Software is political. Open source is completely irrelevant if we allow Nazis, misogynists, abusers, racists, and ableists to thrive while people who believe in human rights and accessibility are made to feel unwelcome and unsafe.

Refusing to use commercial software does not make you a good person.

here is a non-exhaustive list of people who have been defended in open source communities:
– serial rapists. Yes, that's a plural.
– people convicted of possessing child abuse materials.
– people defending lower ages of consent
– a guy with a massive Nazi swastika tattoo on his chest.
– people who have made blatantly dehumanizing statements about people with disabilities.
– people who have made blatantly racist statements in public
– People who are the system administrators for far right terrorist groups.
– people who have doxxed and swatted women for existing in public, developing free video games, or documenting hatred of Black women online

for every one of these cartoonishly evil people, there is an army of "both sides" defenders who oppose the existence of a code of conduct of any kind. For every one of these cartoonishly evil people, there are men (and a fair number of white women) who defended them and kept their jobs in positions in open source communities, while everyone who spoke up for human rights was ostracized.

I don't care about your open-source license unless you get your attitude towards human beings in order.

I’m going to say this slowly.

If Andrew Tate & his ilk were right about ANYTHING they’d have no audience.

Guys would listen briefly, apply advice, & be WAY too busy with their new gfs, side-pieces, & high income hustles to bother tuning in.

It’s the Tinder principle: if you’re happy, they lose a customer.

Their business model is your unending misery.

I grew up steeped in the "I would die for my country" or "I would die for my children" or "He died for our sins" where death was the ultimate showing of love...

...I have to sit with that.

But what I want to know is... Would you live for your country? Would you build for your children (and their children)? Would you help out your neighbor even if they don't follow your god?

Would you fix. Would you love. Would you grow, heal, and cherish for those around you?

Death is easy. Life is hard.

The greatest showing of love is to live and to help others live and to increase that quality of life.

The cruelty is the point.

The whole purpose of the news cycle appears to be instilling fear, uncertainty, and confusion. Leaving people dumbstruck until the next thing hits. Endlessly.

But I do not want to allow others to control my attention.
I do not want to succumb to fear and concern.
I do not want to react.
I want to act.

I want to believe in a better future.
I want to support and care.
I want to learn and rejoice.
I will resist.

Companies are refusing to hire or even laying off plumbers because hucksters backed by massive unicorn-chasing investment money told them they can build plumbing faster and cheaper out of cardboard.

A few years from now, there’s going to be a hell of a market for people who can replace cardboard toilets with real ones.

And also for people who can replace carpets. And walls and floors.

This is a post about LLM-generated code.