> Anarchists ... don't handle crimes like sexual assault well.
Who does? Seriously the terrible things that a small group of people do to one another is very hard to deal with. In my communities (anarchist adjacent?) we have had exactly this problem. We do better now, but we are all older and have excluded the bad people. (Where did they go? What are they doing now?)
The "hackers" have a reputation for being a white boy's club war whooping and "big penis" strutting. Yes. Try reporting a bug in emacs (Or Audacity.). Get screamed at that you are such a fool as to have reported a bug you installed on your system with out downloading compiling and installing source.
What pricks. Love their work, their software, they are probably noce to animals, but what pricks.
It is not like that everywhere. The community around Rust has gone in totally the opposite direction.
Things change and (hopefully) get better. I hope the "Eternal September" is finally coming to an end and we will start working together with love and respect rather than "strutting our stuff" at the expense of others.
>The "hackers" have a reputation for being a white boy's club war whooping and "big penis" strutting.
I've gotten women internships, tenure, and away from violence in the moment, I'm exhausted by feeling like I have to go above and beyond because some people who share my skin tone are rude when I'm a queer, autistic trauma survivor who often missed out on opprotunities because that type of thing doesn't result in affirmitive action.
>It is not like that everywhere. The community around Rust has gone in totally the opposite direction.
I don't know much about programming, it's why I stick to Python -- anything I wrote in C would be riddled with bugs. Do you mind reminding me what the appeal of Rust was, something about "type safety"? The folks I met who were stanning it weren't fun to be around, so I never tried it out.
>I hope the "Eternal September" is finally coming to an end and we will start working together with love and respect rather than "strutting our stuff" at the expense of others.
I think things in the long term will be better, but in the short term it's a lot like what led to WWII -- you had a bunch of ex Prussian or whatever military officers then who struggled to adjust to democracy/republicanism.
In America, you have folks who volunteered to do war crimes, got traumatized, then hid that trauma to maintain access to firearms since most jobs that give extra points (veteran's preferece) are things like police officer if you're not rocking a buck twenty five IQ and want a decent wage.
I sympathize with folks who became officers to get an education and found ways to do useful work, but I cannot emphasize enough how thoroughly digusted with the level of aggessive entitlement I saw from some veterans during the pandemic, and almost all of the ones acting out in that manner were white guys.
(Eg someone comes into a store without a mask, pre vaccine, gets belligerent possibly due to effects of PTSD or maybe just narcicistic injury, then yells I JUST CAME FROM THE VA YOU MAGGOT and literally starts to urinate on themselves when someone comes up and yells right back I DO NOT CARE, SHUT UP.
They can dish it out, but not take it.
To this day I have an exagerated startle response from interactions like that back before PA rolled out the vaccine to my group (unemployed non-boomers), because members of the hacker community refused to acknowledge my technical skills for political reasons.
One of the reasons that a lot of rape is not reported is because the "testimony" is extracted in an adversarial setting from the victim him or her self. The victim is then likely (depending on local laws of evidence) to have his or her lifestyle put on trial. To be portrayed as a "slut" with regrets.
It is a system set up by what a lot of people reasonable define as "rape culture".
Not to be unreasonably down on social democracy, it is just that dealing with the horrid things that happens sometimes (rarely we hope) between people away from witnesses is very difficult for any community.
>One of the reasons that a lot of rape is not reported is because the "testimony" is extracted in an adversarial setting from the victim him or her self
I know. The only reason I got a CCR number for my assault was because the cop started to give a damn when they found out the person wasn't white.
>It is a system set up by what a lot of people reasonable define as "rape culture". Not to be unreasonably down on social democracy, it is just that dealing with the horrid things that happens sometimes (rarely we hope) between people away from witnesses is very difficult for any community.
That's why I also encourage folks to keep a knife in their purse.
When I say "testimony is evidence" the testimony can be "He tried to rape me, so I stabbed him in the throat like it was an episode of The Americans."
(Sorry for being flippant, it's been a rough COVID.)
In my experience, "democratic socialists" aren't as upfront about being sexually abusive as techno-anarchists. They're more about roping people into sex to be a part of the scene because that's SO totally revolutionary against monogamous heteronormativity or whatever word salad.
I think it's more like if you don't have a "partner", you can't afford to move to a big city like New York or DC, absent a technical degree that lets you have the equivalent of a dual income.
Then you have people who have more resources basically exploit that a year can be a long time.
Go back and listen to some Dan Savage calls from the twenty aughts. Both anarchists and democratic socialists seem to love that guy for some reason.
(Once I started having sex with girls too, and he couldn't seem to stop being weirdly transphobic, I stopped listening, though I appreciated being able to answer HIS question when he came to my university -- Danny boy definitely knows crypto means cryptography.)
Go back into the archives: when they're not being advised on how to produce the largest craps to literally poop on their partners (lots of lettuce apparently), they're often quite sociopathically[1] treating romance with this this weird attitude of "you told me the rules, and absent a just cause, you can't just dump (fire) me".
You can. Romance, like any other uh... "mutual association", is a form of at will employment, for lack of better phrasing.
In the real world, you can, in five seconds, go from first name basis to friends with one of the most powerful hackers in the world to "Mr" or "Ms" X even if you have a teaching certificate, doctorate or MD, because outside WORK folks don't really give a damn about your credentials - say the wrong thing, on the wrong day, you will be told to get in the ground with Jeffrey Epstein if you ever go out of your element that badly ever again and that hacker will never, ever help you again.
[1] There's a network of self identified sociopaths who've infiltrated the tech policy community BTW -- it's one of the reasons they closed that Russian embassy in Seattle, or so I heard in the hall at Defcon. Don't adopt a diagnosis like it's a Dalmatian born in the early 90s, it will end badly in both cases.
Who does? Seriously the terrible things that a small group of people do to one another is very hard to deal with. In my communities (anarchist adjacent?) we have had exactly this problem. We do better now, but we are all older and have excluded the bad people. (Where did they go? What are they doing now?)
The "hackers" have a reputation for being a white boy's club war whooping and "big penis" strutting. Yes. Try reporting a bug in emacs (Or Audacity.). Get screamed at that you are such a fool as to have reported a bug you installed on your system with out downloading compiling and installing source.
What pricks. Love their work, their software, they are probably noce to animals, but what pricks.
It is not like that everywhere. The community around Rust has gone in totally the opposite direction.
Things change and (hopefully) get better. I hope the "Eternal September" is finally coming to an end and we will start working together with love and respect rather than "strutting our stuff" at the expense of others.
Here, I find, is a good example of that.