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Aaron<a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@Professor_Stevens" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Professor_Stevens</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@ReggieHere" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ReggieHere</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/@kibcol1049" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@kibcol1049</a> If only there were some way to avoid this outcome. Like, a business model that didn't harvest wealth from every transaction between workers and consumers and dump it into some oligarch's bank account. A business model where any money taken from the community went right back to that same community. Maybe a community owned business? A business owned by the workers and/or consumers?<a href="https://techhub.social/tags/coops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coops</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cooperatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cooperatives</a>

lispwitch 2.0we're pleased to announce <a href="https://guixotic.coop" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://guixotic.coop</a>, a new free software cooperative focused on gnu guix and guile cofounded by <a href="https://mastodon.online/@podiki" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@podiki</a>, maxim cournoyer and me. we offer services including training, commercial support, development, system administration (CI/CD, HPC), packaging -- in short, everything guix and guile.our goal is to strengthen & expand the community, bringing in new people and organizations (our clients), supporting development work, and growing the network of organizations supporting these technologies.could you or an organization you know of benefit from our services? email contact@guixotic.coop or contact us here!full announcement: <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/r/guix-devel/2025-07/msg00113.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lists.gnu.org/r/guix-devel/2025-07/msg00113.html</a><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/gnu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gnu</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/guix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#guix</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/guile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#guile</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lisp</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/cooperatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cooperatives</a>

AaronOnly single proprietorships, non-profits, and cooperatives are exceptions to this pattern. These business models, in contrast to for-profit corporations, either are owned by the community members or do not harvest profits.<a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SingleProprietorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SingleProprietorship</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/NonProfit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NonProfit</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/coop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coop</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cooperatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cooperatives</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/profit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#profit</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BusinessModel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BusinessModel</a>

christina bEpic thread <a href="https://mastodon.online/@sarahtaber" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@sarahtaber</a>Thanks <a href="https://hachyderm.io/@blaise" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@blaise</a> for the pointer <a href="https://social.coop/tags/cooperatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cooperatives</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/HowToCitizen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HowToCitizen</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/@sarahtaber/114797147296327900" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.online/@sarahtaber/114797147296327900</a>

Aaron<a href="https://syzito.xyz/@OccuWorld" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@OccuWorld</a>This is where the fascism is coming from. The 1% used capitalism to leverage wealth out of the hands of everyone else, which caused a surge in populism, fear, and anger, which enabled Trump to rise. Then they funded him because he redirected the fear and anger at other citizens instead of the 1%. And now they're using him to disassemble our democracy and make it work even more in their favor. And so the oligarchy transforms back into the aristocracy it was born from.Future generations must not forget. If you don't want fascism, don't allow aristocracy or oligarchy to form. That means outlawing billionaires from the start. Some tools we have to fight this:* UBI * wealth tax * cooperative-based economy<a href="https://techhub.social/tags/NoBillionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoBillionaires</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/NoKings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoKings</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ubi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ubi</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/WealthTax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WealthTax</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/WealthInequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WealthInequality</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/IncomeInequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IncomeInequality</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#inequality</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GINI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GINI</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/coops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coops</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cooperatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cooperatives</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#economics</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/aristocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aristocracy</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#oligarchy</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fascism</a>

Blaise Pabón - controlpl4n3<a href="https://mastodon.social/@glyph" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@glyph</a> I'm only half way through and already delighted to find someone who might actually be interested in the bugs I found in accounting.I can answer most of their questions but I don't know if anyone else is interested. A general one around the utility of LLMsQ: people compare LLMs to calculators, or screwdrivers, or digital cameras, or whatever. I’m left wondering if the people saying this stuff have ever used any of those things.A: No, they have not used any of those tools (or table saws). The false analogy results from their observation that using $TOOL results in $WHATEVER. It's the cargo cult pattern. Since their process is optimized for producing $WHATEVER, everything else is someone else's problem.------ ok, so what? ------ I'm glad you asked. There is a scenario where all these musings become actionable. In fact, it's the potential competitive advantage of <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/cooperatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cooperatives</a> over <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/corporate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#corporate</a> businesses.TL;DR: overtime, businesses controlled by external stakeholders become more expensive to operate.OTOH, if an organization can make decisions based on operational requirements _instead of_ financial reporting requirements, they MAY avoid the accumulation of entropy and waste.Otherwise, cargo culture takes over and we end up with Enron, Lehman Brothers and Theranos.

Oriol PieraResistim als oligopolis, creant noves formes de relacionar-nos amb el treball i amb el consum.Dia internacional de les <a href="https://mastodon.economiasocial.org/tags/Cooperatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cooperatives</a> <a href="https://mastodon.economiasocial.org/tags/MaiTanCooperativistes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MaiTanCooperativistes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.economiasocial.org/tags/Coop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Coop</a> <a href="https://mastodon.economiasocial.org/tags/cooperatif" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cooperatif</a> <a href="https://mastodon.economiasocial.org/tags/5J" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#5J</a> <a href="https://mastodon.economiasocial.org/tags/CoopsDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CoopsDay</a>

Grassroots Economic Organizing:TwinPines: "This Spring, the Quabbin Sunrise Cooperative, a resident-owned manufactured home community with 65 households, made a big cost-saving discovery. Five-thousand gallons of water a day were leaking from various points in their water distribution system, leading to high water bills, increased wear and tear on the system, and compliance issues with the state’s water regulations." <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Cooperatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cooperatives</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/WaterConservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WaterConservation</a><a href="https://cdi.coop/quabbin-sunrise-cooperative-kamstrup-smart-water-meters/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cdi.coop/quabbin-sunrise-cooperative-kamstrup-smart-water-meters/</a>

Commown🌱 Ce premier événement fut riche en idées et en émotions. Il a renforcé notre conviction qu’un numérique plus local, plus sobre, plus coopératif est non seulement nécessaire, mais déjà en construction.Merci à toutes les personnes présentes et impliquées dans cette belle soirée 🙏📸 Retour en images ci-dessous…Et on vous promet : ce ne sera pas le dernier ciné-débat signé Commown ![3/3]<a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Cin%C3%A9d%C3%A9bat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cinédébat</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Num%C3%A9riqueResponsable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NumériqueResponsable</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/CommunsNum%C3%A9riques" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CommunsNumériques</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Coop%C3%A9ratives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Coopératives</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/R%C3%A9silience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Résilience</a>

Aaron“They say, ‘We tried socialism; it didn’t work. We tried… the market model; it didn’t work. What are we supposed to do now?’ ” Stiglitz said. “I think it’s really important to say there are some other models out there.”<a href="https://techhub.social/tags/coops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coops</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cooperatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cooperatives</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialism</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/nationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nationalism</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fascism</a>

Aaron“When people feel excluded in social and economic terms, they also often feel excluded in political terms and that can lead to very short-term as well as long-term adversarial outcomes,” he added.<a href="https://techhub.social/tags/coops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coops</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cooperatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cooperatives</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/nationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nationalism</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fascism</a>

Aaron"They were united in their beliefs that co-ops can provide a voice for citizens who feel ignored. That could be an antidote to the anti-system outrage associated with the vote in Great Britain to abandon the European Union and other nationalistic movements, they suggested."<a href="https://techhub.social/tags/coops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coops</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cooperatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cooperatives</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/nationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nationalism</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fascism</a>

Aaron<a href="https://www.electric.coop/global-economy-cooperatives-joseph-stiglitz" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.electric.coop/global-economy-cooperatives-joseph-stiglitz</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/coops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coops</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cooperatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cooperatives</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#economy</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/nationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nationalism</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fascism</a>

AaronComing back to add:This is something you can do *right now* to fight fascism. Cancel billionaires! Only give your money to single proprietorships, mom and pop businesses, and cooperatives. Cut the billionaires right out of the money cycle, every chance you get. Leave them stranded, high and dry, an island in the river. Cut off their supply, their oxygen. Never stop. Starve them. Suffocate them. Hit them where it hurts. Keep hitting till they no longer exist. Never again!<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/fightfascism" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@fightfascism</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#billionaires</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#inequality</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cooperatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cooperatives</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GeneralStrike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GeneralStrike</a>

AaronWe don't just need to stop fascism in its tracks. We need to kill the problem at its root. No more billionaires! When we rise from the ashes and re-establish a democracy -- hopefully with some improvements to keep this from ever happening again -- we must be sure to close the loophole that created this mess: No more for-profit corporations.Cooperatives can do the job that for-profit corporations have done for us till now, without the wealth inequality that for-profit corporations create. We don't need capitalism. We don't need stocks or stock markets. We damn sure don't need billionaires. And we don't need the fascism and hatred that billionaires create as they hoard what belongs to *us*.<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/fightfascism" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@fightfascism</a><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cooperatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cooperatives</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#billionaires</a>

AaronThis whole time, we have had an alternative, a way to build the local economic mechanisms we need to survive: Businesses that serve the community instead of rich people's pockets. Cooperatives.<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/fightfascism" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@fightfascism</a><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cooperatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cooperatives</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#billionaires</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#inequality</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fascism</a>

AaronThey pillage us perpetually, openly, in broad daylight, and we are so brainwashed into thinking that capital investment is fundamentally necessary for industry that we don't even see it.But capital investment by fat cats is *not* needed for our economy. The only reason there's a shortage of resources to create new businesses and new products is that we have already been harvested for our wealth for so long and to such an extreme extent.<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/fightfascism" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@fightfascism</a><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cooperatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cooperatives</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/CapitalInvestment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CapitalInvestment</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fascism</a>

AaronThis is because billionaires only come to exist by founding or investing in for-profit companies. Only for-profit companies can concentrate wealth to that degree, by harvesting it from the workers and consumers. Every single transaction between a worker and a consumer which is mediated by a for-profit company has a hidden tax, in the form of profit, which goes to some wealthy person who contributes nothing after their initial investment and gets to collect on that investment *indefinitely*.<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/fightfascism" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@fightfascism</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/profit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#profit</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cooperatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cooperatives</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#inequality</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/WealthInequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WealthInequality</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/IncomeInequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IncomeInequality</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#billionaires</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fascism</a>

AaronA fully cooperative-based economy would admit no room for the establishment of a billionaire class.<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/fightfascism" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@fightfascism</a><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#billionaires</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#oligarchy</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/aristocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aristocracy</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#inequality</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cooperatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cooperatives</a>

AaronPut them together: Cooperatives are a tool for preventing and fighting fascism. They work by reducing wealth and income inequality.<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/fightfascism" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@fightfascism</a><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cooperatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cooperatives</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#inequality</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/WealthInequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WealthInequality</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/IncomeInequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IncomeInequality</a>

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