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Sarah Mei
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I was expecting a terrible non-apology from Stallman, but this is even worse than I thought it would be. #cancelstallman
Still canceled. Perfect summary:
EXACTLY. Stallman is incapable of preventing “misunderstanding,” so as long as anyone listens to him, he will continue to lob these grenades of “misunderstanding” into our communities that just “happen” to push women & girls, specifically, out of software.
He’s been doing this for 30 years. He’s gotten repeated feedback and coaching from dozens of people (that I know of, and I assume many more besides).

If the @fsf board cannot do their job & remove him after THIRTY YEARS OF EXCLUSIONARY BEHAVIOR, then they should resign.
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Sarah Mei
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Powerful statement this morning from @conservancy, another free software nonprofit: “We [...] want to underscore that allowing Stallman to continue to hold a leadership position would be an unacceptable compromise.”

#cancelstallman
It continues: ”Most importantly, we cannot support anyone, directly or indirectly, who condones the endangerment of vulnerable people by rationalizing any part of _predator_ behavior.” (emphasis mine)

That’s an important word to have in this discussion.
Worth reading the whole thing. Aligning social justice with software freedom is not an approach I’ve seen officially before. sfconservancy.org/news/2019/sep/…
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Sarah Mei
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I've tweeted for many years about how awful Richard "RMS" Stallman is - the pedophilia, the ableism, the misogyny.

Inevitably, each time I do, dudes examine my receipts & then say "all those incidents are from years ago! he's changed now!"

NOPE. medium.com/@selamie/remov…
Stallman was the founder - and is STILL the President and Board Chair - of the Free Software Foundation. The FSF is enormously influential. Among other activities, it publishes the software licenses used by much of the 'copyleft' world - the GPL, LGPL, and AGPL licenses.
I've been a diehard free & open source software user, contributor, and backer since college in the 90s. But at this point, I would rather run proprietary software that I can NEVER see or change if the alternative is to run software licensed by the FSF.
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Sarah Mei
@sarahmei
Hey do you need any more examples of how software development is like writing instead of like math? Because I got a great one for you.
Large companies often have huge amounts of written documentation. Salesforce, for example, has docs for end users, potential customers, employees of all stripes, external developers, and literally dozens of other categories of people.
Most of these pieces of documentation (save maybe github READMEs, and even those sometimes) are written by professional writers. But at scale, their output can't be just unstructured documents, like, just like opening a word doc and typing.
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An Open Secret
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Big 🧠 #MIT Prof #RichardStallman uses his huge intelligence to deduct #Epstein's underage age sex slave WANTED IT😡

Claims she was "Entirely Willing" in victim shaming email blast to @medialab colleagues on Anti-Epstein protests @MIT

#AnOpenSecret
nypost.com/2019/09/14/mit…
Here is a link to the full #jeffreyepstein email by creepy computer scientist @MIT professor #RichardStallman. Could not look more like a victim shaming troll if he tried.

@MIT REMOVE RICHARD STALLMAN‼

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Credit to @selamjie for finding & posting 🤞

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link.medium.com/I2osP8zTVZ
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Jamil Smith
@JamilSmith
The NFL is Colin Kaepernick’s antagonist. Expecting this league of billionaire team owners to be truly serious about his cause—ending racial injustice—is a mistake. (With, or without, Jay-Z.) My latest for @RollingStone, on the “Inspire Change” campaign. rol.st/32pbkKB
@RollingStone It is even worse than I thought.
The Chicago woman shown shearing off dreadlocks for “a better life” has apologized. “It was not meant to be insensitive,” said Sally Hazelgrove, sharing that her own kids are biracial. No comment from the NFL or Roc Nation, who gave her nonprofit $200,000. nbcnews.to/34u1Tvp
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T. Greg Doucette
@greg_doucette
Witty!

(Non-consensual hugs typically qualify as assault in most jurisdictions btw)

Are those... tears?

Because they look like tears

I bet they're delicious

He did not know that. Guaranteed.

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T. Greg Doucette
@greg_doucette
Texas's anti-SLAPP statute requires the judge to enter an order for the loser to pay the winner's attorney fees. It's not optional.

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Twitter says you've @'d me 78 times since 6/11, with 20+ of them in just the past few hours

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🤖 Lee ⭕
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Okay I'm doing a thread bc I can't stop thinking about that Black Mirror episode and I need to turn it into Hankcon
[The setting: Post successful pacifist revolution, Connor works at the DPD w/ Hank, they are Also Roommates because why not. Premise and large chunks of plot lifted directly from Black Mirror 5x01 so spoilers for that I guess!]
"Hank, do you like video games?"

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