If you believe food comes from a field, you will defend the field. If you believe the food comes from the supermarket, you will defend the supermarket.

yeah, we know that the conditions on which these practices developed don’t exist anymore, the context keep shifting and anything that is conceptually stable for more than a decade probably is unfit to create the change we need.

the decision of what’s possible or impossible shoudln’t be done through ideological discourse but through empirical practice. Ideologies are not tools for strategic development and they should stop being treated as such.

It’s an artifact of political debate done within the bubble of people who read too much theory or engage in discussions only with other political people. People who do politics and organizing in the real world are not so concerned about all these ideological nuances or asserting the value of one model over another.

If you don’t have the power to change things, all these abstracts models are useless and uninteresting. Discussing how to build power in the real world is a much better way to spend your political energy.

Avoid any group that begins their political reflection with a goal (like revolution), and join those that begin from a need. Do the same, and paths will appear.

start.coop

Fondazione PICO

Enspiral

platformcoops.de is not an incubator per se, but it has a similar function

startup cooperatives incubators are a thing.

online larpers performing opinion politics rather than active politics hate nuance. It’s pointless to argue with them. Just let them rot in their forgotten corner of the internet. There’s a future out there to win.

Any attack on a decently sized data center is de facto a paramilitary operation. To burn a data center, you either use a military equipment remotely Iran-Style, or you have to neutralize one or more armed personel. It’s not just vandalism.

Data Centers in mainstream media means hyperscalers. It’s true some of this hate is incidentally redirected towards small data centers but it’s a negligible problem at the moment.

That’s why they have always had militarized security.

I’ve read the book and it’s a very weird narrative. It’s so hyper-focused on organizing a few Big Tech companies that misses the general trend within the USA and doesn’t even remotely conceive that the majority of tech workers work outside the USA. Weird take.

It’s indeed a bit over-designed

that means also potentially stop selling their product in the country. Most big tech companies operate in open violation of GDPR and they are not held accountable only for political reasons. If the government has enough pressure to act, they might force Microsoft to bargain with a lot of leverage on the table. 1300 specialized jobs in Czech are no little business.

it’s not the USA. You can’t just do that. There are workers’ protections against stuff like this.

but also in the USA there’s a very strong tech worker movement. A book just came out to recount the story of the new wave. Look up Against The Oligarch

Most Italian women I know would have a panic attack if they went out with a tracksuit or a pajama like Americans do. That’s stuff that only happens in nightmares and if you’re 20 in a slum outside of Milan. Anyway Rome is not considered particularly fashionable in Italy. You find the highest attention for this stuff in most cities in the North, with Milan being the center of the fashion industry and smaller towns being more bougie, and then in the South with the “show off the bling bling” culture more common throughout the Mediterranean. In the North, the minimum is to dress like for a fashion show, in the South the minimum is to dress like for a wedding. In the center they care less.

True, but they are going to wear it with sneakers.

at the airport you also have higher chances to meet people from different countries and cultures with different standards for what is casual clothing. A fancy dress for an American is an outfit to go at the grocery store for an Italian or a French

lol, what are you even talking about? The tech sector is seeing a surge of organizing throughout the world and has plenty of unions, some even decades old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unionization_in_the_tech_sector#Romania