@prologic@twtxt.net I participated in some activism around copyright reform, 20 years ago, in Canada; met with my MP, did a bit of advocacy. It’s tough to get anywhere. And then they just try again, with new legislation, a few years down the road. Pretty crushing.
@prologic @jlj@twt.nfld.uk >I participated in some activism around copyright reform, 20 years ago, in Canada; met with my MP, did a bit of advocacy. It’s tough to get anywhere. And then they just try again, with new legislation, a few years down the road. Pretty crushing.
We need a collaborative zettelkasten of every piece of activism every one of our people have done and are doing to map out the angles and coordinate the attacks.
@search_social@twt.nfld.uk @prologic@twtxt.net Interesting. I mean, in my case, the battle was lost: that particular bill didn’t pass – because the parliamentary session ended; nothing to do with us or our efforts – but a different bill of similar effect was passed, a few years later.
I contributed to a political party that was founded in that fight and the fallout, for more than a decade afterwards. Nothing came of it. The party disbanded.
If I were to do it all again, I’d get directly involved, for the long haul. This stuff doesn’t work, part-time, and that’s all I can give, after my family, right now. That’ll change in a few years, though, I’d imagine.
I’d like my kids to have more hope than me.
@jlj@twt.nfld.uk @prologic@twtxt.net >particular bill >disbanded party >long haul
So I am becoming more and more a fan of Conway’s Law here or more precisely the inverse of Conway’s Law which I will call Conway’s Aspiration: If you want an organization to behave a certain way, then create the communications structures that parallel that way [implied: don’t try to make the behavior happen].
Once you stabilize a certain comms pattern i.e. interaction+trust social graph, then that comms pattern will foster any concept that follows that same pattern, even if it’s not the original concept that
stabilized the comms pattern. The original excuse for the comms pattern becomes a “carrier signal” which can embed and transmit the new concept even if the new concept isn’t strong enough to be transmitted alone.
So, as an example, one could make, idk, a weekly soccer game for some coworker friends. And if some remote branches of the company also had weekly soccer games, you could organize a tournament of some kind where your team goes to play their team. Here soccer is stabilizing a comm structure of local co-worker groups as well connections between those co-worker g
roups. But once that comms structure is stabilized, that same “shape” can trivially organize a union or union-like actions, even though the original goal had nothing to do with unions, and even if no one would have joined a union goal originally (pre trust/interaction), and even if a union would have been put down but a soccer wouldn’t.
So, getting more to the point. If you make a worldwide internetwork of local friend groups hosted on twitter, which restricts all voting to a rigid set that they also control completely; then you’ve Conway’d yourself into a comms struct
ure which guarantees, by it’s very foundation, no challenge can ever be organized, because it’s literally impossible to form that shape in the network. But if you make a worldwide internetwork of local friend groups hosted on fediverse, with in addition a ton of voting plug-ins; then even if those voting plugins are only initially used for games and shitposting and tarot reading; you’ve now Conway’d yourself into a strong and thriving comms struct that is also capable of being turned, in an instant, to a useful democratic goal, and ergo it will be!!!
Interesting, indeed.
Reminds me of a secretive organisation, that builds in networks by deliberately doing intakes as sizable groups that it then uniquely identifies as a cohort. Recruits are then tested, individually, but also in teams. Bonds form over the year. Then graduates are spread all around the organisation. A strong, internal network, outside the org chart, useful for busting groupthink, as well as the more traditional GTD.