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  • Not Your DamselDamselfly@blackqueer.life
    Oct 15, 2026, 4:15 PM

    My story is emphatically not uncommon.

    Good thread, solid arguments, I’m not saying he’s wrong. But if you’re a woman, Black, or any number of other , possibly intersecting, marginalities who sees the world differently than the white men who built that framework around themselves, you probably hear “the clock is ticking” and think “baby that clock been ticking for 30 years.”

    Like it was built specifically to tick. It was never not ticking.

    What is currently happening with the Linux kernel, much like tech in general, and the entirety of end-times fascism, was what we were always tryna tell y’all.

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  • Not Your DamselDamselfly@blackqueer.life
    Oct 15, 2026, 4:19 PM

    Like love that the Linux kernel ecosystem discussion is out in the open and all, but marginalized people were talking about this in the 90s and 00s and the fucking response was “you just don’t understand open source.”

    But now it’s affecting the white dudes. So now it’s An Issue.

    It is extremely telling to see who and what are centered in this discussion.

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  • Not Your DamselDamselfly@blackqueer.life
    Oct 15, 2026, 4:34 PM

    This isn’t specifically about that one post or person. It’s about the landscape of discussion. And yes, I get the whole “I can only speak from my own experience” argument and have heard that chestnut.

    The problem is when he speak from our experience, which we have been doing for over 30 years, we are at best ignored. At worst we are violently attacked.

    But now it’s A Thing, and rather than say “hey, what have women, especially women of color, said about this issue?” They go and develop some story as if generating it from first principles and pat themselves on the back. It’s like women of color exist in a different dimensional plane. “Invisible” doesn’t even cover it.

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  • Not Your DamselDamselfly@blackqueer.life
    Oct 15, 2026, 4:35 PM

    It’s just so telling that the majority of criticism of LLM usage and Linux kernel leadership uses the same tools as the problem it’s criticizing.

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