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Re: Rustlang: “This account will pause tweeting until further notice”

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Post by afiori »

jodrellblank wrote: post #58
afiori wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The reason you are deriving a meaningless statement is because “we won’t tweet again until we do” is a terrible synopsis of that tweet. How about "we suspend how usual operation until further notice"? If tomorrow morning they were to comment a justification of their choice that would still be outiside of the normal rust-related news the account concern itself and thus allowed. Treating languages as naive logic statem…

If it's doing a disservice to language and logic, why are you engaging with it talking about what would be "thus allowed"? Because it's fun, is why. I'm not confused by it, I'm taking their word as literal and asked a non-serious question that would go well with a thinking_face emoji.

Well the reason on my part is quite simple: I am quite pedantic on semantics :)

Another reason is that I would say I do not particularly like the part "let's take words literally stripping the intended meaning", my intention was at least to show an opposition to such interpretation.

If you were having just fun then don't take this as a criticism, but I will continue to oppose such interpretations :)

Re: Rustlang: “This account will pause tweeting until further notice”

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Post by afiori »

abstractbeliefs wrote: post #18
dx87 wrote: post #15

Not seeing anything similar on /r/rust, or the official forum. This twitter account barely tweets at all, it's like they want to send a message, but don't want to actually inconvenience anybody.

I agree - it's the definition of pandering: it serves no higher purpose than to gratify some group of people, without serving any deeper meaning. I would like to know in what way this will actually influence change. Don't get me wrong, sincere displays of solidarity matter, but this isn't one. It's an effortless token gesture.

> Don't get me wrong, sincere displays of solidarity matter, but this isn't one. It's an effortless token gesture.

This is entirely based on assumptions about who wrote that tweet and how that account is manages.

Re: Rustlang: “This account will pause tweeting until further notice”

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Post by untog »

phone8675309 wrote: post #51
untog wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The negative use of the term "virtue signalling" honestly baffles me. Why on earth is publicly stating your beliefs is a bad thing? Communication is how ideas spread.

“Virtue signalling” refers specifically to a public performative show of caring not because a person/organization actually cares but wants some sort of social, financial, political, or personal benefit from giving off the appearance of caring.

How do we know the person behind the Rust twitter account doesn’t actually care? Because that’s the clear implication in labelling them a virtue signaller.

Re: Rustlang: “This account will pause tweeting until further notice”

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Post by kgin »

jodrellblank wrote: post #22
kgin wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Assuming you're still looking at Twitter for reasons other than @rustlang, the notice will be on Twitter when the tweets start again.

This is a "who shaved the barber?" puzzle; that situation should be forbidden by the content of the tweet - they're not allowed to tweet again until after they've given notice.

I guess they could have said "This account will pause tweeting until we start tweeting again" but that's a funny turn of phrase.

Re: Rustlang: “This account will pause tweeting until further notice”

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Post by ASalazarMX »

eesmith wrote: post #60
ASalazarMX wrote: post #55

Python Software Foundation's Twitter account did the same. I don't know how many more made a stance, but I needed to learn Wagtail CMS and they too went dark on their website. Maybe not all tech is political, but open source, freedom being one of its foundations, sure is. 0. https://twitter.com/ThePSF/status/1267591714925133825 1. https://wagtail.io/

Freedom includes the freedom to not do something. That's why when I modify a free software package for my own personal use and gratification, I'm not forced to distribute the changes to anyone, not even upstream. Archive.org's copies, like the one at https://web.archive.org/web/20190212143902/https://wagtail.i... , seems usable. Plus, things like http://docs.wagtail.io/en/v2.4/ are still live.

Also any inner links are fine, like https://wagtail.io/features/. They didn't go completely dark, just their home page.
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