Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

Absolute banger of a post shared by @tarakiyee on another network. Every other paragraph is quote-worthy.

"That impulse to scour away the messiness that makes life resilient is what many conservation biologists call the pathology of command and control. Today, the same drive to centralize, control and extract has driven the internet to the same fate as the ravaged forests."

https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/

#BigTech #monopoly #standards

The Sword in the Stone

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

This is a really excellent analysis of the opportunities and risks of an effort I'm involved with—ensuring tokenized cooperative ownership is widely available under US law: https://ownership.substack.com/p/should-the-sec-update-cooperative

Okay I finally got back to my super commuter bike project. Did some welding this evening and got the front triangle together. Just need to add one more pivot near the bottom bracket.

Lillian Gish leans on Jesus (and her shotgun) in THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955).

Charles Laughton's Noir parable is on Tubi.

#BOTD #FilmMastodon #FilmNoir