ಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾 (he/him) @chiraag@mastodon.online

This is honestly horrifying.

This tells us that @fsf KNEW that announcing #RMS's return would cause a chunk of the LibrePlanet speakers & sponsors to leave.

So they waited until the end to announce it.

This is what Microsoft did to Mixer.

What Google did to Stadia Games.

Why should we trust their leadership again?

Something great about #Emacs: because it is #FOSS, it actually is separable from it's creator. Me choosing to use it doesn't give a single penny to #RMS. Thanks FOSS

@xinayder I read it, it was sent to me a lot this afternoon: I try to read various sources of info to keep rational opinion.

Still, I think if it was only misinterpretations; it would have been easy for him to fix it, clarify, adjust and post disambiguation when it was time. I see that very often on communication issues on other Floss project...

But even when he came back; it was made without clarification, disambiguation: just imposed out of the blue.

Definitely, not my cup of tea... 🍵

@davidrevoy @eliasr Might I recommend not reading a text about an event that happened less than two years ago and instead remember it.

Remember the stories of undergrad women who had to hide behind plants. Not about the people *in* the movement, but instead the people who were kept out of the movement. About the people RMS hurt, not just those who he didn't.

Do you think that a person defending their hero is the same as hundreds of identical stories?

@davidrevoy @eliasr This is textbook hero apologia and doesn't get across any solid point. It is actually possible to separate RMS's work and personality by celebrating his past contributions and at the same time not giving him any symbolic prominence like at the FSF anymore.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-08/the-women-helping-find-path-out-of-pandemic-vaccines/13219120

> From paving the way for mRNA vaccines to be used, to overseeing large-scale clinical trials, much of the critical work in bringing COVID-19 immunisations to the world has been done by women.

> Karikó, now 66, has spent more than 40 years of her life researching mRNA, but was repeatedly overlooked for funding.

There is an open letter if you are against the return of RMS at the FSF https://rms-open-letter.github.io/

remember when libs pretended to care about the kid prisons

Guys be flunking uni, skipping class and behind on all their assignments but manage to produce a 10,000 word dissertation playing devils advocate whenever they see a woman post sexual assault statistics.

All Amazon warehouse workers in Italian warehouses are on strike today: https://ilmanifesto.it/sciopero-dellintera-filiera-amazon-e-la-prima-volta-nel-mondo/?fbclid=IwAR3RwPEL6iZIr7-y7_QaU0uUq1zz53c71WerK4-v2f9m_Ch58WgWl8LOKdI

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Amerikkkans who are proud of their military are not decent human beings. With all the crimes the military has committed, you can't be proud of it. It's pathetic.

Firefox 87 trims HTTP Referrers by default to protect user privacy

Link: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/03/22/firefox-87-trims-http-referrers-by-default-to-protect-user-privacy/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26539673

#firefox #http

millenials are killing a lot of things

why don't we also kill colonialism too? kill the american way and come to something more true to life

Stallman is back on the board of the Free Software Foundation. A man who created a toxic environment for women at MIT for decades, whose bad take on Marvin Minsky's connection to Jeffrey Epstein was tantamount to rape-apologetics, is being allowed to return to the board, which just goes to show how toxic the FSF is.

They blamed it on a politically-motivated campaign of lies and misinformation. Without explaining or responding to how direct quotes from RMS are lies, and testimony from numerous women coming forward, they didn't address the "lies." Because they aren't lies. Stallman is the worst kind of academic leftist and I hope the FSF collapses under his leadership.

are you people serious about "basically no one" supporting the iraq war??? uhhh whites were bloodthirsty savages out for muslim blood and overdosed on cable news saying saddam had ties to the 9/11 hijackers

@nemobis @volt4ire Yes.

thehypothesis.substack.com/p/h…

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So Substack has an editorial policy, but no accountability. And they have terms of service, but no enforcement. If you listen to Hamish, they don’t even hire writers! They just give money to people who write things that happen to be on Substack. It’s the usual Silicon Valley sleight-of-hand move, very similar to Uber reps claiming drivers aren’t “core” to their business.

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UK tutoring scheme uses under-18s in Sri Lanka paid as little as £1.57 an hour

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/mar/19/uk-tutoring-scheme-uses-sri-lankan-under-18s-paid-as-little-as-157-an-hour

#TheGuardian #RSS #News #Bot #Education #SriLanka #Schools #UKnews