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When people told José Andrés that they didn’t like the food that World Central Kitchen was cooking, he didn’t tell them “well it’s free, take it or leave it”, he listened. He asked for feedback. WCK cooks food that offers familiar comfort for people experiencing disasters. Be like WCK.
This is a post about FLOSS.
A software license doesn’t make software good.
Open source code written by a bunch of sexist, racist, ableist assholes is no viable alternative.
Free, libre, open source code is good when:
- there are design docs
- there are risk assessments
- there is user research
- accessibility is a requirement from the beginning
- it is private by design
- documentation is a part of every release
All of this is enabled by teams with a code of conduct, and no tolerance for assholes.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion is the key to all of the goals FLOSS projects claim to share.
@project1enigma @MisuseCase Also blocked. One because it’s an antisocial eugenicist take, and because it’s not even accurate. Olympic athletes died or ended up with Long COVID.
All of that AI slop money could have gone to installing equipment for safe air in schools, hospitals, and public transit, powered by renewable energy with minerals mined by people receiving fair wages in a much safer workplace.
We could have avoided the high death toll of COVID and prepared for the next pandemic.
Instead we get even shittier code, abuse images, far-right bots, dodgy tech in healthcare, and even more precarious state of things for artists.
@Erased_Citizen It’s always “attack online privacy” and never “restore third spaces for kids lost to white supremacist reactions to desegregation, and bulldozed to build shopping centers and parking lots”