Jaycie @jaycie@vulpine.club

i finally understood the marxist theory of the alienation of labor when i realized it's just that sensation of your work having no relationship to your community's welfare, your boss having no connection to you as a person with an independent will, and generally their seeming like a creature from another dimension because they're faced with slightly less dire scarcity than you. that's class war, babey!

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We've fostered this idea in the staffing community that you're more worthy if you are committing insane hours or are tired. Suffering isn't an indicator of value.

Take care of yourself, and in doing so, take care of each other.

new lab partner!

It's time we stop fussing about source code.

It's time to start fussing about the incredible range of humans that have always made it possible.

Chelsea Manning refuses to testify to the grand jury, and she's in jail and being fined heavily. Rob Porter refuses to show up to the impeachment hearings, and Corey Lewindowsky refuses to answer questions, and they're still free. I can't help noticing a wee difference there.

yeah sex is cool but have you watched a really complex vector drawing render layer by layer on your screen

Mastodon folks might be particularly interested in my response in this MetaFilter thread -- someone basically asked whether they should give up on Linux entirely, and I replied.

https://www.metafilter.com/183159/Odious-ideas-are-not-entitled-to-hide-from-criticism#7786619

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hope this helps!

subtoot: if you have a personal website on which you post any sort of creative work - essays, photos, art, code, designs, stories, whatever - for the love of ghu, put your preferred full name on it in an obvious place. i can't cite you properly if you don't tell me your name.

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

Masto culture is saving as a draft and popping over to someone's profile to make sure they havent changed their pronouns since you last talked about them before you hit the toot button

I think RMS's personal and multi-dimensional shittiness has frozen the idea of Free Software in place for many, many years. What can it become if what he values and wants aren’t the defining principles?

It's not about simply burnout or sustainability. It's about fairly compensating people's work -- and not just the work of folks who send patches in.

Modern open source is corporate exploitation with a thin veneer of warm fuzzies sprinkled on top in hopes no one will notice.

A friend suggested today that it's time for a manifesto and I agree. Another friend in another conversation mentioned that "free software" and "open source" are not relevant terms for what we need. I also agree.

It's time for something new. A new, community-centered ecosystem.

I want to see a world where we no longer center software developers in our endeavors. Where "source code" is no longer our main concern. GitHub created a world where we take source code for granted. Let's keep doing that!

Now stop taking for granted the labor that requires.

*tears it up*