VM (Vicky) BrasseurCorporate Strategist and Open Source Leader • Author of https://www.vmbrasseur.com/books/ • Advisor, Open Robotics • Keynote speaker • 🚫
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VM (Vicky) BrasseurThis week Semios/Almanac laid off an estimated 10% of headcount, including yours truly just today.
It wasn't a surprise, but that doesn't make it suck less.
Which is to say: I'm now 100% available for full time, contract, paid speaking, board, advisory positions. #OpenSource, #BusinessStrategy, #BizOps, #Standards, #Leadership, etc.
CV: http://vmbrasseur.com/resume.pdf
#GetFediHired #FediHire #PleaseBoost
VM (Vicky) BrasseurWant to learn more about #OpenSource for yourself or your business?
There's a site for that!
https://fossbooks.com
VM (Vicky) BrasseurMozilla wants your input. Please provide it.
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Here's mine.
#OpenSource #OpenWeb #Privacy #AI
VM (Vicky) Brasseur"It wasn’t until recently that experts began referring to the plastics problem explicitly in human rights terms. A primary turning point was a 2021 report from the United Nations’ special rapporteur on toxics and human rights, Marcos Orellana. Over 24 pages, Orellana described how plastics threaten human rights at every stage of their life cycle…largely through widespread chemical and microplastics contamination."
https://grist.org/equity/un-plastic-treaty-human-rights/
VM (Vicky) BrasseurThe number of for-profit execs w/whom I've worked who acknowledge the importance of this "units used" concept is disturbingly near zero.
The number of those who call themselves "strategists" is high.
I guess I've found the bozos.
Kudos to @glyph@mastodon.social
& @r0ml for the post.
https://blog.glyph.im/2025/08/r0mls-ratio.html
VM (Vicky) BrasseurPerhaps don't launch businesses that rely on breaking the law? Just a thought.
'If the appeals court denies the petition…the emerging company may be doomed. As Anthropic argued, it now "faces hundreds of billions of dollars in potential damages liability at trial in four months"…that involves "up to seven million potential claimants, whose works span a century of publishing history," each possibly triggering a $150,000 fine.'
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/
#copyright #ai
VM (Vicky) Brasseur"In the end, what’s most remarkable about the campaign against Oregon’s wildfire map isn’t that misinformation found an audience. It’s that it worked."
https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-wildfire-risk-map-rural-homeowners
VM (Vicky) BrasseurGet my books at an even better price than usual! For the next few days, all ebooks are 38.7% off at @pragprog@techhub.social using the code dogdays. Links:
* https://pragprog.com/titles/vbfoss/business-success-with-open-source/
* https://pragprog.com/titles/vbopens/forge-your-future-with-open-source/
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VM (Vicky) Brasseur"An international scientific review, published this Sunday in The Lancet, has compiled all the known harms caused by exposure to plastics and issued an important warning: there is now sufficient evidence that living surrounded by these polymers poses 'grave, growing, and under-recognized' risks to humans at all stages of life."
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-08-04/anatomy-of-the-known-health-damage-caused-by-plastics-grave-growing-and-under-recognized.html
VM (Vicky) BrasseurThis week Semios/Almanac laid off an estimated 10% of headcount, including yours truly just today.
It wasn't a surprise, but that doesn't make it suck less.
Which is to say: I'm now 100% available for full time, contract, paid speaking, board, advisory positions. #OpenSource, #BusinessStrategy, #BizOps, #Standards, #Leadership, etc.
CV: http://vmbrasseur.com/resume.pdf
#GetFediHired #FediHire #PleaseBoost
VM (Vicky) BrasseurWant to learn more about #OpenSource for yourself or your business?
There's a site for that!
https://fossbooks.com