@mattcropp
In #BTV #Vermont. Steeped in the deep lore of co-ops, employee ownership, & solidarity economics. Enjoys amateurish tinkering on electronics and energy with hackerspace friends. Preschooler parent. Now is the Time of Monsters.
Foo-ghat-zee?
James Kunstler is finally getting the oil crisis he always wanted.
Jean Baudrillard's body lies a mouldering in the grave
Jean Baudrillard's body lies a mouldering in the grave
Jean Baudrillard's body lies a mouldering in the grave...
But the simulation marches on
Simulacra forever!
Simulacra forever!
Simulacra for-e-e-ever!
And the Spectacle makes us strong!
Dennis nedry jurrasic park "see nobody cares" meme reads Hey everybody, this guy still posts on X! See? Everyone is horrified and disappointed. They feel it speaks directly to your values.
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V.I. Lenin vs the originator of Filene's Basement: www.marxists.org/archive/leni...
Honestly full circle, since the Chamber was originally founded by business progressives like Edward Filene, who then broke with it due to his support for the New Deal.
vivian wilson except much angrier is grok’s future in a science fiction scenario
On more of the consumer co-op rather than worker co-op side of things, but an interesting and sometimes a bit sordid bit of the history: coopwars.com
At least for Twitter, its TXTMob prehistory should've been a tipoff...
Post from some of the sharpest #coop lawyers in the US on the adaptation of the Slicing Pie model to #workercoop start-up founder compensation, which is always a sticky issue: jrwiener.com/dynamic-equi...
Matt's Weather Rapport: You will probably pay for that big Florida #freeze at the supermarket. Pretty much every type of veggie and fruit in Florida suffered some damage. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2026/02/flor...
important developments in political science are occurring
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i am thirty to forty years old and do not need to know of a new youngest generation
Buy War Bonds (blue state municpal bond funds)?
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norman rockwell's freedom of speech
On this day in Vermont history: Norman Rockwell was born in New York City in 1894. He became one of the best-known American artists of the 20th Century (particularly for the covers he illustrated for The Saturday Evening Post and for paintings such as Rosie the Riveter, and the Four Freedoms series)
The site they want to build this very heavy structure on is 100% dredged Potomac silt.
Foundations alone could be nine figures. They are basically building a bridge abutment.
Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz
Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz
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Multicolored basket of whistles.
I'm beginning to suspect that 3-D printed ICE whistles are going to be this moment's material culture equivalent to the hand-sewn masks at the start of COVID...
it’s that time again
Made it about an hour before the frostbite warning signs started; thanks to all the #btv friendly honkers and folks who took whistles.
#btv I plan to stand in protest of the latest Minneapolis ICE murder at 5pm on the corner of Pearl Street by the Federal Building. I'd welcome company and will have a basket of 3D printed whistles with me.
Again
The newest video shows very clearly that they attacked him for coming to an aid of a woman that the agents pushed, and then executed him while he was immobilized. Everything the government has said, like with Good, has been a complete lie.
Yes. Just to provide a clearer Exhibit 1(b) of today's example:
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Woman tells Minnesota Public Radio that the man killed today was helping vehicle traffic get around the area where ICE agents and observers had started to gather and "next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/live-updates....
