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Recently we've been thinking about how we share code (and other design files) for our #OpenSource projects and products.
@span amcewen has written about the flaws in centralized options like Github and Gitlab, and why self-hosting isn't the answer.
Maybe we need some #CodeCommons?
https://mcqn.com/posts/code,-sharing-and-single-points-of-failure/
Recently we've been thinking about how we share code (and other design files) for our #OpenSource projects and products.
@span amcewen has written about the flaws in centralized options like Github and Gitlab, and why self-hosting isn't the answer.
Maybe we need some #CodeCommons?
https://mcqn.com/posts/code,-sharing-and-single-points-of-failure/
I have never been able to get my friend Ana’s characterization of Madrid’s primordial municipalists as “Deleuzian hacker Zapatist ninjas” out of my head.
Like, I get why not everyone is set up to be those things – but every time I sit through a conversation ostensibly about the #commons that accedes to structures of market or state or both, something in me howls for at least some trace of that spirit.
Here’s the back cover text for my forthcoming book, Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal –Why the Arts Are So White, Male, and Middle-Class and What We Can Do About It
https://openbookcollective.org/view/package/11/summary/
https://openbookcollective.org/books/book/5679981/
Calls to expand public investment in the #arts often treat the existing cultural and institutional landscape as a given. In Defund Culture, Gary Hall challenges this assumption.
The book foregrounds the structural inequalities that shape Britain’s #creative and intellectual life, producing culture that is safe, homogeneous, and anti-intellectual. ... Hall shows how the dominance of white, male, middle- and upper-class voices ... is sustained through longstanding funding arrangements and institutional hierarchies.
... Hall proposes redistributing resources away from elite institutions and toward more collective, #commons -oriented, and radically relational alternatives grounded in redistribution, institutional transformation, and epistemic pluriversality.
Here’s the back cover text for my forthcoming book, Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal –Why the Arts Are So White, Male, and Middle-Class and What We Can Do About It
https://openbookcollective.org/view/package/11/summary/
https://openbookcollective.org/books/book/5679981/
Calls to expand public investment in the #arts often treat the existing cultural and institutional landscape as a given. In Defund Culture, Gary Hall challenges this assumption.
The book foregrounds the structural inequalities that shape Britain’s #creative and intellectual life, producing culture that is safe, homogeneous, and anti-intellectual. ... Hall shows how the dominance of white, male, middle- and upper-class voices ... is sustained through longstanding funding arrangements and institutional hierarchies.
... Hall proposes redistributing resources away from elite institutions and toward more collective, #commons -oriented, and radically relational alternatives grounded in redistribution, institutional transformation, and epistemic pluriversality.
Treffen Bäuerlicher & Ländlicher Kämpfe
(Meeting of agricultural and rural struggles)
1.9 (tomorrow!) til 7.9 (Sunday) in #Taucha, not far from #Leipzig
> In the face of all the escalating crises worldwide, be it the shift to the political right in society or the ongoing destruction of our livelihoods, instead of despairing alone, we want to create a space to encourage each other, recharge our batteries and form plans for the future.
Treffen Bäuerlicher & Ländlicher Kämpfe
1.9 (morgen!) bis 7.9 (Sonntag) bei #Taucha, nicht weit von #Leipzig
> Angesichts all der sich zuspitzenden Krisen weltweit, sei es der Rechtsruck in der Gesellschaft oder die fortschreitende Zerstörung unserer Lebensgrundlagen, wollen wir statt alleine zu verzweifeln, lieber einen Raum schaffen zum gegenseitigen Bestärken, Kraft tanken und Pläne schmieden.
The #WikiCite2025 is on-going since yesterday in hybrid-format. If you are interested in #Wikidata, #KnowledgeGraphs, #LinkedOpenData, #OpenKnowledge, #Commons, #Wikibase, #Metadata, #BiographicData, #Citation, #ScholarlyPublishing, #OpenScience, #SemanticWeb and much more - you can join online. The talks are streamed via #BigBlueButton:
The #WikiCite2025 is on-going since yesterday in hybrid-format. If you are interested in #Wikidata, #KnowledgeGraphs, #LinkedOpenData, #OpenKnowledge, #Commons, #Wikibase, #Metadata, #BiographicData, #Citation, #ScholarlyPublishing, #OpenScience, #SemanticWeb and much more - you can join online. The talks are streamed via #BigBlueButton:
I'm looking for examples of platforms where privileges or memberships of users expire after a term or some inactivity threshold. I'm thinking it could be a useful feature to have in forge platforms (like #forgejo, #gitlab or #github) and seek design inspiration. Any ideas? @douginamug @ntnsndr
#digitalGovernance #commons
I'm looking for examples of platforms where privileges or memberships of users expire after a term or some inactivity threshold. I'm thinking it could be a useful feature to have in forge platforms (like #forgejo, #gitlab or #github) and seek design inspiration. Any ideas? @douginamug @ntnsndr
#digitalGovernance #commons
'The digital commons should not be treated as an object ripe for extraction, but as an expression of “commoning” [Dulong de Rosnay and Stalder 2020]; i.e., as a manifestation of the practice of making, maintaining, and protecting shared and open resources.'
From 'Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons' https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.06470#GenAI #commons#DigitalCommons
"A web that you don’t understand is one that’s not user-driven, or driven by user utility. It’s one where people don’t have agency over the technology they depend upon, and where changes aren’t contrived to address a specific user need.
At the risk of sounding as conspiratorial as the author of the original Dead Internet Theory, I believe the emergence of this incomprehensibility was borne of deliberate decisions made by people at the very top of Big Tech. Furthermore, I believe these people are profoundly anti-person, and see people as resources to be tapped rather than collaborators within a vast, global digital ecosystem.
In many respects, I think this phenomena is down to two things: first, many of the tech products we use were founded by people who were still in the throes of youth, and became billionaires and global tech icons before their brains were even fully developed. They’ve been insulated from people from a young age, never lived a normal life, and they’ve been told — repeatedly — that they are geniuses and visionaries. While I don’t think this explanation excuses any of their behavior, I also think it goes some way into explaining the scarcely-disguised antipathy these people show for their fellow humans.
(...)
The other factor behind this phenomenon is that many of the people running these companies are former management consultants spawned from hell (read: McKinsey) and then set loose on what amounts to “essential infrastructure” for the digital age. Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, is a former McKinsey consultant. Sheryl Sandberg, the former Chief Operating Officer of Facebook was one, too.
Management consultants have one job — it’s to recommend strategies to cowardly CEOs that they probably thought of themselves, but are too chicken to put their name behind themselves, that invariably screw over employees, consumers, and the planet."
https://whatwelost.substack.com/p/how-the-internet-died
#DeadInternet#Commons#DigitalCommons#OpenWeb#SocialMedia#AISlop#AI
'The digital commons should not be treated as an object ripe for extraction, but as an expression of “commoning” [Dulong de Rosnay and Stalder 2020]; i.e., as a manifestation of the practice of making, maintaining, and protecting shared and open resources.'
From 'Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons' https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.06470#GenAI #commons#DigitalCommons
Ich arbeite mit dieser Arbeit gerade einige Lücken in meinem Wissensschatz auf
Es wurde 2023 Publiziert betrachtet aber einen Zeitraum ab 1990 bis jetzt.
Ist unter CC BY
und kann man hier runterladen anschauen.
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5354-0/konviviale-technik/
"A web that you don’t understand is one that’s not user-driven, or driven by user utility. It’s one where people don’t have agency over the technology they depend upon, and where changes aren’t contrived to address a specific user need.
At the risk of sounding as conspiratorial as the author of the original Dead Internet Theory, I believe the emergence of this incomprehensibility was borne of deliberate decisions made by people at the very top of Big Tech. Furthermore, I believe these people are profoundly anti-person, and see people as resources to be tapped rather than collaborators within a vast, global digital ecosystem.
In many respects, I think this phenomena is down to two things: first, many of the tech products we use were founded by people who were still in the throes of youth, and became billionaires and global tech icons before their brains were even fully developed. They’ve been insulated from people from a young age, never lived a normal life, and they’ve been told — repeatedly — that they are geniuses and visionaries. While I don’t think this explanation excuses any of their behavior, I also think it goes some way into explaining the scarcely-disguised antipathy these people show for their fellow humans.
(...)
The other factor behind this phenomenon is that many of the people running these companies are former management consultants spawned from hell (read: McKinsey) and then set loose on what amounts to “essential infrastructure” for the digital age. Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, is a former McKinsey consultant. Sheryl Sandberg, the former Chief Operating Officer of Facebook was one, too.
Management consultants have one job — it’s to recommend strategies to cowardly CEOs that they probably thought of themselves, but are too chicken to put their name behind themselves, that invariably screw over employees, consumers, and the planet."
https://whatwelost.substack.com/p/how-the-internet-died
#DeadInternet#Commons#DigitalCommons#OpenWeb#SocialMedia#AISlop#AI
Social experience design and the intrinsic value of #Humanity.
https://discuss.coding.social/t/sx-power-of-humanity-gratitude-and-gifting/673
#SX#SocialCoding #ReimagineSocialNetworking#Commons#Collaboration#GiftEconomy
Initiatives like the L’Atelier Paysan cooperative in France and Farm Hack in the USA empower communities of farmers, engineers, makers and enthusiasts to manufacture technological solutions tailored for low-intensity, small-scale, resilient farming. Further, they rigorously document their solutions, create designs and manufacturing guides that are made globally available as digital #commons.
(Thread 2/3)
"In the digital sphere, practices of commoning have been expanding from knowledge and information, to software, and technological design, collectively created and maintained by globally distributed communities, through shared infrastructures and organizational practices."
(Thread 1/3)
A great conversation, well worth a listen.
#FrontiersofCommoning , with David Bollier: Rabble Evan Henshaw-Plath: How Network #Protocols Enable Digital #Commons & Open Marrkets
Episode webpage: https://david-bollier.simplecast.com/episodes/rabble-evan-henshaw-plath-how-network-protocols-enable-digital-commons-open-marrkets-PtH3_vfS
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