zeh @[email protected]

What do the following have in common?

- Disrupting industries with the gig economy and removing long-term job security
- Gambling marketed to children via loot boxes in games
- Spam emails and unwanted newsletters
- Subversive ads masquarading as genuine news articles
- Treating personal data as a commodity to be bought and sold

It's an attribute they share with the following:

- 2008 financial crisis
- BP oil spill
- Private prisons
- The bananna wars

The answer: the profit motive.

"So, who are pirates, and why are they so popular? I mean, are they just the cuddly protagonists of children's books? Or are they violent thieves trying to overthrow industry, and if they are, why do we dress our children up to imitate them? Because my son never got invited to any aggravated robbery parties."

- #KesterBrewin

'Mutiny! What our love of #pirates tells us about renewing the #commons:'
https://invidio.us/watch?v=escnWFDUYhI

"Entre pessoas em situação de sem-abrigo e especuladores, a PSP escolhe os últimos"

https://fumaca.pt/entre-pessoas-em-situacao-de-sem-abrigo-e-especuladores-a-psp-escolhe-os-ultimos/

Sim, em Portugal também a polícia serve para proteger quem tem poder, mesmo quando actuam ilegalmente.
Só para o caso de haverem dúvidas se o problema era apenas no outro lado do Atlântico. 🙄

#portugal

good to know that GitHub stands against police brutality while simultaneously standing extremely in favor of working with ICE, a thing they have not stopped doing yet

software is capital. software saves labor, and under capitalism all labor saved is labor disenfranchised. software produced for money almost invariably reproduces capital's power. you wanna know what software can do instead? remember aaron schwartz. loot the digitarium and never let them kill you for it.

among archivists, pirates reign.

Notes on "Ours to Hack and to Own", edited by @ntnsndr and @scholzt_newschooledu

#platformcooperativism #coops

@protonvpn Why is ProtonVPN allowed in China while Tor is prohibited?

@zeh For sure, if you can find a group of trustworthy and competent people capable of co-management (this combo is rarer than you might think), you're better to start your own tech co-op. Something like democraticjobs.coop is great as a match-making site people like me, who haven't been able to get a founding group together, and existing co-ops who have realized they have skills gaps they need to fill. Thanks for the tip, I'll definitely check it out.
@jonw

New short film, just out! "Reclaiming Work: The Cycle Couriers Subverting The Gig Economy" by @[email protected] https://blackbrownfilm.com/

#PlatformCoops taking on Deliveroo in Barcelona:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0Z5PBgwu60

https://medium.com/@leresistancemedia/the-rising-tech-revolution-f16eefa173b5

Acerca das iniciativas autonomas de ajuda na zona de Lisboa em tempos de COVID

https://rda69.net/2020/05/14/reportagem-acerca-das-cantinas-solidarias-auto-geridas-em-lisboa/

Today I released the first edition of Riot Medicine, a public domain book to help street medics in the struggle for liberation, autonomy, and dignity for all. You can download all 466 pages for free here: https://riotmedicine.net/downloads

Nesta edição do @[email protected] podem encontrar uma entrevista à D3, sobre apps de rastreamento de contactos (ARCs).
Para saber mais sobre o assunto --> http://rastreamento.pt
Obrigado @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

RT @[email protected]
Está nas ruas a 27ª edição do Jornal Mapa (Maio-Julho). Como não podia deixar de ser, com uma parte considerável dedicada a este novo mundo da pandemia de Covid-19.

The only technologies you should trust are the ones you don’t need to trust because the people who built them decentred themselves and designed them so you don’t have to trust anyone – including them – to begin with.

Zoom acquired Keybase today.

Keybase helped me to identify a trend in the software industry: using a pretty UI to cover up the disruption of an open ecosystem with a closed, centralized replacement. Keybase seemed cool on the face of it - making encryption easier is a laudible goal, and PGP certainly could use the improvement. But, thanks to Keybase, now I ask different questions upfront.

Beware the Keybase formula:

1. Integrates with an existing, open ecosystem
2. May have open-source clients, but server is closed source and does not federate
3. Pretty UI and good marketing
4. VC funded