2026-09-17 18:16 UTC
Perhaps in the spirit of @glyph@mastodon.social's post yesterday about having sharp reasons for decisions in open source, I will invite anyone currently volunteering in open source who does not have a sharp reason for doing so to take a moment, a day, a month! off and come up with a sharp reason.
My point here being that if you don't know why you're doing a thing, no matter how positive that thing is, it's that much easier for your good will to be subverted towards ill. Clear reasoning is defensive.
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@xgranade@wandering.shop 2026-09-17 18:20
I'll give my reasons, by way of putting my proverbial money where my proverbial mouth is: I worked in quantum computing for approximately twenty years, making damn sure that whatever public money put towards QC research was backed up by open source projects and not locked away from the same public that funded it. When I transitioned, I was discarded like so much garbage, despite transformational contributions to the field. So I left QC and tech more generally. (1/2)