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Sam Harris, in November 2020 said he was turning in his “imaginary membership card to this imaginary organisation”, because some members of the group were sounding “fairly bonkers.”

What is “real” what is “imaginary” and in what ways does it matter?

Read More P2P | I have an interest in imaginary organisations | Facebook

To clarify the future risks, they laid out two scenarios, each of which would get its own moniker: There was cyberwar, and also netwar. The latter—with its dated reference to the “net”—feels even more anachronistic than “the cyber,” but the idea is surprisingly contemporary. For Arquilla and Ronfeldt, netwar is a social and commercial phenomenon.…

Read More P2P | How do P2P networks change the dynamics of Cyberwar and Netwar | Facebook

“Cooperatives are seen, broadly, as something extremely positive, bringing a voice to people who don’t always have a voice in the workplace. The question was how to bring that model to the internet,” said Trebor Scholz, founding director of the New School’s Platform Cooperativism Consortium, which supports research and entrepreneurship for technology-driven cooperatives.

Read More P2P | How employee-owned firms hope to disrupt the tech industry | Facebook

“Intellectual historians have never really abandoned the Great Man theory of history. They often write as if all important ideas in a given age can be traced back to one or other extraordinary individual – whether Plato, Confucius, Adam Smith or Karl Marx – rather than seeing such authors’ writings as particularly brilliant interventions in debates that were already going on in taverns or dinner parties or public gardens (or, for that matter, lecture rooms), but which otherwise might never have been written down.

Read More P2P | Is this how we could frame a p2p view of history | Facebook

Source: (1) P2P | I just read a post by someone that noted that “ordinary” people don’t get “cancelled” | Facebook

Read More P2P | I just read a post by someone that noted that “ordinary” people don’t get “cancelled” | Facebook

1:29 memes as globs of snot going p2p
1:00 emotions as weak point – sadness to anger
1:34 washing your hands
1:45 propagation, mutation and selection
2:45 the evolution of anger
2:48 how come we argue about wokers but never WITH wokers
4:05 they aren’t competing they are symbiotic
4:21 more allies mean more enemies
5:11 seriously how come we argue about wokers but never WITH wokers
5:59 emotive reasoning and general hygiene
I put the wokers bit in

but
I think it fits, like a glove

Read More P2P | P2P anger and the “left” versus the “right” | Facebook

I think This is a very useful model from a p2p perspective because I is based on individual actions not abstractions see Action research – Wikipedia  Wikipedia does it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Argyris AROL and Bob Dick   Argyris and Schön:some elements of their models  1  Bob Dick and Tim Dalmau   This is a resource file which supports…

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Perspectives from a pioneer in Anhui province Source: How the circular economy is helping China achieve its quest for ‘ecological civilisation’ | by Ellen MacArthur Foundation | Circulate | Medium

Read More How the circular economy is helping China achieve its quest for ‘ecological civilisation’ | by Ellen MacArthur Foundation | Circulate | Medium

When KKR announced the $3 billion sale of C.H.I. Overhead Doors, it created a windfall for hundreds of hourly workers. They will receive between $20,000 and $800,000 each when the transaction closes. Source: This company was just sold for $3 billion, and hundreds of employees are getting a cut. Some will get $800,000 | The…

Read More This company was just sold for $3 billion, and hundreds of employees are getting a cut. Some will get $800,000 | The Seattle Times

Web3 today centers around expressing transferable, financialized assets, rather than encoding social relationships of trust. Yet many core economic activities—s Source: Decentralized Society: Finding Web3’s Soul by E. Glen Weyl, Puja Ohlhaver, Vitalik Buterin :: SSRN

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Humans establish public goods to provide for shared needs like safety or healthcare. Yet, public goods rely on cooperation which can break down because of free-riding incentives. Previous research extensively investigated how groups solve this free-rider problem but ignored another challenge to public goods provision. Namely, some individuals do not need public goods to solve…

Read More Self-reliance crowds out group cooperation and increases wealth inequality | Nature Communications

Pierre Lévy Source: Living in a Connected World/The Hive Mind and Collective Intelligence – Wikibooks, open books for an open world

Read More Living in a Connected World/The Hive Mind and Collective Intelligence – Wikibooks, open books for an open world

Whether you have a weekend or three months available, whether you prefer to start in April, June, or in the fall, there are three courses that will offer you an opportunity to learn about cooperative… Source: 📚 3 Courses for the Co-op Curious | Platform Cooperativism Consortium This idea if courses is interesting, the price…

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http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/structuring-feeling-web-20-online-ranking-and-rating-and-digital-%E2%80%98reputation%E2%80%99-economy? Posted by M. Bauwens https://www.facebook.com/groups/p2p.open/posts/5327289770648492/

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This article examines the processes of urban commoning and its co-produced features of urbanity, making the claim that, through these processes, informality becomes translated into institutionalized city planning. Commoning is analysed through a Source: (4) COMMONING AS A VEHICLE BETWEEN GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS AND INFORMALITY: Collective Gardening Practices in Tampere and Narva | Krista Willman –…

Read More (4) COMMONING AS A VEHICLE BETWEEN GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS AND INFORMALITY: Collective Gardening Practices in Tampere and Narva | Krista Willman – Academia.edu