@ntnsndr@christina@Rushkoff@baratunde Also, Rushkoff's observations are often hilariously apt, like the one about smoking weed behind the 7-11 as an example of a homeplace created in the shadow of an exploitative institution...
@christina@ntnsndr@Rushkoff@baratunde Nathan raises great questions and draws exciting connections between on and offline practices and the way technology expresses and facilitates them (or doesn't). Totally relevant to our little experiment in democratic life here in Social.coop.
@christina@ntnsndr@Rushkoff@baratunde this podcast also helps me understand Nathan's interest in blockchain; diasporas as models of networked identity and political location vs nation states and danger of startups as networked private power
@ntnsndr@robin@boris Definitely want to underscore the fact that Nathan and others have indeed pushed for Social.coop to support cooperative open source projects. The new Organizing Circle is getting itself organized but will organize a budget discussion so we can be strategic in this.
@boris@ntnsndr@robin Like I said, my initial response. I am skeptical about social.coop putting any of our collective resources to that purpose, but I understand that people may be interested.
@ntnsndr@robin@boris initial response, "oh hell no" Of all the things we could do: support framasoft, help improve activity pub, support MayFirst.coop.... etc. why Bluesky?
(Sitting at the auto shop waiting on a tire with a slow leak.) Friends, how about from now on whenever we mention the 7 ICA Cooperative Principles we always point out that there are various versions (#Mondragon, #DisCO, #CooperationJackson) and even cooperatives like #CECOCESOLA that eschew lists in favor of constant dialogue among members... #cooperativism
I was surprised to see the #ICJ rule in favor of South Africa's claim, and not surprised to see that they chose the weakest of the (anyway unenforceable) measures available to them. Excellent job by the South African team! #BDS now #CeasFireNOW
@ntnsndr Well, the nominations close on Dec 1st or thereabouts, so, if the jury can meet before the holidays, we can schedule the first OC meeting for January.
One tool I would love to see is a sortition program that takes a membership list, puts it in random order, sends invitations to the top x number of people, then automatically sends new invites to the next people on the list when the deadline for reply expires, until the places are filled.