@alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy
Post-growth economist, citizen, runner. Network science, complex systems, digital anthropology, collective intelligence. Co-founder of Edgeryders, currently […]
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@alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gyReconnaissez-vous la phrase célèbre ?
@alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gyAt the #CLIMATEMARCH26 in Brussels with my #cohousing group ❤️
@alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gyReposted by @alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gyAs was foretold, once you abandon GDP as a measure of economic success, the key premise of the Draghi report falls apart. On wellbeing, the EU is not losing ground to the US, on the contrary. The EU is also outperforming the US on distribution and environmental performance.
@alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gyReposted by @alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gyThe end of work as a path to prosperity: in France, 8.5% of workers live in poverty. Travailler ne suffit plus : comment la France est entrée dans un long hiver salarial - […]
@alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gyAs was foretold, once you abandon GDP as a measure of economic success, the key premise of the Draghi report falls apart. On wellbeing, the EU is not losing ground to the US, on the contrary. The EU is also outperforming the US on distribution and environmental performance.
@mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gyWhoa. Retired head of the German BND (the country's lead intelligence agency) arrested for allegedly selling classified information to an unspecified foreign government. It appears have been quite the enterprise, involving his purchasing documents from a former underling. Apparently he was […]
@alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gyThe end of work as a path to prosperity: in France, 8.5% of workers live in poverty. Travailler ne suffit plus : comment la France est entrée dans un long hiver salarial - […]
@afa.todon.nl.ap.brid.gyReposted by @alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy(from My Voice, My Choice)
"TODDLERS ARE APPEARING BEFORE IMMIGRATION JUDGES. WITHOUT LAWYERS.
In the United States, migrant children as young as 2 are being brought before immigration courts that can determine whether they are deported. Many have no attorney.
A […]
@cellomomoncars.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gyRE: https://hachyderm.io/@celesteh/117370680295182566
On horses, cars, bicycles, and women
@dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gyReposted by @alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gyFediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
@alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gyOur passiflora has taken over the metal beam over our courtyard. Probably there was some kind of factory here once upon a time? Anyway, she's #solarpunk AF.
@alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gyReposted by @alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy"Leaving things alone is an underrated engineering skill. There is a point in your career where you begin to understand that a surprising amount of good work comes from refusing to touch things that are already doing their job."
https://graybeard.ing/software-drives-people-insane/
H/t @baldur
@alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gyCheck this out: an affiliate fellow of the Post Growth Institute won the Democratic nomination for Governor of Vermont on a platform of free health care, funded with tax hikes on high incomes and second homes. "Amanda Janoo, a political outsider whose progressive platform captured the […]
@erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gyReposted by @alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gyThe current CEO of Identity Digital (_formerly Donuts Inc_) named Akram Atallah, used to be the president of ICANN, the folx that “own” and “run” the internet. Under his leadership, ICANN introduced the new generic Top Level Domain program, or new gTLD, giving the creation of a new domain […]
@alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy"Leaving things alone is an underrated engineering skill. There is a point in your career where you begin to understand that a surprising amount of good work comes from refusing to touch things that are already doing their job."
https://graybeard.ing/software-drives-people-insane/
H/t @baldur
@alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gyReposted by @alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gyThis is very interesting: preliminary estimates of the costs of the 2026 heat waves in #Belgium are at or above 1% of GDP. One estimate says it will offset the entire predicted economic growth for 2026.
So, the powers that be refuse to take #climateAction because it would jeopardize "growth" […]
@alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gyA new study from U Gent presented to the Belgian Parliament: a tax on millionaire wealth in #Belgium would yield, depending on specifics about rates and revenue base, 4 to 12 billion EUR per year. Millionaire migration would have "only a limited effect".
The general public overwhelmingly […]
@alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gyI just applied for membership with @erpu . Way to go, @jon and everyone else!
@alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy@lowtech oh, The Reef is predicted to cost 8 years from launch to moving in. We are almost 5 years in now, working towards a building permit. If all goes well, the actual construction site will open a year from now.
@yogiomm.toad.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gyAmnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
