Botond
botond.bsky.social
Botond
@botond.bsky.social
Critic of concentrated power, whether in tech or government. Culture war conscientious objector. Participant in the hopium trade. Fan of coalition-building.
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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.
March 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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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...
Mozilla is NOT SELLING your DATA! (But they did mess up…)
YouTube video by Nicco Loves Linux
www.youtube.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Mercator*
January 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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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.
How we're responding to the war in Gaza
What to know about the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and MSF’s medical and humanitarian response.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org
December 19, 2024 at 11:03 PM
(the quote is from www.vox.com/2023/10/20/2... )
October 29, 2023 at 9:58 PM
"... against far-right converts like Wolf, she warns, but will instead create more of them."
October 21, 2023 at 11:40 PM
"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."
October 15, 2023 at 2:46 AM