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I agree 💯 %.
"But we need to break these things up and start over from their current forms."
Short of a revolution, which historic examples can you give for this to work.
In order for this to work, all old-boy networks would need to be broken up.
I think even reassigning all police(wo)men in a city to other stations wouldn't break up the networks due to social media. And, usually, the (problematic) teamleaders would need to be...
Done!
I have donated to ProPublica over the years (not as much as I should, though!) and I strongly encourage my friends on here to donate now.
ProPublica is a great pro-democracy, anti-corruption resource here in the US, and it would go a long way for them to know Mastodon is an audience aligned with their work.
In that vein, I would be super grateful if you guys had a Mastodon share button on your articles instead of, or in addition to, buttons for Twitter & Facebook.
In a way, the left helped create Elon Musk.
The right wingers treated him slightly better.
People want to be liked. Perhaps especially slightly autistic people with marriage problems. The nerd entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley aren't exactly popular. But they probably wish they were.
So he did more stuff to get liked. You excite a lot more people with antics like his than with something like the Gates foundation, which nobody cares about even though it's doing important work.
In the process, he got even more negative feedback from the left and even more positive feedback from the right. You can see how this works.
@joytrek @Enema_Cowboy
Yup. And it’s such valuable work.
In a good team, there’s a lot of trust and mutual respect, all the way along the chain from the users and stakeholders to the tiniest implementation detail. And people are listening to each other, communicating their understanding, and checking the reactions of the others via hypothetical scenarios, sketches, prototypes — anything that lets people react to each others’ various understandings.
@SwiftOnSecurity #programming is #creative and #intellectual labour.
Measuring a programmer's efficiency or value with easy #metrics like #LinesOfCode (#IBM) or #Commits (#Huawei) doesn't work.
In fact the latter ones did that #LyingWithNumbers for #KPI so hard on the @linux / #Linux #Kernel that they were close to getting #banned from the #LKML and #git.
Instead they got called out that their "code cleanup" commits are not appreciated as code #readability is being a priority in #Linux!
GoFundMe shut down this fundraising campaign for violating their terms, in particular "Prohibited conduct".
https://www.gofundme.com/c/terms
I don't have any more details from GFM, but my guess is that the description wasn't clear enough, or just didn't vibe with their work.
In the setup for a campaign they say you can raise funds to distribute to others, but I guess this particular case rings alarm bells.
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