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Alberto Cottica

@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green
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Post-growth economist, citizen, runner. Network science, complex systems, digital anthropology, collective intelligence. Co-founder of Edgeryders, currently at UNDP Accelerator Labs. Ex minor rockstar. Polyamorous. Thoughts my own.

#economics
#degrowth
#postgrowth
#anthropology
#NetworkScience

No license, implied or explicit, is granted to use any of my posts for training AI models.

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Joined November 03, 2022
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Alberto Cottica
@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green

Post-growth economist, citizen, runner. Network science, complex systems, digital anthropology, collective intelligence. Co-founder of Edgeryders, currently at UNDP Accelerator Labs. Ex minor rockstar. Polyamorous. Thoughts my own. # economics # degrowth # postgrowth # anthropology # NetworkScience No license, implied or explicit, is granted to use any of my posts for training AI models.

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Alberto Cottica
@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green

Post-growth economist, citizen, runner. Network science, complex systems, digital anthropology, collective intelligence. Co-founder of Edgeryders, currently at UNDP Accelerator Labs. Ex minor rockstar. Polyamorous. Thoughts my own. # economics # degrowth # postgrowth # anthropology # NetworkScience No license, implied or explicit, is granted to use any of my posts for training AI models.

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@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green · 2d ago
RE: https://social.circl.lu/@quinn/116226841046117998 Very interesting thread. Like some of the folks in it, I see a real risk that Europeans wrap themselves into a "holier than thou" mentality, whereas we are really following America down the drain, and fast. I am 60 years old. For my entire life, it was a minority of 25-30% leftists pushing back to, at least, slowing down societal enshittification. Everyone else was happily pushing financial bubbles, overconsumption, privatization of public services, and TINA.
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Quinn Norton @quinn@social.circl.lu

Europeans don't, maybe sometimes can't, understand the absolute crushing pressure and gaslighting that most Americans are put through to make us the way we are.

It's a decades long effort to turn most of the population into a money and power pump for a tiny elite class, all while grinding us into dust.

We're crazy and scared all the time, and have no idea what's going on in the rest of the world.

There's a reason dying of opiates seemed like a rational choice to a lot of people.

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Alberto Cottica
@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green

Post-growth economist, citizen, runner. Network science, complex systems, digital anthropology, collective intelligence. Co-founder of Edgeryders, currently at UNDP Accelerator Labs. Ex minor rockstar. Polyamorous. Thoughts my own. # economics # degrowth # postgrowth # anthropology # NetworkScience No license, implied or explicit, is granted to use any of my posts for training AI models.

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Alberto Cottica
@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green

Post-growth economist, citizen, runner. Network science, complex systems, digital anthropology, collective intelligence. Co-founder of Edgeryders, currently at UNDP Accelerator Labs. Ex minor rockstar. Polyamorous. Thoughts my own. # economics # degrowth # postgrowth # anthropology # NetworkScience No license, implied or explicit, is granted to use any of my posts for training AI models.

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@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green · 5d ago

This is a dark, beautiful, sobering post. We all live downstream from the mindset of "violence, then rebuild, all the while profiting from it".

Read it.
@shibacomputer@post.lurk.org

#signal #digitalInfrastructure #capitalism

EDIT: author @shibacomputer@post.lurk.org is on Mastodon

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Alberto Cottica
@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green

Post-growth economist, citizen, runner. Network science, complex systems, digital anthropology, collective intelligence. Co-founder of Edgeryders, currently at UNDP Accelerator Labs. Ex minor rockstar. Polyamorous. Thoughts my own. # economics # degrowth # postgrowth # anthropology # NetworkScience No license, implied or explicit, is granted to use any of my posts for training AI models.

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Alberto Cottica
Alberto Cottica
@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green

Post-growth economist, citizen, runner. Network science, complex systems, digital anthropology, collective intelligence. Co-founder of Edgeryders, currently at UNDP Accelerator Labs. Ex minor rockstar. Polyamorous. Thoughts my own. # economics # degrowth # postgrowth # anthropology # NetworkScience No license, implied or explicit, is granted to use any of my posts for training AI models.

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@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green · 6d ago

"Cities tend to innovate most in areas that are politically and administratively least contentious — and avoid innovating where the green transition is most distributive, conflictual, and therefore legitimacy-sensitive."

Or, as Jason Hickel would put it, the scarce resource of economic transformation is politics.

#cities
#economics
#newEconomicThinking

https://rainerkattel.substack.com/p/cities-invented-democracynow-they

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Alberto Cottica
@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green

Post-growth economist, citizen, runner. Network science, complex systems, digital anthropology, collective intelligence. Co-founder of Edgeryders, currently at UNDP Accelerator Labs. Ex minor rockstar. Polyamorous. Thoughts my own. # economics # degrowth # postgrowth # anthropology # NetworkScience No license, implied or explicit, is granted to use any of my posts for training AI models.

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Alberto Cottica
@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green

Post-growth economist, citizen, runner. Network science, complex systems, digital anthropology, collective intelligence. Co-founder of Edgeryders, currently at UNDP Accelerator Labs. Ex minor rockstar. Polyamorous. Thoughts my own. # economics # degrowth # postgrowth # anthropology # NetworkScience No license, implied or explicit, is granted to use any of my posts for training AI models.

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@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green · Mar 09, 2026

"Every degradation of an ecosystem is the cancellation of an insurance policy".

Hans Stegeman on how economic efficiency and resilience are in contrast with one another. Verbose, but interesting.

https://hansstegeman.substack.com/p/52-if-resilience-matters-more-than

#economics

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Alberto Cottica
@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green

Post-growth economist, citizen, runner. Network science, complex systems, digital anthropology, collective intelligence. Co-founder of Edgeryders, currently at UNDP Accelerator Labs. Ex minor rockstar. Polyamorous. Thoughts my own. # economics # degrowth # postgrowth # anthropology # NetworkScience No license, implied or explicit, is granted to use any of my posts for training AI models.

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Alberto Cottica
Alberto Cottica
@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green

Post-growth economist, citizen, runner. Network science, complex systems, digital anthropology, collective intelligence. Co-founder of Edgeryders, currently at UNDP Accelerator Labs. Ex minor rockstar. Polyamorous. Thoughts my own. # economics # degrowth # postgrowth # anthropology # NetworkScience No license, implied or explicit, is granted to use any of my posts for training AI models.

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@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green · Mar 08, 2026

Many moons ago, I used #RSS feed readers to read blogs. A recent post by @pluralistic@mamot.fr has pointed out that this technology is not gone, and we can use it to make the experience of the Internet, to borrow Cory's word, bearable.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/07/reader-mode/

OK. To all you out there in the know, a request for advice: what do I use on Ubuntu? I would really like not to see ads by the reader, it kind of defeats the purpose.

Huge thanks for suggestions.

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Alberto Cottica
@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green

Post-growth economist, citizen, runner. Network science, complex systems, digital anthropology, collective intelligence. Co-founder of Edgeryders, currently at UNDP Accelerator Labs. Ex minor rockstar. Polyamorous. Thoughts my own. # economics # degrowth # postgrowth # anthropology # NetworkScience No license, implied or explicit, is granted to use any of my posts for training AI models.

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Alberto Cottica
Alberto Cottica
@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green

Post-growth economist, citizen, runner. Network science, complex systems, digital anthropology, collective intelligence. Co-founder of Edgeryders, currently at UNDP Accelerator Labs. Ex minor rockstar. Polyamorous. Thoughts my own. # economics # degrowth # postgrowth # anthropology # NetworkScience No license, implied or explicit, is granted to use any of my posts for training AI models.

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@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green · Mar 04, 2026

"The key idea is that instead of public revenue being raised by taxing income from labour or economic activity, we should ensure that public revenue is raised by taxing wealth, financial assets, immovable property, financial transactions, and all the ills of the economy, including from the extractive industry and especially of fossil energy.”

Olivier De Schutter, the Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/03/un-de-schutter-outlines-plan-for-redistributive-global-economy

#degrowth #un #humanrights #economics

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Alberto Cottica
@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green

Post-growth economist, citizen, runner. Network science, complex systems, digital anthropology, collective intelligence. Co-founder of Edgeryders, currently at UNDP Accelerator Labs. Ex minor rockstar. Polyamorous. Thoughts my own. # economics # degrowth # postgrowth # anthropology # NetworkScience No license, implied or explicit, is granted to use any of my posts for training AI models.

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Alberto Cottica
Alberto Cottica
@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green

Post-growth economist, citizen, runner. Network science, complex systems, digital anthropology, collective intelligence. Co-founder of Edgeryders, currently at UNDP Accelerator Labs. Ex minor rockstar. Polyamorous. Thoughts my own. # economics # degrowth # postgrowth # anthropology # NetworkScience No license, implied or explicit, is granted to use any of my posts for training AI models.

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@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green · Feb 22, 2026

"Our goal is for people to cook more and smarter". In this French town, over five years:

* 71% of inhabitants report changing their eating habits.
* Consumption of ultra-processed foodstuff declined 30%
* Meat consumption declined 23%
* Fruit and vegetables consumption increased 16%
* Organic and season product consumption increased 28 and 10%.
* Carbon footprint decreased 26% (not clear if this refers to the footprint of food systems or overall)

https://www.alternatives-economiques.fr/moins-de-viande-et-plus-de-bio-comment-mouans-sartoux-a-change-lassiette-de/00117779 (French)
#foodsystems

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Alberto Cottica
@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green

Post-growth economist, citizen, runner. Network science, complex systems, digital anthropology, collective intelligence. Co-founder of Edgeryders, currently at UNDP Accelerator Labs. Ex minor rockstar. Polyamorous. Thoughts my own. # economics # degrowth # postgrowth # anthropology # NetworkScience No license, implied or explicit, is granted to use any of my posts for training AI models.

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Alberto Cottica
Alberto Cottica
@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green

Post-growth economist, citizen, runner. Network science, complex systems, digital anthropology, collective intelligence. Co-founder of Edgeryders, currently at UNDP Accelerator Labs. Ex minor rockstar. Polyamorous. Thoughts my own. # economics # degrowth # postgrowth # anthropology # NetworkScience No license, implied or explicit, is granted to use any of my posts for training AI models.

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@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green · Jan 28, 2026
Surprise: solar panels maintain most of their efficiency over several decades. #goodnews #solarpunk https://www.bocvip.com/1170237/goodbye-to-the-idea-that-solar-panels-die-after-25-years-a-new-study-says-the-warranty-does-not-mark-the-end-and-performance-can-last-for-decades-arrays-built-in-the-late-1980s-st/
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