He's stepping down due to Ted Tso comparing maintainers to here: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/

I honestly don't really have a QRD other than another maintainer stepped down due to what he saw was a slight by the Linux maintainers . Funny thing is the guy who set him off (Ted Tso) is the guy who caused the rust filesystem maintainer to step down as well due to a very public grilling lmao: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Linux-Maintainer-Step-Down.

The #Groomer is trying to turn our children into freaks. https://t.co/o92QlF8E1o pic.twitter.com/sitBzuEVfi

— Darrin Bell (@DarrinBellArt) April 23, 2022

https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/darrin-bell-freelancer

anyway lets look at the works of his that won the pulitzer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrin_Bell

Lmao

There's a lot here, but a summary and some key takeaways:

Lady is a feminist and a dominatrix. Decides she wants to fight for social justice in a small South African kingdom. Applies to the Peacecorps; is told that up to half of all Peacecorps volunteers ragequit, and is she absolutely certain she wants to continue fighting for social justice? Says yes, gets in the program, is informed on arrival that there will be no fighting for social justice, since Africans are racist and sexist and the local King will absolutely FAFO the Peacecorps if it fricks around.

Whole country is full of AIDS. 25% of all people have HIV, including 40% (yes) of all pregnant women.

Lots of little details come to light, such as:

A man killed his wife for asking him to wear a condom. Whether this is a reasonable thing to do or not is, evidently, a matter of national debate in their society.

Peacecorps volunteers can't wear anything too slutty, like mom jeans, else they might get r*ped. Having to wear a dress and not being allowed to wear jeans causes her fellow volunteers so much distress that at least one of her coworkers quits.

Libertarianism is rampant. To the point where they have billboards everywhere warning adults that fricking kids will give them AIDS.

It's not just normies, either. Apparently the King himself spotted a middleschooler he wanted to bang; her family tried to flee to England, so he had the Secret Service track her down and abduct her.

Because Africans hate hookers, Peacecorps volunteers find themselves needing to do HIV outreach work while simultaneously avoiding groups with HIV, lest they anger the locals too much.

The Peacecorps offers months of training and ideological reinforcement, but after that, has no idea what the frick it's doing. Every individual volunteer is, evidently, expected to think of something useful to do on their own, if and when they get assigned to a village; there's no "plan". Just liberal 20-somethings, abandoned amongst AIDS-riddled libertarian male feminists, with truckfulls of cash and rapidly souring views on the nobility of underprivileged Africa.

Eventually Our Heroine finds a village where hookers have formed a union, of a sorts, and is like OOO GOODY as a hooker myself, that's for me.

Unfortunately, it turns out most of the hookers aren't actually hookers. They're fake hookers, only telling the NGOs that they work as hookers because they expect government gibs earmarked for s*x workers. There is, apparently, no way of screening any of them, so everyone loots the hooker aid money and nobody cares.

But whatever, some of them are probably hookers right?

The local NGOees hit on a brilliant plan to convert the "hookers" into car wash attendants - even though there's almost no cars, and the only "road" in the community is a mud track that makes cleaning an effort in futility.

But the car wash is abandoned halfway through the building process, after the money is handed out but before anything concrete and workable is in place. Instead of waiting to finish the wash (which would have been an economic failure anyways, given the aforementioned lack of roads), the Peacecorp Kids organize a press event and take a bunch of photos to go on their resumes, before every single one of them leaves.

The half-finished car wash is abandoned and the Africans go back to hooking. Only lasting legacy are the news reports touting the success of those bright-eyed white liberals helping African hookers get on their feet.

The fact that she, also, fricked off out of Africa and cynically hates her Peacecorps work, same as the rest of the buttholes she worked with, goes unremarked.

OH, and frick Trump and Elon, they're the real problem, even though aid doesn't work it's important we support it anyway. Maybe she'll explain this in a subsequent article...?

!nooticers !antibharatiya

New data show how TCS makes heavy use of employment visas reserved for managers. Ex-staffers say it was to get around H-1B rules.

The first time Donald Trump took over the White House, Anil Kini alleges that executives at India's biggest outsourcing firm ordered him to take part in what he describes as a coverup.

Kini, who was an IT manager working in Denver for Mumbai-based Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, or TCS, says his superiors ordered him to falsify internal organizational charts — to make them appear more top-heavy with managers than they really were.

The goal, Kini later alleged in a federal lawsuit and in interviews with Bloomberg News, was to prepare for any heightened scrutiny of the way TCS was using employment visas. It was 2017, and Trump had campaigned on an anti-immigration platform, but his focus wasn't confined to undocumented immigrants. He'd also assailed a widely used skilled-worker visa program, called H-1B, saying it provided "cheap labor" that hurt US workers. He said US-based companies should instead prioritize hiring Americans.

Kini and two other former TCS employees who filed similar lawsuits say the company repeatedly made improper use of special manager-level visas to hire front-line workers who had no management responsibilities. All three cases, which were filed under the federal False Claims Act, were dismissed before the allegations of visa fraud were examined in court; Kini's is on appeal. The manager visas, known as L-1As, are easier for employers to obtain and have fewer guardrails; for example, they lack even the minimal pay requirements that Congress has imposed for H-1B holders.

Kini told Bloomberg that as Trump took office eight years ago executives at TCS, an arm of the Indian conglomerate the Tata Group, were trying to make their organizational charts match their visa applications, before any federal inspectors showed up on their doorstep.

While officials in Trump's first administration continued to criticize employment visas, the anticipated crackdown failed to materialize. Now, with Elon Musk and other tech executives defending the H-1B program, Trump has changed his rhetoric. "I've always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas," he told the New York Post in December. That flip-flop has triggered pushback from his MAGA base, pitting his nativist supporters against his newer backers from the tech industry. Although studies have shown immigration has been a net positive for the US economy and for government budgets, Kini's story along with allegations in the other lawsuits, internal company documents, emails and federal data obtained by Bloomberg, suggest TCS has used L-1A manager visas in ways that echo Trump's earlier concerns about undercutting American workers. The data, which is previously unreported, shows that the number of L-1A approvals the company has received far exceeds the number of managers it disclosed employing in mandatory federal reports to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. It also shows that TCS, which works with some of the largest US tech companies, has obtained far more manager visas than any other employer in recent years.

In response to detailed questions about the allegations and Bloomberg's data analysis, a company spokesperson sent a statement denying any wrongdoing: "TCS does not comment on ongoing litigation, however we strongly refute these inaccurate allegations by certain ex-employees, which have previously been dismissed by multiple courts and tribunals. TCS rigorously adheres to all U.S. laws." The company declined to provide further details.

It's unclear how many manager visas TCS may have obtained for workers who, as Kini and others allege, weren't really managers. Kini and others say they knew personally of dozens of cases. Legal experts say it's common for employers to game the L-1A program, and over the past decade, federal officials uncovered nearly 200 cases involving L-1A recipients who weren't actually managers, according to federal data obtained by Bloomberg.

outsourcing firms have overwhelmed the annual lottery that decides which applicants can get new H-1Bs. L-1As, meanwhile, aren't capped and carry no pay requirements. TCS has used the management visas on a scale unmatched by any other US employer, according to exclusive data from the Department of Homeland Security. Bloomberg News obtained the data after filing a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The company declined to answer detailed questions about Bloomberg's data analysis. The data show that the USCIS approved more than 90,000 L-1A visas from October 2019 through September 2023. IT outsourcing firms — which contract with US employers to handle information-technology tasks — were the program's heaviest users, but TCS far outpaced its rivals. The firm received upwards of 6,500 approvals, more than the next seven largest L-1A recipients combined. (The US State Department can also issue L-1As under a blanket approval process, but the agency does not release information on how many it authorizes; experts say the department has issued comparatively few since 2008.)

Compared to its competitors, TCS reported far fewer managers relative to its total US-based workforce. The company declined to respond to detailed questions about the numbers it submitted to the EEOC. It's possible that some high-level employees who do not supervise others could qualify as "functional managers" under L-1A rules. But experts say such cases are rare.

Immigration attorneys say fabricating job titles to obtain L-1As for non-managers would be a violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act and that gaps in federal enforcement authority have allowed employers to abuse the system. Shilpa Malik, a managing attorney at VisaNation Law Group PLLC, said she has encountered instances when companies manufactured evidence in applications for L-1A visas. "The L-1A is often found to be a substitute for the H-1B. Are they all legitimate managers? No, they're not."

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services has had only limited authority to investigate allegations of visa abuse, including any gaming of L-1A visas. Some employers have argued that the agency lacked the legal authority to conduct site visits, and in the past, companies have refused to allow USCIS officials to visit their offices or interview employees alone.

Nevertheless, during the past decade, USCIS has uncovered about 1,800 instances of fraud related to L visas, including nearly 200 cases in which the agency found L-1A recipients were not actually managers, according to USCIS enforcement data obtained by Bloomberg. The agency redacted the names of employers that were the subject of enforcement actions, and it did not respond to questions for this story.

Site visits "do help circumvent fraud," said Erin Green, an employment visa expert and former head of US immigration at Infosys Ltd., one of TCS's competitors. But in many instances USCIS officers simply ask for information by phone or email, "instead of visiting the actual client site," he said. Like many Indian outsourcers, most of TCS's staff members are in India, where it provides back-office IT services for its customers. But the company also needs client-facing workers in the US, and it employs thousands of Americans. Outsourcers often operate on what's known as the 80-20 model: About 80% of their staffers work from India or another low-cost location near their clients, while 20% are in clients' home countries, such as the US, said Peter Bendor-Samuel, founder of Everest Group, a Dallas-based company that advises global firms on outsourcing.

submitting two inaccurate organizational charts. One said he had managed five people in India, and the other said he would have five direct reports in the US.

But he "never managed these individuals, never had a conversation with these individuals, and never met any of these individuals," the complaint said. Govindharajan named 11 other TCS staff members whom he said received L-1A visas using false organizational charts, part of what he called TCS's strategy to save some $2.4 million annually in visa fees. He said in the complaint that TCS's business model depends on paying Indian workers less than Americans. The US government declined to pursue the case, and it was dismissed in 2023 "without prejudice," which means Govindharajan could refile it.

In a separate False Claims Act lawsuit, filed in 2016 in Pennsylvania, another Indian TCS worker on an L-1A visa alleged that the company frequently submitted applications containing "made-up organizational charts to demonstrate a make-believe hierarchy." The worker, Bedatanu Banerjee, said in filings that internal guidelines suggest ways staff should inappropriately bolster their resumes to correspond with visa requirements. TCS used L-1A visas "to 'creatively' get around" H-1B restrictions, Banerjee alleged in his complaint. The DOJ declined to join in the case and a judge dismissed it without prejudice. Banerjee couldn't be reached for comment.

Whistleblower Alleges Coverup Anil Kini spent nearly a decade building a career in IT management before joining TCS in India in 2006. The 49-year-old was born in India's southern Karnataka state and grew up in the financial center of Mumbai. He earned a bachelor's degree in engineering from the University of Mumbai before studying programming and working in a series of progressively senior IT positions.

After six years at TCS, he was offered an opportunity to migrate to the US on an L-1A visa to run TCS's project providing IT services to Western Union Co., a financial services company based in Denver. Kini supervised 37 employees. All but two of his team were from India, and they had replaced Western Union's previous staff, according to Kini. A representative for Western Union declined to comment.

Kini says higher-ups repeatedly asked him to sign off on visa applications certifying that front-line IT staffers were managers — using the L-1A program to circumvent H-1B caps, he alleges. He says he did not comply with those requests.

On Jan. 19, 2017, the day before Trump's inauguration, Kini was called into an urgent meeting with a TCS senior manager, who gave him a spreadsheet of employees, according to Kini and internal company documents and emails submitted as part of his lawsuit. His job would be to quickly change the internal organization chart to hide the obvious discrepancies for three of his direct reports, who had no management responsibilities, the records show. In all, Kini said that of the 22 L-1A visa employees on the Western Union account, only eight performed managerial roles.

After the January 2017 meeting, Kini said he began complaining. "If there is any site visit, USCIS will easily know the real reporting structure," he wrote in one 2017 email to his supervisor, which was submitted as part of his lawsuit.

Kini said he was emboldened to speak out at the time because the US government had just approved his green card, which meant his employer no-longer controlled his ability to live and work in the US. Otherwise, with only a visa, "TCS could send me back to India with an hour's notice," he said. Soon after, he says, the company began to retaliate against him, cutting him out of meetings and removing his responsibilities before firing him in August 2018.

Nearly a year before he was fired, Kini sued TCS, alleging the company had violated federal visa rules and retaliated against him as a whistleblower. A federal judge dismissed the case last February, ruling that Kini failed to meet legal standards under the False Claims Act.

After being ousted from TCS, Kini says he found himself ostracized from the tight-knit Indian IT community he had belonged to for more than 20 years. Former colleagues blocked his phone number and family friends avoided eye contact when he saw them at Indian grocery stores.

"Definitely it was a loss," Kini said, "when you're not part of those events and get togethers and birthday parties. We used to go out for movies, we used to go out trekking, and suddenly they're not available."

These days, Kini has found a new career — running a tutoring franchise in Lone Tree, Colorado, just south of Denver. His calls to seek jobs at other IT outsourcing firms went unanswered, he said, despite his decades of experience. Kini said that while the upheaval has been difficult for him and his family, he believes he did the right thing in blowing the whistle. "I have no regrets."

Govindharajan, meanwhile, said that after returning to India he struggled to find work with another IT firm and fears his legal battle with TCS has damaged his prospects.

"It all makes me so angry," he said. "I'm still really angry at TCS."

It's called nuance

A leaked draft of the list of plans by the European Commission shows that the Commission wants to follow a new approach to introduce "hate crime" as a felony in the entire EU. There have been several attempts since 2021.

Already during her first term as Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen wanted to declare "hate crime" a EU felony.

The magazine Euractiv recently published a draft of the list of all initiatives that the European Commission wants to implement this year. On Tuesday, February 11th, the final list is to be presented by Ursula von der Leyen to the members of the European Parliament. The European Commission president wants to tackle another initiative so that "hate speech" is recognized as a felony in all of the European Union.

Already in 2021, during her first term as Commission president, the Commission presented a corresponding legal initiative. The parliament agreed to the initiative, but there was no agreement in the Council of the European Union. Because "hate crime" can only be introduced as a EU-wide felony if all member states agree. In November 2023, members of the European Parliament demanded again that the initiative shall be followed on.

Crimes need to meet certain requirements in order to be considered "EU crimes". These requirements are stipulated in Article 83 Paragraph 1 on the work of the European Union. The crimes must be cross-border, the acts must be categorized as "particularly severe crime", and there must not be an alternative to the expansion of EU crime status to get the crime under control. So far, among EU felonies are human trafficking, terrorism, and money laundering. "Hate speech" allegedly is cross-border not only because of the Internet, but also because media such as newspapers are able to distribute content far and wide.

So far, at the level of the European Union, discrimination on the basis of skin color, religion, or s*x is punishable. The European Commission argues that the introduction of a felony "hate crime" is necessary because hate not only harms the individual victim, but "also society at large", as the legal initiative from 2021 says. "Hate undermines the very foundations of our society. It weakens mutual understanding and respect for diversity on which pluralistic and democratic societies are built", it continues.

When "hate crime" is fundamentally recognized as a felony in the European Union, then, in a second step, the Commission together with the Parliament and the Council of the European Union, in the scope of the regular legislative procedure, can set concrete characteristics of the felony "hate crime". Also, the three institutions can then decree minimum regulations that are then valid in all member states.

Currently, in EU law, there is no definition of hate speech and hate crime. On the definition of the term "hate speech", the Commission refers to a recommendation by the European Council from 1997, in which it states that hate speech is the incitement of hate because of certain protected characteristics like religion or s*x. The term "hate crime" is being defined in a recommendation by the European Commission in 2015 as "advocacy, promotion or incitement, in any form, of the denigration, hatred or vilification of a person or group of persons." A "negative stereotyping" is also seen as "hate crime". In that, it is about characteristics like an alleged social gender identity, age, origin, s*x, or religion.

Based on these two documents, the Commission speaks of "hate crime" being any crime with a motive based on prejudices. Specifically, the initiative from 2021 says: "For both hate speech and hate crime, it is the bias motivation that triggers the perpetrator's action." Furthermore: "These are 'identity' or 'message' acts, as the messages conveyed - notably that the targeted victims do not belong to that society - are addressed not only to the victim, but also to their community or group."

Accordingly, the motivation of the perpetrator is crucial for the felony. In addition, the text says that "hate crime" and hate speech "undermine the foundations of the EU". The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decided in 2006 that it could be necessary for "democratic societies to sanction or even prevent all forms of expression which spread, incite, promote or justify hatred based on intolerance".

The right to freedom of speech does not protect against law enforcement reactions to hate speech, the ECtHR says. The legal initiative from 2021 also refers to the concept of a "ladder of harm" or "pyramid of hate", according to which hate not only leads to discrimination or insults, but also "bias motivated violence" like r*pe, murder, or genocide. As an example, they refer to a study according to which hate-filled tweets lead to an increase of hate crime in a city.

!nooticers

Shockingly the CPI (customer prices index) has risen again to 3%, nobody in the country could've predicted this happening.

Of course, this doesn't mean much of anything when prices seem to be entirely arbitrary, as seen by this monstrosity

Alongside non-existent wage growth

Results entirely in the obvious choice to get out of this country as fast as I can. But the next vote will fix things surely.

MIAMI (WSVN) - A Miami-Dade County Public Schools teacher has been deported after being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in early January, before President Donald Trump took office.

According to the United Teachers of Dade, the 24-year-old taught science at a middle school and was beloved by his community.

UTD officials told 7News the teacher had been in the United States since he was 13 years old, obtained a college degree and had no criminal record.

Back in early January, UTD officials said, the teacher went in for what he thought was a regular immigration hearing.

Instead, ICE agents took him away.

"That's shocked me. I believe in democracy," said a aprent who identified herself as Carla.

!chuds lmao it's like a verbal tick at this point. This is democracy manifest! People voted for this!

Halftime show sucked

https://old.reddit.com/r/insanepeoplefacebook/comments/1ilvnzl/here_comes_the_racism/

s ruin magic

https://old.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/1iln7lb/maros_final_word_on_dei_in_magic/

New hampshire chud victory

https://old.reddit.com/r/newhampshire/comments/1ilniy4/new_hampshire_gop_lawmakers_join_attacks_on_dei/

Trump derangement syndrome can be cured

https://old.reddit.com/r/Omaha/comments/1ilscfa/its_been_getting_increasingly_worrisome_out_here/

Asians don't need the democrats

https://old.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/1ilslpu/east_asians_have_been_on_a_generational_run_for/

Magic the gathering again

https://old.reddit.com/r/freemagic/comments/1ilorsr/since_it_is_already_locked_in_the_main_sub_here/

Clips from an abandoned video on /r/dating_advice, the editing was a huge b-word. Might be worth finishing though.

What should I do? !poll_voters

Why is Sweden so r-slurred?

What makes afghan refugees so important that they won't get deported no matter what crimes they commit, but a Ukrainian nursing student who's been in Sweden for a decade and is perfectly integrated has to go back home in the middle of a war lmao

participants:

Pakistan: host, ranked 3, volatile af, bet if you r-slurred

New Zealand: ranked 4, bet if you like underdogs

Bangladesh: ranked 9, bet if you are a degenerate

India: ranked 1, fixture riggers, playing in Gulf (not of america), bet if you like bullies

Afghanistan: ranked 8, new upcoming fellas, bet if you hate women

South Africa: ranked 6, big booty bavuma, bet if you like elon musk

England: ranked 7, bet if you want to lose money

Australia: ranked 2, current world champions, bet if you are a c*nt

GOOD ADVICE

https://www.oddschecker.com/cricket/champions-trophy/winner

BAD ADVICE

redditors predictions

https://old.reddit.com/r/Cricket/comments/1iqwh6b/rcricket_champions_trophy_predictions_thread/

Lammy to open slavery reparations talks after Caribbean ex-colonies demand £18trillionhttps://t.co/z4wqQz6xnh

— GB News (@GBNEWS) February 7, 2025

!americas !britbongs

These Zoomer girls who make a big performative deal out of having IBS disgust me. It's very unladylike for women to speak of pooping themselves. If we want to hear crass talk we can turn to the male population for that.

lol good luck with Russia r-slurs

Here we spot wild Bardfinn Bluesky activities.

Be valid and ping ! bardfinn for something worthwhile or create a new thread.