Firstly it’s got stuff on firstly reducing the need for money and markets. Then, if you do need it, things like collaborative financing and community currencies and public-commons circuits of finance.
This is a collection of patterns for commoning, grouped in to the areas of social life, peer governance, and provisioning (their term for nonmarket based production)
I like them.
https://anagora.org/triad-of-commoning
https://anagora.org/node-club
"Webinar: Blockchain for space"
Some favourites:
– Ritualize Togetherness
– Contribute Freely
– Share Knowledge Generously
– Use Convivial Tools
– Rely on Distributed Structures
– Creatively Adapt and Renew
There’s plenty more.
(To paraphrase Audrey Hepburn)
"a kind of tool that is shared in common, and which expands personal creative freedom and communal interdependence"
My initial thoughts: sounds good.
The most notable critique I have come across so far is Bookchin (via Evgeny Morozov): "It didn’t make sense to speak of “convivial tools,” he argued, without taking a close look at the political and social structures in which they were embedded"
Anarchists often get caught up in the world of ideas, but right to repair gives us a chance to engage practically and I’d encourage all of us to get involved.
– https://c4ss.org/content/55471
h/t @tealturtle@social.coop for the link
Some good talks/projects at the hackathon (https://www.aaronswartzday.org/)
– Bad Apple – holding law enforcement accountable and putting an end to police misconduct
– Open Library – an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published
– Internet Archive seem to be talking about decentralisation of IA
– Cory Doctorow talking about various things including the right to repair
– SecureDrop – whistleblower submission system to securely accept documents from anonymous sources
The built-in one (presumably the stock Android one) is a bit grating.