A key reason that so many social and ecological pathologies persist, despite strenuous efforts to solve them, is the narrow frame for solving them. Our political culture sees capitalist markets and growth as the only serious vehicles for progressive change. When private property, corporate profitmaking, and the commodification of nature are seen as sacrosanct, the The post The liberating power of the Commonsverse appeared first on Shareable.| Shareable
A few months ago, I reconnected with a friend whom I had worked with on an initiative on ‘the sharing economy’. At the time, we were both ‘Young Global Leaders’ (YGLs) with the World Economic Forum. It was 2013, and we had volunteered our time to bring attention to how new technologies could be used The post Systems are breaking—And that’s our opportunity appeared first on Shareable.| Shareable
Indigenous meeting in Peru condemns ‘carbon offset’ schemes that steal forests…| Climate & Capitalism
On Monday I quoted a great news report by John Walker, but it only clicked today he was writing for Kotaku. I didn’t read them back in the day, in part because they were published by the same Gawker Media outfit behind Gizmodo. If the name rings a bell here, Sam Biddle ran a story in 2012 asking if his readers were willing to look as stupid as I did for the unannounced Apple Watch, and included a photo of me with an iPod Nano. (My sister worked at the Fruit Company at the time, and told me ...| Rubenerd
True wealth lies in the freedom to roam, and the freedom to leave—and survive. (Hike down from Nasukoin, near my home in northwest Montana) “Oligarchy is based on the notion that those who are uneq…| Antonia Malchik
07/16/25 Introduction: The notion of lower case c communalism refers to community-self-management, related mutual-aid/commoning, as well as opposition against hierarchy through communalized direct …| Usufruct Collective
Dieser Artikel ist der Auftakt einer Reihe, die die Diskussion um einen Kollaps von Repräsentativ-Demokratie und kapitalistischer Versorgung in den Hauptkonsum-Ländern aufnimmt. In der Serie soll…| Direkte Aktion
I wrote the first version of WikiCrowd back in 2022 and haven’t really iterated on it much since, beyond adding the odd new set of image categories, and removing features that I decided were …| addshore
‘Unbounded freedom ruled the wandering scene| Douglas McCarthy
Early morning after nearly 36 hours of rain at North Birch Creek in the Bob Marshall Wilderness near the Badger-Two Medicine, trail crew camp, August 2023 (my tent is the green one) The following i…| Antonia Malchik
Ostrom’s 8 Rules of the Commons for Anarchists: The commons are resources self-managed by communities who need and use them. … More| Usufruct Collective
01/31/2024 Introduction: Social movement organizations are groups where people can come together to meet the needs of participants and others … More| Usufruct Collective
KICK THE COPS OFF YOUR BLOCK: Introduction: For contemplative and practical purposes, we need worldviews and theories that have explanatory … More| Usufruct Collective
A Friendly Critique of Bookchin’s Politics: Bookchin is our favorite political philosopher. Which does not mean we think he is … More| Usufruct Collective
New survey shows extent of global concern for the state of the planet and support for criminalising environmental harms| Earth4All
This post is a follow up to Using ShiftLeft in Open Source, where I was looking to see if I could apply the principle of shift left testing to security. Now that ShiftLeft has a user interface, I want to come back to it and revisit looking at results from the UI instead of pouring […]| Gary Gregory
Applying shift left testing to security with ShiftLeft.io| Gary Gregory
Robert Peston is a kind of modern broadcasting hero. The BBC’s Economics Editor is a popular, engaging and energetic figure who helps explain capitalism to the people of the UK. Sometimes though, he seems rather a worried man. He worries about the price of crude oil. He worries about the government deficit and the latest unemployment … Robert Peston In The Desert Of The Real Read More » The post Robert Peston In The Desert Of The Real first appeared on Notes on Metamodernism.| Notes on Metamodernism
In 1866, Lord Brownlow of Ashridge House tried to enclose a third of Berkhamsted Common by putting in iron fences “without any openings and entirely regardless of public rights of way”. But the Commons Preservation Society got together a bunch of workmen and labourers to come up on a special midnight train from London and […]| Three Acres And A Cow
Author’s remix of detail of Four judges in heavy wigs, 1758. Etching by William Hogarth. Source: Wellcome Collection, Public Domain Mark.Late last November at the Court of Appeal in London, Lord Justice Arnold made a significant ruling on copyright and the threshold of originality in UK law, in the case THJ v Sheridan1. Although the case concerned the copyright protection of graphical user interfaces (GUIs), its impact is likely to be felt in other categories. This post examines the implica...| Douglas McCarthy
La science est souvent un puzzle dont il faut dénicher et rassembler patiemment les différentes pièces pour obtenir un résultat complet. Dans le projet Wikif, obtenir la liste complète des médailles d’argent du CNRS est un exemple très parlant pour illustrer ce processus. En novembre 2023, la liste Wikidata des personnes médaillées se compose de […]| Wikif
There’s a couple of articles it might be worth reading to give some background to this post: The Internet Relies on People Working for Free (OneZero) [...]| ambiguiti.es