In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.

13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.

The law didn't change.

https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pirated-books-via-bittorrent-qualifies-as-fair-use-meta/

In an era when tech bros are ruining everything it's good to remember that before 1980s marketing attempted to drive women out of computing they pioneered it.

#InternationalWomensDay #computing #computerscience #computerhistory

https://www.gracehopper.com/blog/15-remarkable-women-programmers-who-transformed-the-tech-world

https://allthatsinteresting.com/margaret-hamilton

https://web.archive.org/web/20191130180008/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/magazine/women-coding-computer-programming.html

I spent seven years in the "move fast and break things" culture on an incident response team. It's a garbage way of doing business.

Maybe share this with your dev friends. And if they're a leader, maybe share it with 'em again in a week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk0hIOAwf6M