Why Creative Commons must be about more than reducing friction on reuse This week, I had the experience of being told the work we are doing at Creative Commons right now is betraying the founding principles of the organization. This is not the first time and it won’t be the last.
Capitalism, the Commons, and Divine Right - Schumacher Center for a New Economics
Barnes defines the commons as "the sum of all we inherit together and must pass on, undiminished and more or less equally, to our heirs." The commons includes watersheds, air, DNA, playgrounds, Main Street, radio waves, political systems, and numerous other natural resources and social innovations. Barnes suggests that the commons should be held in trust for the benefit of current and future generations as a way of countering the power of the market and its search for short-term private profits.
The Missing Middle of Open Source
Why serious, maintainer-driven projects struggle to sustain themselves—and what it will take to fix it.
Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs — Codeberg News
In Brief: Two motions regarding
Why craft-lovers are losing their craft
Les Orchard made a quiet observation recently that I haven't been able to shake. Before LLM coding assistants arrived, the split between developers was…
The Drain of Scientific Publishing
The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and Universities, to lead the drive to re-communalise publishing to serve science not the market.
How creatives and devs can all finally escape the control of the silicon valley of evil and make a trillion dollars - Multi-hyphenate
ft. ATprotocol (the remix)
Open Letter to Organic Maps Shareholders
Community contributors to Organic Maps have expressed serious concerns about the project's governance, transparency, and the potential for shareholder profit at the expense of the community. They are calling for a shift to a nonprofit structure, greater inclusivity in decision-making, and financial transparency, and are considering starting a new project if these issues are not addressed.
Center for a Stateless Society
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The promise of ATproto is social media without corporate overlords
How creatives and devs can all finally escape the control of the silicon valley of evil and make a trillion dollars · Multi-hyphenate
ft. ATprotocol (the remix)
Don't Take the Black Pill - Andrew Kelley | SSW 2026
We mourn our craft
I didn’t ask for this and neither did you. I didn’t ask for a robot to consume every blog post and piece of code I ever wrote and parrot it back so that some hack could make money off o…
The Entire Internet Is a UGC Reaction Video Now
I keep a folder in Apple Notes called “cursed websites,” where I save various artefacts that make me feel like the social contract has dissolved. Call it an act of self-loathing. Call it collecting evidence of the fall. Dansugc.com went straight into the folder this morning. It’s a
Composable Trust, Part 1: Communities Without Credible Exit - Eclectic Corvine Muses
We guarantee that users aren’t subject to platforms. Yet communities are still subject to their stewards. Can we fix this?
Software Should Be Allowed to Be Weird - Ewan’s Blog
A fairly large amount of the software I write would probably die in a corporate planning meeting. There would be questions about the target audience, the bu…