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#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa
Joined May 2019
@fitheach Frank Zappa on Roxy&Elsewhere talks about the movie, It Conquered the World, with a monster he describes as "an inverted ice cream cone with teeth around the bottom". He describes that as the monster comes out of the cave you can see a piece of 2x4 attached to it, and an off stage voice saying, "No! Get it back!". The song is called, Cheepnis.
Of course, after hearing it I had to verify what FZ said, and sure enough he wasn't lying.
us pol / unions
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@dynamic @tfardet I misspoke. State representatives are part time. National representatives are full time. In Indiana, state representatives make about 2 times the national median income, so still pretty lucrative for part time (91 days in two years split 60/31).
At the national level, the sessions are (2019-2021) 193/164, which is still 3-4 times the amount of time off that most office workers get in the USA.
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@tfardet @dynamic @lwriemen This is a great point -- "random" selection is not guaranteed to give a representative sample, so you may need to re-roll the dice until the sample is representative (along the categories you define....) I suppose that gets trickier with smaller assemblies, and you might need to do stratified random sampling or something.
@tfardet @dynamic I think, both, as well, but there is a pull toward relativity at the local level. National concerns get outweighed by the need of the local population. i.e., if local poverty is high, you're more apt to trade good paying jobs for a company's history of misdeeds. (As long as the smokestacks are downwind from our town...)
@dynamic @tfardet That does sound intriguing. I wonder how the dynamics of influence vs relationship forming would play out. Would it extend well into bigger representation areas? Compensation dynamics would be interesting as well. Require employers to allow government sabbatical, but who pays salary/benefits?
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I've been intrigued by the idea of something like a city council by lottery for a while now. Government by a random selection of the populace for a fixed interval of time, after which they would be replaced by a different random selection of the populace. Being able to make safeguards for representation of minorities might make this idea even more interesting.
I don't have a lot of perspective on how this kind of thing would actually play out, but it seems to me that even a year of needing to make decisions about the kinds of complicated tradeoffs that a government needs to handle would give the selected people a very different perspective from what you would expect if the same people just met a few times in a citizens' assembly to hash out a narrowly defined question.
@dynamic Of course you also need checks and balances against "real democracy". One person, one vote can lead to repression in a culturally mixed society with a majority population of one culture.
@dynamic @tfardet This mechanism from the article, "The citizens are selected by lot, as you would for jury service;", seems to be the selection method, but has very little detail. A random selection would not guarantee subject matter knowledge. However, in a trial you can have expert testimony; the jurors don't need to have subject matter knowledge. The question is, can you get fair testimony? i.e., weighing of pros and cons, and without tainted presentation perception.
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This piece on citizen's assemblies is fascinating: https://newint.org/features/2021/02/08/defibrillating-democracy
Citizen's assemblies are described as groups of ~100 people put together to be representative of the diversity of a particular place (city, country, etc.), which are brought together to discuss a difficult or contentious issue.
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Tories accused of corruption and NHS privatisation by former chief scientist - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/apr/13/tories-accused-of-corruption-and-nhs-privatisation-by-former-chief-scientist "King contrasted the success of the vaccination programme, carried out by the NHS, with the failure of the government’s test-and-trace operation"
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#World's #wealthiest ‘at heart of #climate problem’ - BBC News
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Since that article was written there's been additional research on using other sensors (ambient light, gyroscope, etc) for tracking, which is why we implemented lockdown mode in the Librem 5 so you have an option to turn it all off.
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This guide from Grugq is a great overview for phone privacy and applies even if you have a phone with hardware kill switches for the modem, or a user-swappable modem like in the Librem 5. While those things might make certain steps easier, you still have to keep all the correlation in mind.
https://grugq.github.io/blog/2014/02/10/a-fistful-of-surveillance/
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We found consistently that both liking others’ content and clicking links significantly predicted a subsequent reduction in self-reported physical health, mental health, and life satisfaction."
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A great promo for meet.coop https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaQXDIVxLJc
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I recently discovered that there's a new #WorkerCoop doing visual special effects for film and television: Nexodus. I talked with two of their worker-owners about their kick-ass #cooperative 
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Since closing on the #RealEstateCoop deal at the end of March, I've had a #Vermont food co-op and a #WorkerCoop reach out about possible projects that could use the model.
This is feeling promising... :D
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa
Joined May 2019
