What if unions bargained for ownership of their employers, became ESOPs, and slowly turned their companies into cooperatives?

I have been vindicated

Extremely cool recent happenings out of Fort Collins, CO! To figure out how to rezone an old stadium, they convened a civic assembly, with some great results! www.newamerica.org/political-re...

“The sun may have set over our city this evening, but as Eugene Debs once said, I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.”

If the left position is “no don’t automate jobs, how else will you eat?” then the right’s response is easy: free market, progress, automation, etc. Instead, the left should advocate for less work, higher wages and safety net, and full automation (from “Inventing the Future”).

"[Trump's] agenda only works if there’s nothing else on offer. Blue Bonds are the counter-offer."

It’s #bandcampfriday! Go checkout subvert.fm 😄

The most infuriating part of this whole thing is the details being left out. Headline: Comey Indicted! By who? An interim? Why did they just start? The AG resigned? Why did they leave? **because there wasn’t enough evidence to indict Comey** Why have I only seen that mentioned once????

Closed source / corporate controlled algorithms are a large source of societal ills, ban them

Currently cramming the protocol reader ahead of @protocolized.bsky.social’s symposium this week, feels like I’m back in grad school 😄

Fun fact, there is way less regulation on these things, so their efficiency and carbon output tends to be massively worse. One study found that running a gas leaf blower for an hour is like driving an F150 from Texas to Alaska and back!

And it still hasn’t stopped, 65 pages in

I really liked this thought experiment, so I annotated it and posted it here, mostly for my own future reference. It's pulled from the introduction to Robert Bates' "Beyond the Miracle of the Market," book on midcentury economic development in Kenya after gaining their independence from Britain.

How about a thought experiment? Obviously this trend needs to be reversed, but a mandated max ratio is only one option. CEO pay ballooned largely because 1) pay is public and 2) smaller group of people, so less of a collective action problem. Anything else I’m missing?

I am a Newhousian on this issue

@adriennebuller.bsky.social and @mathewlawrence.bsky.social’s Owning the Future goes incredibly hard in just the first few pages

Inevitable result of home equity driving the majority of Americans’ net worth

"Technology is politics by other means." Great conversation from @robin.berjon.com facilitated by @ntnsndr.in on web standards!

This piece was originally a homework assignment, months before I had even started outlining the details for PMsky. I dug this up recently, and I think it's fun to see the ideas percolating that led to the project.

Here's some more rambling - a paper I wrote last year for a sociology class, looking at platforms and protocols through a lens of firms, markets, and networks.

when running `goat record update`, am I correct to assume that the response: "error: XRPC ERROR 400: InvalidRequest: Lexicon not found: lex:pub.leaflet.document" comes from there not being a published lexicon on the @leaflet.pub PDS? #atdev

Slowly going to start publishing some of the pieces I'd written for grad school the last couple of years - this was written in the fall of 2023, so go easy on me 😄

excited to be finding new apps like @bookhive.buzz and @leaflet.pub, i'll be spending the weekend playing around with them

new domain purchased who dis

Recent reading, a policy kit for financing shared ownership ~

As soon as I can figure out why bsky isn't picking up the labeler, this will be the next feature 😄

A WEEK? For why????

What even is the point of the Supreme Court anymore?

Love finding sources that are unreliable, but in a specific direction. Seeing this, I know the number is *at least* that high, if not higher.

today is a good day to buy some merch from the aclu shop

#2, the economic impact on workers is more of a critique of the economic system than AI

check out this beautiful website showcasing an incredible project!!!

what if when products were killed like this, all their code was open-sourced

i wonder how much force it would take for us sitting on earth to feel a swing like that like we have a relatively stable orbit, but at what point would swinging around another planet like that feel like an elevator starting to move?

I’m a little late on posting this, but some excerpts from @hcrichardson.bsky.social on Apr 24, alongside a snippet from a favorite essay by @mutual-a.bsky.social, with some of my highlights added.

boston wins this category, for the record

under this decision it would follow that i’d have to sit out of the “draw a picture of your family” activity in kindergarten, to protect the other kids

now this is a mccarthyism i can get behind

this is exactly what i needed today

hey @newbedfordlight.bsky.social 👋🏻 let me know if you’d like some help verifying your account - thanks for the work you’re doing! bsky.social/about/blog/4...

just got back to my car at the park and ride after a weekend trip to find i left my parking brake down always park your car in gear kids

is there an atproto goodreads yet

you’re never going to guess what S3 deep glacier storage uses

relatable

@hickenlooper.bsky.social (if that's even you) @bennet.senate.gov c'mon

the problem of american politics in a nutshell

“The implication, of course, is that an open source network that gets to critical mass should be able to outcompete closed rivals.” protocols > platforms

i wonder if there's a utility for lexicons overlapping - like posts on bsky + flashes, or this lexicon + whtwnd. as it stands, if you wanted a blog entry to show up here (with the extra features) but also on whtwnd, you'd have to create two records, no?

I love silks :)