Kit Redgrave 🕯️ @KitRedgrave@vulpine.club

More than one thing can be true at a time. Part of the issue, I think, with arguments here is that people are arguing about subtly different things under the same umbrella.

I absolutely do believe that consequences for shitty behavior can be necessary, both to minimize risk of ongoing harm and because consequences can spur growth and change.

At the same time, social media can cause a problem where consequences are disproportionate to the offence. Within a tight-knit social group, if one person levels accusations against another, people evaluate how to respond within the contexts of their existing opinions and relationships with the folks involved. "I choose to never associate with this person again" can and does absolutely happen, but it's not always a decision that can be made without cost.

With more far-flung social nets though, things can work differently. When someone sees a callout post that's often the entirety of the context they have for that person. The scope of an accusation can easily outstrip the social sphere of people who have any relevant stake in outcomes.

[cont]

For every gross dude you tolerate, there's almost certainly several people who are pushed out of that space you created for him

The more influential the gross dude, the more people will emulate him and help to push out even more people

And it's mostly women who get pushed out

So for the likes of RMS and Torvalds, the damage they have done to the field of Computer Science may be incalculable

Good riddance

The same day 49,000 members of the United Auto Workers union went on strike from working at GM

80,000 members of a coalition of unions of healthcare employees are planning a 7-day strike against Kaiser Permanente

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article235160682.html

I promise I didn't join the IWW to be trendy, but I can't say it isn't trendy.

https://iww.org

they/them now singular nonbinary pronouns in Webster dictionary

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/they

If FLOSS developers were to unionise, or form a guild, how would that work across borders?

i am very sceptical of US centric FLOSS foundations, what with all that slow slide into fascism…

in theory, the FSF is distributed. but in practice, it's fractured: fsfe (Europe) has been sick of Stallman's shit for over a decade, and had cut all ties

in finest distributed system fashion, we had a split brain situation

so, how about federating guilds?
local customs, global coöperation

“It is to writing what calculators are to calculus.”
https://transformer.huggingface.co/

(submitted by amai)

@KitRedgrave
void* x;
x = ((void*) &x);