Notices by Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (onepict@chaos.social)

@anna that would be really cool.

@anna if you have the spoons I feel there's the making of a blog post there.

It would fit in really well with your other ones.

https://notapplicable.dev/freeze-but-fight
And
https://notapplicable.dev/ode-to-free-software

Because FOSDEM and the organisers are a symptom of our status quo and the unthinking harm that hits anyone who's in the sharp edges of society.

Hang on, why is FOSDEM worried about Dorsey's talk being disrupted?

Dorsey is from the generation of tech disruption.

Surely he'd welcome some disruption to the marketplace of free speech?

Like ours to not have a billionaire at a FOSS event.

Surely Davos is more his speed. The man's looking for a smaller pond as all his mates are at the Trump party.

If you're that worried about FOSDEM breaking maybe don't invite one of the "move fast and break things" allumini?

So we have the OSI dilute the Open source definition for grifters. Sorry Large Language Model AI.

The FSF .... Let's just not.

Now we have FOSDEM opening it's doors to a billionaire who presumably found Davos too boring and wants fresh blood to grift off.

I'm feeling like our FOSS orgs have drifted away from what I thought they were.

Perhaps it's the rose coloured glasses falling from my eyes.

@otfrom Other than FSFE being part of NGI Zero, I'm not sure there's an org that we can trust to represent the grassroots.

But perhaps that's the weakness, expecting centralised organisations to represent us.

We need to get more folks in, and help them to advocate for their local areas.

@otfrom perhaps this is where we talk to folks like @MediaActivist or @how .

Look at how anarchic organisations cooperate.

My dude, people considering protesting Dorsey is not discrimination. Billionaires are the most privileged people on Earth. They are the establishment, the blockchains they shill are in service of Milton Friedmans disruption of the status quo to benefit them.

I.E the betrayal of the social contract.

If you're shitposting pick a better subject, cos you sure as hell are not hacking the planet. 🙄

@luis_in_brief yeah, you weren't the one calling for moderation in protesting.

@luis_in_brief but I think Drew's mainly aiming that at the FOSDEM committee than Dorsey.

Jack Dorsey keynoting at the plague confen... *Cough* sorry #FOSDEM seems par for the course.

We've wandered far away from FOSS it appears. Or perhaps we were the first victims of the grift.

Believing that those who claim to be FOSS are ethical and making a political choice.

I won't be there. But if you're going there anyway perhaps join Drew de Vault at the sit-in?

Think of it as an opening taster for #OFFDEM

https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/2025-01-16-No-Billionares-at-FOSDEM-please.html

#NoBillionairesAtFosdem #FOSDEM2025

@tek I think there's real fear there.

Partly from not knowing what is involved. But also from a fear that if they know they'd have to do the work.

They see the work as degrading, which tells you everything you need to know.

@tek I think it is a radical act to be brave enough to show your feelings and be a caretaker of the next generation.

To show compassion and not force.

It's a radical act to acknowledge you need help and to be open about mental health.

When my friends came to visit there was always a place at our dinner table for them.

I grew up with an unusual example of masculinity.

My Dad cooked and cleaned. He sewed and repaired clothing. When I wanted to talk about my feelings he was always the person I talked to instead of my mother.

He taught me to bake.

He kept his nails tidy.

So when people meet him for the first time, they are a bit surprised at seeing a short man with a bushy beard.

But he's always tried to protect me. Including when I was stalked. Just by checking in on me.

That's true masculinity. Not Zuckerbergs fear driven idea of being a UFC fighter. Or his non consent based objectification of women.

My father endured poverty to keep me safe and to protect my mental health.

My father is strong.

People like Mark Zuckerberg wouldn't be able to cope with what we endured. He's rich enough for it never to touch him.

Performance of hyper masculine hobbies shows that weakness.

It's perfectly masculine to cook and clean.

It's masculine to bake and ice fairy cakes.

It's masculine to enjoy embroidery.

It's also masculine to talk about your feelings and cry. Seriously have a cry. Cry for as long as you need to.

It's not a weakness to show your feelings.

In times like these it's perfectly feminine to be extremely angry at the world.

Actually, it's perfectly feminine to be angry and to express that anger at any time.

It's feminine to say no.

It's feminine to be aggressive in saying no after the several times your polite no is ignored.

Don't let anyone tell you what behaviour is feminine and what isn't. You want to use the baseball bat, go for it.

Expressing your anger and not submitting is a revolutionary act.

@are0h So wild, it really illustrates ACAB.

It's frightening. Not just cops but medical with the OBYGYN doctor.

But I see the reason it's so frightening is that this will affect everyone. Like the dystopia has always been there, but now it could hit privileged white folks.

I'm going to take a copy of my archive and do some spring cleaning on mastodon with some auto deletion tomorrow. Some long term stuff will stay but other stuff will go.

So if you've bookmarked some of my witterings take a copy.

@jens @SilverEagle It's why I'm leaning more into a definition of the commons, like communalism .

I'm coming to the idea that liberalism is conservatism in a hippy dress. There's still a conservative underneath desperately trying to convince you they are cool.

@jens @SilverEagle yeah... There's a certain type of comfortable FOSSBro status quo type who gets the umbridge and goes on about virtue signalling.

Anything rather than question what beliefs are encoded in that tool and how it works. Anything than consider that them using that tool enables abuses by giving the benefit of the doubt time and time again.

They aren't suffering, so why should they have to sacrifice anything? Why should they be inconvenienced? 😒