2021-05-31

• Nice article about building governance layers into platforms. Following Elinor Ostrom's 8 principles for managing a commons. The part that resonated most for me on first reading is the need to understand the many patterns of governance that exist. From there we can move from the simple defaulting to private property based models.

• "The peer production license is an example of the Copyfair type of license, in which only other commoners, cooperatives and nonprofits can share and re-use the material, but not commercial entities intent on making profit through the commons without explicit reciprocity"

• https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/amazon-devices-will-soon-automatically-share-your-internet-with-neighbors/

• https://www.theonion.com/elon-musk-unveils-urban-slingshot-system-able-to-move-6-1846702819

Bookmarked: The Women of Raqqa Are Rebuilding Their Future

Four years since Raqqa was liberated from ISIS, women are playing a leading role in rebuilding the Syrian city. Their activism shows that socialist feminism isn’t just about gender parity in top jobs — it’s about women taking control of their own lives.

• https://jacobinmag.com/2021/05/raqqa-women-blooming-in-the-desert-film/

• https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2021/may/28/a-state-sponsored-hijacking-the-arrest-of-belarus-blogger-raman-pratasevich

• Sad the part where they said Trump wouldn't have been elected if Obama hadn't. That the election of a Black man scared the right and moved them further rightwards.
• Also how Trump's election followed essentially a right-wing populist playbook - almost identical to Viktor Orbán.
• https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2021/may/31/can-the-us-avoid-another-trump-podcast