Notices by Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop), page 2

Try not to let anything surprise you, because it probably shouldn't.

@carnage4life Maybe we're in different roles, but I often find the opposite: that long, crazy email chain could have been a relatively quick, pleasant conversation. And we would have seen high-resolution signals and avoided unnecessary misunderstandings.

@ryanleesipes @killyourfm Looking forward!

What is one thing that students in a class on politics and media should read together about this US election? Old or new is fine.

@edumerco @ntnsndr @CaitlinWaddick @Matt_Noyes @mattcropp @ktoddbrown @flancian @emi Ha yeah right!

@interfluidity @Hyolobrika And then, before long, the former president becomes a sysadmin and, by teaming up with another sysadmin, becomes president again.

I had no idea that my favorite French glassware is made by a cooperative. https://theconversation.com/la-cooperative-une-solution-contre-les-faillites-dentreprise-242610

@interfluidity @Hyolobrika True! Though the book also makes a strong case that the practices of governance in online communities has created a template for authoritarian politics at the national level.

Do you really have the right to associate, asserted by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

Now out in Nonprofit Quarterly: A call for the policy strategies that we need to really have the right to meet our collective needs through association. This has been many months in the work. Let me know what you think: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/how-to-restore-community-economies-reestablishing-the-right-to-associate/

Tomorrow, come join us in putting out MEDLab's latest (NSF funded!) zine, a tarot-infused exploration of governance transitions in communities.

Governance, as you may have noticed, is weird. https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2024/10/03/get-our-latest-zine-open-source-governance-change-cards

@vkc I have nothing to offer except pride that a somewhat distant relative of mine invented this thing.

This Wednesday, come to the online release event for CHANGE IS IN THE CARDS, a new zine on the mysticism of governance transitions in online communities.

Come for the zine, stay for the tarot reading. https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2024/10/03/get-our-latest-zine-open-source-governance-change-cards

@Hyolobrika @lizzy Yep! One project I'm working on right now is to create a quasi-generalizable protocol for dispute resolution.

@heybenji Not aware of any.

@Steve @pdbowman I think all of May First's servers are in New York, but I might be wrong about that. @mayfirst ?

If the resistance is like last time, by definition it will not work.

@ben Amazing. I think this could be a really powerful offering.

@ntnsndr @islamoyankee @medlab @ben I think it is a great idea. A stack of tools appropriate for journalists. You could use single sign-on and a bunch of hosted tools.

One thing that reminded me of this was the whole Jeff Bezos "we" controversy. Unlike many other professionals, journalists have no guild-like certification system.

@islamoyankee @jackmjenkins @ntnsndr Yep! At @medlab we're about to start an Open Social Incubator.

Cc @ben

@flancian @edumerco @sam @edsu @Matt_Noyes @mako @dazinism I think it would be great to expand our offerings this way and would love to see us host a Matrix server, esp. since we use Matrix anyway, and to support an important project.

Cf:
https://www.loomio.com/d/5yW7iCsJ/new-social-coop-services-
https://www.loomio.com/d/tOBDu5ap/
https://www.loomio.com/d/gP67te9Z/