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The uniqueness of the DisCO Principles is that they serve as guidelines for tech-savvy (but not techno deterministic or tech-dependent), highly efficient and socially and environmentally oriented organizations.

Read the DisCO Elements here: elements.disco.coop

[Image credits: "Archer", by fellow DisCOnaut Gui Maueler]

This could be the year we say NO to the Corporations that oppress us by not using their software or products.
Here is a great site to find free software alternatives: switching.software

OS/2's WPS is still the best UI I've used. This is an entirely subjective observation, and I'm not like most people. Windows (pick any edition) is the worst UI I've ever used. Mac UI seems to be the most user friendly for the average person. i.e., not someone who wants to dig under the UI. *nix has always had the best command line.

It would have been interesting to see what Atari or Commodore would have evolved into in a world without Microsoft's anticompetitive monopoly.

politics 

Electronic Frontier Alliance member @STOPSpyingNY have their own podcast, 'Surveillance and the City'. In the most most recent episode they recap the biggest privacy and surveillance stories from last year. twitter.com/STOPSpyingNY/statu

@lwriemen This is the same junk ive seen come out of the entrepreneur space for a while. Its like collectivising for rich jerks. You help me i sell you my coaching program for 600 instead of 3000.

Just ran into the oxymoron, "Cooperative Capitalism". A lot of entrepreneurs seem to be excited about it.[sic] Sounds like an "embrace, extend, and extinguish" effort.

So ready for the faux "We are in this together" messages to go away.

I wonder how many divorces have been generated by people being made to work from home? Especially among the people who use work to escape home responsibilities. Those ones who use the fantasy of being so necessary at work that they can't take time off. The ones who brag about how much vacation they didn't use. The fools who work for free and are the building blocks of exploitive capitalism among the salaried workforce.

“This Is Why We Don’t Drink the Water” - Fracking threatens drinking water on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. inthesetimes.com/article/frack

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