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> The competency crisis in the US is being driven by the feels culture

Well aware, though I think we may be in disagreement on the primary drivers; regardless, the "amateur HR for open source" is kneecapping open-source, and if I had to guess, the outcome was the goal.

> Linus Torvalds was semi-purged (not sure about the latest news) for hurting people's feelings.

They leaned on him for decades, the Ada Initiative tried to entrap him.

> This is part of a general war on pragmatic culture

When you're designing a rifle, two and two always have to make four, but you don't say that out loud. If you can maintain that specific double-bind, then the pitchfork-and-torch villagers will make sure that there are no rifle designs originating outside the protective umbrella of the state. It is very hard to implement the late-1800s/early-1900s version of top-down "scientific" social organization if you have all of these wildcards, but if you ensure that all force-multipliers are state-controlled, then you've got an easier time. Small arms manufacturers have a license you can revoke.

So publishing was prohibitively expensive until the last few decades, and you now anyone can publish anything and get it in front of a global audience. The solution is to make sure the audience doesn't exist outside, e.g, Facebook, Twitter, places where the White House can make a phone call. (Even if Elon buys Twitter, Twitter is still a company with leadership and you can contact the leadership: you can lean on Elon, but you cannot lean on everyone that might say something you dislike.) If you turn hacking into an activity that normies can participate in without knowing how to code, if they can go file an issue on your Github repo and say "I don't feel welcome", then you have enforcement.
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