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  • MaddieM4MaddieM4@raphus.social
    Nov 7, 2026, 10:59 PM

    @alexandra First they came for the illustrators, and I did not speak up, because that's out of scope of the Four Freedoms.

    Then they came for the translators, and I did not speak up, because the Four Freedoms are politically contentious and we need total unity outside of that.

    Then they came for the QA and testing volunteers, and I did not speak up, because honestly they always seemed a bit gay to me, and is that stuff really valuable like code is?

    Then they came for me, and I had nobody in the 4F Big Tent with me except other people who watch Asmongold streams. Where's the unity, people?

    EDIT: well there's a reply that demonstrates what GNU apologists have to offer in spaces of civil conversation. Blocked lmao

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  • Hare-Brained Ludditewild_cube@mastodon.social
    Nov 8, 2026, 12:00 PM

    @MaddieM4 @alexandra Gonna meet with some developer peeps also all against AI tools ... sadly the only ones that I've found willing to go out of their way to do anything.

    Getting my colleagues to care enough to take any risk has been a frustrating battle. Any tips? Trying to see more than the "bringing a horse to water but can't make it drink" part of this.

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  • MaddieM4MaddieM4@raphus.social
    Nov 8, 2026, 12:59 PM

    @wild_cube @alexandra I haven't cracked that code yet, but I think it's going to involve some form of teaching software people that they aren't as special (cased) in the labor market, and that they have things to learn from people in other jobs. Why do so many of those people have unions? Well, the good times don't last, and when they stop, you need the union to protect you! That kind of thing.

    Programmers are very solitary in certain ways. I think very few of them have even imagined being part of a labor movement that is mostly non-programmers, and equalizes them with everybody else. Even the ones not trying to be assholes have done a lot of Not Thinking About Cultural Attitudes About Their Job Being Different. Being part of a journalist union was really good for me even though I already had good principles. Non-programmer peers that you recognize as peers are good for the soul.

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  • Hare-Brained Ludditewild_cube@mastodon.social
    Nov 9, 2026, 7:51 PM

    @MaddieM4 @alexandra Hmmm maybe I need to be patient and keep networking and pushing where I can. Sweden is a bit weird, we do have the engineering unions but we also have strange stuff like the inability to picket or break "employer loyalty" by speaking badly of them.

    At least of the ones I have spoken with, they want change but can't imagine how to change it. As an immigrant, I've the same problem lol

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  • Garrett Wollmanwollman@mastodon.social
    Nov 8, 2026, 10:46 PM

    @MaddieM4 @alexandra Took a bit of a wrong turn reading this because "The Four Freedoms" is, inter alia, a set of four paintings done by the most famous American illustrator of the 20th century, Norman Rockwell.

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