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dana

@dana@social.coop

Economic Community, Pro-Poor, Co-ops, Socent, Commons, Science, Secularist, Urbanist, Globalist, Feminist, LGBTQ, BLM, LandBack, Migration, Degrowth, Democracy

Out on a run in Cville or NYC

MDiv, UTSNYC https://linktr.ee/danaburch

Profile pic: me white guy in red and blue flannel shirt by wall lantern with black hat, black shoulder bag and black sunglasses out at night in the city

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kill me just pls kill me

"the power of celebrity to shape public opinion. policy considerations, ideological positioning, and partisan cues all warp around the gravitational pull of megastardom in America."

dana,
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/23/opinion/trump-oprah-polls.html

dana,
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🌎🌏🌍 it's a global human impulse and travesty and tragedy

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Virginia has much to offer incl the 5-ft black snake in a tree hanging out 10-ft above my back door and birds trying to pester it and chase it off

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Nightmarish. I feel so sorry for everyone living there

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-mass-fish-die-vietnam-roasts.html

dana,
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@pvonhellermannn

"the investor" is only barely mentioned in the story, and obv is a factor in this death cycle for all of us 🌍🌎🌏

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Cooperative franchise case study - its all good

https://www.start.coop/case-studies/brightly

dana,
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@seachanger

Love it! Also the origin story of the franchise model as a new cooperative growth approach was a recent thesis for a masters business degree at mondragon university in spain by a brilliant creative brooklyn woman who worked with CFL before she started working on her degree.

dana,
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@seachanger totally with you

dana,
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@seachanger lol wahhh!

ntnsndr, to random
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"This article details how perversion can operate as a technique for establishing novel, voluntary infrastructures."

My latest, with Cassandra Dana, on "perverse attraction": https://www.zygonjournal.org/article/id/11013/

dana,
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@ntnsndr wow this is cool

dana, to random
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TIL cooperation at this scale officially

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euroregion

dana, to random
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TIL

"Estonian plan for the EU to issue defence bonds to guarantee long-term defence markets for industry, a proposal that has not yet found favour in Germany or the Netherlands, two countries traditionally opposed to the issuance of EU debt."

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The first review of is out! Thanks to the Co-operative News, ever the equitable pioneers: https://www.thenews.coop/175977/topic/technology/book-review-nathan-schneider-looks-for-ways-to-democratise-online-spaces/

The books will be free to the internet TOMORROW.

dana,
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@ntnsndr "the jurisdictions we inhabit" 👀

dana, to random
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What does your institution use imagination for?

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billionaires trying to personally shoot themselves into space forget that to achieve the dream of humans traveling the galaxies, we’d need many more millenia of advanced human society on earth, which billionaires are also destroying

“go fast alone or go far together” applies to space too bros

dana,
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@seachanger lol

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    dana,
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    @seachanger

    TIL

    "'Perhaps the most profound book you’ll read this year.

    Washington cleaves through all the cruel obfuscations and militaristic cant that derange our border and immigration politics and offers a better human alternative.

    Borders will not save us, or our rapidly broiling planet, but Washington's reportorial courage and ethical clarity just might.'"
    —Junot Díaz

    https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2199-the-case-for-open-borders

    ntnsndr, to random
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    An argument for why we need to turn how we think about tech and democracy inside-out.

    Democracy On, Not Just around, the Internet
    https://ash.harvard.edu/sites/hwpi.harvard.edu/files/ash/files/nathan_schneider_essay_v2.pdf?m=1706638829

    A new essay of mine from a Harvard Ash Center series on reimagining democracy.

    dana,
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    @ntnsndr what a line 🔥

    "the trouble of living our lives in contexts where daily democratic practices are unavailable"

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    @thepoliticalcat

    religious right

    dana,
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    @thepoliticalcat ✅️✅️

    dana, to random
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    Don't Gas Africa

    https://scientistrebellion.org/campaigns/dont-gas-africa/

    ntnsndr, (edited ) to random
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    It arrived! Coming out free to the internet on February 27.

    dana,
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    @ntnsndr

    Way to go can't wait to read this!

    dana,
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    Just found this @ntnsndr and it's so positive ✅️

    https://archive.org/details/25-09-45_-_what_should_community_governance_feel_like.qt

    dana,
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    @ntnsndr i've just been rummaging in open collective for entities that operate as fiscal hosts for small networks of collectives and saw metagov

    dana,
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    @ntnsndr have been thinking about creating a new fiscal host for some unincorporated relig groups

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    "Transform Finance has developed recommendations to serve as guidelines for moving capital toward the most transformative alternative ownership enterprises.

    They are relevant whether an investor is making deals directly with a startup enterprise, helping a company convert to an AOE, or investing in an AOE fund."

    https://ssir.org/articles/entry/investing_in_enterprises_that_work_for_everyone

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