Matt
@steadycooper.bsky.social
🌱🐖🐔🥫 Permastead in 6b
🦬🦬🦬 Promotes Rugged Interdependence
🥾🏕️🛶🚲 Does outdoor things
🎎🧳🛠️🪡 Supports Cosmopolitan Localism
🌐🏫🫘 Believes in Systems of Cooperation
🕸️🙋🏼🌻🥏 Practices Oblique Leadership
🦬🦬🦬 Promotes Rugged Interdependence
🥾🏕️🛶🚲 Does outdoor things
🎎🧳🛠️🪡 Supports Cosmopolitan Localism
🌐🏫🫘 Believes in Systems of Cooperation
🕸️🙋🏼🌻🥏 Practices Oblique Leadership
@jonathanrgoodman.bsky.social hey there! Any chance an audio book version of invisible rivals is on the way?
October 8, 2025 at 1:55 AM
@jonathanrgoodman.bsky.social hey there! Any chance an audio book version of invisible rivals is on the way?
I wish folks better at organizing and publishing than me, like @nikadubrovsky.bsky.social and @chrishaughton.bsky.social could figure out how to turn a book like People's History of the United States into a series of kids books like History of Information!
September 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I wish folks better at organizing and publishing than me, like @nikadubrovsky.bsky.social and @chrishaughton.bsky.social could figure out how to turn a book like People's History of the United States into a series of kids books like History of Information!
August 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
@proton.me it would be great if the "from" field in proton mail could be a searchable drop down with any alias I had setup.
Same for sharing files from Proton Drive
Same for sharing files from Proton Drive
July 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
@proton.me it would be great if the "from" field in proton mail could be a searchable drop down with any alias I had setup.
Same for sharing files from Proton Drive
Same for sharing files from Proton Drive
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To the folks who insist worker ownership isn't compatible with "human nature"—we have empirical research over decades that shows the exact opposite. Worker ownership and participation are linked to increases in satisfaction and productivity. Psychological ownership is a real, studied phenomenon.
The Case for Employee Ownership - CLEO
The case for employee ownership is undisputed. As philanthropists and government leaders grapple with how to address both long-entrenched and newly-emerging forms of economic insecurity, there is no b...
cleo.rutgers.edu
July 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
To the folks who insist worker ownership isn't compatible with "human nature"—we have empirical research over decades that shows the exact opposite. Worker ownership and participation are linked to increases in satisfaction and productivity. Psychological ownership is a real, studied phenomenon.
"People will always, eventually, be able to escape the tyranny of despots, but they do not know how to throw off the effects of their own despotism."
July 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"People will always, eventually, be able to escape the tyranny of despots, but they do not know how to throw off the effects of their own despotism."
"The modern thesis is Capital, its antithesis is Communism. To progress towards well-being we must find their synthesis."
July 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
"The modern thesis is Capital, its antithesis is Communism. To progress towards well-being we must find their synthesis."
If you're ever afraid of what a person in government can do, then you have the wrong government, not the wrong person.
July 18, 2025 at 11:15 PM
If you're ever afraid of what a person in government can do, then you have the wrong government, not the wrong person.
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The movie Cars is just how suburban city developers envision their inhabitants
July 13, 2025 at 2:03 AM
The movie Cars is just how suburban city developers envision their inhabitants
BREAKING: Narcissists are still narcissistic by themselves!
Narcissistic individuals are more prone to maladaptive daydreaming
Narcissistic individuals are more prone to maladaptive daydreaming
A new study suggests that narcissistic personality traits are linked to maladaptive daydreaming, with psychological defense mechanisms playing a key role in the relationship. The findings highlight how different defense styles may influence a person’s tendency to escape into fantasy.
www.psypost.org
July 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
BREAKING: Narcissists are still narcissistic by themselves!
Someone's doing an impression of a pour over 😂
July 11, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Someone's doing an impression of a pour over 😂
I asked AI for some ideas on what to plant with tomatoes to prevent common pests...it did ok with that.
I asked AI to go harvest the tomatoes and produce and can some sauce...it failed miserably at that.
I asked AI to go harvest the tomatoes and produce and can some sauce...it failed miserably at that.
July 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I asked AI for some ideas on what to plant with tomatoes to prevent common pests...it did ok with that.
I asked AI to go harvest the tomatoes and produce and can some sauce...it failed miserably at that.
I asked AI to go harvest the tomatoes and produce and can some sauce...it failed miserably at that.
"The more authoritarian an organization, the more likely that it's leaders are operating in purely imaginative worlds."
- James C. Scott, Two Cheers For Anarchism
- James C. Scott, Two Cheers For Anarchism
July 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
"The more authoritarian an organization, the more likely that it's leaders are operating in purely imaginative worlds."
- James C. Scott, Two Cheers For Anarchism
- James C. Scott, Two Cheers For Anarchism
The only way to achieve change with speed is coercion, be it intentional or unintentional.
Systems achieved through coercion, will always tend towards coerciveness.
Systems achieved through coercion, will always tend towards coerciveness.
June 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The only way to achieve change with speed is coercion, be it intentional or unintentional.
Systems achieved through coercion, will always tend towards coerciveness.
Systems achieved through coercion, will always tend towards coerciveness.
Etemology is just epistemology with the pis scared out of it!
(Or the pis taken from it if you prefer a British variant;)
(Or the pis taken from it if you prefer a British variant;)
June 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Etemology is just epistemology with the pis scared out of it!
(Or the pis taken from it if you prefer a British variant;)
(Or the pis taken from it if you prefer a British variant;)
Possibility is more important than problems or progress.
June 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Possibility is more important than problems or progress.
Scale, speed, and practicality are always the ardent defenders of the status quo.
June 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Scale, speed, and practicality are always the ardent defenders of the status quo.
Any US employer that truly cares about their employees well-being would do what they could to support healthcare not being coupled to employment.
June 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Any US employer that truly cares about their employees well-being would do what they could to support healthcare not being coupled to employment.
A worthy cause imo
We have launched a small online shop to help fund the Music Library we're building.
Due to Shopify keeping most of the profits — we’re looking for partners to print and distribute our merchandise directly.
If you know of potential partners, please do contact us: info@davidgraeber.org
Due to Shopify keeping most of the profits — we’re looking for partners to print and distribute our merchandise directly.
If you know of potential partners, please do contact us: info@davidgraeber.org
June 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
A worthy cause imo
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Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan promised we'd be all better off.
But we just ended up poorer with a system that resembles Feudalism.
But we just ended up poorer with a system that resembles Feudalism.
June 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan promised we'd be all better off.
But we just ended up poorer with a system that resembles Feudalism.
But we just ended up poorer with a system that resembles Feudalism.
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We’re at a crossroads in the US, poised between a politics of suspicion and retreat, and another founded on expansive relationships of mutual aid and collective solidarity. A new feature essay in The Guardian, adapted from my new book, Something Between Us.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
I crisscrossed America to talk to people whose views I disagreed with. I now have one certainty
I’ve spoken to white nationalists in Tennessee and Black activists in Texas – and learned about what it takes to connect across difference
www.theguardian.com
June 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
We’re at a crossroads in the US, poised between a politics of suspicion and retreat, and another founded on expansive relationships of mutual aid and collective solidarity. A new feature essay in The Guardian, adapted from my new book, Something Between Us.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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When folks think of organizations with a democratic ethos, they often picture an organization run through consensus. In reality, the experience of democracy in an organization has three qualities:
May 30, 2025 at 5:43 AM
When folks think of organizations with a democratic ethos, they often picture an organization run through consensus. In reality, the experience of democracy in an organization has three qualities:
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My article on relocating and centralising UK power is now accessible. If we want to rebuild political trust across the UK, then we need to rethink where power is held and who has access to it.
open.substack.com/pub/thenorth...
open.substack.com/pub/thenorth...
Northern Power: Rethinking Westminster's Geographical Position in the UK
Dr. Adam North discusses the possible benefits of moving Parliament to the North.
open.substack.com
May 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
My article on relocating and centralising UK power is now accessible. If we want to rebuild political trust across the UK, then we need to rethink where power is held and who has access to it.
open.substack.com/pub/thenorth...
open.substack.com/pub/thenorth...
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It seems that China and the US take fundamentally different approaches to developing artificial intelligence—not only technologically, but ideologically. 1/
May 29, 2025 at 10:38 AM
It seems that China and the US take fundamentally different approaches to developing artificial intelligence—not only technologically, but ideologically. 1/