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John Deere uses DRM to make Non Fungible Tractors.

— Bill Seitz of FluxGarden (@BillSeitz) November 5, 2021

"If [the Luddites] had their way we wouldn’t be living in a world with ‘no technology’, we’d be living in a world where communities have a say in the technological decisions that will impact them.” https://t.co/hXuhSKmIQD https://t.co/yjFiVKOWST

— Harold Jarche (@hjarche) November 1, 2021

Great new episode of @CheerfulPodcast about the #PrestonModel, mutual banking and #CWB out now! @Mary_BMac @cheekylee23 @coopalts #NewEconomyNI

— The Combination (@combination_NI) May 17, 2021

Reposted: Read A $200 Million Seed Valuation for Roam Shows Investor Frenzy for Note-Taking Apps by Chris Aldrich (boffosocko.com)

Roam Research should really be going the Zebra route and not the VC funding route. If the 11 person company is truly self-supporting with its current user base and there’s so much upside for growth, they’d be far better off to keep that value internally.
The only reason for VC funding is if they…

Long-time readers will know that I’m a big fan of RSS feeds. An RSS reader has been essential to my web experience since I first came online, and I’ve doggedly stuck to using them even as the web has centralised onto a few platforms and much digital ink spilt about the “death of RSS”. Luckil…

I am concerned that a lot of computer systems research is solving problems that only huge tech companies have (eg. fast datacenter networking, big data analytics systems), rather than working on technologies that empower individual users and the underprivileged. https://t.co/CozZXKpylV

— Martin Kleppmann (@martinkl) July 30, 2020

Reposted: Raising the alarm by Ben Werdmüller (werd.io)

It’s impossible to ignore.

Federal agents dressed in military gear have been bundling protesters into unmarked vehicles (allegedly rented from Enterprise) in Portland, with additional reports from Chicago and San Diego. The White House has announced that they’ll be rolling these troops out nationwi…

Over the last 7 years, Spotify has earned me 4.3% of what Bandcamp has. Over the last 3 months it's 1.6%.
Getting playlisted by the Spotify lords and heard by 50,000 people is worth as much as ~20 people deciding to pay a fiver for a release on Bandcamp. https://t.co/XFgVOUFc3N

— DΛTΛSSSSSETTE (@datassette) July 7, 2020

No, no, no, no, NO. ** screams into void ** pic.twitter.com/Bvz8lYOxYW

— Karen Hao (@_KarenHao) July 23, 2020