For the last 20 years the #dotcons economy has been built around what I call the #miseryeconomy: monetising scarcity, control and user dissatisfaction.

The business model is simple: create dependency, limit choice, exploit attention and personal data, then charge people to escape the very problems you've created.

This isn't a healthy economy, it's a system that profits from keeping people disempowered and dissatisfied.

We need to move beyond the #miseryeconomy towards a #lifecult economy built on abundance, cooperation, shared ownership and grassroots participation.To stop common sense monetizing the problems and start building the commons.

#OMN #4opens #openweb

@JMMaok The article gets into that a little further down.

@inpc

I hope it's all over and done as quickly as possible tomorrow!

@djsundog Tho I lean more into some Hillbilly Modern style, "they nae enuf singular noun in the hizzy".

@startrekgifs I think this must be a remaster. I was sure it must be Picard until I saw the two guys after the cut. lol

Wonder if this automatically contacts Apple and voids your warranty.

The problem isn't simply that open source has feudal governance; it's that only decentralizing technology reproduces the same old hierarchy under a different name. The #Fediverse gives us a chance to build something better, but decentralization alone isn't democracy.

Feudalism in code is still feudalism.

Four years ago I was arguing that feudalism was a poor model of governance for #opensource and #freesoftware. That argument hasn't aged out. Too often, decision-making still rests with project founders, core developers, instance admins, funders and the people who control the infrastructure. Everyone else gets a voice only when those above them choose to listen.

This is the weakness in much of the current path. We have built copy's of corporate platforms, but carried over their top-down assumptions: gatekeepers, personality politics, informal hierarchies and governance by whoever happens to hold the hard coded roles..

Stepping away from this is what we're exploring with #OGB - putting horizontal governance into practice and, where possible, into the code itself.

The #Fediverse is a be a place to try this. But it won't happen by magic.

#OMN #4opens #openweb #FOSS

@jalefkowit

How common is that gap? I feel like that situation should trigger a large red flag to be stamped on the cover of the stock prospectus.

Ok, but have we tried partying in the USA lately?

I’ll be over here both nodding my head and moving my hips like yeah, see if that fixes things any

But that often doesn’t happen because there’s something missing: a label for the button item. If you’re one of those developers who doesn’t pay close attention to accessibility, now you have an accessibility problem because your ⋯ menu doesn’t open.

The fix is simple and will benefit customers with and without vision difficulties: add a label to your bar button item. An accessibility label is not appropriate either: it describes the control and is not a label despite its name.

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@faraiwe @Rycaut 😬

@Rycaut @faraiwe @ai6yr Agree. I met a lot of wonderful teachers from Wisconsin who moved here to WA after Scott Walker & his hideous WI GOP passed Act 10 & made their lives a living hell. We just lost a teacher last year who went back to WI because most of her family is still there, plus housing is WAY cheaper there than here & Scott Walker is now a wanna be with no power who just pops up on Fox occasionally to blather incessantly about stupid crap.

and plugged it in in the worst way. i think though that microusb connectors are not long enough to contact the other side

#kitty_odysseus #5

http://triapul.cz/kitty_odysseus

#comic

Where have you seen this?

#startrek #gif #quiz #riddle #game #TOS #startrekTOS #guid87fcd82cf02d

@AG7GM @stuffjolikes It's so bad now we put a piece of tape with purchase date of appliances on the front of the appliance. (we also burn through microwaves about every 2 years... non-fixable).

@aphyr and such purty colors, too…😎

Much of the economic growth over the last 20 years has been built on manufacturing misery, then charging us to escape it.

Create the problem, monetize the solution. That's the #miseryeconomy.