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Matt Noyes

Friends who are interested in #cooperatives, #commons, and #solidarityeconomy, please make a donation to GEO.coop. I found GEO when I was first learning about solidarity economy, submitted an article or two, and ended up joining the collective. A look at the website shows what a unique independent resource GEO is, covering organizing efforts around the world, sharing the work of leading theorist-practitioners like Jessica Gordon-Nembhard and @luisrazeto . :TwinPines:

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Ecological Democracy Institute of North AmericaSupport Grassroots Economic Organizing!By Ecological Democracy Institute of North America
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Aral Balkan

We cannot rely on the US to protect or nurture the commons. Think of the US as a giant shopping mall with guns. That’s it. That’s the whole philosophy right there.

We want to safeguard the infrastructure of civilisation, we have to do it ourselves here in the EU before it’s too late. And we can start by acknowledging our own failures and redoubling our commitment to fundamental rights and democracy (and not limit our own potential by having every single decision framed by the fucking “Single Market”).

You want to end up like the US? Then let’s keep going as we are. You want something different? We must invest in the commons, embrace our diversity, embrace equity, and move to an inclusive, post-capitalist existence.

It’s up to us. The bacteria in places we haven’t even visited yet that will survive long after we’ve made ourselves extinct – should that be the route we decide to take (because yes, it is a decision) – don’t really give two shits either way.

#EU#US#capitalism
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Aral Balkan

@zbrando @morrick @ueeu You’re not wrong.

But, looking ahead, we can do so much better than the commercial domain name system.

Commercial domain names are a gold standard example of artificial scarcity. A domain name registrar cost next to nothing to operate. It’s tiny rows of text in a database. It could easily be free to own your own domain name – a huge part of what constitutes identity – on the Internet.

In fact, a non-commercial service has been operational for 24 years. It would be trivial to regulate that browsers in the EU implement support for it and work together with, say, @letsencrypt to ensure it can handle TLS.

That would be an amazing addition to the commons and a future-proof way forward that we could lead on with next to no investment.

#domainNames#DNS#openNic
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Johannes Ernst

Going to "Funding the Commons" this weekend at the Internet Archive in San Francisco.

The #Fediverse is a #Commons for the most part, and it certainly needs more funding than it has been getting. Maybe I learn something!

lu.ma/ftc-sf-2025

lu.maFunding the Commons: San Francisco 2025 · LumaAI, Web3, and digital public goods are not neutral commons—they are contested spaces that demand governance, funding, and intervention. At Funding the Commons:…
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Denise Helene Sumi

"How a network of relationships are allowing us to survive"

This is a 25-minute talk by historian Dipesh Chakrabarty in which he explains why technology today needs to be thought of in terms of survival and participation (in effect, he is talking about convivial technology), and why living well with technology on Earth must first and foremost involve protecting the critical zone (from soil to air) that makes life (human and otherwise), and thus all technology, possible. In the face of a crisis of civilisation, Chakrabarty argues that it is important to rethink technologies by understanding the impact of the general on the local.

youtube.com/watch?v=caU4d-r-zq

YouTube(re)Thinking the Commons, Acting Together": Interview with Dipesh ChakrabartyBy UNESCO
#conviviality#commons#criticalzone
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small circle 🕊 in calmness

#FOSS is the great accomplice of #BigTech dominance, by not considering its impact on society and by generally not being produced sustainably. FOSS does not defend its market position, dumping itself on the market and leaving the rest to chance. The vultures know how to make good use of this. FOSS does not worry whether its customer segment - the #Commons - is reached, and evil players are kept out.

Big tech manages to win through ‘free’ in their delivery model, where FOSS sees itself losing.

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Babu Menos 🎵

Ichabod: “You paid? For water?” (snickers)
“Why not drink from one of the thousands of taps around town?”
”Or the lake?”
Abbie: “Well, tap water’s got chemicals in it.”
“And the lake, you don’t even want to know.”
Ichabod: “The extent to which your generation has defiled this earth is truly mind-boggling.”

“Sleepy Hollow”, S01E07 (“The Midnight Ride”, 2013)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepy_H

(Photo by mrjn via Unsplash, unsplash.com/photos/pouring-wa)

Water pouring into two brown hands before a black background.
#Commons#Pollution#Environment
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@BjornW@mastodon.social

Today is #ILoveFS Day!

ilovefs.org

It is the day to appreciate all the people involved in #FreeSoftware & #OpenSource.

Not just developers & maintainers, but also designers, translators, documentation contributors etc

Personally I'd like thank:
@AntennaPod @inkscape @libreoffice @openstreetmap
@omgubuntu
@joplinapp
@LineageOS
@openandroidinstaller
@GIMP
@Mastodon
@thunderbird
@Wikipedia

Thank you all for your work! It is much appreciated!

Black & white photo of a street in the 1960's. There's a person walking on the sidewalk, a lorry parked next to it. In front of the lorry there's a person crossing the street from right to left and another person from left to right. This latter person carries a very large white heart. The image source is: https://flic.kr/p/5y1X2s The photo title is "Waverly Place" by "James Jowers" and it was shared by the George Eastman Museum on Flickr Commons. The photo is in the Public Domain.
#Commons#Volunteers#Tech
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Lorena Rosaleny #AúnEnPandemia

💍 A spectacular silver and gold treasure, the Galloway Hoard discovered in western Scotland in 2014, had in fact belonged to everybody, i.e. the community #Commons #Comunal

The evidence has been found in a runic inscription on one of the hoard’s four elaborately decorated silver “ribbon” arm rings, which has only just been deciphered. It reads: “This is the community’s wealth [property].”

theguardian.com/science/2025/f

The Guardian · Mystery behind Viking-age treasure find in Scotland may finally have been solvedBy Dalya Alberge
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MonViolon [en/it]

The Folkbänd website now has its own address: folkband.opentrad.net

Sharing resources to play and dance easy tunes together.

Revised, simplified: no JS, no cookies, no font downloads.

The folkbänd is a workshop / music group for all levels and ages that I run twice a month at the cultural centre in Hargla, a small village in #Estonia.

Hargla folkbändRepertoire2Rahva muusika. Tasuta noodid.
#commons#popularMusic#popularEducation
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Les sans pagEs

Nouveau mois, nouveau programme d'activités pour éditer @wikipedia_fr et y réduire le #BiaisDeGenre ! Ce mois-ci, quasi tous nos événements auront lieu à #Paris mais nous seront aussi bien sûr présentes en ligne et à Meyrin.

Rejoignez-nous !
Détails et inscriptions : fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:L

Avec @ledeuxiemetexte

Calendrier Février 2025 pour réduire le biais de genre sur Wikipédia événements organisés par ou en partenariat avec les sans pagEs ou avec participation des sans pagEs Tout le mois de février, en ligne - #lsp_femmesdart #lessansimagEs : dessine des femmes qui sont des créatrices/artistes (écrivaines, peintres, chanteuses, etc.) Vendredi 7, 13h-18h, Paris, Institut Pasteur Éditathon Wikipédia, thème « Femmes de sciences » Samedi 8 : -11h-13h, Paris, Violette and Co Atelier Wikisource Autrices par Le Deuxième texte, thème « Femmes de sciences » -14h-18h, Paris, Violette and Co Atelier Wikipédia, thème « Amitiés féminines », développement de l’article collectif « Amitiés entre femmes » Samedi 15, 14h-18h, Paris, Centre LGBT Éditathon Wikipédia, thème « associations LGBT+ » Permanences hebdomadaires Mercredi 14h-17h Bibliothèque Forum Meyrin Venez apprendre à contribuer sur l'histoire des femmes en Suisse. Jeudi à midi, en ligne Wikimidi ! Venez poser vos questions. Jeudi à 19h, en ligne Séance de travail/ évaluation Novices ou expérimenté·e·s, rejoignez-nous pour améliorer la représentation des femmes et des minorités de genre sur Wikipédia !
#QueFaireAParis#Wikipedia#Wikisource
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Just Me 🇧🇪 :tux:

Hi All.
I'm in the process of moving here from mastodon.green., where I've had a great time for the last 2 years, but I'm feeling more and more inhibited by a 500char limit so was looking for a similar instance with more possibilities in that area.

I like reading and talking about a great number of mostly leftist topics, including but not limited to #Commons #Cooperatives #DeGrowth #AntiCapitalism #OpenSource #ClimateAction #Environment #Ecology #Sustainability #Right2Repair #RepairCafe #PermaComputing #Gardening #Veganism

#introduction
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small circle 🕊 in calmness

ATTN Visitors to #FOSDEM

FOSDEM is #BigTech sponsored + censored, don't criticise your 👑 Masters there, pls.

Want #Freedom? Join #OFFDEM again this year. Just a little stroll in fresh air to actively participate in #grassroots #commons and how they see the #future unfolding for us, be strategic, and talk interesting tech stuffz.

#Fedizens! You can help #fedi, this furry cute little animal, that hops through rich meadows of #fediverse :blobaww:

:boosts_appreciated: OFFDEM is Action! #JoinUp ✊

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small circle 🕊 in calmness

Interesting article undermining notions of how detrimental #socialmedia are for kids and the detrimental effects it has on society.

It does not underline my personal lived experience, as someone who - like the professor - for many years dashes seamlessly between comms channels to multitask.. part of every day #commons janitoring, community volunteering, open source stuff, and nextgen social web technology evangelism. Nor does it stroke with observed erosion in #society.

theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2

The Guardian · All in the mind? The surprising truth about brain rotBy Amy Fleming
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