FSF staff union elects Ian Kelling to the board https://www.fsf.org/news/welcoming-ian-kelling-to-staff-seat-on-fsfs-board-of-directors
There is a ton more work to be done to restore trust, and there's good reason to remain skeptical about the road ahead, but this seems like a notch in the right direction, at least.
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Thank you friends
My friend is trans femme and unemployed. I'm raising $105 to cover training fees for a job she was rejected from. They've sent the bill to collections. She was rejected due to a strike on her record for shoplifting *groceries* while very sick a few years ago
Fuck the state! Help a trans gal!
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uspol, nyc, cops, +++
New York City just ended qualified immunity for all police officers.
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2021/03/25/qualified-immunity-new-york/
Subtooting another rando techbro
Using the github issue tracker to file protests against the open letter makes you look like an asshole.
And this "war" that you speak of has been going on against women in the computing world since the time of Ada Lovelace. So kindly fuck off fossbro. It's time to clean house.
Since we're talking about FSF, I feel like this post about FSFE is relevant as fuck.
https://write.as/malinagalina/i-took-fsfe-to-court
There's a toxic culture problem within free software. If you don't recognize that in your projects and communities surrounding it you can't possibly combat it.
The OSI’s response to RMS’s reappointment to the Board of the Free Software Foundation is also very clear: https://opensource.org/OSI_Response
RMS
If anything this shows just how deep the rot goes in the tech industry where even folks who claim to build an open freer platform for developing software for all is welcoming of oppressive individuals.
Stallman had the right idea when it comes to the danger of proprietary software threatening the open market, however he never predicted the proclivity for well-off cishet white men to lust for and crave power and control over people and things, as well as their tendency to colonize, gatekeep and gentrify spaces meant for all people.
....and that's because Richard Stallman is himself a cishet white man, and on top of that, a rape apologist.
[FR] Défédération mamot.fr
Le 29 mars prochain, notre fédération avec l'instance mamot.fr sera suspendue.
L'incompétence crasse de l'équipe de modération de #mamot est alarmante.
Ouvrir une plateforme à des gourous négationnistes, c'est légitimer leur propos.
Aussi, ce n'est pas en collant des dizaines de milliers d'utilisateurs sur une seule et même instance qu'on promeut la décentralisation (syndrome mastodon.social / mastodon.online).
Nous espérons que de nouvelles instances francophones verront le jour suite à ces alertes.
Riots in #Bristol, #UK, against a new law that would make parts of the Corona's regulations on gatherings and demonstrations permanent. Cop precinct under siege right now. #killthebill #CoronaRiots #antireport
Please don't move to Hawaii in the PANDEMIC, displacing even more Native Hawaiians like myself, unable to afford 950k+ housing on starvation wages, living on the street, or forced to move away. Don't be a colonizer.
https://twitter.com/kuakamahao/status/1373378951666495489?s=20
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