"A cooperative electronics rental service. Commown will never sell a smartphone and guarantees to do everything possible to repair and (re)rent them for as long as possible."
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Commown looks *really* interesting
Respect to the project managers of the world. That stuff is hard.
Listened: Two lives changed by the death of George Floyd.
What’s your theory of change?
What’s your system for finding, listening to and taking useful notes from podcasts?
e.g. https://networkedthought.substack.com/p/learning-effectively-with-podcasts but more libre/decentralised, less proprietary and siloed.
"The Para-Real is where class politics, economics and the outcomes of hardware and infrastructure design collide."
"Over 12 episodes streamed weekly, we meet filmmakers who have never met their actors, artists building their own networks of value, documentarians exploring digital identity, and members of resilient subcultures"
starts 23rd may
Commoners are engaged in "world-making in a pluriverse".
Pluriverse names an understanding of the world in which countless groups of people create and re-create their own distinctive cultural realities, each of which constitutes a world.
A pluriverse is “a world in which many worlds fit,” as the Zapatistas say.
– Free, Fair and Alive
Free, Fair and Alive calls the word citizen a ‘keyword from a failing era’ and prefers ‘commoner’.