sc_griffithBig Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia
OnomatopoeiaThe Foundation itself once described her as one of a very small number of people in the world who deeply understand the technical underpinnings of the system
Sorry, everyone is replaceable, and if only one person has all the knowledge of a system, you have a major management failure.
People get “hit by busses” all the time - having this single point of failure is a major oversight. Maybe this will serve as a wakeup call to the organization to better manage everything.
Blakestacey mentioned here that the author of the medium article seems to be an AI user, but David Gerard (who knows more inside details I assume) mentions the reporting seems to be valid.
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st May 2026 - awful.systems
Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid. Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret. Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no. If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high. > The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be) > > Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them. (Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
DeckPackerOh shit, I guess the lesson here is that you can never trust a top-down power structure, regardless of how noble an organizations goals seem to be.
I guess, we need to create more coops, that make Free Software or something. I also like, what Codeberg is doing, with their membership and democratic organisational structure, although I don’t know much about how it works.