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:boosts_ok_gay:​ Research on digital unions 

I'm looking for research on union(like) structures made possible by digitalization, surely this presents opportunity for novel ways to organize, different from the standard union model.

But I'm having a hard time finding info on this, or why it has/hasn't worked out (yet)

> Our digital tools are new, the forms of work that they mediate are new, and many of
the challenges they raise are new. But, in a world where the atomization of work continues
to be used against digital workers, let’s not forget an old rallying cry that has served us well:
workers of the world, unite

all from ["Why the digital gig economy needs co-ops and unions"](ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:11c7)

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> [B]uilding on Gina Neff’s work so that this so-called ‘venture labour’ -the “explicit expression of entrepreneurial values by non-entrepreneurs" does not become the norm. In other words, workers recognizing that they
are receiving all of the risks of entrepreneurship, but few of the rewards

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> But if people see themselves as workers rather than entrepreneurs, then we have more possibilities for workers to collaborative attempt to help each other through cooperative horizontal relations

this is why everyone that calls themselves an "entrepreneur" is not to be trusted tbh

Just one example: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3

"I have a rail line right under my apartment, so I built a small computer vision app running on a Rasperry Pi which records each train passing, and tries to stitch an image of it.

It has a frontend at trains.jo-m.ch/"

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oh yeah This Week In Matrix is out, including my update on synapse-media-proxy with some benchmarks matrix.org/blog/posts#synapse-

A general update by the founders, progress on intentional mentions, the release of eternal IRC bridges… that and much MUCH more happened this week in Matrix!

matrix.org/blog/2023/04/28/thi

uni+ 

unexpectedly actually quite enjoyed this course's seminar, even though we had very limited time to prepare a presentation, and it being on a Friday afternoon

re: meta, bluesky, mastodon moderation 

on the other hand, the fact that people are looking at bluesky as providing a superior (less hostile) experience for some Black users is extremely damning of the fediverse and the anti-Blackness that persists here; it could be so much better but no

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sometimes the scariest thing is the unknown. and sometimes the scariest thing is SURPRISE SKELETON BONE ATTACK CURSE ATTACK

It's kind of a tragicomedy how people complain about "bloat" in software, and then vehemently oppose the single most effective solution to that problem (single-purpose dependency ecosystems) because of misguided associations and assumptions

the best part about hacking on my synapse-media-proxy project is that all my test media are cat photos i've made

tfw you exit Hyperfocus Mode and get hit with every status effect ever

update, I can forego dynamic ETag generation (Express default) because the MXC is guaranteed to have immutable content anyways, and with that I can now serve 2.47GB/s, over 415 requests/s

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