Python refuses to back down on DEI. Imagine turning away free money because you want to keep hiring based on discrimination instead of merit. Python went woke over a joke in 2013. Dongle-gate at PyCon, which went viral for mildly dirty jokes about dongles which were overheard by a very woke Karen. The jokes? "I'd fork that guy's repo" and "Big Dongles" People got shit-canned and cancelled. You have no idea how much of Open Source was absolutely taken over in 2014 - 2020 because of this moral woke panic. Anybody refusing to bow to it was painted as a racist, misogynist or worse. Codes of Conduct were forced onto open source software as Maoist Struggle Sessions. Devs were berated and badgered and framed as -ists until they "admitted their sins" and adopted a CoC that was , in effect, a huge cudgel that activist contributors, mostly community managers and non developers, used to oust based devs and bring in woke devs. And of course, a lot of scared devs went woke, loudly, to protect themselves. This is how all of open source got corrupted, and it's high time to destroy the virus there, root and stem.

Aviation industry

🚨 BREAKING: French President Macron addressed all Europeans to prepare for war with Russia. This was broadcast live across the continent. Europe will not accept capitulation of Ukraine to Russia under the guise of "peace negotiations." Americans must decide whose side we are on.

I just published a new essay, and since the algorithm prefers links in replies, I dutifully put it in a thread about why I wrote it. But a lot of people didn't notice the link, so screw that: The Origins of Wokeness: paulgraham.com/woke.html

Internet web designer drama today. Advanced Custom Fields (@wp_acf), a WordPress plugin that allows people to modify pages easier, and offers a paid version, has been usurped by WordPress itself. @WordPress pretty much told them to piss off, causing a massive shitstorm

Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS, Part I evilsocket.net/2024/09/26/At…

With great audience comes greater responsibility #DSA As there is a risk of amplification of potentially harmful content in 🇪🇺 in connection with events with major audience around the world, I sent this letter to @elonmusk 📧⤵️