No billionaires at FOSDEM
No billionaires at FOSDEM
Jack Dorsey, former CEO of Twitter, ousted board member of BlueSky, and grifter extraordinaire to the tune of a $5.6B net worth, is giving a keynote at FOSDEM.
Dorsey and his colleagues want to get us up to speed on what Block is working on these days. Allow me to give you a preview: in addition to posting $5B in revenue and a 21% increase in YoY profit in 2024, Jack Dorsey laid off 1,000 employees, ordering them not to publicly discuss board member Jay-Z’s contemporary sexual assault allegations on their way out, and announced a new bitcoin mining ASIC in collaboration with Core Scientific, who presumably installed them into their new 100MW Muskogee, OK bitcoin mining installation, proudly served by the Muskogee Generating Station fossil fuel power plant and its 11 million tons of annual CO2 emissions and an estimated 62 excess deaths in the local area due to pollution associated with the power plant. Nice.
After Dorsey sold Twitter to Elon Musk, selling the platform out to the far right for a crisp billion-with-a-“B” dollar payout, the FOSS community shouldered the burden – both with our labor and our wallets – of a massive exodus onto our volunteer-operated servers, especially from victims fleeing the hate speech and harassment left in the wake of the sale.
That is a very weird way of putting it. Like Mastadon et al didn't want more users? That's not at all the response I remember.
I do not want to platform Jack Dorsey on this stage. To that end, I am organizing a sit-in, in which I and anyone who will join me are going to sit ourselves down on the Janson stage during his allocated time slot and peacefully prevent the talk from proceeding as scheduled. We will be meeting at 11:45 AM outside of Janson, 15 minutes prior to Dorsey’s scheduled time slot. Once the stage is free from the previous speaker, we will sit on the stage until 12:30 PM.
Legend
Author raises a good point, how does an organization swing from hosting Kris Nova for keynote to Jack Dorsey? Absurd and ridiculous.
I knew he was crazy for banning bitcoin source code on his platform (as much as I hate bitcoins, banning source code is dumb IMHO), but this is on yet another level.
whoa
Jack Dorsey, creator, and still single largest shareholder of BlueSky private stock? That Jack Dorsey? "ousted" lol, foh
Appearantly it's been going in this direction for a while. There's a reason Offdem exists...
That website is terrible on mobile. Goddamn. They also immediately go into the history of why they exist. Nobody new will care. I just want to see what's happening, where, and how (online, offline). The why should be I'm the "about us" section or something, not the front-page.
Loony division-sowing anti-FSF nu-dev mastoclowns vs. BlueSky!
A figure of speech I came across once comes to mind. It goes something like "may god put the fire out with a rainfall of gasoline".It is always a risky move going from the safe echo chamber to the real world though. It always brings a shock to the system.