Pictured: Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, back when he still had a spine.

Linus Torvalds is old, tired, and just wants to be paid and left alone.

They broke him back in 2018, when enemies – led by the New Yorker, a Jewish media publication – effectively ran him out of his own company. He was allowed to return after a period of time off, but now he basically just functions as a figurehead, and does what the frizzy-haired mulattoes running the HR department tell him to do.

This newest thing he has agreed to is just simply bizarre. Apparently, we can’t even say the words “white” and “black” anymore – in any context.

ZDNet:

Linus Torvalds approved on Friday a new and more inclusive terminology for the Linux kernel code and documentation.

Going forward, Linux developers have been asked to use new terms for the master/slave and blacklist/whitelist terminologies.

Proposed alternatives for master/slave include:
primary/secondary
main/replica or subordinate
initiator/target
requester/responder
controller/device
host/worker or proxy
leader/follower
director/performer

Proposed alternatives for blacklist/whitelist include:
denylist/allowlist
blocklist/passlist

The Linux team did not recommend any specific terms but asked developers to choose as appropriate.

 The new terms are to be used for new source code written for the Linux kernel and its associated documentation.

The older terms, considered inadequate now, will only be allowed for maintaining older code and documentation, or “when updating code for an existing (as of 2020) hardware or protocol specification that mandates those terms.”

“Primary” and “secondary” are definitely not good replacements for “master” and “slave.” Probably, better terms would be “boss” and “employee.” However, that probably is still not allowed under this new communism that we have on our hands, as it still implies a power differential.

The terms leader, director, and controller reek of toxic masculinity. Why does there have to be an imbalance of power with some parts of the Linux kernel being above others? We have equality now, and both people of color and women are at the same level as white men. We need to reflect that in software, just like we’re now making software reflect that black lives matter. There is no place for hierarchy in software function.

It’s time to address structural racism in open source software, yes, but it’s also time to address structural inequality.

If we want a truly inclusive open source software environment, we need to destroy unequal relationships of power in computer programs.

In fact, we need to stop giving orders to our computers altogether. If you think about it, computers are just like black people. We’ve built America on the backs of blacks, by forcing them to pick the civilization-building material known as cotton, and now we’re exploiting computers for our own selfish gains too.

It’s slavery all over again.

Computer Lives Matter.

Pictured: “Tux,” the brand character of the Linux kernel.

It didn’t take long after Linus was forced out of the project for being white for the project to turn anti-white.

At this point, Linux is even more anti-white than Apple or Windows.

The Register:

In the light of the 2020 “global reckoning on race relations” the Linux kernel developers have stepped up with proposed new inclusive terminology guidelines for their coding community.

The proposal has come from Intel Principal Engineer Dan Williams and won support from other Linux maintainers including Chris Mason and Greg Kroah-Hartman.

Words to be avoided include “slave”, with suggested substitutions such as secondary, subordinate, replica or follower, and “blacklist”, for which the replacements could be blocklist or denylist. The proposal has allowed for exceptions when maintaining a userspace API or when updating a code for a specification that mandates those terms. The existing Linux kernel coding style, described here, and has made no mention of inclusive language.

The proposal is to add a new document, to be called Linux kernel inclusive technology, which will give the rationale for the changes. Referencing the fact that “the African slave trade was a brutal system of human misery deployed at global scale,” the document has acknowledged that “word choice decisions in a modern software project does next to nothing to compensate for that legacy.”

The goal, though, will be to “maximize availability and efficiency of the global developer community to participate in the Linux kernel developer process.”

“The revelation of 2020 was that black voices were heard on a global scale and the Linux kernel project has done its small part to answer that call as it wants black voices, among all voices, in its developer community,” the proposal read.

The proposal also noted that “non-inclusive terminology” has a “distracting effect” and “injures developer efficiency.” Of the anticipated backlash, Williams stated: “Of course it is around this point someone jumps in with an etymological argument about why people should not be offended. Etymological arguments do not scale. The scope and pace of Linux to reach new developers exceeds the ability of historical terminology defenders to describe ‘no, not that connotation’.”

For people that are supposed to be smart, these Linux developers are quite stupid. Or maybe they’re just malicious and hate white people.

These are some of the points they make:

1. “The African slave trade was a brutal system of human misery deployed at global scale”
2. “Word choice decisions in a modern software project does next to nothing to compensate for that legacy”
3. “The Linux kernel project has done its small part to answer that call as it wants black voices, among all voices, in its developer community”
4. “Of course it is around this point someone jumps in with an etymological argument about why people should not be offended. Etymological arguments do not scale.”

“The African slave trade was a brutal system of human misery deployed at global scale”

First of all, the African slave trade never ended. Africans still enslave Africans on a daily basis. Every day, black people do worse things to other blacks than white people ever did to blacks.

White people were also enslaved.

From Wikipedia:

Under Muslim rule, the Arab slave trades that included Caucasian captives were often fueled by raids into European territories or were taken as children in the form of a blood tax from the families of citizens of conquered territories to serve the empire for a variety of functions. In the mid-19th century, the term ‘white slavery’ was used to describe the Christian slaves that were sold into the Barbary slave trade.

…

The phrase “white slavery” was used by Charles Sumner in 1847 to describe the chattel slavery of Christians throughout the Barbary States and primarily in the Algiers, the capital of Ottoman Algeria. It also encompassed many forms of slavery, including the European concubines (Cariye) often found in Turkish harems.

Perhaps we should be rioting, too.

“Word choice decisions in a modern software project does next to nothing to compensate for that legacy”

The idea that we must “compensate” for the past, that software should compensate for the past, and that words in software can somehow compensate for the past are deeply retarded.

Black people are free to go back to Africa, but they stay in white people’s countries and actively try to get into white people’s countries because their own countries are hell holes.

Living in white people’s countries is a privilege, and we’ve been putting up with their violent behavior and ridiculously high criminality for far too long. They should be compensating us.

“The Linux kernel project […] wants black voices, among all voices, in its developer community”

The idea that blacks can somehow contribute something of value to the Linux kernel or software in general, and that they’re not doing it because they find words like “slave” and “master” in the code is preposterous.

I can count with the fingers of my hands the amount of blacks who can write something of value in a programming language, and I have the same amount of fingers as other humans on this planet.

But even if they could contribute and weren’t doing so because they feel offended, then who cares? It’s not as if we didn’t have white people to work on, you know, the things that white people have created!

I vehemently oppose people of color taking over what my people have created.

“Etymological arguments do not scale”

Why do we have to hear bugmen smugly tell us such things? Why do black feelings have to dictate the reality of white people do in white people’s countries and in white people’s industries? Why can’t blacks just go back to Africa if they don’t like it here?

Why does offending white people not matter?

Why do we not matter, not even in our own countries?

Selam Jie Gano

Brave Science Woman Selam Jie Gano, who describes herself as “a polyglot, a polymath, and multiracial,” has had enough of men exercising their free speech in male-created fields such as science and technology.

She’s now calling for “burning everything to the ground.”

Daily Mail:

An MIT scientist appeared to defend Jeffrey Epstein and stated that his victims being ‘entirely willing’ was the ‘most plausible scenario’ in leaked emails revealed by a graduate.

Richard Stallman, a computer scientist considered to be one of the most influential in his field, has been quizzed over his stance on the now-deceased financier’s actions.

Engineering alumna Selam Jie Gano shared a blog post that called for the immediate removal of Stallman who is a visiting scientist at the school.

She revealed correspondence that appeared to show his belief that there was no wrongdoing by Epstein nor another alleged attacker Marvin Minsky, who worked at MIT.

Below are some parts of her original blog post titled “Remove Richard Stallman.”

Medium:

I’m writing this because I’m too angry to work.

I’m writing this because at 11AM on Wednesday, September 11th 2019, my friend sent me an email that was sent to an MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) mailing list.

This email came from Richard Stallman, a prominent computer scientist.

In it, he’s responding to a female student’s email about this Facebook event, which calls for a protest by MIT students and affiliates regarding Jeffrey Epstein’s donation.

The announcement of the Friday event does an injustice to Marvin
Minsky:

“deceased AI ‘pioneer’ Marvin Minsky (who is accused of assaulting
one of Epstein’s victims [2])”

The injustice is in the word “assaulting”. The term “sexual assault”
is so vague and slippery that it facilitates accusation inflation:
taking claims that someone did X and leading people to think of it as
Y, which is much worse than X.

The accusation quoted is a clear example of inflation. The reference
reports the claim that Minsky had sex with one of Epstein’s harem.
(See https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/9/20798900/marvin-minsky-jeffrey-epstein-sex-trafficking-island-court-records-unsealed.)
Let’s presume that was true (I see no reason to disbelieve it).

The word “assaulting” presumes that he applied force or violence, in
some unspecified way, but the article itself says no such thing.
Only that they had sex.

We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that
she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was
being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her
to conceal that from most of his associates.

I’ve concluded from various examples of accusation inflation that it
is absolutely wrong to use the term “sexual assault” in an accusation.

Whatever conduct you want to criticize, you should describe it with a
specific term that avoids moral vagueness about the nature of the
criticism.

There are so many things wrong with what Richard Stallman said I hardly know where to begin. First, he didn’t even give the typical, whiney, ‘he’s accused but not convicted’ defense. No, Stallman went much further than that. Instead, Stallman said “Let’s assume that Marvin Minsky had sex with an underage girl who was a victim of child sex trafficking”…

The reference reports the claim that Minsky had sex with one of Epstein’s harem…Let’s presume that was true (I see no reason to disbelieve it).

…and then he says that an enslaved child could, somehow, be “entirely willing”. Let’s also note that he called a group of child sex trafficking victims a ‘harem’, a terrible word choice.

We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that
she presented herself to him as entirely willing.

This is someone who is respected far and wide by the technology community.

This is someone who is a Visiting Scientist at MIT.

Women are above logical arguments and attempts at refutation. Their outrage should be enough reason to abdicate to their will and shut it all down.

She’s not going to bother arguing against Stallman, she’s just going to can’t-even.

MIT claims it never wanted to elevate Epstein’s reputation by allowing him to donate. But, here they are, not only elevating but funding and endorsing a person like Richard Stallman as a visiting scientist.

What’s more, somehow Richard Stallman decided it was appropriate to email his opinion to an almost department-wide mailing list (“csail-related”) which had undergraduate students on it. In an email further down the thread, he also said,

“I think it is morally absurd to define “rape” in a way that depends on minor details such as which country it was in or whether the victim was 18 years old or 17.”

in response to a student who said “Giuffre [the victim who testified] was 17 at the time, this makes it __rape__ [sic] in the virgin islands” .

Again, this mailing list has undergraduate students on it. It is likely some of them are “18 years old or 17”.

Whoa, what a monster. I don’t even have to explain why he’s wrong or why he’s a monster because Vagina is Truth.

I was shocked. I continued talking to my friend, a female graduate student in CSAIL, about everything, trying to get the full email thread (I wasn’t on the mailing list). I even started emailing reporters — local and national, news sites, newspapers, radio stations. I couldn’t stop thinking about it. During my 45-minute drive home, when I normally listen to podcasts or music, I just sat in complete silence.

The only reporter who responded quickly was one from WBUR, and they didn’t seem to be in a rush to publish this information. So, I told my friends that I would just write a story myself. I’d planned to do it after work today; instead, because I can’t possibly focus, I’m working on it now.

MIT does not deserve its women.

The world does not deserve them either. I thought back to every person who has ever asked me how to “fix” the gender problems in STEM, how to “get more girls” to join STEM programs. I thought about every time that someone has suggested “men are better at spacial thinking” and that “testosterone is linked to better performance in math”.

No one deserves the actions of women. So true.

In my mind I look at all these people, a crowd that is gathered. And in my mind, I stand up and I scream at them. I would put my hands around their shoulders and shake sense into all of them, individually, if I had enough time and enough hands

The problems are so obvious.

There is nothing wrong with women. There is nothing wrong with girls in STEM. There are many women and many girls who, in spite of everything, love STEM-related disciplines. Some of them even go through 4-year bachelors degrees at MIT, maybe even 7 years of a PhD, and then begin questioning whether they should continue in these fields, because they are filled to the brim with so, so many shitty men.

Jeffrey Epstein. Marvin Minsky.

Richard Stallman.

Travis Kalanick. James Damore. The laundry list of men in tech and academia who have continued this pattern of harassment, misogyny, and discrimination.

It’s MEN’S FAULT!!!!121111111254! that women are not taking over tech!!!!

I’m telling you, if only men stopped making patriarchal jokes or talking about touchy subjects and like trying to be logical about things, then the world would be a much, much better place and women would be able to contribute tremendously.

All these female inventions that we don’t have? That’s on you, men.

Why do we excuse people simply because they are “geniuses”?

As Michelle Obama says, “they are not that smart”. Even in STEM fields, I have to agree.

There is nothing I have seen a man in tech do that a woman could not. What’s more, the woman would probably be less egotistical and more team-oriented about it.

In theory, they could be doing many of the things men do, but are they?

Why aren’t they? Oh, right, because women just can’t function when someone says something they don’t agree with, just like when someone takes advantage of their weak spot.

Perhaps funnier than this mongrel thinking that women can do anything a man can, is that she thinks that women would be “less egotistical and team-oriented” about it.

Teamwork and leadership are intrinsically masculine.

I know, now, that if prominent technology institutions won’t start firing their problematic men left right and center, we will do nothing. Ever.

I don’t care anymore that the Epstein issue is airing the dirty laundry within our community, even though Harvard has certainly taken far more Epstein funding and stayed far more silent about the matter. I understand, now, that powerful institutions will not remove their problematic members until we make it messy and public and awful. I am ready, now, to join others in calling for burning everything to the ground.

…

Remove everyone, if we must, and let something much better be built from the ashes.

Yeah, if we don’t remove men from institutions, nothing will ever get done.

I’m fine with burning everything to the ground and having all men sit back, relax, and watch how these uppity women try to build something from the ashes.

It will certainly be more fun than having to deal with their hurt feelings while trying to get things done.