Bomb threat targets gamergate meetup hear from somebody. With just a little bit of effort into her appearance and a sound diet, i argued, she could easily be an attractive woman who has. The software is designed to use machine learning to automatically spot the. Another girl succumbs to the feminist cult return of kings. A woman who has ties to a radical feminist organization that was literally trying to frame linus torvalds for rape. Troll slayer and journalist lyudmila savchuk when undercover at a troll factory for two and a half months to see how it works. Digital empowerment foundation what does a feminist. Feminist literary criticism can be categorized into three stages. C plus equality is one of their projects, which they describe as satire but which trivialized rape, painted women as irrational, and faked the participation of several women in open source, feminist activists, and writers. A couple weeks ago i highlighted the case of paige gorsak, a canadian girl who has fallen by the wayside to stump for her feminist masters. Joined by their front groups, oin, a false representative toof free software, and linux foundation, a github outsourcer which compares microsoft to a puppy. Github removes antifeminist satire from code repo december 18. Both ibm and microsoft are feeding patent trolls, are blackmailing.
A sockpuppet group created by misogynist trolls from 4chans g and pol boards in 20. We use free software to syndicate our weblogs, in order to raise awareness, bring together feminist voices, and promote crosslinking and discussion between feminist bloggers. Kathy sierra spent a tech career developing videogames and teaching java programming in sun microsystems masterclasses. If i wanted to be a full internet troll in this day and age, the most obvious path i see would be to troll sjwism from the inside. The future of online discourse free speech, trolls, anonymity, fake news, and the future. Less than 24 hours after linux applied the coc, sjw troll. Some people have also called me a troll, like when i said that isis should kill david cameron. There was abuse from the start a mixture of unpleasant criticism and outright trolling. That was the rallying cry tuesday of the electronic frontier foundation, a san franciscobased nonprofit that calls itself the first line of defense when our. Trigger warning, this repository uses satire and sarcasm and other types of humor that could trigger feminazis into rage fits. A feminist perspective on gender, media and communication. The main purpose of intellectual property law is to encourage the creation of a wide variety of intellectual goods. Windows 10 will encrypt your harddrive by default, as detailed here.
There is no such violent imagery on the feminist software foundations site. The feminist software foundation is a straw feminist sockpuppet group created by misogynist trolls from 4chans g and pol boards in 20. I see free women using their voices here in norway, but at the same time i see oppression of women when i look to the middle east. Feminist software foundation the feministsoftwarefoundation. In addition to the previously mentioned strengths of zines as a medium for feminist expression, the difficulty to troll or harass zinesters factored centrally into my participants turn to zinemaking and refusal to publish zine content online. Dubbed toleranux, the fork, created by a onedayold github account called the feminist software foundation, was announced with a lengthy diatribe full of overthetop mockery of feminist and. A feminist programming language called c plus programmerhumor.
Github removes antifeminist satire from code repo metafilter. One, nonextant, example of a rape joke was alluded to, but the. The operation was run by a local restaurateur who was placed under us sanctions. As whatever negative things happen to a feminist group will be defined after the fact as misogyny by. The feminist software foundation fsf brings you the worlds first operating system by feminists and for feminists toleranux. Why young men of color are joining whitesupremacist. They must be brought onto the right side of history, and toleranux is the first step. Sarah kessler is a senior writer at fast company, where she writes about the on. In the weeks leading up to her death, hannah was subjected to cruel taunts and insults about her weight and a family death on, a question and answer social networking site that allows anonymous participation. The present study is a foundation of things to come. Django primaryreplica terminology patch dispute geek. If it was actually made by a feminist it would satarise so directly it would just be cringy attempts to empower women.
Early precursors to some types of intellectual property existed in societies such as ancient rome, but the. The results reveal both an awareness phase about the issue. Feminist writer sady doyle says her experience of mass harassment has. Google responded with denials and denunciations tuesday to a patent infringement lawsuit filed by fellow tech giant oracle over. Were not paying enough attention to social media subcultures.
They use a lawsuit against gnome foundation to take us astray from abolishing software patents. End domestic violence, vanquish trolls and defeat body shame. Feminist literary criticism is also about this commitment to equality, to change, and it works its way by arguing that literature is a powerful cultural force that mirrors gender attitudes. One troll promised to rip each one of her hairs out and twist her tits clear off. I might have strong opinions, but they are just that opinions. The electronic frontier foundation characterized gamergate as a magnet for. Fake linux fork pokes fun at feminism and diversity. Raymond 1957 is a computer programmer, advocate of open source software, and author or editor of several written works, including the cathedral and the bazaar and the jargon file. Os x comes with software, file vault 2, already installed on your computer that can do this harddrive encryption for you. See more ideas about bullying, free day and stop bullying. From that foundation a new culture can be developed based on a. If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. Jul 30, 2016 first of all, allow me to explain what feminism really is, using a very simple analogy. Feminist blogs feminist blogs is a community of weblogs by selfidentified feminists, womens liberationists, womanists, and profeminist men.
Were not paying enough attention to social media subcultures adam rowe march 1st 2018 12. A week ago, i had no clue what feminist internet meant or looked. Feminist software is a cornerstone of any modern free society. Will uncivil and manipulative behaviors persist or even worsen. The feminist software foundation is the worlds first truly feminist programming organisation. Im sure we all agree that free operating systems are too important to be left in the hands of cis white males. The feminist software foundation is a strawfeminist sockpuppet group created by misogynist trolls from 4chans g and pol boards in 20. Mar, 2020 a maryland man who appeared to have ties to antigovernment militia groups was shot dead by police while he was asleep in his home, a lawyer for his family says. The theme for csw62 is participation in and access of women to the media, and information and communications technologies and. How an internet trolling victim bonded with her worst troll. Snopes field guide to fake news sites and hoax purveyors s updated guide to the internets clickbaiting, newsfaking, social media exploiting dark side. With these cards we were supposed to make software that can be used by feminists. Police shoot dead antigovernment militia man while he was.
Feminist software foundation has forked where no feminist has forked and reclaimed the software bits to all people. I get a lot of reactions when i say that im a muslim and a feminist, as if the two are mutually exclusive. This is the worlds first operating system kernel by feminists, for feminists. Dec 18, 20 github removes anti feminist satire from code repo december 18, 20 4. Jigsaw also worked with the wikimedia foundation to parse,000. Standing in as a programmer for the feminist software foundation, this. In 1989, the black feminist legal scholar, kimberle crenshaw coined the. One prominent feminist critic of the representation of women in gaming is. Microsoft and ibm are the patent trolls, they wont. Intellectual property ip is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect. Mar 10, 2017 meet silicon valleys secretive altright followers. It for change was invited by the global alliance on media and gender gamag to develop a position paper on a feminist perspective on gender media and communication rights in digital times for the 62 nd session of the commission on the status of women csw 62. In may 2014, a contributor submitted a pull request that removed references to the problematic terms master and slave from the django codebaseat first suggesting leader and follower as replacements, but settling on primary and replica shortly thereafter. This has implications for the democratic and feminist politics of the internet.
In the latest installment of our series, richardson and ruizcapillas pay tribute to the longtime chair and ceo of the charles stewart mott foundation and staunch champion of. In addition to the previously mentioned strengths of zines as a medium for feminist expression, the difficulty to troll or harass zinesters factored centrally into my participants turn to. Amazon has pulled more than 530,000 listings from the. On august 3, 20, 14yearold hannah smith hanged herself in her bedroom. With just a little bit of effort into her appearance and a sound diet, i argued, she could easily be an attractive woman who has no trouble finding a man willing to provide for her. However, these groups were too small to make a truly generalizable cultural comparison. Via cosma, this, by rachel barney at the university of toronto, is the best thing ive read on the internets in quite a while.
Block or report user report or block the feministsoftwarefoundation. Fake linux fork pokes fun at feminism and diversity infoworld. Criminalising and controlling issues of gender and sexuality is the moral foundation of a growing rightwing ideology that is driving the countrys. The term intellectual property began to be used in the 19th century, though it was not until the late 20th century that intellectual property became commonplace in the majority of the worlds legal systems. Dec 18, 2019 my participation in a threeday workshop titled imagine a feminist internet in malaysia organised by empower malaysia and foundation for media alternative, with the support from association for progressive communication apc and swedish international development cooperation agency sida, was an eye opening experience. Feminist writer sady doyle says her experience of mass harassment has induced a kind of permanent selfcensorship. Suppose two kids, a boy and a girl, have some chocolates with them. In internet slang, a troll is a person who starts quarrels or upsets people on the internet to distract and sow discord by posting inflammatory and digressive, extraneous, or offtopic messages in an online community such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog with the intent of provoking readers into displaying emotional responses and normalizing tangential discussion, whether for the. All you have to do is set it up according to apples instructions. When the founder of the free software foundation is telling one to liberate the pussy in any. Anyway, congratulations to atlassian for letting the trolls keep their accounts. In the latest installment of our series, richardson and ruizcapillas pay tribute to the longtime chair and ceo of the charles stewart mott foundation and staunch champion of the philanthropic sector, william s. A feminist programming language called c plus equality. My participation in a threeday workshop titled imagine a feminist internet in malaysia organised by empower malaysia and foundation for media alternative, with the support from association for progressive communication apc and swedish international development cooperation agency sida, was an eye opening experience.
Snopes field guide to fake news sites and hoax purveyors. Entry points to the farright include maledominated videogame culture, the antifeminist gamergate, troll havens on 4chan and 8chan, and the conspiracism that flourishes on websites like infowars. May 07, 2016 without articulating a method or criteria slfor distinguishing trolling from socratesing, i really see little value here. Poitras, is a member of freedom of the press foundations board of directors. A common theme i heard is that feminists like me must. If feminism is for equality, why dont feminists fight for. Feminist software foundation gets grumpy with github or. Listed below are extensions that help make your internet browsing safer from governments, corporations, or hackers snooping on your activity. However, if you have an earlier version of windows, you can use the software bitlocker. Women and gay men with internalised misogynyhomophobia who are here to concern. Less than 24 hours after the coc was announced, noted sjw troll sarah sharp is attempting to use it to purge the mailing list of her enemies specifically, one of the technical board members is conservative and will not accept her attempts to redefine rape to mean regret, and wants to force him off the board for conflicts of interest read. Amazon pulls more than 530,000 listings and suspends thousands of us sellers looking to make a profit off the coronavirus by price gouging. Meet silicon valleys secretive altright followers mother.
By examining how different cultures troll and how people troll on different platforms, we can enrich our understanding of the phenomenon as a whole. This university of oregon study on feminizing glaciers might make you root for trump more just and equitable humanice interactions. The troll in the comments on justines post cannot even be said to be putting effort in trying to adequately impersonate richard stallman. This is especially true for girls and women who may not be familiar with feminism as a personal and political imperative. We need a metaphorical exorcism of our most powerful institutions. See more of feminist software foundation on facebook. Bomb threat targets gamergate meetup hear from somebody who was there much of the gamergate viciousness can actually be laid at the doors of its opponents. Microsoft and ibm are the patent trolls, they wont protect. Coincidentally, yonder racism is an anagram of his name. For me, a troll is someone who is ruining the discussion, and thats not me. Smash the toxic patriarchy inherent in all computer programming languages by simon sharwood 19 dec 20 at 04. Initial reports were that the ads were mostly taken out in 2015 and did not support a. The gamergate controversy stemmed from a harassment campaign conducted primarily. After a short discussion, the django core team unanimously accepted the change and merged it.
The website geek feminist wiki explains that the feminist software foundation is. Feminist software foundation gets grumpy with github or does it. A woman who has intentionally tried to push a narrative on linus torvalds in order to get him drived out of the linux foundation something that she appears to have finally been successful at 3 years later. Sep 04, 2018 entry points to the farright include maledominated videogame culture, the antifeminist gamergate, troll havens on 4chan and 8chan, and the conspiracism that flourishes on websites like infowars.
A tool for fighting online harassment designed by people who have been harassed online, there are often bystanders to harassment. Now some assholes are taunting the prodiversity people. The most wellknown types are s, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets. Browser extensions are nocost software you can install in your browser to customize your browsing experience. They must be brought onto the right side of history, and toleranux is. There are many types of intellectual property, and some countries recognize more than others. Women and gay men with internalised misogynyhomophobia who are here to concern troll and sealion are not welcome.
Hollaback is building a new tool that it hopes will. Meeting the enemy a feminist comes to terms with the mens rights movement cassie jaye. Why young men of color are joining whitesupremacist groups. Wikileaks discusses preference for gop over clinton in leaked.
Savchuk found that the organization was broken up into departments. When the feminist site was flooded by violent images, it wasnt just a nuisance. And i know that this future will not be good if christianity disappears from the world, and is replaced by the feminist hell that is now forcefully possessing all the institutions of the west especially the church. Feminist software foundation geek feminism wiki fandom. And feminist ideology and academic theory as it has been developed since the 60s and revised occasionally is functional in. First of all, allow me to explain what feminism really is, using a very simple analogy.
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