Notices by Laurelai Bailey (laurelai@mastodon.starrevolution.org), page 29

The more DashEquals/ealgase opens his fucking gob, the more he sounds ike a goddamn Gab plant. :blobcoffeeunamused:

my current WIP

The Forgotten Life of Einstein's First Wife
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-forgotten-life-of-einsteins-first-wife/

FLOSS projects which aren't open to community discussion (I don't mean controlled polling, I mean actual input on forums and issue-trackers) and structure their project authority based on some conceptualization of merit as well as "project insiders" and "project outsiders" are prime examples of how closed meritocratic systems slowly degrade themselves even if they are "open" in principle.

The culture around these kinds of projects is in dire need of change. They can't pretend to be above the community as open projects and stay relevant compared to proprietary software, they are sacrificing their biggest advantage, their open feedback-systems. Megacorporations with proprietary software at best have some kind of help form where the feedback process is restricted severely and change is nearly impossible and exponentially slower. Why are FLOSS projects trying to emulate that?

I'm not making any kind of personal critique, this is just a cybernetic systems observation on how FLOSS adoption stagnates.

"New research estimates that a worldwide tree planting programme could remove two-thirds of all the emissions that have been pumped into the atmosphere by human activities, a figure the scientists describe as “mind-blowing”". Let's get planting! 🌳🌳🌳
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/04/planting-billions-trees-best-tackle-climate-crisis-scientists-canopy-emissions

just remember that blocking Gab is the bare minimum of decency and it's going to take a whole lot more than that if you want anyone in marginalized communities to have anything to do with you