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Are you fucking kidding me?

Jack Dorsey is a main track speaker at FOSDEM this year:
fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event

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I am at a loss of words. I also owe sincere apologies to everyone flagging issues with FOSDEM over the years, whose concerns I often somewhat minimized. I am sorry, you were all right and I was wrong.

FOSDEM is now explicitly platforming AI/blockchain bro fascists. 🤬

👉 Edit: Drew DeVault is organizing a sit-in, and explains why: drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/202

fosdem.orgFOSDEM 2025 - Infusing Open Source Culture into Company DNA: A Conversation with Jack Dorsey and Manik Surtani, Block's head of Open Source

@rysiek I was quite shocked when I learned about this and still processing it. It is beyond me why people like Dorsey are invited to Fosdem, a platform for communities that are (ostensibly) completely opposite to pretty much everything Dorsey stands for.

@rysiek Not arguing with you at all, but genuine question: what's changed, why do they need more money this year? I understand why Dorsey would want this (public appreciation and respect is like catnip for these assholes), but since when is Fosdem about money (admittedly it's been a few years since my last visit)?

@wbftw it's always been sponsored by Big Tech. Nothing's really changed, apart from Dorsey's new scam company becoming one of the sponsors. Thus getting Dorsey a slot on the main track.