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Really interesting to learn that the NHS was part inspired by the Tredegar Medical Aid Society (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tredegar_Medical_Aid_Society).

It was a mutual society providing health care free at the point of use in South Wales. Nye Bevan, who spearheaded the foundation of the NHS, was from Tredegar.

h/t NEF podcast on public ownership (https://neweconomics.org/2019/02/weekly-economics-podcast-public-ownership-2.0)

28th March 2019

Building a green economy will cost money. Where do we start?

27th March 2019

When I ditched the big social media networks I intended to use email as a way to keep up with friends and family. But my email right now is a dumpster fire of pointless mailshots and administrata. I can definitely tidy it up but also thinking email genuinely isn’t good for maintaining social ties? Was it ever?

26th March 2019

Micropub Version 2.0.9 was released. It includes support for media endpoint queries q=last, which retrieves the last image uploaded, as well as q=source, which is not fully fleshed out as a return option.
It also adds a key to the uploaded media from the Micropub endpoint so you can query items uplo…

26th March 2019

Our latest report portrays four alternate futures of work. What clues do current trends give us for the future that awaits us?

I like speculative future scenario planning, as a way of outlining possible alternatives and encouraging agency towards which one we actual want. Peter Frase’s Four Futures is a great book on this, from a general socio-economic view. So I like the idea of doing this from a technological perspective. Cooperatives and mutuals appear in the “Exodus Economy” future, in response to an economic slowdown. (I wouldn’t want the assumption to be that this is the only way they will appear, but I guess that’s not the intention of the authors.)

https://www.thersa.org/discover/publications-and-articles/rsa-blogs/2019/03/straws-in-the-wind-which-future-of-work-are-we-heading-for

25th March 2019

Algorithms, accountability, and our digital selves

25th March 2019

Cool! It was super simple to add a bookmark-of post type to the micropub layer in spacemacs.

25th March 2019

Our latest report portrays four alternate futures of work. What clues do current trends give us for the future that awaits us?

25th March 2019

Most economists suffer from misplaced optimism about the oncoming Fourth Industrial Revolution. Some reskilling here and there would suffice to spread its benefits to all workers. They ignore how capitalism invents and employs technology for profits, not people.

24th March 2019

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution Won’t Trickle Down, Under Capitalism