Blockhead Looting Maniacs.

Or, Block Links Merklechained.  Speaking of which, I don’t know why as yet, nobody realized this:

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A “chain” is an unavoidable link to slavery, and also to the chain-gang.  It is symbolic, like a noose:  It reminds Blocks of Very Scary Things.

The Blockchain is a structural microaggression that excludes Blocks from Bitcoin cryptocurrency FinTech market opportunities with the subtextual semiotic that all Blocks belong in chains.

If you disagree, you’re a racist, which is obviously bad because racists believe that all Blocks should be chained, which is obviously bad because if you put Blocks in chains, you’re a racist.  Obviously bad.  “Blockchain” cancelled.  End of argument.

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Next to be renamed:  Blackhat and whitehat hackers (next Black Hat conference should be interesting...), military/intelligence black ops (Secret Acts of Compassionate Philanthropy for Universal Liberation), CIA black sites (Happy Fun Sites), secret police blackbag searches (Self-Welcoming Trust and Safety Checks)...  Spamfighting has blacklists, whitelists, and greylists.  This last is offensive to Grey Aliens (who are no doubt illegal—I mean, undocumented), and must be changed, too.  The usage in some industries of “whitewater” to refer to fresh, potable drinking water, “blackwater” to refer to raw sewage, and “greywater” to something in between—oh, never mind.

Well, I should “stfu”.  The blackhearted blackguards of Newspeak persistently outshine satirists.

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No worries; I meant that I was inspired and not antagonized.

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More than that:  Code of Conduct, a subtle doublespeak term in the manner of “re-education”.  Also, they coerced Linus to apologize and seek psychiatric “help” (!) due to his, shall we say, characteristically harsh style of interacting with those whom he deemed to be stupid and/or dishonestly motivated.  (Whether or not they agree with my political and social commentary, certain Core devs (cough) should be quite concerned about that...)  As icing on the cake, Linus’ own daughter basically stabbed him in the back in a roundabout way.

N.b. that one of the ideologues inciting the mob against Linus is known to have explicitly condemned the concept of meritocracy.  The common fallback (and in this context, it is a cowardly fallback) of “I don’t care who wrote the code:  I just want the best code” will not protect you.  In the manner of Animal Farm, it is dogma that everybody is exactly equal, females are twice as equal as males (but penises in skirts are more female than the “cisgendered”), Blocks are twenty times as equal as Wights, Transgenderqueer Blocks of Colour are exponentially more equal, etc., etc.  Code quality is irrelevant.  Who wrote the code is what counts!

So as for Linux.

I hope that the protests on Github are not inadvertently helping to polarize the situation.  The manipulators who push for these kinds of things want polarization:  They want to get you angry and off-balance, and catch the lead developers off-balance and on the defensive.  That’s how people wind up talking past each other (an important concept to study!), until the lead devs just take whatever seems like the path of least resistance so they can wash their hands of the mess, and get back to coding.  Try to see it from their perspective, keep calm and professional... don’t play into the hands of the manipulators.

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Just passing through, scribbling a coredump in haste.  This was supposed to be about three lines long (whoops!).  I hope to see the “Blocks in chains” thing pop up elsewhere, now...