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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 01:21:09 JST Cory Doctorow

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   Inside: Tech's benevolent-dictator-for-life to authoritarian pipeline; and more!

   Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/10/bdfl/

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 01:22:12 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Hey look at this

     * Dane County judge strikes down Act 10, restoring public employee union bargaining rights https://www.wpr.org/news/dane-county-judge-strikes-down-act-10-restoring-public-employee-union-bargaining-rights (h/t @metafilter)

     * Specific Suggestions: Simple Sabotage for the 21st Century https://specificsuggestions.com/

     * How to Cut $2 Trillion in Federal Spending Without Breaking a Sweat https://stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/how-to-cut-2-trillion-in-federal

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 01:22:13 JST Cory Doctorow

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     Tech's benevolent-dictator-for-life to authoritarian pipeline: It's damned hard to be an anti-authoritarian in a C-suite.

     https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113629365310079313

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     ByronCinNZ (byroncinnz@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 07:41:44 JST ByronCinNZ

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     @pluralistic Thank you for a wonderfully epathetic look at tech BDFL's. This clarifies much of my thinking. Jimmy Wales example is a well chosen example of a way forward.
     In my work, in geospatial standards and FOSS software, I am focusing more and more on Governance. While treated as a dirty (or at best boring) word by many, it is key to understanding how to make the transitions you describe. I recommend https://sociocracy30.org to start reimagining what governance can be.

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     Phil Betts (philbetts@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 00:09:29 JST Phil Betts

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     @pluralistic Guido van Rossom, inventor of #Python - one of the most significant programming languages the last 10 years - is another like Jimmy Wales. He formally relinquished his role as (literally titled) BDFL in 2018. It wasn't entirely smooth, but remarkably, like the factory owner giving the business to the workers to run as a cooperative, he turned the whole thing over to the collective and said "you decide how you want to self-organise".

     Very cool.

     https://web.archive.org/web/20180713195259/https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-committers/2018-July/005664.html