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Some concepts that help illuminate how progressives think about the world

#enshittification, #technofeudalism, #degrowth, #TheCommons, #UBI, #anarchism,
#intersectionality, #CriticalRaceTheory. You can say they are #radical. Whatevs. But compared to what's animating the other side, it's really pretty tame stuff. https://3m.fyi/posts/a-list-of-some-progressive-ideas/ #ProgressTerms

excited that this piece was published in the @lseimpactblog.bsky.social today. I've had a lot of thoughts about #AI, #Copyright, & #TheCommons of late...
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/05/06/does-ai-have-a-copyright-problem/

#PublicDomain

It's Monday. Hope y'all are having a day! ("Have a good day" seems like a lot of pressure in these times.)

I wrote a thing about
euphemism
the Left
doge
Musk
the destruction of the commons
and trauma.

Here's the first part:
the Lack in the Left
https://courtcan.com/2025/04/10/the-lack-in-the-left/

#euphemism
#theLeft
#doge
#ElonMusk
#theOther
#theLack
#thePublic
#theCommons
#trauma
#boundaries

Kelly and @ZachWeinersmith have some interesting thoughts about The Commons - *our* commons - and techbroligarchofascists' attacks on it.

https://thebulletin.org/2025/03/mars-attacks-how-elon-musks-plans-to-colonize-mars-threaten-earth/#post-heading

#ElonMusk #billionaire #TheCommons #Mars

#LuckyBlackCat dropped another video. Long form as usual - debunking " the tragedy of the commons"

#environment #anticapitalist #thecommons #garrethardin #capitalistpropaganda

https://youtu.be/xYunyIPUd7Y?si=wHNkIycLgYrcbiea

#capitalism #accounting #externalisation #TheCommons #environment #HumanLife #subversion #economy

I am not sure how to phrase a query for the search (and do not want to use an LLM), so let me ask here.
I am looking for people and resources relevant to formulate structured requirements of nature-centric accounting, to integrate usually externalised costs of "enviroment services" aka the commons, materials, and human life, into mainstream capitalist P/L accounting.
Seemingly non-revolutionary, in effect it could upend the whole capitalism which relies on externalisation of costs and privatisation of benefits.
Is anybody doing anything in this regards? Please?

Older white guy rants to me and a fem colleague about how the Ford government lets private long-term care coorprations/condo boards and landlords grift the living hell out of regular people, but prefaces his rant with, "and beleive me, I'm no socialist." I couldn't get a word in edge-wise, but I'd love to a have asked, "why not? And what do you want then?" I'm so glad that generally folks seem much more willing to use socialism and identify as a socialist (at least in the Anglo-Americas I experience) than they were even just 10 years ago, but encounters like these are bizzare. If you have a problem with private ownership of land, you really ought to have a problem with a socio-economic system that privileges just such an arrangement and trends, pretty well inevitability, towards (neo)liberalism and then the slide to fascism. Socialism (/anarchism/communism/communalism, etc.) is the alternative, friend.

#OnPoli #CanPoli #TheFords #Ford #QueensPark #WagTheDoug #PoliticalEconomics #Socialism #Housing #CostOfLiving #HousingCrisis #Socialism #Communism #Communalism #Anarchism #DegrowthCommunism #Degrowth #TheCommons #ABetterWorldIsPossible

Get rid of landlords, fix the problems. The devs of Cities: Skylines 2 removed the 'virtual landlord' that takes in rent because rents were getting too high. So now, a building's upkeep is evenly split among renters (imagine that), and they came up with a formula for calculating rent:

Rent = (LandValue + (ZoneType * Building Level)) * LotSize * SpaceMultiplier

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/06/the-rent-is-too-dang-high-in-cities-skylines-2-so-the-devs-nuked-the-landlords

#TheCommons #CitiesSkylines2 #simulations #CitiesSkylines

The degradation of public lands and biodiversity in settler societies:

"Grazing, fracking, logging, mining and permits for other private interests are imperiling wildlife, soil and vegetation already under siege by global warming...We are not safeguarding our public domain. The government agencies overseeing it are failing us. The private interests that want the land for profit have planted their teeth in the government. The national trend is against the preservation of the commons. Huge stretches are effectively privatized, public in name only... It is an infuriating battle when the agencies deemed to guard our public lands are the same ones putting them in jeopardy."

“This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West”, Christopher Ketcham (review)
>>
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2019-07-26/review-this-land-chris-ketcham
#NSWLogging #LoggingIndustry #BiodiversityCrisis #ExtinctionCrisis #governance #Book #BellingenLogging #SettlerSocieties #extractivism #cattle #AgencyCapture #TheCommons #Bellingen #koalas #wildlife

Image: Logged biodiversity habitat rushing through Bellingen main street

Wildlife homes rushing through Bellingen main street

After two years of construction and anticipation, a 26-acre Hermann Park renovation is set to open to the public on Saturday.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2024/04/12/483372/48-million-hermann-park-commons-greenspace-play-areas-to-open-saturday/

#Houston #News #HermannPark #HermannParkConservancy #HoustonParks #TheCommons

check out ADDITIONS 2, the second in @jpb.bsky.social and i's series of 'collage cards'. this is a brand new deck of 96 different cards, full of public domain treats for you to enjoy, play with and use in your own projects! check it out: https://shop.nonmachinable.com/products?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=additions

#collage #cards #deck #mastoart #mixedmedia #publicdomain #thecommons #abstract #queerart #zine #collaboration

images of ADDITIONS 2, a colorful deck of collage "playing cards" and its packaging

Can you actually #degrowth in America and still be happy? Lockyer 2017 examines an #ecovillage in northeastern Missouri, Dancing Rabbit, where they have cut consumption to roughly 10% of national average and maintain a high degree of life satisfaction. #TheCommons #LifeCycleAnalysis

#TheCommons Conversations radio/podcast series returns on Wednesdays from 9-10am AEDT on #CommunityRadio #3CR. In Narrm/Melbourne it can listened to at 855 AM and can be streamed anywhere from 3cr.org.au

The first episode, airing 20/12/2023, features a conversation between Te Raukura O’Connell Rapira and Laniyuk. They discuss a range of topics including the power of #solidarity

Each episode in this series is available after broadcast via https://www.3cr.org.au/citylimits

https://commonslibrary.org/commons-conversations-podcast/

@Edent 100% into a fund to support new artists. ABBA and The Beatles should have dropped out of copyright by now. #CulturalHeritage #TheCommons

@nick
EDIT: Requires a formal definition of #theCommons re #software.

The worst part is there are no FOSS #modems/#wifi. None. Especially not ones available in #Australia. (EDIT: Is #telecommunications part of "the commons"? Yes.)

As the world slips into #technoFeudalism, we are simultaneously losing #communication with supporters over this.

Things are really quite bad.

Your post wishes for a "license to emerge", but what is wrong with the #GPLv3 license?

#foss #fossFirmware #firmware

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.

Interesting this from the folk over at @WIRED
looking at #LandOwnership, #Georgism, #TheCommons and of course, #BasicIncome, arguing for a new way of defining value & wealth appraisal