I’m currently enjoying Pond, South Walney:
http://acousticommons.net/streams/pond_south_walney.html
"Acoustic Commons is dedicated to building resilient networks across sites, distributing creative technical resources and cultural know-how and contributing to the long term cultivation of knowledge commons."
Hard to know how much of Dominic Cummings to actually believe. But some incredible stuff if true. Including the deputy cabinet secretary apparently in March(!): "there is no plan; we’re in huge trouble. […] I think we’re absolutely fucked."
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/may/26/dominic-cummings-timeline-of-coronavirus-crisis
Sad the part where they said Trump wouldn’t have been elected if Obama hadn’t. That the election of a Black man scared the right and moved them further rightwards.
Also how Trump’s election followed essentially a right-wing populist playbook – almost identical to Viktor Orbán.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2021/may/31/can-the-us-avoid-another-trump-podcast
Pretty awful. State-sponsored hijacking of a plane to arrest a 26 year old blogger.
"Four years since Raqqa was liberated from ISIS, women are playing a leading role in rebuilding the Syrian city. Their activism shows that socialist feminism isn’t just about gender parity in top jobs — it’s about women taking control of their own lives."
https://jacobinmag.com/2021/05/raqqa-women-blooming-in-the-desert-film/
https://www.theonion.com/elon-musk-unveils-urban-slingshot-system-able-to-move-6-1846702819
"The peer production license is an example of the Copyfair type of license, in which only other commoners, cooperatives and nonprofits can share and re-use the material, but not commercial entities intent on making profit through the commons without explicit reciprocity"
https://civicwise.org/peer-production-
licence-_-human-readable-summary/
https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/wiki/Exclusive-lists
Nice article about building governance layers into platforms. Following Elinor Ostrom’s 8 principles for managing a commons. The part that resonated most for me on first reading is the need to understand the many patterns of governance that exist. From there we can move from the simple defaulting to private property based models.
https://www.glizzan.com/2020/03/04/governing-the-information-commons.html