The saddest thing about meeting other high-profile women and enbys in infosec is the part where you compare your lists of stalkers and chronic harassers.
If you think students who want universal human rights are scary,
but count as allies people who want to hasten the end times so that everyone like you must chose to convert to their religion or face damnation,
you might have lost track of the plot
a bit.
You can gather some friends, light some candles, and call on the ancestors to whisper through the ether to every goose on the mortal plane about their new sworn enemies, the leaders of an open source project,
There are useful projects run by people who are overpaid moral voids, but as long as there are enough contributors who can look at the actual features of the tech and spot harmful code, the software will remain useful.
Use your voice to demand contributor codes of conduct and equitable distribution of any funds used to pay contributors.
Demand accessibility.
Throw out Nazis.
Toss the creeps, the racists, the people who take credit for someone else’s work, and
There is a line between philosophy being a useful guide and finding yourself citing long-dead Germans to support your claim that down is up and water isn't wet.
Most BLM protesters were white people advocating for Black civil rights.♥️ All their lives, they thought that they had the 1st amendment right to protest, because they had seen white supremacists march without being beaten by cops. They didn't realize that the right to free speech depends heavily on what you are speaking about, and who you are speaking for.
Now I'm seeing college professors and students learn the same lesson about what US cops will do to you if you speak up for the wrong thing.
These people are less concerned about maternal mortality than Margaret Beaufort. The one who died in 1509. "Medieval" would be a step up for the white supremacists.
If you're criticising VR as anti-social after 4 years of a pandemic that has further isolated disabled people, take a seat.
Take several seats if you don't wear masks to tech events.
You don't have to like VR, or how Apple and Meta are building it. But saying there's no legitimate use for VR at all? That it doesn't enable people to be social? Come the hell on dude.
I'd prefer if people had just covered their godsdamned plague holes with a thin piece of textile for a few months instead of me strapping something on my face to watch a movie in a theater or remember what relaxing in a café was like but here we are.
Me, trapped in the desert for days, "If I don't get a glass of water I'll die."
Reply guy pulling over his car, winds down the window: "I think you'll find water can be conveyed in lots of kinds of containers. You're welcome." Drives off.
Help me out here, when the sea shanty fad spread like wildfire, someone posted a shanty-like union song that went super hard, but I forgot what it was. Does someone have an idea what I'm referring to based on that super vague description?
Come on all you colliers who work down the mine
From Scotland to South Wales from Teesdale to Tyne
I'll sing you a song of the pound a week rise
...
And it's down you go
Down below, Jack
Where you never see the skies
And you're working in a dungeon
For your pound a week rise