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- Comment on On Evils in Software Licensing 3 days ago:
I don’t know what understanding you have of this topic, but historically and presently, the Free Software movement and the Open Source movement are ideological opposites, with the latter spawning off of the first to accomodate pro-corporate, pro-capitalist positions.
Both of these are also different from the totality of entities proposing “open source licensing”, which is a much broader set.
Then nowadays the Free Software Movement lost its momentum and it has been subsumed into the idea of “FOSS”, but still, it should be treated as its own, dinstinct entity.
As for the genocide per default part: Its nonsense to believe that if open source didnt exist or was different that it would somehow lead to less genocide.
Open source is just a technical and legal reflection of a world and a time where Imperial venture capital benefited from the free flow of information. I think the author would agree that, if open source didn’t exist, something else would have enabled similar or different forms of Imperial oppression, including genocide. Same for the start-up ecosystem, digital capital taking over the financial economy and Western democracies and so on. Open Source enabled that? For sure. But if we want to play “what if”, any serious materialist analysis would conclude that Open Source was just a tool for digital capital to express itself and exploit workers. A tool that could have been replaced by something else.
- Comment on On Evils in Software Licensing 3 days ago:
the article doesn’t mention the Free Software Movement even once.
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- Comment on Content moderation is what a 21st century hazardous job looks like 1 week ago:
you clearly have no clue what you’re talking about. The federal funding goes to Weizenbaum Institute, that is another very big institution in techno politics and other fields of research. You keep googling shit up.
- Comment on Content moderation is what a 21st century hazardous job looks like 1 week ago:
funneling of grants towards her dubious work at TUB Bro, don’t just google shit about scholars you have no clue about and make up fake accusations. She’s not doing research at TU Berlin, she’s just a lecturer there. She’s one of the most famous scholars in this field and she’s associated more strongly with DAIR, which is a thousand times more relevant in this discourse than TU, and DiPLab in Paris.
You clearly just googled her name, checked where she works, and made up some shit.
- Comment on Content moderation is what a 21st century hazardous job looks like 1 week ago:
also shaming anybody for the labor they have to do to survive is the most reactionary patronizing bullshit ever.
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- Comment on Activision User Research Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA 1 week ago:
user research is a common design and marketing term to mean “identify consumption preferences”
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- Comment on Tech worker co-operatives - a growing alternative to traditional employment? 4 weeks ago:
co-operatives are started by worker’s initiative. It’s not something that comes to save you. If there’s no co-op in your area, start learning what you need to start one, govern one, and how to find co-op funding.
- Comment on Tech worker co-operatives - a growing alternative to traditional employment? 4 weeks ago:
It depends on where you live and what you’re looking for in life.
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- Comment on 'Traditional unions struggle to understand tech sector' 5 weeks ago:
The people who wrote that page are mostly from the organization discussed in the article. Struggling doesn’t mean they never achieved anything. Also maybe go beyond the title.
- Comment on 'Traditional unions struggle to understand tech sector' 5 weeks ago:
In Italy they are like 95% of the workforce. They are the defining form of IT sector. In the USA way less, and also individual contractors are legal, while in Italy they are not, so there’s a whole issue of illicit dynamics (“body rental”) which in the USA are equally a problem, but they are not illicit and nobody cares about them.
Shitty, exploitative consultancies exist wherever there’s an IT sector, but in certain countries, like Italy, Brazil, or Romenia, they are the only form and this shapes the union landscape a lot. Romenia proves that this is not a blocker to achieve high union density though.
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- Comment on AI Video of Trump Sucking Musk's Toes Blasted on Government Office TVs 5 weeks ago:
In fact I was talking about “foot worshipping” and not foot fetish in general, which are arguably very different dynamics.
- Comment on AI Video of Trump Sucking Musk's Toes Blasted on Government Office TVs 5 weeks ago:
Every kink is a kink because the object of the kink holds some specific value or logic within the social context that is then relived or subverted within the kinky dynamic. If foot worshipping wasn’t, historically and symbolically, an act of submission in society, it wouldn’t be a kink at all.
