His original post , titled I can’t sleep, is some brilliant writing. When we talk about the chilling effect that criticism of Israel creates in industries everywhere (including ours) this is what that looks like.
Don’t give CircleCI my money, got it
Between the recent breach and the clear sentiment behind their staff, I really don’t know why anyone chooses CircleCI over GitHub / GitLab Actions.
My friend used to drive me nuts because he kept getting ads about them so he parrot the ads bullshit at me just to grind my gears.
Like CI/CD is a space full of eatabled and power opensource options, why am I paying for a proprietary app.
When you read about the Holocaust and the Nazis, you like to imagine you’d be the good guy. You’d fight the Nazis, you’d free the concentration camps. But apparently I wouldn’t. Apparently I would have just sat there paralyzed, incapable of doing anything about the genocide I see every day. Unable to think of any way to help. All I can do is retweet and protest and write a stupid blog post. I feel so stupid…
I wasn’t ready to see that my friends are Brownshirts [34]. That they actively cheer on the genocide…I wasn’t ready for my friends being [concentration] camp guards, party officials, propagandists.
Fuck, such an accurate picture
Did jews do terrorist strikes on German population during and before WW2? Genuine question: it wasn’t easy finding data on this.
This doesn’t have to do with Jews
I don’t mean to undermine anything when I ask this. The article was very good, thank you sharing. I wanted to ask if circleCI made any floss software, or if paul biggar was a contributor to particular open source projects.
I don’t know. I posted it here because CicleCI is a popular tool for Open source projects.
It’s valid and relevant. Thank you for sharing to this community.
He should probably leave the US and go to Europe (where his Irish passport entitles him to work). He’s certainly not going to work at a Fortune 500 company any time soon, and any firm that hires him is likely to find itself reciprocally blacklisted.
Ireland is generally supportive of Palestinian freedom, given their history. This extends back well before the recent horrific Hamas terrorist attacks. Israel and Ireland have a rocky relationship, including Israel using fake irish passports for agents. Ireland is not antisemitic, but Israel obviously tries to paint them that way.
I don’t know what to do, but I know these are not my people. Who can work with people whitewashing genocide. Are we supposed to pretend it’s business as usual as we send our friends’ intros, frolic at conferences, discuss monetization strategy.
To Ed Sim, Erica Brescia, Michael Dearing, and especially Matt Ocko, we’re done [47]. I’ll never pitch you again, never ask for help, never send intros or recommend you. I’m done with Boldstart, and DCVC, and Harrison Metal, and Redpoint. (I’m also done with Bessemer [48] and Sequoia [49] and First Round [50].)
Damn, the balls on this guy. Very inspiring
Nothing short of heroic - too many people in a similar situation find themselves saying that it’s awful what’s happening, but there’s nothing they can do about it.
Well, it turns out there is. Inspiring as hell.
This is why I hate startup culture. When you give off your equity to capitalist fat cats, you make yourself a bootlickers of mainstream discourse, even if that discourse is calling for genocide.
9 days after writing a completely one-sided article about a complicated, almost century long war, declaring his own weakening mental state a person is deemed no longer fit to be called “director”. Seems fine to me. I got a similar reaction to when Russia attacked Ukraine, and I wouldn’t have been fit to lead anyone during that few first months either. I barely got even the simplest things done.
I’m sure there’s plenty of things for him to do in this world below that position, and perhaps he can try a high position again later.
It should be noted that Russia’s aggression against Ukraine is still going on, and is in a huge risk of ending badly, and the Gaza crisis is diverting attention from that much larger conflict. It’s not unreasonable to say that the Gaza war is an offshoot of that war: Iran, Russia and Hamas saw an opportunity and took it and now this is happening.
Is there a mastodon frontend that doesn’t require JS? I can’t load the toot you linked-to
There’s brutaldon, but it requires you to sign in unfortunately.
I have no idea, but here’s a screenshot:
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Does someone know if anyone maintains a list of companies or organizations where this kind of bullshit has gone down, with link to sources? Could be useful to keep track.
I can’t believe how quickly we went from pretending we thought murdering civilians was a bad thing to concluding it’s merely a matter of killing the right civilians.
Did we used to conduct war in a way that was safe for civilians? I’m not aware of that history. The war in Gaza looks like war to me. The same way we have been practicing it since we picked up our first sticks in anger. Murdering civilians is a consequence of war. The “good guys” fire bombed Dresden and nuked Japan.
I would give more examples but being honest I am straining to think of other wars in human history that were worth fighting. I am drawing a blank. All of it is pointless slaughter. At least in Gaza you can understand that the Israelis were provoked to war. Can’t say the same for the US in most of our wars.
The circumstances of Gaza seem to warrant them attacking their captors. I don’t support any attacks on civillians, but Israel being attacked seems to be a result of a failure on their part to make peaceful change possible.
There’s a conversation going on in that Mastodon thread where one dude is proposing a static site fueled by a fact-checked list, but that’s the only thing I’ve seen other than BDS.
Thanks - here’s a direct link to the conversation, for anyone interested.
Shit, I’m on the phone over the holidays, will keep an eye on this. Thanks!
Grear idea! I’m curious if theres an equivalent for BLM that can be forked
You are gonna want to clarify that.
I will preface this by saying that there are risks to being openly involved.
There are people work to avoid taking actions that may benefit Israel:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott,_Divestment_and_Sanctions
Definitely doesn’t help that most of the damn US has some form of Anti-BDS laws. Because everybody knows Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism right guys?
Anti-Zionism and antisemitism are not the same thing, but neither are they mutually exclusive.
Anti-fascism and anti-semitims are also not mutually exclusive. Anti-communism and anti-consumerism are not mutually exclusive. Anti-war and anti-liberalism are not mutually exclusive. Anti-abortion and anti-gay rights are not mutually exclusive.
Hell, few things are mutually exclusive. You had a handful of god-damn Jewish Nazis and one fucking honorary aryan during the war. So not even Semitism and anti-Semitism are mutually fucking exclusive.
Things not being mutually exclusive is a pretty fucking moot argument.
Things not being mutually exclusive is a pretty fucking moot argument.
It’s not an argument.
So what is it?
It was a statement. Why do you find it so upsetting that something antisemitic might also be called anti-Zionist?
The US ““free market”” - Where if you choose not to do business with somebody they make it illegal not to.
Not supporting the Nazis had financial impact on people. Some American compagnies in fact gladly did business with the Nazis and made bank from it . But after a while they still managed to scrape some morals from the bottom of the barrel and say “hey this Genocide thing is maybe not okay”.
Paul can stand proud for standing up for his morals. Sadly seems like many western companies and even the entirety US congress loves to sell their souls for genocidal Nazi stuff these days. Modern day America would have been a dream come true for Hitler.
Fuck CircleCI
Paul is a chad. He also got kicked out of ycombinator for outing the founders skipping vaccine lines and encouraging others to do the same.
It’s extremely rare to see someone like Paul Bigger whose morals are not for sale
Pretty common at the workplace.
I miss the days where the worst thing anybody did at work was tell too many fart jokes and maybe got a coaching from HR because Karen from accounting is a stuck up bitch and told.
Now, everybody has to be some political or social justice hero. I’m there to do my job and go home. If I worried about every single bad thing that happens in the world, I’d be a nervous unproductive wreck.
Yeah because standing up against genocide is such a political social justice hero thing to do.
Think before you speak next time.
This random guy “stood up” by writing a passionate blog post. I’m sure that’s going to solve everything.
If he really truly believes what he believes and wants to do something meaningful, then he should go there and fight for them personally.
Because in contemporary times everything is only solved with a weapon in hands by killing others /s
It’s a hell of a lot more significant than an angsty blog post
It’s funny that people really think they’re different than those in Germany, 1942
Look I’m a coward too. But let’s not try to rationalise away our inaction on top of it
I don’t give a shit if Israel or Hamas wins. I’m against all killing. War is horrible. Killing is bad. Both sides are at fault here.
I remember a time when people could just talk about games and tech without involving elite warmonger war plans.
What did I just say
