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Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers
(www.theregister.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Yeah. Times like this I wonder whether a better world is even really possible, or whether social liberalisation was but a blip on a trajectory of bigotry, antagonism, tribalism and savagery.
Even in harmless contexts, the commodification of national identity as the first and foremost trait of a person even for the purposes of smalltalk or jest always makes me think if perhaps most are far more nationalist than they'd care to admit or even themselves think. It's a haunting thought.