Colonel Sun wrote:noddy wrote:wait till you see the CoC she is waving around.
https://postmeritocracy.org/
We do not believe that our value as human beings is intrinsically tied to our value as knowledge workers. Our professions do not define us; we are more than the work we do.
We believe that interpersonal skills are at least as important as technical skills.
My impression of the MSM tech media coverage, other than ignoring the controversy, is
"Nothing to see here, folks, move along."
nobody actually likes *real* geeks, they only like cute young people "who dig star wars" etc.
the completely dysfunctional, borderline autistic middle aged man (*) who lurks in his basement doing radio, or custom electronics or hacking on operating systems (**) triggers visceral disgust in the well adjusted types.
its just turned out that THOSE MEN CONTROL ALL THE THINGS and thats an unpleasant thought to all those sensible ones... yet they cant do the long hours of antisocial, focused, knowledge building time either.
still i do think this is a specific political play, the linux kernel has become way too important to leave in the hands of the above mentioned folks.
(*) cough, me included.
(**) from the outside it appears japan has a much more robust, almost healthy support for those people .. being a serious dedicated perfectionist with zero interest in humanity is not seen the same way there.