7. My colleagues are afraid. Our work is scrutinized for forbidden works like "gender" and "climate". The pipeline of talent has been cut off. We can no longer train graduate students and postdocs. These are individual dreams crushed, causing collective damage that will take generations to undo.

Good commentary from Nicco Loves Linux. Just released this morning. Of course, he's a KDE dev, not a lawyer. He does make the point of it's concerning and they goofed on the messaging, but not worthy of a "delete Firefox and switch to Lynx" level of panic.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDpK...

Mercator*

If you want to send money to Gaza, here's how to do it, so it benefits everyone there and not a few scam jockeys in Lagos or Los Angeles.

- Medecine Sans Frontiers has been operating emergency desalinization plants in Gaza that are providing a vital water supply.

(the quote is from www.vox.com/2023/10/20/2... )

"... against far-right converts like Wolf, she warns, but will instead create more of them."

"Because we’re social animals we tend to go along with the trend, and because we live under capitalist acceleration the trend is always one way, because our system only has one gear."