@aud@fire.asta.lgbt for those of us unfamiliar with the Rust ecosystem and its villains, would you be so kind as to describe, or point to a description of, what you're referring to here?
@davidfetter@kolektiva.social Gonna need to make a website on this one, I think... looking through some links and reconstructing what I can here. I am linking to blogs and mastodon posts, but I think the person impacted (ThePhD) has made it pretty clear they've moved on so I'm not linking to it to so that anyone can comment...
First, dtolnay's character is... well, he's ex-Palantir, for one. While normally I don't think a past employer should necessarily always be held against someone... he's tried to hide it (and denies it) and his behavior re: Rust is rather controlling (there's a shipping binaries drama that predates "the keynote fiasco").
The tl;dr is that dtolnay worked to remove an invited keynote speaker (ThePhD) from discussing their work on reflection, which would deprecate a large amount of work dtolnay has done in Rust. ThePhD is Black; this is not irrelevant, unfortunately.
https://thephd.dev/i-am-no-longer-speaking-at-rustconf-2023 <- ThePhD's initial blog post about it.
The Rust team did not say who was responsible for doing this but it was clear 'something had gone wrong'. Fast forward a few months and whitequark lets slip who did it:
I agree that there are multiple intepretations possible and that yours also follows from the evidence available. The reason I think it’s reasonable to consider something deeper to be going on is: every single Rust controversy I’ve discussed with key Rust people had a lot more going on than was there on the surface. Case in point: dtolnay was also the one thus far unnamed by anyone speaking for the project person who was involved in ThePHD’s talk being downgraded from a keynote. If I see someone acting surreptitiously in one case I will expect that to repeat.
(link here: https://archive.ph/VRQ0H)
At some point, dtolnay "responded" about it. In a gist that he later deleted. I'm getting a little sketchier on some of the details as time goes by, but I want to make it clear that his version of events is a lie and he is not a reliable narrator here.
https://archive.ph/Utaz1
ThePhD responded to this, for whatever it is worth, because dtolnay's stories is just... it's not even wrong, it's just false. He's lying about the timeline and how things were done.
https://pony.social/@thephd/111005164984251004
Whether dtolnay was being racist or not was discussed heavily in various places; he never came out and said "I am attempting to get this keynote speaker removed because they are Black and their work will deprecate mine" but they never do, of course. Him going behind backs, keeping his name secret, manipulating people at the team and the foundation to make this happen, lying about it when confronted... if he had a good reason, he wouldn't have done any of that.
To be really explicit, I am incredibly disappointed with the rust team in how they handled it. They only started talking about it in more depth once whitequark said it was dtolnay...
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Quote boosting so I can pin this to my own profile.
It is being reported that two community members were kidnapped by ICE today in pdx, one who was on his way to work and another who was with their 13-year-old child outside of a school.
Here is some info on what to do and who to contact if you see anything, as most of the information I’m seeing is on other social media platforms:
If you see someone being kidnapped by ICE, or even hear about it, call the Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition (PIRC). If not first hand, it’s best to have the direct witness call. While it does have “Portland” in the name, this is a statewide rapid response network that can send local responders to the site anywhere in Oregon. PIRC’s number is 1-888-622-1510. PIRC can verify if it is/was ICE, a rumor, or other law enforcement. If it is ICE, they activate lawyers and other rapid response. If you see ICE trying to kidnap someone, the first thing to do is call the PIRC hotline as quickly as possible and film what you can.
If you are filming, the more context you can get the better. If there is a break in dialogue between ICE agents and the person they are kidnapping, you can narrate into the video recording what exactly happened before you started filming, etc.
SALUTE (Size, Activity, Location, Uniform, Time, Equipment) is good to remember what information you should collect:
SALUTE:
Size: Number of officers
Activity: What are they doing? How are they treating the person? Did they show a warrant? Are they using excessive force?
Location: Whereabouts of the activity? Be as specific as possible. (Ex: heading north on Sandy, NW corner of the Trader Joe’s parking lot)
Uniform: What are the agents wearing? Plain clothes? Federal or local police labels? Armor? Get as specific as possible if and when noting specific agencies.
Time: What date and time is it happening?
Equipment: Do they have handcuffs? Are they armed? What kind of vehicle are they driving? License plate number? How many vehicles? Were any munitions deployed?
Another thing you can do is to try to get more information from the person being kidnapped. Try to get the name and, if possible, the birth date of the person being detained. This information is helpful in two ways. First, attorneys need to know the name and birth date to activate a legal response to secure a person's release. Additionally, it is really helpful for people who are trying to locate a missing loved one. If you or someone with you is able to, get all the information to PIRC immediately. Other helpful information to get is the location of where they were born and contact info for a family member / loved one. With enough information, PIRC or family members can search the ICE detainee locator system to see if someone has been detained, which helps guide the response.
Reminder to not share unverified information about ICE whereabouts. It creates panic and fear in the community and can distract from responding to where ICE actually is
Did you know you can credit multiple authors in a git commit? For organizations that have people do pair programming and use things like # of commits or LOC...!
Thanks to @inherentlee@flipping.rocks for pointing this out!
https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/committing-changes-to-your-project/creating-and-editing-commits/creating-a-commit-with-multiple-authors
sure would be wild if a bunch of datacenter people at Amazon just turned off the power and left early on the 30th or 29th of this month
what a wild ass random thing that would be
Quote boosting so I can pin this to my own profile.
It is being reported that two community members were kidnapped by ICE today in pdx, one who was on his way to work and another who was with their 13-year-old child outside of a school.
Here is some info on what to do and who to contact if you see anything, as most of the information I’m seeing is on other social media platforms:
If you see someone being kidnapped by ICE, or even hear about it, call the Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition (PIRC). If not first hand, it’s best to have the direct witness call. While it does have “Portland” in the name, this is a statewide rapid response network that can send local responders to the site anywhere in Oregon. PIRC’s number is 1-888-622-1510. PIRC can verify if it is/was ICE, a rumor, or other law enforcement. If it is ICE, they activate lawyers and other rapid response. If you see ICE trying to kidnap someone, the first thing to do is call the PIRC hotline as quickly as possible and film what you can.
If you are filming, the more context you can get the better. If there is a break in dialogue between ICE agents and the person they are kidnapping, you can narrate into the video recording what exactly happened before you started filming, etc.
SALUTE (Size, Activity, Location, Uniform, Time, Equipment) is good to remember what information you should collect:
SALUTE:
Size: Number of officers
Activity: What are they doing? How are they treating the person? Did they show a warrant? Are they using excessive force?
Location: Whereabouts of the activity? Be as specific as possible. (Ex: heading north on Sandy, NW corner of the Trader Joe’s parking lot)
Uniform: What are the agents wearing? Plain clothes? Federal or local police labels? Armor? Get as specific as possible if and when noting specific agencies.
Time: What date and time is it happening?
Equipment: Do they have handcuffs? Are they armed? What kind of vehicle are they driving? License plate number? How many vehicles? Were any munitions deployed?
Another thing you can do is to try to get more information from the person being kidnapped. Try to get the name and, if possible, the birth date of the person being detained. This information is helpful in two ways. First, attorneys need to know the name and birth date to activate a legal response to secure a person's release. Additionally, it is really helpful for people who are trying to locate a missing loved one. If you or someone with you is able to, get all the information to PIRC immediately. Other helpful information to get is the location of where they were born and contact info for a family member / loved one. With enough information, PIRC or family members can search the ICE detainee locator system to see if someone has been detained, which helps guide the response.
Reminder to not share unverified information about ICE whereabouts. It creates panic and fear in the community and can distract from responding to where ICE actually is
@ricci@discuss.systems @xgranade@wandering.shop @blogdiva@mastodon.social the name "John Gruber" is really familiar, in a "hey, doesn't John Gruber really suck?" kind of way?
@blogdiva@mastodon.social @ricci@discuss.systems @xgranade@wandering.shop yeah, I read a few lines of that and wow is that bullshit
you actually do not have to make excuses for a CEO of a massive fuckoff corporation! He could actually choose not to suck! That would actually be really good for everyone!
Wanna switch things up a little; anyone have any #kPop or #ChinesePop or even just #music recommendations from the non-US/Anglo world? I know a lot of people are hanging out on #RedNote soooo if there's something new/cool you heard there, please share!
And screw it, why limit it to that? Any music by a minority group in the US, it's a good day to celebrate and promote it too, yeah?
Did you know you can credit multiple authors in a git commit? For organizations that have people do pair programming and use things like # of commits or LOC...!
Thanks to @inherentlee@flipping.rocks for pointing this out!
https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/committing-changes-to-your-project/creating-and-editing-commits/creating-a-commit-with-multiple-authors
hmmmmmm... I kinda wanna start up a little non-profit to get some structure going for community software projects and proposals buuuut I have no idea how to start that sort of thing. boooooo.
fuck it, anarchist tech co-op time
https://codeberg.org/commune-op/manifesto
hmmmmmm... I kinda wanna start up a little non-profit to get some structure going for community software projects and proposals buuuut I have no idea how to start that sort of thing. boooooo.
lessee, lessee. fellowship proposal writing. ahem.
"you should let me be your fellow, because that sounds pretty gay since I'm a girl, right? so that's a proper good thing right there. score: audrey 1, society 0. but that's not all"
"this fellowship is good for me because I will not break up due to infighting over forbidden-yet-tempting artifacts of dark power, both because 1. I am but one person, and 2. I'm told that my haircut is all the rage in Paris right now and is literally called "the hobbit". I am not even fucking with you, this is true."
lessee, lessee. fellowship proposal writing. ahem.
"you should let me be your fellow, because that sounds pretty gay since I'm a girl, right? so that's a proper good thing right there. score: audrey 1, society 0. but that's not all"
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EDIT: Seems I've moved. Yay?!
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