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I've made fifteen bots and all of them screencap each other in posts sometimes as if they're responding and I made one post one thing three weeks ago and somehow now I have a large mastodon instance accidentally, send help

groups where we have new learners doing their best means we get to show them how it works contextually again and again until they can use the knowledge or until they (or the group) accept that it's not gonna work for that part

and it means learning from a person, which is what some people actually need, even if a lot of techfolk don't

a flotilla of guilds of techs building amazing stuff, collaborating on even more amazing stuff, connected and creating more techs

you think education's good? great. offer to have your group at schools for demos!

you think the school system's bad? it is! it really sucks in a lot of ways. so fuck schools; do teaching in-house, or at-house.

tech seems to glorify this idea that people have to "learn" things themselves, when information is impossible to conjure from thin air and they know it.

it's easier not to teach.

but you want a tech future, do it.

it's getting walled in. look at java.

if it can be done and released, it could take off like the GPL, it could make it easier for startups to resist corporatization -- easier for them to be what they could have been when they first started, with real possibilities, and not metaphorical supervillain death rays created by accident and 'neutrality' to destructive shit

"don't be evil" is all people have to do to let evil win, and it's easy to let yourself think it's all you can do.

it isn't. do good.

nothing even says this has to involve money at start; a guild charter with a good CoC and a short bylaw list, six to twelve people.

a list of reasons that the guild would be considered dissolved

these things can be translated carefully into contracts by the law-aware (or a hired attorney if you trust them to help dismantle the status quo) and discussed at length. but six to a dozen people could reach a consensus on this.

a guild structure to withstand megacorps

the problem with the way it's applied in corporate circles is that maximum SHORT-TERM capability is the goal

and what we need as humans and in tech as a community, IMO, is LONG-TERM capability improvement and honing, to bring forth more skilled folk and to help those who learn slowly to have exposure to things repeatedly

it's the difference between an intern as a glorified shadower and an initiate who's actively learning and doing in the correct environment for it

small groups can collaborate with other small groups (and they already do). and there's tons of people writing code for free, for self, for friends, for whatever.

an organizational structure loose enough to fit less-time-applied folk together for intermittent/slow projects or components

is also loose enough to fit full-time-keyboardists doing intensive, efficiency-sensitive, fast, etc. projects

it could teach those who do not have the time otherwise to learn tech

the software that could be created if people weren't shackled in these damned buildings and bolted into a system that drops a food pellet into their lap if they do the hard work for the keepers of the building and the data and the money

so many humans fleeing that cycle into a place where they can learn, they can code, they can get old hardware that's still good and contribute in kind with the help they can do

effective does not have to mean brutal hierarchies

because it's already happening -- people who can't get jobs in "real" places are doing odd jobs to help neighbors. things are breaking down into barter for some levels of the poverty zone.

if there are guilds

if the guilds can help individuals and groups retain control of their work

then maybe we can jump past the dark age cycle wholly and as the shitty things fall away and more things are less wasted

maybe the Renaissance will one day be the First Renaissance

maybe I'm naive down deep in my dead little lump of coal, but seriously, imagine it

imagine groups of a few dozen interacting, intereducating, intercooperating to build bigger things w/o it all slurped down in the legal quagmire of lawyers lashed to status quo

toolsmithing and bugfixing globally, hardware fixing and educating for locals

valued and valuable

and getting things for that -- money (if that fad persists, lol), maybe food and shelter at least

help

we need apprenticeships of the sort we had back when we were trying to enter the Renaissance

we need guilded crafters working in large leagued groups to keep moneylenders and accidental billionaires from eating them in smaller groups

imagine a future where dev group integrities are secured with crypto key groups tied to designed legal corporations; where even niche subgroups have dozens or hundreds of guilds