[bestcoder69]

Click the 4chan links and you’ll see in their own words what this was really about (trans maintainer, channers worried about their waifu bot getting cucked.) Most seem to not know what they’re talking about- some admit to being retarded. Highly suspicious of this being tech related.

Also note the stats on GH subscribers and stuff. This is a lolcow dossier…

Events like this make me glad I don’t contribute OSS. I’ll keep my coombots proprietary.

[EGreg]

I didn’t know Justine was trans. Her wikipedia article doesn’t mention it, and has another female middle name which suggests that her parents gave the names to her.

I am not much familiar with her work except the impressive Cosmopolitan / Redbean mentioned on HN in the past. But she seems to be quite a controversial figure that is for some weird technocracy and against democracy and leftists, despite being a leader in the zucotti park protests… in short, someone who is no stranger to drama and controversy, and actively courts it:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/01/occupying-...

[bestcoder69]

All true, stuff I didn’t like about her, but also ancient history (article is from 2014!)

And like I said, you can follow the links and see the brigade discussing something else entirely.

Personally I don’t want an OSS ecosystem that banishes trans people or people who had weird proto-alt-right politics pre-Trump. If you’re gonna banish anyone, banish the ones posing existential risks to projects by their brigading against contributors they don’t like.

[EGreg]

Yeah, I definitely prefer to be part of very inclusive and open OSS ecosystems, that do things in good faith.

I am not part of the YCombinator or West Coast ecosystem, but didn't it banish gay people with weird pro-alt-right politics pre-Trump, and then supported Trump? Like, for some reason there was a movement to banish Peter Thiel: https://mashable.com/article/peter-thiel-y-combinator

How do you feel about banishing people who simply admitted to voting for Proposition 8: https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-mozilla...

If you take a look at a larger problem, you'll see that there is a lot of inconsistency with human welfare on a far larger scale.

Because this same system takes Saudi money a lot. The only moment of self-reflection came after one guy, Kashoggi, was killed: https://www.barrons.com/articles/saudi-arabia-tech-fundraisi...

But not the situation of millions of people in Yemen: https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/03/1113852 ... https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/01/andreessen-horowitz-is-now...

The US military industrial complex was largely involved in airstrikes on Yemen, as the Washington Post revealed last year: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/20...

As a country, we ignore the Yemen war, and are told to only clutch pearls about taking money from Russia due to the Ukraine war. I imagine that YC stopped taking Yuri Milner's money a decade ago, partly because of his ties to the Kremlin, but probably it was just a natural parting of ways eventually: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15631084

Anyway, just saying ... ecosystems aren't always perfect.