Matt Cropp
@mattcropp.bsky.social
In #BTV #Vermont.
Steeped in the deep lore of co-ops, employee ownership, & solidarity economics.
Enjoys amateurish tinkering on electronics and energy with hackerspace friends.
Preschooler parent.
Now is the Time of Monsters.
Steeped in the deep lore of co-ops, employee ownership, & solidarity economics.
Enjoys amateurish tinkering on electronics and energy with hackerspace friends.
Preschooler parent.
Now is the Time of Monsters.
Honestly kept having this thought when reading amb's Emergent Strategy while traveling for the holiday.
In a reality characterized by constant change and uncertainty, intentionally working to cultivate characteristics in people that facilitate trust, accountability, and collaboration seems wise...
In a reality characterized by constant change and uncertainty, intentionally working to cultivate characteristics in people that facilitate trust, accountability, and collaboration seems wise...
November 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Honestly kept having this thought when reading amb's Emergent Strategy while traveling for the holiday.
In a reality characterized by constant change and uncertainty, intentionally working to cultivate characteristics in people that facilitate trust, accountability, and collaboration seems wise...
In a reality characterized by constant change and uncertainty, intentionally working to cultivate characteristics in people that facilitate trust, accountability, and collaboration seems wise...
Left-coded virtue ethics 👀
November 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Left-coded virtue ethics 👀
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Whenever I engage in politics talk with someone left of center, it is readily apparent who still has an active twitter account and who doesn't
November 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Whenever I engage in politics talk with someone left of center, it is readily apparent who still has an active twitter account and who doesn't
Can't be neutral on a moving train.
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Can't be neutral on a moving train.
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Desperately trying to commune with the AGI machine-god while the creditors are ramming down the door
November 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Desperately trying to commune with the AGI machine-god while the creditors are ramming down the door
Reminds me of the number of Weird Al parodies I heard as a kid long before I heard their referents...
November 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Reminds me of the number of Weird Al parodies I heard as a kid long before I heard their referents...
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I sometimes wonder about our ancestors' annihilation of the megafauna as a pre-historic Foucault's Boomerang?
The techniques developed to take down the mammoth turned inwards...
The techniques developed to take down the mammoth turned inwards...
November 20, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I sometimes wonder about our ancestors' annihilation of the megafauna as a pre-historic Foucault's Boomerang?
The techniques developed to take down the mammoth turned inwards...
The techniques developed to take down the mammoth turned inwards...
I sometimes wonder about our ancestors' annihilation of the megafauna as a pre-historic Foucault's Boomerang?
The techniques developed to take down the mammoth turned inwards...
The techniques developed to take down the mammoth turned inwards...
November 20, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I sometimes wonder about our ancestors' annihilation of the megafauna as a pre-historic Foucault's Boomerang?
The techniques developed to take down the mammoth turned inwards...
The techniques developed to take down the mammoth turned inwards...
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Biggest subsidy is the 30 year mortgage. It’s a loan no bank ever would write in large volumes. Much less with terms like fixed rates, fully amortizing, with little to no recourse. Undoing that is probably approaching “undo social security” levels of toxicity.
November 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Biggest subsidy is the 30 year mortgage. It’s a loan no bank ever would write in large volumes. Much less with terms like fixed rates, fully amortizing, with little to no recourse. Undoing that is probably approaching “undo social security” levels of toxicity.
Hard to imagine it having had the same character if the Obama stimulus has gone as hard as the COVID one...
November 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Hard to imagine it having had the same character if the Obama stimulus has gone as hard as the COVID one...
So, many of the hardcore participants experienced OWS more as a developmental moment/milestone rather than a movement in the traditional sense, and then radiated out into a wide universe of different things in ways that are still informed by those experiences.
November 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
So, many of the hardcore participants experienced OWS more as a developmental moment/milestone rather than a movement in the traditional sense, and then radiated out into a wide universe of different things in ways that are still informed by those experiences.
I also think a key piece that was not explicit, but core to it, is that the foot soldiers were under- and un-employed Great Recession Millennials who had little to lose dropping out of their shitty temp jobs for a few months to express their rage while getting an organizing crash course.
November 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I also think a key piece that was not explicit, but core to it, is that the foot soldiers were under- and un-employed Great Recession Millennials who had little to lose dropping out of their shitty temp jobs for a few months to express their rage while getting an organizing crash course.
It's once again temporary exterior architectural light shelf season...
November 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
It's once again temporary exterior architectural light shelf season...
...particularly in the context of them receiving blanket pardons en masse on Trump's way out the door.
November 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
...particularly in the context of them receiving blanket pardons en masse on Trump's way out the door.