I am on the shitter instead of the shower. So, sorry if I babble crap. But imagine something like GitHub but for the purpose of restructuring society.
You should read Walkaway by Cory Doctorow. I think you’ll like it.
There’s also “A Half-Built Garden” novel where the whole “git as means of direct democracy” is central to the plot. Is gitpunk a genre?
I’ve just made it to that scene and I feel like I owe you a very hardy fuck you for recommending this gloriously weird book. Guess i’ll update when I’ve finished a chapter or two.
also known as philosophy
The revolution? What revolution? Against ze Germans? WTF are you on about?
Can you elaborate your thoughts? What does “A GitHub for restructuring society” look like?
Billions of completely unrelated developments of niche topics in languages most people don’t understand and then also hundreds of competing solutions to the same problems.
I’ve got some bad news for you. There is going to he no communist revolution. This isn’t early 20th century Russia
Not with that aditude no.
I’ve thought of this as well.
Git is a great version control and distributed collaboration system.
Just need to use it to manage a constitution, a bill of rights, and a legal framework. Legal code instead of computer code.
Technologically super easy. Convincing a government to switch to a new constitution is hard. We just need an amendment that amends the amendment process into a pull request approval.
We don’t need to convince the government. We just ignore it until it goes away. If it does not dissolve on its own, we just put it in a submarine.
Owned by microsoft 🤔
That’s what it is now. To much bloat, a stupid subscription model. It runs very slow while the machine runs way to hot.
Applecracy would at least be aesthetically pleasing. Imagine the dope uniforms that everybody would have to wear.
Hugo Boss maybe!
Just replace the skull with the apple and voila.
The scenario you describe is actually represented in a great free book from Cory Doctorow: https://boingboing.net/2009/10/28/makers-my-new-novel.html
Today is the launch of my new novel, Makers, a book about people who hack hardware, business-models, and living arrangements to discover ways of staying alive and happy even when the economy is falling down the toilet.
Think we need a new channel.
!c/shitterthoughts
I made a !shittyasklemmy@lemmy.uhhoh.com a while ago !