Patch Friday

Python refuses to back down on DEI. Imagine turning away free money because you want to keep hiring based on discrimination instead of merit. Python went woke over a joke in 2013. Dongle-gate at PyCon, which went viral for mildly dirty jokes about dongles which were overheard by a very woke Karen. The jokes? "I'd fork that guy's repo" and "Big Dongles" People got shit-canned and cancelled. You have no idea how much of Open Source was absolutely taken over in 2014 - 2020 because of this moral woke panic. Anybody refusing to bow to it was painted as a racist, misogynist or worse. Codes of Conduct were forced onto open source software as Maoist Struggle Sessions. Devs were berated and badgered and framed as -ists until they "admitted their sins" and adopted a CoC that was , in effect, a huge cudgel that activist contributors, mostly community managers and non developers, used to oust based devs and bring in woke devs. And of course, a lot of scared devs went woke, loudly, to protect themselves. This is how all of open source got corrupted, and it's high time to destroy the virus there, root and stem.

Aviation industry

🚨 BREAKING: French President Macron addressed all Europeans to prepare for war with Russia. This was broadcast live across the continent. Europe will not accept capitulation of Ukraine to Russia under the guise of "peace negotiations." Americans must decide whose side we are on.