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   RMcNeely (mcneely@jawns.club)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 10:36:42 JST RMcNeely

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   @jonah @grimalkina @alexhammy said CEO tried to shake down one of his competitors bc they're owned by private equity.

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 10:36:44 JST Cat Hicks

     I'm going to regret this but I need an ELI5 for the WordPress situation??? I mean sociologically speaking how did it get here

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     Jonah Aragon (jonah@mastodon.neat.computer)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 10:36:44 JST Jonah Aragon

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     @grimalkina @alexhammy I think it boils down to that it turned out Wordpress.org is really just run by one guy and wasn’t actually a community project

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     RMcNeely (mcneely@jawns.club)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 13:02:22 JST RMcNeely

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     @jonah @grimalkina @alexhammy
     So its this image vs a private equity firm. There's no winners only losers in this drama https://xoxo.zone/@lazerwalker/113297704893474421

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Oct-2024 01:27:29 JST Cat Hicks

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     (yeah it IS a terrible term that no one can spell though, lol! That's part of why I like it)

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Oct-2024 01:27:29 JST Cat Hicks

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     One theory that I have always found compelling from more recent psych on this is the uncertainty theory wrt to intergroup cohesion/formation. Basically, just like with the "just world hypothesis," we have a lot of very deep reasons that we want to resolve "group uncertainty." IS something a cohesive group? DO we share a common fate? IS this my ingroup? We actually navigate highly ambiguous group situations a lot, but people show quite a bias to resolve that uncertainty with entitativity

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Oct-2024 01:27:29 JST Cat Hicks

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     As I work on my book (Psychology of software teams! Stay tuned :D ), I have been reading DEEP in the science of in-group formation/and all the mechanisms of how we rapidly form, question, and re-form groups, and sides; this is sometimes called "coalitional cognition" (Cikara, 2021) and I think it is so important for understanding how we can create healthier organizations -- far more actionable imho than many of the isolated, individualistic stories we've been telling about "productivity"

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Oct-2024 01:27:30 JST Cat Hicks

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     one thing I'm getting from this is it's a big surprise to a lot of people when "entities" turn out to be owned by a single person/or not following the entity-associated-governance-structures we might imagine for them, which is not really surprising to me actually

     Entitativity is a psychological phenomenon that may be worth pondering! aka, we bestow "groupness" and cohesion and internal organization on a lot of things, based on a lot of cues, that may not deserve it