Really great blog post on #SoftwareFreedom by @ploum:

gemini://ploum.net/2023-06-19-more-rms.gmi

https://ploum.net/2023-06-19-more-rms.html

The title is click-baity and almost misleading but the points are really good.

Ploum argues that #copyleft is actually (or should be) one of the fundamental aspects of #FreeSoftware and suggests expanding the four freedoms by an obligation to keep software free. They draw interesting parallels to #TheCommons in the physical world, emphasizing that they must not be commoditized.

A rare example of commoning of land! https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/21/aristocrat-forced-to-open-part-of-estate-to-public-after-council-ruling
#TheCommons #CommonLand #LandReform #Aristocracy #HatfieldHouse

#Commafuckers Versus #TheCommons: #CopyleftTrolls Are the Serpents in Our Garden of Ethical Sharing

https://doctorow.medium.com/commafuckers-versus-the-commons-4e8dcdcf7dee

@workingclasshistory there’s a couple of great songs about the Diggers too. Lots of people will know Billy Bragg’s “The world turned upside down” https://youtu.be/SWRpl2S9iwk but I also really love Chumbawamba’s (yes, that Chumbawamba) rendition of “The Diggers Song” which is an original from the 1600s https://youtu.be/OA4FTIz2Zrw

#history #histodons #WorkingClassHistory #17thC #music #TheCommons

Seems like we all lost a buncha connects of late, yeah?

Well, notsolonglost friends of #Baltimore #Hagerstown #Maryland #sober #socialenterprise #impactinvesting #multistakeholder #cooperatives #defi #affordablehousing #decentralization #polycentrism #thecommons #history #revolutions #historyofecon #journalism #politics #writing #somersetmaugham #georgeeliot #literature #aleximurdoch #photography #comedy #stevemartin #melbrooks #elsalvador #CentralAmerica #chickens & #bunnies

here I am.

What I hope Mastodon is able to do that other social networks find difficult is create a sense of "the commons" - a public space of civility and safety moderated by agreed values like good faith, vulnerability and relationship. So far, I've been impressed! #TheCommons #MastodonEthics #Humanism

What I hope Mastodon is able to do that other social networks find difficult is create a sense of "the commons" - a public space of civility and safety moderated by agreed values like good faith, vulnerability and relationship. So far, I've been impressed! #TheCommons #MastodonEthics #Humanism

Very interesting article:
#mastodon #fediverse #thecommons #restorativejustice
"Mastodon Isn't Just A Replacement For Twitter"
https://www.noemamag.com/mastodon-isnt-just-a-replacement-for-twitter/

Economist James Quilligan and Charles Eisenstein discuss #GiftEconomy and #TheCommons

https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/gift-economy#:~:text=A%20gift%20economy%20is%20one,%2C%20community%2C%20honor%20or%20prestige.

@rewarp @AnarchoNinaWrites lemme close my critique of critique w/o alternatives w/this: where I do see hope for a post left-right dichotomy movement is in the true, still-decentralized little corner of crypto infatuated w/ #elinorostrom & #thecommons led by team #vitalikbuterin & soldiered by cats like #kevinowocki , embracing ideas like #pluralism , #interoperability & #ragequit - maybe the genesis of a world federalism that earns the anarchist stamp of approval.

What Star Wars gets wrong about fascism though is that they make evil real and let fascism be quasi inevitable accordingly. Evil also has a certian literary cool, like Milton's Satan.

What's missing from Star War's portrail of fascism is the bullshitting goofy nonsense embodied by Trump and Mussolini. The best media representation I've seen of that of late has been Jojo Rabbit.

#JoJoRabbit #Milton #MiltonsSatan #Andor #StarWars #thecommons #antifascist

The best #starwars is properly antifascist despite being owned by the fascistic bastard that is the Disney corp. which seeks to eat the whole of the commons.

Just finished the Andor finale and damn that was good.

#Andor #thecommons #Disney #antifascist #starwars

What are the commons?
“The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable Earth. These resources are held in common even when owned privately or publicly” —
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons

In the aforementioned article, Antonia Malchik suggests #thecommons may also include digital technology and data about ourselves, our world, and our future.

#KariLake tomorrow
Will start appearing on #CollegeCampuses at #TheCommons announcing to everyone
#WhileTheyEat that they will #BurnInH3ll if they have sex out of wedlock or #VoteDemocrat

I find the arguments in this video compelling. I began using the Internet in the late 1980's before the www, browsers, and privatization. I love the Internet and want it to thrive, but Capitalism has been ruining it for a long time and will continue to do so if something radical is not done.
#internet #capitalism #socialism #worldwideweb #twitter #publicsphere #government #video #privatization #decentralization #thecommons #history
https://youtu.be/RatBogaIEMo

The original #minimumviableutopia article from eight years ago is here. It frankly precedes my acquisition of some politics, concepts and framings I wish I’d had access to, but it’s nevertheless still chock-full of ideas relevant to #degrowth, #solidarityeconomics, #thecommons, #urbandesign and so on, and I’m not unproud of it. Hope you enjoy it. https://speedbird.wordpress.com/2014/04/17/what-im-working-on-lately-practices-of-the-minimum-viable-utopia-long/

This might be the first mention of #LaudatoSI that brought it to my attention. I didn't hink it was over 6 years ago, 2015!! Now I'll have to watch #NaomiKlein on #DN! again.
https://www.democracynow.org/2015/6/18/pope_francis_bold_cultural_revolution_needed
#TheCommons #PopeFrancis

@atomicpoet
We are saying under the current system it will not be allowed. The banks will not allow it.

Action needs to involve giving the bankers a "new job", that means start using and asking to open accounts at you local stores in bitcoin or monero, directly.

FOSS and open access to #theCommons
@bufalo1973

@cadadr@weirder.earth
The #corporateMedia give attention to #NFT, because its not only a useful tool for #moneyLaundering, but it aligns with their goal to strip govt of all #land and #resourceManagement.

It starts with small things to gain momentum and legitimacy (and sadly it is, with every myopic story that passes, the #nextGeneration are conditioned to accept it.

If you believe in #democracy, #theCommons or any #publicGood really, fight #NFT like the #corporateState plague.

#NFTOwningDemocracy
@jens

RT @critcrim
Trilogy: Current conditions of struggle: "Commonist Tendencies"; "Crisis States"; "Insurrectionary Infrastructures" https://punctumbooks.com/people/jeff-shantz/

Jeff Shantz.

#insurrection #thecommons #commons #resistance #DualPower

Against #neoliberal governance by crisis. #anticapitalism