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@jessie Are you involved with any union? I recently (well, half a year ago) joined one, and since then I've found out several of my peers have independently done as well.
The union (with others) recently organised a talk by @pluralistic too, which is well worth the watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m11hmiHu6Tc
Yo computer touchers: there's a history of Black invention and ingenuity you may or may not know about, *and* a history of Black inventors' ingenuity being denied at a systemic level
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A subtoot that's more like a supertoot:
If you are not opposing card-carrying fascists at this point in some way shape or form, your compliance is tacit endorsement.
If you are a technologist who is not considering how the systems you build might be weaponized, you are culpable when they are.
I realize in accessing certain spaces, this stance is disqualifying. Consider: If you need to discard your integrity and sense of human decency, what is behind that door that could possibly be worth it?
After reading the news about #Meta and #Threads. I am happy that we decided to not federate the drupal.community #mastodon instance with Threads.
We didn't federate because we felt that Meta's track record made them unreliable, and against the values of the #Drupal community.
I do not think we will ever federate with any of Meta's products.
The AI bots that desperately need OSS for code training, are now slowly killing OSS by overloading every site.
The curl website is now at 77TB/month, or 8GB every five minutes.
Now that the US intentionally excludes trans people from travelling, and isn't all that safe for them should they be able to enter, @rachel calls on the @drupalassoc to consider hosting #DrupalCon in a different North American country rather than excluding a large number of important people from our community for the next 4+ years.
The Open Source community has been through some interesting times over the last five years. COVID19 created a situation where many of our community who were at greater risk of its effects were effectively denied access to in person events. The community did a lot, frankly not enough at times, to facilitate access with things like mask mandates, remote participation etc. Now, we find another barrier to participation – extreme politics.
thanks @danmcd for pointing me to this excellent TechDirt piece from Mike Masnick that sort of captures my thoughts here:
Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)
"While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recognizable plan unfold — a playbook we’re all too familiar with. We’ve seen how technology can be wielded to consolidate power, how institutional guardrails can be circumvented through technical and legal workarounds, and how smoke and mirrors claims about “innovation” can mask old-fashioned power grabs. It’s a playbook we watched Musk perfect at Twitter, and now we’re seeing it deployed on a national scale.
Over the last few weeks, I’ve had a few people reach out about our coverage these days. Most have been very supportive of what we’ve been covering (in fact, people have been strongly encouraging us to keep it up), but a few asked questions regarding what Techdirt is focused on these days, and how much we were leaning into covering “politics.”
When the very institutions that made American innovation possible are being systematically dismantled, it’s not a “political” story anymore. It’s a story about whether the environment that enabled all the other stories we cover will continue to exist.
We’ve always covered the intersection of technology, innovation, and policy (27+ years and counting). Sometimes that meant writing about patents or copyright, sometimes about content moderation, sometimes about privacy. But what happens when the fundamental systems that make all of those conversations possible start breaking down? When the people dismantling those systems aren’t even pretending to replace them with something better?
But there’s more to it than that..."
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/why-techdirt-is-now-a-democracy-blog-whether-we-like-it-or-not/
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