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Such a phenomenal project! If yer not broke like me, give them money b/c we really need tools like Goblins and OCapN if we wanna live thru the death throes of capitalism.

#fediday2025 Christine Lemmer-Webber - Protocols and Purpose in a Global Democratic Crisis Protocols and Purpose in a Global Democratic Crisis (EN) Christine Lemmer-Webber, The Spritely Institute Christine Lemmer-Webber, co-author of the ActivityPub specification, frames the work of dece...

*None* of the decentralized social networks today are robust enough to handle threats facing vulnerable people and activists today. Not the fediverse, not Bluesky/ATProto. What to do?

(Here's a talk on that: "Protocols and Purpose in a Global Democratic Crisis" c-tube.c-base.org/w/f9pF5pwxX8... )

Federated Municipal Platforms A federated municipal platform, or FMP, is a communally owned & controlled digital platform, enabling a regional foodshed or bioregion to manage its own land, resources, and labor according to its own...

"Federated Municipal Platforms: A fundamental design pattern"

This one's a bit of a beast, also really critical as a comprehensive design document for Runrig's core value propositions. Shares and kind/constructive feedback would be much appreciated! 🙏🏻
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Workers at Upstate apple farm frustrated by owner's refusal to abide by contract - The Chief Despite an arbitrator’s sanction of a collective bargaining agreement covering workers at an Upstate apple farm, the company has refused to institute its provisions.  The deadlock led workers at Wafle...

Workers at Upstate apple farm frustrated by owner's refusal to abide by contract

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Job Opening: GOAT Community Manager Gathering for Open Agricultural Technology Community Manager Position details: Position type: Independent 1099 contractor Location: Remote Equipment: Self-provided Salary: $35 per hour (with budge...

GOAT is #HIRING a Community Manager to help plan the 2026 Gathering for Open Agricultural Technology, please share!

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🌈 The 3rd Nyéléni Forum saw the first Assembly of the Gender and Sexual Diversities and Allies take place. Hear from Maggie Cheney from Rock Steady Farm and Paula Gioia from La Via Campesina on the importance of this space.
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📽️ credit: Real World Radio
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Against Scale A look at the way scalability perpetuates some of the worst tendencies of neoliberal capitalism, and how Runrig proposes to overturn those harmful dynamics through participatory design and transparent...

Scalability is fundamentally an expression for the rate at which a technology can increase socioeconomic inequality over time, effecting how resources are allocated and who controls that process.

It should be viewed as a measure of extractivism and of social control.

www.runrig.org/posts/agains...

Illegible Agriculture Why technocrats so often try (and fail) to simplify farming's essential complexity

The first in a two-part series on the Runrig Journal regarding abstraction, complexity, and scaling in ag-tech:

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Runrig Runrig is a communal farming platform, a libre software project and a method of socio-ecological design. It aims for collective sovereignty over not just our food, but also the labor that raises it, t...

The Runrig Journal will be a way of developing & documenting Runrig's design principles out in the open, plus some updates from the past 18mos #ICYMI. Join the newsletter or follow here for more!
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