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[Corn Flakes]

Grow a beard, wear plaid, and constantly talk about how much you respect women and you'll be fine. For now anyway.

Buy a dress, just in case. The way things are going, you may have to put it on and start calling yourseld Denise just to secure your entry-level coder position in the near future.

On the bright side, you should still be able to keep the beard.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Buy a dress, just in case. The way things are going, you may have to put it on and start calling yourseld Denise just to secure your entry-level coder position in the near future.

On the bright side, you should still be able to keep the beard.

You forgot the most important part of the uniform. Programming socks.

 

[Corn Flakes]

You forgot the most important part of the uniform. Programming socks.

My apologies. I thought they came for free as part of the kit HR gives you when you get an IT job these days.

 

[Beavis]

Is there even a point in applying for American tech jobs anymore if you're a white (actually white) guy?

If you’re highly qualified they’ll keep you around to make sure things run smoothly.

 

[Hongourable Madisha]

Ubisoft cut a feminist from Watchdogs to pacify the ree-ing troons and show off its woke credentials, some smug prick reports. https://www.wired.com/story/war-dogs-legion-podcasts/

Ubisoft to Remove Helen Lewis' Voice From Watch Dogs: Legion​

Upon release, some players were concerned to hear journalist Helen Lewis' voice in Watch Dogs: Legion's in-game podcasts. The reason for that concern, as outlined by Kotaku here, is that Lewis has a reputation among trans people for being, well, transphobic. Specifically, she wrote an op-ed in The Times which said "a man can't just say he has turned into a woman," in an effort to criticize legislation that would have made gender transitioning in the United Kingdom an easier prospect. In that same editorial, Lewis also said, "What the government proposes is a radical rewriting of our understanding of identity: Now it’s a question of an internal essence—a soul, if you will. Being a woman or a man is now entirely in your head." Generally speaking, statements like these are a means of essentializing and denigrating the gender identities of transgender people, and specifically are rhetorical tactics used by many transphobes on the left—often called "trans-exclusionary radical feminists"—to cast doubt on the case for trans rights.

In response to complaints, Ubisoft issued a statement distancing itself from Lewis, who writes for The Atlantic and brings her gender-critical opinions with her. "The development team worked with an external producer to select speaker profiles for these podcasts and were not aware of the controversy at the time of booking or recording. While the in-game podcasters are following a preapproved script and are not speaking in their own name or with their own opinions, we understand this collaboration itself may be seen as offensive and we deeply regret any hurt this has caused," the company told Kotaku. "In response, we will be replacing these two podcast episodes in an upcoming update and will reinforce our background checks for partners in the future.”

This is the problem when you fail to vet contributors to your products for offensive views: They end up having offensive views, alienating potential audiences and anyone with good taste. If companies like Ubisoft want to show that they support trans people, they're going to have to work a little harder.

This would be the same Ubisoft that mishandled and covered up sexual harassment and abuse of its employees, but none of the troons gives a fuck about that as long as they don't hear anything they disagree with in the games. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...isconduct-scandal-harassment-sexism-and-abuse

 

[AnOminous]

Buy a dress, just in case. The way things are going, you may have to put it on and start calling yourseld Denise just to secure your entry-level coder position in the near future.

And on the good side you won't even have to do any actual coding. Just scream about pronouns and write Codes of Conduct while white guys do all the actual work.

 

[FAQnews Correspondent]

Ubisoft cut a feminist from Watchdogs to pacify the ree-ing troons and show off its woke credentials, some smug prick reports. https://www.wired.com/story/war-dogs-legion-podcasts/



This would be the same Ubisoft that mishandled and covered up sexual harassment and abuse of its employees, but none of the troons gives a fuck about that as long as they don't hear anything they disagree with in the games. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...isconduct-scandal-harassment-sexism-and-abuse

The threat of taking away content you purchased is one of many reasons why I don't bother with these games anymore.

 

[NerdShamer]

Ubisoft cut a feminist from Watchdogs to pacify the ree-ing troons and show off its woke credentials, some smug prick reports. https://www.wired.com/story/war-dogs-legion-podcasts/



This would be the same Ubisoft that mishandled and covered up sexual harassment and abuse of its employees, but none of the troons gives a fuck about that as long as they don't hear anything they disagree with in the games. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...isconduct-scandal-harassment-sexism-and-abuse

Cancel culture will never die out. Besides, if they brought it from a brick & mortar store, they normally can't return it at full price.

 

[Jones McCann]

Raspberry Pi

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

It's a good thing the Raspberry Pi has actual use versus a Chromebook which may not be stable with any non google Linux at all.

 

[Bongocat]

God damn, this really is the new religion isn't it?

 

[Least Concern]

I had to look up "intersectional computing" because, like, what does a computer care what your race or gender or whatever? I could only find papers and stuff like this which basically consisted of black women saying "yeah, I'm the only black woman programmer in my company." Well, okay, I suppose that can be isolating if you make your gender and race integral parts of your self-identity. But the computer doesn't care and neither do most of your co-workers.

 

[Jones McCann]

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God damn, this really is the new religion isn't it?

My computer is programmed to only respond to Aryan fingers

 

[discombobulate]

I had to look up "intersectional computing" because, like, what does a computer care what your race or gender or whatever? I could only find papers and stuff like this which basically consisted of black women saying "yeah, I'm the only black woman programmer in my company." Well, okay, I suppose that can be isolating if you make your gender and race integral parts of your self-identity. But the computer doesn't care and neither do most of your co-workers.

Intersectionality: the idea that characteristics when considered together imply different outcomes than when considered individually. Idea has merit in the abstract, but it's pretty much usually "POC" women or "POC" "queers" who get the attention (usually upper class since they're in academia), because some people can't stand losing the oppression Olympics. Sheer poison in the commercial realm; it's mostly restricted to academia and scammy consultancies.

It looks like that's the subject of all of their papers. Most of them are conference papers or non-empirical articles published by shitty journals. The one in CS almost exclusively writes conference papers for intersectionality shit, which isn't a very good showing. I wish I could say I'm surprised she has a position. The other is in "Teaching" so I imagine it's easier to get away with this crap there.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Is there even a point in applying for American tech jobs anymore if you're a white (actually white) guy?

Honestly, someone needs to start a small startup and primarily hire non-woke Whites and Asians but do it in a way that skirts around the anti-discrimination laws. Like if some troon, woke dyke "queer", or college commie programmer shows up and applies, quietly dismiss the application and if anyone asks, just give a boilerplate response about not meeting some non-specific qualification.

The only way to feasibly do this without alerting the wrath of the payment processors is to run it as a small game company instead of an alt-tech platform and to have the company be located somewhere cheap (and preferably in a red state) as opposed to Silicon Valley or the Pacific Northwest.

Red states also tend to have lower taxes and some of the poorer states like West Virginia or Kentucky would be very amenable to a tech company starting up and bringing jobs, especially if you try to hire locals when it's possible. The trickiest part is keeping the costs low enough to get by and procuring the capital to get the initial start up, especially in the first few years.

I'd also implement a company dress code that explicitly forbids beards and brightly dyed hair.

Advertise online for your gaming company but do so in a subtle way and try to recruit programmers and coders who are fresh out of school or are older and experienced but not woke.

 

[Large]

Intersectionality: the idea that characteristics when considered together imply different outcomes than when considered individually. Idea has merit in the abstract, but it's pretty much usually "POC" women or "POC" "queers" who get the attention (usually upper class since they're in academia), because some people can't stand losing the oppression Olympics. Sheer poison in the commercial realm; it's mostly restricted to academia and scammy consultancies.

It looks like that's the subject of all of their papers. Most of them are conference papers or non-empirical articles published by shitty journals. The one in CS almost exclusively writes conference papers for intersectionality shit, which isn't a very good showing. I wish I could say I'm surprised she has a position. The other is in "Teaching" so I imagine it's easier to get away with this crap there.

Time to intersectionally opress nodes with best-first search.

 

[Corn Flakes]

Honestly, someone needs to start a small startup and primarily hire non-woke Whites and Asians but do it in a way that skirts around the anti-discrimination laws. Like if some troon, woke dyke "queer", or college commie programmer shows up and applies, quietly dismiss the application and if anyone asks, just give a boilerplate response about not meeting some non-specific qualification.

The only way to feasibly do this without alerting the wrath of the payment processors is to run it as a small game company instead of an alt-tech platform and to have the company be located somewhere cheap (and preferably in a red state) as opposed to Silicon Valley or the Pacific Northwest.

Red states also tend to have lower taxes and some of the poorer states like West Virginia or Kentucky would be very amenable to a tech company starting up and bringing jobs, especially if you try to hire locals when it's possible. The trickiest part is keeping the costs low enough to get by and procuring the capital to get the initial start up, especially in the first few years.

I'd also implement a company dress code that explicitly forbids beards and brightly dyed hair.

Advertise online for your gaming company but do so in a subtle way and try to recruit programmers and coders who are fresh out of school or are older and experienced but not woke.

Wasn't that the whole point of Unwoke? Help people find new employees that aren't insufferable entitled assholes?

Regardless, unfortunately that plan is not going to work. Their entire method is infiltration. You'll very quickly see soypeople hiding their BS just long enough to get hired, then scream "discrimination! RACISM! TWANSPHOBIA! NAZIS!" to the four winds when they start acting up and get disciplined or fired for it. That's what they're doing right now. Sure, a non-woke company can just ignore them, but PR backlash can result in their clients (even if they themselves aren't woke) having to distance themselves for the sake of their bottomline, which fucks over the non-woke company anyway.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Wasn't that the whole point of Unwoke? Help people find new employees that aren't insufferable entitled assholes?

Regardless, unfortunately that plan is not going to work. Their entire method is infiltration. You'll very quickly see soypeople hiding their BS just long enough to get hired, then scream "discrimination! RACISM! TWANSPHOBIA! NAZIS!" to the four winds when they start acting up and get disciplined or fired for it. That's what they're doing right now. Sure, a non-woke company can just ignore them, but PR backlash can result in their clients (even if they themselves aren't woke) having to distance themselves for the sake of their bottomline, which fucks over the non-woke company anyway.

The problem with Unwoke is that the very name was too much of a red flag, assuming it wasn't just some kind of elaborate gay op.

If you're doing a non-woke gaming company, give it some generic and ostensibly apolitical sounding name and I still think you can screen out the wokesters if you make sure to keep your company small (which can also make overhead costs lower and exempt you from some regulations intended for large companies)

Part of why I mentioned things like a dress code forbidding beards and danger hair is that these types of policies can be an effective screen against wokesters and the dress code was merely put forth as a clear and obvious example of many policies you can implement.

Let's say some commie troon gets fired and shrieks about transphobia, then you have documentation saying "We fired her because of a dress code violation. Our company does not allow employees to have bright dyed hair or garish stockings and we gave her fair warning. Three strikes, you're out. We respect her gender identity, but there are other ways she could've expressed it without flagrant violation of company policies."

The Twitter brigade might rant and rail but if you're small enough and cover your own ass, then clients are less likely to drop you because you're also more likely to fly under the radar of cancel culture. Particularly if you aim for certain niches

Keeping the company small enough (like 15 employees or less for the first two or three years) can also go a long way and then for larger projects, you can do limited expansion with screening to guard against any kind of entryism and occasionally hire independent contractors.

 

[discombobulate]

Let's say some commie troon gets fired and shrieks about transphobia, then you have documentation saying "We fired her because of a dress code violation. Our company does not allow employees to have bright dyed hair or garish stockings and we gave her fair warning. Three strikes, you're out. We respect her gender identity, but there are other ways she could've expressed it without flagrant violation of company policies."

A "dress code" in tech that forbids people from dressing like idiots? That's not going to go over well for anybody. Even the massive shitty corporations don't care how you look as long as it's better than a vagrant.

 

[Syaoran Li]

A "dress code" in tech that forbids people from dressing like idiots? That's not going to go over well for anybody. Even the massive shitty corporations don't care how you look as long as it's better than a vagrant.

The dress code itself would be permissive enough where you can dress like a idiot for the most part but that there would be specific restrictions on a few specific things that would easily weed out soys and troons.

No beards, no danger hair, no side-shave haircuts for women, no "programmer socks", punk fashions would be heavily discouraged but not totally banned, plaid must be kept to a minimum, stuff like that.