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adrienne··on Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence
That's a small part of what's being litigated. The rest of what's being litigated is unfair trade practices, monopolization, promissory estoppel, defamation, and computer fraud/abuse. (Seriously, there are 18 causes of action in the Third Amended Complaint, which is here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.43... . There are also counterclaims, which are here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.43... )
adrienne··on Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence
Hey, that's me! Unfortunately that's only reasonably complete through mid-February of 2025; i had some health issues and was never able to catch back up.
adrienne··on Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation
If the Industrial Revolution (which people keep using as a comparator) is any guide, it's going to be more like 100-200 years in a depressing unemployed hellscape!
adrienne··on College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos
> We actually do not regulate mathematics.

Counterpoint: ITAR. DeCSS. People have literally been arrested for publishing numbers.

adrienne··on Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel
Thanks, yeah, this is definitely a bug or something.
adrienne··on Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel
I am on the moderation team at Treehouse. Marcan has not violated any of our community guidelines and he categorically was not suspended from our Fediverse instance. He chose to delete his own account.
adrienne··on WPEngine, Inc. vs. Automattic– Order on Motion for Preliminary Injunction
It got restored at about 5:30pm PST on Friday evening: https://x.com/wp_acf/status/1867761686389604368

Mullenweg posted a whiny tweet about it: https://x.com/photomatt/status/1867759730992586756

adrienne··on WPEngine, Inc. vs. Automattic– Order on Motion for Preliminary Injunction
Both spellings are considered correct, although i personally prefer 'judgment'.
adrienne··on ISPs should not police online speech no matter how awful it is
In point of fact, if you want to become a US citizen you have to swear under penalty of perjury that you are not a communist. Now. In 2023!
adrienne··on George Church lab creates ovarian granulosa-like cells from stem cells
There are many, many people for whom it is not an opt-in choice; rape is extremely common.
adrienne··on George Church lab creates ovarian granulosa-like cells from stem cells
In point of fact, both men and women hunt (and always hunted) in hunter-gatherer societies, which were generally much more egalitarian than evopsych just-so stories would have you believe. Just one recent article that cites some studies: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/07/01/1184749...
adrienne··on George Church lab creates ovarian granulosa-like cells from stem cells
Many people DIED giving birth, dude. Many of them STILL die. Maternal mortality rates, for most of history, matched or exceeded the rates at which soldiers died in wars! This take is breathtakingly misogynist and also inaccurate as hell.
adrienne··on My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community
That evidence exists, in Yifan's case; i have personally seen receipts. Unfortunately i'm still banned on HN so probably nobody will see this.
adrienne··on The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google
These people never want to acknowledge the fact that programming used to be near-universally "women's work", right up until dudes decided it was cool and stole it from us. CS admissions used to be more than 40% women!
adrienne··on Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment
In a court of law, personal testimony is evidence. It isn't necessarily compelling by itself, but the idea that it isn't evidence because you don't like it is not actually how the legal system (or culture) works.
adrienne··on Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment
It was a job interview.
adrienne··on The fifty shades of Latin
Also Ozark English! Which is a super interesting dialect, it turns out.
adrienne··on No feigning surprise
There is no "litote". "Litotes" is not a plural noun.
adrienne··on Why is Russia so good at encouraging women into tech?
This is incredibly misogynist and unfortunately par for the course around here.
adrienne··on Why is Russia so good at encouraging women into tech?
They won't be able to provide, because it turns out the differences basically evaporate when you control for the financial stability of the households. It's just that one-parent households (especially in the US) tend to be a hell of a lot less financially stable than two-parent households.
adrienne··on Men Without Work
So ... just like the USA, then?
adrienne··on Mexican Newspaper Shuts Down, Saying It Is Too Dangerous to Continue
Hitler got basically all of his ideas about eugenics from the US. In a very real sense we did "birth Hitler".
adrienne··on Trolls are winning the internet, technologists say
*Sturgeon's Revelation. Sturgeon's Law was actually something else Ted said: "Nothing is always absolutely so."
adrienne··on New male contraceptive may be submitted for Indian approval this year
We've been controlling our fertility since the beginning of recorded history. There's a plant, silphium, that went extinct in the ancient Near East because it was overharvested as an effective abortifacient.
adrienne··on Ask a Female Engineer: How Can Managers Help Retain Technical Women?
You might be shocked at the amount of misogyny men in their 30s and 40s think is acceptable. (Also, contra 'amyjess - some of the conservative fields, in particular finance and law, are also hideously sexist & contain a ton of harassment.)
adrienne··on Designing a Business Card in LaTeX
PageMaker has been dead software for like 10 years now, fwiw. InDesign is the modern replacement.
adrienne··on The open-office trend is destroying the workplace (2014)
More seriously: You complain that your kids bother you any time you try to work from home, and how that's just intolerable. But your wife apparently puts up with it every day. They probably bug the shit out of her too - she's just doing that without whining to you about how haaarrrd it is. Implying that what makes her a "saint" isn't "putting up with her kids" so much as it is "putting up with you".
adrienne··on The open-office trend is destroying the workplace (2014)
If you had a full-time nanny you'd just be exploiting someone else, and that's not really better! (Although at least she'd be getting paid.)
adrienne··on Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “DeleteUber” campaign
...sure it would? Cooperatives of various sorts are a time-tested method of corporate organization, and plenty of them exist as corporations and make money in capitalist systems.
adrienne··on The open-office trend is destroying the workplace (2014)
Women who put up with this aren't "saints", they're just being exploited by their partners.
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