Conservative media is just a huge project of making it more thinkable for more classes of people to be demeaned, exploited, and disempowered by the actual elites in society.

Also, it feels too bad the thing turned out to be… this?

I love all those fictional stumbling computer people so much.

In the US, the big organization is the National Cooperative Business Association, and for worker co-ops the US Federation of Worker Co-ops. I haven’t kept up on scholarship on co-ops in a decade, but it is out there too.

subset of worker-owned businesses, and hybrids are tricky because they raise the question of whether everyone has equal ownership or whether there are two classes of owners and everyone within each class has equal ownership.

I would start with “cooperatives” and “cooperative businesses” as key terms. There had been a divide between worker co-ops and consumer co-ops, but there have been some hybrids, which are a subset of what you’re describing. Co-ops involve equal ownership, so worker co-op, for example, are a specific

What binding class did you take? I was just having the thought that I would love to take one (although it might be in a long list of things I would love to do).

Overall social media use is declining.

Between 2020 and 2024, more Americans — especially the youngest (18–24) and oldest (65+) — report using no social media at all.

A small group of heavy users remains, but the middle is thinning out.

"If something evil is popular, is it still evil?" is basically the defining social question of our time.

What LLMs are doing, fundamentally, is reaping the benefits of a vast spontaneous, directly social, decommodified decentralized production of use values.