Notices by Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social), page 148

Whitewashing As A Service.

“RightsCon is the world’s leading conference on human rights in the digital age, brought to you by Access Now … RightsCon offers organizations and businesses the perfect opportunity to generate exposure, goodwill, and growth.”

In case you were wondering if they know exactly what they’re doing or not.

Links:

* https://www.rightscon.org (first half of quote)

* https://www.rightscon.org/sponsors/ (second half of quote and screenshots)

The key to getting in shape faster is joining a gym you can't exit.
#NewYear #Resolutions

@emacsen The #CodeOfConduct approach is better than ignoring the problem of exclusion altogether. But it doesn't solve the underlying problem of exclusion, it just changes the location and mechanics of the exclusion barrier. I've never seen CoCs as more than a stopgap, and I've long argued for a '#WelcomingSpaces' approach, as a replacement for Safer Spaces Policing. I think the Kind Communication Guidelines are a great contribution by Stallman, perhaps his most important one since the #GNU GPL.

"In the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines announcement, RMS explicitly states that diversity is not a goal of his."
- @emacsen
https://blog.emacsen.net/blog/2018/10/19/gkcg-is-bad/

If you look at the whole quote, this totally misrepresents what Stallman is saying, which is about diversity within "a specific free software project". In other words, if a project has one developer, who happens to be a straight, white man, nothing is gained by trying to shoehorn gay, POC, or female developers into that project.

"I disagree with making "diversity" a goal. If the developers in a specific free software project do not include demographic D, I don't think that the lack of them as a problem that requires action; there is no need to scramble desperately to recruit some Ds. Rather, the problem is that if we make demographic D feel unwelcome, we lose out on possible contributors. And very likely also others that are not in demographic D."
- #RichardStallman
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2018-10/msg00001.html

Quoting @cwebber in https://dustycloud.org/blog/on-standards-divisions-collaboration/:

"participants in the decentralized social web is so good at fighting each other that apparently we do that work for them.

But it doesn't have to be that way. You might be able to come to consensus on a good way forward. And if you can't come to consensus, you can at least have friendly and cooperative communication."

Looking at https://gnu.org/consensus

Maybe it should be renamed GNU ControVerse.

im gonna make my website's homepage a plain .txt file

RT @kentcdodds@twitter.com
You 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 it's 𝒸𝓊𝓉ℯ to 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 your tweets and usernames 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖘 𝖜𝖆𝖞. But have you 𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙙 to what it 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 with assistive technologies like 𝓥𝓸𝓲𝓬𝓮𝓞𝓿𝓮𝓻?

For the liberal leaning libertarians. Ideology matters, let's talk about it.

@jdormit @Are0h @sean @kaniini Forking and splintering won't be too much of an issue with tight collaboration amongst projects and that's something the Fediverse has been pretty okay-ish at thus far. It's not like we're relying on a company to define things for us - it's people-driven