Minneapolis is my birthplace.
My heart is heavy for my state and the nation.
May the arc of the future bend toward justice.
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Minneapolis is my birthplace.
My heart is heavy for my state and the nation.
May the arc of the future bend toward justice.
TIL: the “Minnesota Protocol” was developed in partnership with the U.N. as guidelines for suspicious deaths, like unlawful executions by the State.
Developed in 1991, enhanced 2016.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneso...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-place One of my very favorite concepts and books.
Dead Internet theory is what we could call the non-places of supermodernity in the digital realm. Places where people are on pause -- "places" where people are without identity, relation or history.
Today, @wikipedia.org turns 25 years old. It's never been more important — or under more attack from authoritarians. Here's what to know about how we got here, and what we can do to push for its future. There's no better example of the web we make together. www.anildash.com/2026/01/15/w...
Before computers became instruments of surveillance, before algorithms learned to manipulate our attention, before "technology" became synonymous with Silicon Valley wealth extraction, there was another vision entirely.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/comput...
In these times, remember: before every dawn—there is the darkness of night.
Despite being a vital service many rely on, social care often fails to reach those who need it most due to the all too prevalent focus on profit.
Social cooperatives are a democratic model for care that places the needs of recipients above any notion of extreme self-enrichment.
This was a great conversation between Douglas Rushkoff and @davidbollier.bsky.social on commons, commoning, and meeting the future halfway. via a prosocial/ethical vision.
Check it out!
“The Digital Frontier is not conquered by mountain men-it requires a wagon train. It requires all of us to travel together.”
Mei Lin Fung calls this moment The Great Disruption—a shift as big as the Great Depression but driven by global connectivity. We talk about tech, wisdom, and building resilient societies.
🎧Listen the full episode here: termsofservice.xyz/episodes/the...
“The implication, of course, is that an open source network that gets to critical mass should be able to outcompete closed rivals.”
protocols > platforms
Hi Franzi - FYI, Colorado law requires that compensation be disclosed in all job postings when hiring in the state.
“Specifically, it requires employers to disclose compensation in all job postings and notices, both internal and public.”
@mikerabin.bsky.social
16/ Every time you choose a cooperative digital platform, you're voting for a social media ecosystem where power and control are distributed more equitably.
Not a bad outcome for simply choosing where to share your cat photos, right?
15/ It's not about destroying social media or forcing everyone onto obscure platforms with clunky interfaces. I'm a design engineer, not a digital anarchist.
It's about rebalancing who benefits from our digital commons and who has a voice in how it functions.
14/ Where algorithms were designed for community wellbeing rather than engagement, where privacy was a fundamental design principle rather than an afterthought.
Where the economic value generated was shared among those who created it.
13/ Imagine a platform where terms of service were written and voted on by users, where content moderation decisions were made through representative governance.
12/ And yet, the cooperative internet movement grows. Decentralized platforms, user-owned data structures, blockchain-based governance, and community-operated servers are expanding.
11/ The "Big Tech" landscape is dominated by a handful of corporations with trillion-dollar valuations and unprecedented power over our public discourse.
Meanwhile, cooperative alternatives remain tiny, with user bases measured in thousands or millions rather than billions.
10/ The biggest hurdle isn't technology - it's the network effect. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok won because everyone's friends were already there.
Cracks are appearing. Users are frustrated with surveillance capitalism, arbitrary content moderation, and eroding trust in tech giants.
8/ In a co-op platform? Value could flow back to the community, finance better content moderation, fund quality journalism, or provide dividends to users who contribute most.
6/ Mastodon? A decentralized network of servers, no central authority. Diaspora? User-owned data you can take across the internet. Platform co-ops? Users owning shares in the platforms they use.
5/ What if social media platforms were actually owned and governed by their users? What if the people posting, liking, sharing, and scrolling had a say in how the technology operated?
4/ When a company is privately owned, the algorithms, data policies, and content moderation decisions get made behind closed doors by people who never have to face their users.
3/ Different layers receive venture capital from financial institutions - almost all use shareholder owned banks or private equity. Almost none use credit unions or CDFIs.
Each company has a product, service, or mission... And in most cases, that product is actually YOU.
2/ At each phase of this "digital chain" there is a company. Almost none are equitable co-ops, most are profit-maximizing surveillance corporations, margins are astronomical.
The "social media ecosystem" looks like this...
creation =
content creators ->
platform technology ->
attention algorithms ->
advertising engines ->
data harvesting ->
consumption = YOU
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9/ The digital landscape is ripe for co-op alternatives: content moderation that respects community standards, data ownership that centers privacy.
Also needed: algorithm design for user wellbeing instead of engagement, and financing models that don't require exponential growth.
7/ In typical platforms, your attention gets monetized, your data gets sold, and profits flow to venture capitalists who view users as commodities.
