Resist and build.
Kind: Notes
Great interview with David Bollier on the commons (natural, urban, digital), commoning, re-recognising the value in things that sit outside of market economics and exchange value. (Contains the bombshell that apparently 20% of the human genome has already been enclosed and patented. WTF?!)
In general, how do you become a member of a housing coop? (And more specifically, how in the UK? Anyone with experience of doing so?)
After the latest update, syncthing is really killing my battery on Android.
The revolutionary potential of the solidarity economy. As part of a bigger package of citizen participation, a genuine alternative beyond market and state. Important it’s not just theoretical – hence the value of autonomous zones (from small to large scale) putting it into practice in the here and now.
https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/the-revolutionary-potential-of-solidarity-economy/
The Preston Model infographic.
“a holistic framework for integrating community, cooperative, and public assets into a mutually supporting system of local economic prosperity”
https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/infographic-preston-model
Joined the Open App Ecosystem loomio group. I like the aim: ‘This is a neutral group to talk about how we can build a suite of interoperable, open source tools which support transparent, democratic, and decentralized organizing.’ Not 100% sure what the approach is yet, but good to talk with other who care abou this and are thinking these things over. https://www.loomio.org/g/exAKrBUp/open-app-ecosystem
Managed to move my calendar relatively painlessly to nextcloud from google.
Need to get on top of my accounts a little bit. Looking into plain text accounting. Basically you keep your ledger in plain text files and the apps provide various helpers and reporting functionality on top of that. Integrates quite nicely with org-mode, so works for mean. Just need to choose between ledger, hledger, and beancount though. Beancount has fava built on top of it, but it doesn’t seem as good for budgeting options. I might go with hledger and use the beancount converter to display it in fava.
Fascinating to read about ‘the Preston model’. Preston is a town about 30 minutes from where I grew up in the north-west of England. (Narrowly) voted for Brexit. In the middle of an attempted transition to localism and cooperativism inspired by Cleveland in the US and Mondragon.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/31/preston-hit-rock-bottom-took-back-control