[Centigonal]

I just want to express how much I appreciate Meredith Whittaker. She helped organize the Google walkouts, She's been working on AI safety since at least 2016, She advised Lina Khan at the FTC, and new she's out here advocating for preserving E2EE. A lot of people online give her flak for her opinions, but she's been consistently very loud and occasionally influential.

She's done some cool uncontroversial tech work too (like helping start M-Lab), but her advocacy is what is most interesting to me. I don't agree with all of her positions, but I like that there are still people in the tech world who are willing to take strong and sometimes radical stances on moral issues against the current of capitalism. I feel like she's the closest thing we have to an rms-type figure today.

[squigz]

Isn't RMS the closest thing we have to an RMS-type figure?

[fasa99]

I agree with you in principle, but RMS, he got other things on his mind right now I'm guessing i.e. https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/29/richard_stallman_canc...

[rrr_oh_man]

RMS - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman

[Topgamer7]

How is this relevant?

[xyzzy3000]

The earlier post mentioned 'rms' without explaining what that meant. The post you replied to added context by providing a Wikipedia link.