.

But my templates are a hot mess.

@evan Isn’t search a public good?

@evan Should Google be nationalized?

@rossgrady @derek The “canary in a coal mine” analogy is apt. Insurance is a racket, but it is a great indicator of risk.

@JamesGleick Where is the SEC? Where is the *FEC*?