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2021-08-14T16:00:10+01:00	(#<2kuchra https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=2kuchra>) >I feel this isn’t a good look.

I agree, a community that has to resort to bans to maintain their grip on power isn't a good look at all.

>And a possible sign of a deteriorating mental state.

Being emotionally invested in a toxic individual does tend to lead to mental state deterioration, yes. Effective strategies include using non-IRL identities which preclude doxxing, and quietly making friend contents with everyone useful in the room before getting banned, in order to have real conversations with them elsewhere.
2021-08-14T18:23:34+01:00	(#<xa5rzva https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=xa5rzva>) @prologic @<jlj https://twt.nfld.uk/user/jlj/twtxt.txt> >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.
2021-08-16T20:45:33+01:00	(#<xa5rzva https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=xa5rzva>) @<jlj https://twt.nfld.uk/user/jlj/twtxt.txt> @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> >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
2021-08-16T20:49:28+01:00	(#<xa5rzva https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=xa5rzva>) 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
2021-08-16T20:52:03+01:00	(#<xa5rzva https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=xa5rzva>) 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
2021-08-16T20:54:00+01:00	(#<xa5rzva https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=xa5rzva>) 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!!!
2021-10-28T07:35:20+01:00	@<jlj https://twt.nfld.uk/user/jlj/twtxt.txt> Would like your opinion on this long article on Autism please: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/i-have-been-through-this-before-bauer
2022-03-11T23:00:00Z	![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/tPD2PcprVE6iyBhX7U7NiV.png) 
hello world
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2022-08-31T01:00:15+01:00	@<akoizumi http://social.kyoko-project.wer.ee>