#WomenWhoCode is shutting down for funding shortfalls. I can’t think of a more dire canary in the Silicon Valley coal mine than this. We can expect a social fascist turn in the IT industry from here out as the remaining jobs not taken by AI are rationed out to men only.
$4m is chump change for infotech capitalists, a few bucks tossed to a pan handler. That they won’t fund #WWC anymore isn’t an economic decision, but palpably a policy priority toward a hard social rightward turn.
@jesseplusplus I’m certainly far on the outside looking up at the nosebleed heights of the infotech socioeconomic pyramid. So I hope you’re right. But WWC did good for some of us far outside of Silicon Valley. I was one such, though couldn’t take it anywhere myself. For that alone they get my salute.
@Shufei thank you for sharing your perspective, it's super helpful to hear their impact outside of my own bubble and how they helped you. I was in Silicon Valley, so it felt a little different there, but I can definitely see how their initiatives could help in a lot of places much less saturated by tech.
Rubiales is a shithead of the highest order. A fragile ego that was epic in its delusion that his position was more important than both the players and of the game itself. His media team will spin this into some sort of martyrdom so get ready for it. The main thing is he’s gone. @wwc#MastodonFC#WWC#WWC2023
@jimkennedy@TiffyBelle@wwc I guess we, the fans, all hope that. But maybe he's supposed to act as a pawn sacrifice. Unless the President isn't fired, everything will go on in the same way.
Ruthless editorial about how Spanish soccer’s current fiasco of a president reflects the lived reality of women in sports. I’ve been waiting for someone to write this. Gift link.
This headline is bonkers. Imagine grabbing a woman by both cheeks and kissing them on the lips and THEN blaming THEM for the kiss.
"Luis Rubiales: Spanish football federation will take legal action over Jennifer Hermoso 'lies' "
Men found a way to ruin the Women's World Cup without even playing.
I truly feel for the Spain players. These women won the Cup but they can't even relish their victory because of a man with wandering lips and a football federation that obviously hates women.
"It’s never just one man. It’s the men at the podium and it’s the men around them who gave them their jobs. It’s the men who have starved women’s football since they bothered to notice that women play it. It’s the men who have moved into the women’s game not to improve it, but to exploit it. It’s the men who step into leadership roles with little experience and capitalize on women’s work and talent. We are all sick and tired of it."
This kit saga over #Earps' shirt has been unfortunate. It shouldn't have taken this amount of pressure for Nike to sell the replica kit for one of the world's best women's football #goalkeepers, a role model for young goalkeepers everywhere.
@TiffyBelle@wwc Alternatively, this has worked out wonderfully for Nike, because now they'll sell far more of this shirt than they would have done previously.
Painful article to read by The Times and I think dismissing England's game as simply "strong & fast" is doing them a disservice and a massive oversimplification.
That said, the core of it is right. The Spanish team are setting new standards of technical prowess and their technical skills are something all teams should aspire to.
@TiffyBelle@wwc the winning team is always looked up as the model to emulate, but the "loser" is not a bad team or model either. England won Euro, Finalissima, and was World Cup finalist. Spain was World Cup champion in Sub 17, Sub 20 and Majors. Only one can win but that does not mean the losing team is a bad one. Whatever was missing it has to keep working to create new and better opportunities.
@steve@wwc Absolutely you're right. I don't like how the article portrayed England's game as necessarily lacking technical skill. We have some really skilled players like Walsh and others from a technical perspective.
#Spain does seem like a good blueprint though, all the way from youth level. They've won the under 17s World Cup, under 20s World Cup and now the Senior World Cup. Their model is working and will feed the senior national team for years to come with exceptional talent.