@eduzsh

I think perhaps you meant to reply to this toot: https://social.coop/@smallcircles/117206354772977259 ?

Yes, that is true. But the concept of #SOSS takes that into account, being adapted for today's reality. It brings an extension to the idea of "working in public" that is common in #FOSS, and introduces "working in commons". This #commons is a more value-aligned protected space, where participants take care of each other's needs, following #sustainability-first principles.

Service-orientation that comes with the paradigm shift to the #ProsocialWeb is not just technical in nature, but extends into social-cultural space, where people are focused to satisfy needs on the basis of value exchange. Within this environment a commons-based value #economy may emerge.

There are already very promising technologies on the #SocialWeb that may be foundations for such an economy, such as https://valueflo.ws and the #Bonfire project, that is working to support the #Valueflows specifications.

🫧 Social coding commons » 🌐 2026-09-03 / 2026-09-03
@smallcircles@social.coop

@omkar_foss

Totally. The way #AI wrecks #FOSS culture leads to a lot of soul searching on the merits of the FOSS model we always held dear. FOSS in-the-large may be complicit even to the rise of #BigTech and #LLM, while for individual participants - all working on proper principles and values - it is inherently unsustainable, a burnout factory.

I think AI also opens opportunities. Corporations using it further retracted from directly serving people, leaving empty space, niches for small initiatives to occupy and focus on humaness, real human-to-human connection we crave.

#HCOSS fits perfectly.

Social experience design #SX uses the concept of #SOSS here. See the quoted toot. FOSS software is delivered via Social supply chains, where the needs of all participants in the delivery process are considered.

This concept fits perfectly with the solution-oriented #ActivityPub fediverse of #apps and #services, to offer support. #ForgeFed makes a start on this path.

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116441367197290233

Trump’s Broken Promises, in 11 Charts

1. #Economy
2. Federal Budget #Deficit
3. #NationalDebt
4. #Manufacturing

#Trump #FactCheck #TrumpLies #kakistocracy

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Chart Trump’s Broken Promises On Economy

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Chart Trump’s Broken Promises on the Budget Deficit

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Chart Trump’s Broken Promises on the National Debt

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Chart Trump’s Broken Promises on Manufacturing

#wildberries, #russia's #amazon, is droned to ruins

#ukraine is strangling russia's #economy

Andrei Klepach:

'Russia was “falling behind” China and the US and “in some respects Ukraine”… a “social crisis” would erupt “when no one particularly expects it… We will not win this competition in a war of attrition with Ukraine… We have an illusion that everything will collapse there… it won’t”'

and… he's fired

without dissent the folly of the echo chamber means failure

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/17/andrei-klepach-russian-banker-fired-warning-economy

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Russia Senior Russian banker fired after scathing speech on wartime economy Andrei Klepach of VEB said Russia’s economy was falling behind China, US and ‘in some respects Ukraine’ Europe live – latest updates Andrei Klepach in June 2022. He was fired days after Russian media reported on a scathing speech he had given in May this year. Photograph: Anton Vaganov/Reuters

AZ Mirror: Republicans cut healthcare spending. Now Arizonans are paying the price.

After three decades practicing in Arizona, I’ve never seen patients this afraid to seek care

https://azmirror.com/2026/08/05/republicans-cut-healthcare-spending-now-arizonans-are-paying-the-price/

#healthcare #publichealth #publicpolicy #insurance #economy #uspol

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@dyckron/117027856876620194

This sounds bad. 😬

"In the past five weeks, the market has collapsed, shedding almost 40 per cent, and threatening the livelihood of millions of South Koreans...

More than a million South Koreans are underwater as a result of the crash, and several hundred thousand have lost everything, and then some.

They borrowed to the hilt to take part in a frenzied splurge on technology stocks, particularly memory chip makers, in a market now experiencing a savage reversal.

Nothing, not even the stellar earnings of the country's two biggest chip makers, has been able to stem the panic, primarily because the debt that fuelled the stock market boom is now accentuating the crash."

#AI #Stocks #tech #technology #SouthKorea #economy #bubble

So VERY reminiscent of “if you don’t test so much the number COVID cases won’t be so high!” #Trump “logic”.

If the #Fed meets less often, reports of higher #inflation & a struggling #economy won’t be so abundant.

#KevinWarsh Considers Reducing Frequency of Fed Policy Meetings

The #FederalReserve has met at least 8 times a year for DECADES. Reducing the number of meetings would represent the biggest change by Kevin M. Warsh since Trump appointed him chairman.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/business/federal-reserve-warsh-meetings.html?unlocked_article_code=1.11A.gAOR.w90DdcQIOBKw&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Oh no! The economy!

The Guardian: ECB official warns climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’

"...A senior policymaker at the European Central Bank has said the climate emergency and the breakdown of nature poses a dramatically growing risk to the global economy...."

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/01/ecb-climate-wildfires-global-economy-stability

#climateemergency #climate #economy

The United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve is at its lowest level since 1983.

source: https://bipartisanpolicy.org/explainer/how-the-u-s-strategic-petroleum-reserve-works/

#petroleum #oil #economy #finance #news

"roughly $13 billion in Venezuelan oil revenue is held in frozen U.S. Treasury accounts as a black box with minimal public accounting."

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/US-Sale-Of-Venezuelas-Oil-Hits-13-Billion-Since-Trumps-Takeover.html

#Venezuela #oil #economy #Maduro

The #Pentagon now reports over 600 #casualties in Trump’s #IranWar. Officials quietly added over 140 wounded & restored 4 killed to database.

#TrumpsWar #US #Iran #war #ForeverWars #Trump #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #InternationalLaw #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #economy #inflation #affordability #CostOfLiving #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/26/politics/iran-war-casualties?cid=ios_app

#GiftArticle

#Lula to #Trump∶ ‘No one will defeat us through #lies’

Opinion by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is the president of #Brazil.

#US #geopolitics #law #InternationalLaw #sovereignty #trade #economy #tariffs #ElectionInterference #coup #Jan6 #BigLie #JairBolsonaro
https://wapo.st/3Tl6JZQ

A year ago, I was taken aback by the publication, on a digital platform, of a letter from President Donald #Trump imposing a 50% #tariff on Brazilian goods. Its very first paragraph referred to former president #JairBolsonaro — who was #convicted last year for attempting a #coup d’état in #Brazil & is now under house arrest — making the political motivation behind the measure explicit.


#Lula #Brazil #law #InternationalLaw #trade #economy #sovereignty #ElectionInterference #coup #Jan6 #BigLie

@elsua54 On identity and #passport:

Sure, it might work for you
(you prob had a good start in life right?).

Iincreasingly the demand is to use paperwork, ID, SIM card (say mid-level) to buy. #Passports sometimes to verify yourself.

Even without some, the other people are using those middle-men so you have much less people to work / create with (what Mastodon needs to answer).

People get "more options" provided by bad people in a bad #circular #economy that's #growing a #negative #alliance.

Is AI coming for our jobs?

200 economists and AI leaders have warned that AI may bring forth "an unprecedented transformation of our economy, larger than the Industrial Revolution." Founder and editor of Platformer @caseynewton goes through the facts and provides context to help us better understand what affect AI is having on jobs right now.

https://flip.it/KA5aUy

#AI #Economy #Business

https://youtu.be/rXHhpafZcaI

#ai #economy

A quotation from Horace

There was a stag, once, who could always defeat a stallion
And drive him out of their pasture — until, tired of losing,
The horse begged help of man, and got a bridle in return.
He beat the stag, all right, and he laughed — but then the rider
Stayed on his back, and the bit stayed in his mouth.
Give up your freedom, more worried about poverty than something
Greater than any sum of gold, and become a slave and stay
A slave forever, unable to live on only enough.
 
[Cervus equum pugna melior communibus herbis
pellebat, donec minor in certamine longo
imploravit opes hominis frenumque recepit;
sed postquam victor violins discessit ab hoste,
non equitem dorso, non frenum depulit ore.
Sic qui pauperiem veritus potiore metallis
libertate caret, dominum vehet improbus atque
serviet aeternum, quia parvo nesciet uti.]

Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 10 “To Aristius Fuscus,” l. 34ff (1.10.34-41) (20 BC) [tr. Raffel (1983)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/80424/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #avarice #bit #bridle #control #economy #enough #fear #financialsecurity #freedom #frugality #greed #impoverishment #insecurity #liberty #master #poverty #selfsufficiency #servility #sufficiency #worry

@stux
My account was terminated and the administrative window says it was due to spam,
I don't knowingly post spam.
Because I can't access the account, I can't see what post was considered spam.
Screen name: Tuckers Nuts Resist
Instance name: @JStatePost
Here's the offending post that was emailed to me as evidence of spam:

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@ChrisMayLA6
Prof May, those of us on this side of the pond can just replace "UK" with "US," and every word in your post remains accurate.
It's as if, left to their own devices, the morbidly wealthy will behave the same wherever they're found.
#UKPolitics #USPolitics #ExcessiveWealth #Economy #TuckersBalls

https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/115/544/362/645/954/682/original/967e24ddb3a2c1f7.jpg

Nov 13, 2025, 20:56 UTC
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PS: Sorry to have taken so long to have gotten back to you, but it took me forever to gather this information from a suspended account.

LOL I totally ignore the NY Times nowadays (especially the opinion section) but

#Ai #economy

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NY Times Opinion: A.I. Is Strangling Our Economy

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/116812731781109665

The blame falls right on the greedy CEOs, investors, etc. Glad they are being warned. If people have to fret about where they are going to get $30 for a donut, fast food coffee and a couple gallons of gas to get to their extremely low return paying job(s) that day, at least its nice to know that the CEOs have to worry they are being hunted like prey. #USpol #Inflation #Economy

#US - #Iran deal redraws the #MiddleEast∶

Iran gains, rivals alarmed

Across the Middle East — from #Israel to #GulfStates & factions in #Lebanon — it looks more like the curse of the century: an accord that could leave Iran more secure, more ‌legitimate & ultimately more influential.

#geopolitics #NewWorldOrder #TrumpsWar #IranWar #NationalSecurity #economy #Trump #idiocracy #kakistocracy
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-iran-deal-redraws-middle-east-iran-gains-rivals-alarmed-2026-06-18/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

I’ll believe it when I see it

#Pakistan's prime minister says #Iran, #US have reached peace deal; accord to cover #Lebanon

Tomorrow will bring some other excuse for #Trump to carpet bomb Iranian #civilians or their essential #infrastructure

Until Trump is gone, nothing means anything. Words are falsehoods. Government is a scam.

#TrumpsWar #IranWar #Israel #war #ForeverWars #Netanyahu #WarCrimes #RulesOfWar #InternationalLaw #law #Congress #WarPowers #economy
https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-war-ceasefire-deal-e0a9e4e1152ea8da10ea066ad174a23a

So I was out today in public (ran into an estate sale on the way back from a routine doctor's appt) and fascinating to hear the chatter among the people waiting in line to get in. A bunch of people complaining about healthcare costs, the greed of CEOs... *multiple* people who had to drive their kids to another hospital because our local hospital was taken over by HCA and wouldn't accept them as patients; complaints about how the hospital only cares about profits, and how different it is (with no blame to doctors and nurses, only the company and its executives). It was a lot of people nodding and agreeing, and (as far as I could tell) a very mixed political demographic and socioeconomic factors. Healthcare and hospital system CEOs may be one of the most hated groups of people in the world. #random #healthcare #economy

World leaders and corporate bosses are slowly cobbling together a digital 'singularity' system to monitor and control all human activity via AI-controlled systems. The plan is to extend the reach of this AI into every app, operating system, and device of every citizen, maintaining 24/7/365 real time monitoring of everything you do.

Different facets of the planned system are being individually implemented across an array of countries. The speech control system is implemented in Britain and being tested there. The social credit system is implemented in China and being tested there. The fake news and propaganda system is heavily implemented in the United States.

#AgeVerification in your operating system is a building block of the #SingularitySurveillanceSystem (#SSS). This system has been long in the planning and now the hidden hand is acting through its corporate and government storefronts to begin #Panopticon construction one building block at a time.

#GameOfDrones #Singularity #CBDC #Currency #Money #SocialCredit #Government #Economy #Enslavement #CreepingControl #ControlGrid

The warmongers spent eight trillion dollars to drop bombs on weddings, fatten defense contractors, and provide medical care for maimed soldiers ... but building homes for the homeless and poor would be evil socialism and we can't have that. In effect what is being implied is that we can't build homes for the poor, but we should instead use that money to bomb foreign nations for so-called democracy.

The money spent on military conquest could have built 80 million houses and provided millions of good, temporary jobs in construction.

In fact the money spent on the conquests in Iraq and Afghanistan could have made a quarter of Americans home owners.

The so-called government of this country HATES the people. And it shows. They are thieving, murdering liars and thugs full of active and chronic hatred and malice toward the people. We live in another Catholic-styled dark age, where the tax collectors and creditors rob the people and use the money to sniff out heretics.

I realize it is too much to ask. I realize you will all waste your energy whining about crap that doesn't matter, like entitlement programs and imaginary racism, instead of doing the things that actually build people up, like giving them a roof over their head free of the encumbrance of debt.

The government forces a fragmentation economy on the people that forces millions to move away from their families and home towns just to find work and housing, then calls it 'socialism' to build houses for the people they have intentionally uprooted. Sick. Just sick and evil.

#homeless #housing #war #economy

#GameOfDrones #Singularity #CBDC #Currency #Money #SocialCredit #Government #Economy #Enslavement #CreepingControl #ControlGrid

Different facets of the planned system are being individually implemented across an array of countries. The speech control system is implemented in Britain and being tested there. The social credit system is implemented in China and being tested there. The fake news and propaganda system is heavily implemented in the United States.

#GameOfDrones #Singularity #CBDC #Currency #Money #SocialCredit #Government #Economy #Enslavement #CreepingControl #ControlGrid

ABOLISH THE INCOME TAX NOW!

This is the most important letter I have ever penned to a public official. My message is that the income tax on worker wages is a insidious form of slavery that must be abolished. This is not a Democrat issue or a Republican issue. This is an issue of real justice for a nation of impoverished workers being taxed with a gratuitous and unnecessary income tax that has steadily lowered personal wealth and autonomy for several generations.

ABOLISH THE INCOME TAX NOW!

ABOLISH: verb; To do away with; put an end to; annul; to eradicate; to destroy completely; make void.

Notice that ABOLISH does not mean:

cut ; lessen ; lower.

It means to completely get rid of, en toto, entirely, as in ABOLISH SLAVERY.

So give no place to word games, Honorable Sir or Madame. Just. ABOLISH. INCOME. TAX. NOW.

Recently President Trump has vowed to push for the abolition of the income tax on American worker wages and replace the revenue streams with a tariff system. I require you get behind Mr. Trump, despite his warts and pimples and dimples and whatever character issues or political peeves and quibbles you might have with him--and move full steam ahead to draft, approve, legislate, and enter into law a bill abolishing the federal personal income tax on all domestic wages for all United States Citizens.

The income tax is a relic of feudal barbarism and imperialist war-making barbarism. It enriches a internationalist political class which is able to suck grants and subsidies from its piggly teat while disbursing tiny squirts and crumbs to the American people and their infrastructure. As an American, I have had enough of this thievery of my wages for funding every grimy and useless rent seeker under the sun.

Millions of Americans don't want to hear whiny excuses about how the Federal Government can't function without the Federal Income Tax. That is nonsense. America functioned for several generations during her greatest period of industrial and economic growth and power without an income tax. Then when the World Wars were ramping up we were saddled with this 'war tax' on our income to fund the war. Since then the taxes have kept us impoverished while making the war machine and grifter classes very rich. Workers' standard of living has steadily declined since the income tax was introduced and illegally retained after the World War about a hundred years ago.

I require that you push for, and vote yes on a COMPLETE AND TOTAL ABOLITION of the income tax for all employee wages, and ensure no new taxes are ever again levied on employee wages. If FedGov can print trillions of dollars to fund overseas adventures and endless wars, then FedGov doesn't need to be taxing us for anything. FedGov already taxes us through inflation anyway. Why the hell should any of us have to fill out a return? Maybe FedGov should file a return to us each year to show how much of our labor inflation has stolen from us.

If you don't work strenuously toward abolishing the federal income tax I will vote for whoever decides to run against you. If the federal income tax is abolished, I will vote for your re-election.

ABOLISH INCOME TAX NOW!

Very truly yours in freedom and liberation from tax serfdom,

John Doe American

#IncomeTax #AbolishIncomeTaxNow #Abolition #Tariffs #Economy #Taxes #GeoPolitics #Politics

@geopolitics@a.gup.pe @economics@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe

(IMPORTANT!) I don't much care for politics but this is a positive development for everyone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy290h4Yn18

(Boost, Copypasta to other networks, text your mom ... this is great news!)

Trump is talking very seriously about eliminating the income tax for U.S. Citizens. This is the first time a President has had the stones to seriously approach this issue. The income tax is the bread and butter of the military-industrial complex, which enriches itself on our backs. There is no time better than now to abolish the Federal Income Tax.

I don't believe the anti-tariff fear-mongerings. America funded its operations on tariffs for several generations, with no federal income tax at all. Plus the income tax is a war tax. It was implemented specifically, and I do mean SPECIFICALLY, for funding the war machine. Gutting the income tax guts the war machine.

There will be a lot of resistance from the Federal Reserve and the war machine military industrial complex. They depend on the income tax to foment wars and socially engineer our lives and their total information awareness panopticon.

The American people are taxed and that money is used to enrich the rich and the rest of the world through subsidies, bribes, grants, etc. Instead America should tax the rest of the world and enrich the American people. Abolishing the progressive personal income tax on wages is the first step in the right direction.

Whether you are Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, or whatever, now is the time to write to your representatives and demand that they support the abolition of the income tax. Fifty million letters should fill up Congressional mailboxes with ABOLISH THE INCOME TAX ON WAGES NOW! ABOLISH, NOT REDUCE! ABOLISH, NOT CUT! ABOLISH! emblazoned on the envelopes.

This is serious. It doesn't matter if your party lost or won the election. What matters is that we get this tax gorilla off the backs of all Americans. We have a President seriously talking about it repeatedly. Trump kept his promises to pardon Ross Ulbricht and other persons given draconian punishments by the courts. He has kept several other political promises. He promised to stump before Congress for the abolition of the income tax. Don't let the momentum die on this proposition. Don't let him wane on his commitment to abolition of the income tax. Get behind it and push!

Abolishing the income tax will do more good for American workers than all the political promises of the last twelve Presidential elections. This is an opportunity for real change for the average American.

#IncomeTax #AbolishIncomeTaxNow #Abolition #Tariffs #Economy #Taxes #GeoPolitics #Politics

@geopolitics@a.gup.pe @economics@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe