[Noisebridge-discuss] I AM ON STRIKE?!?

Mike Schachter cubicgoats at gmail.com
Tue Apr 8 03:00:00 UTC 2014


Makes sense Hannah, sorry about that, to anyone who was offended!

 mike



On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Hannah Grimm <dharlette at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey, just a side note here.  I get that this is probably maybe satirical?
>  But it's still totally not okay to call what happens on the mailing list
> when people disagree with eachother "assault."
>
> Especially not when assault is an actual, real problem that happens at NB.
>
> Not cool, Mike.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com>wrote:
>
>> + (-1)^2
>>
>> -Rachel1.0
>>
>> On Apr 7, 2014, at 3:12 PM, Jeffrey Carl Faden <jeffreyatw at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Thank you for this. I'm behind this 100%, maybe.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Mike Schachter <cubicgoats at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Let me be very clear to everyone, for I have recently speed-read a pdf
>>> of Gene Sharp's "From Dictatorship to Democracy" while commuting via BART.
>>>
>>> The Noisebridge Board of Directors is illegitimate. Bylaws are
>>> irrelevant, when they are abused to advance a non-consensual agenda on the
>>> part of a small number of very vocal people. The community of Noisebridge
>>> is legitimate. The community of Noisebridge should engage in a campaign of
>>> cooperation with eachother, and non-cooperation with the current Board.
>>> That includes the members of the Board. The Board should cooperate with the
>>> community of Noisebridge, but not eachother. Thankfully, they are already
>>> doing that.
>>>
>>> My legitimacy in this context is potentially questionable. I rarely go
>>> to weekly meetings, all I want to do is teach a goddamn class in a fucking
>>> hackerspace, without being assaulted by fear-mongering on the mailing list.
>>> I deserve no such luxury. My satirically-violent speech two sentences ago
>>> was unacceptable and I should be banned. My banning, however, may very well
>>> not be legitimate, and I will find somebody to proxy-block it.
>>>
>>> Nevertheless, ban or no ban, I am on STRIKE, probably. I might not teach
>>> another machine learning class until Noisebridge has re-established itself
>>> as a champion of some sort of new consensus-approved, community bought-in
>>> decision-making process that I will probably have very little to do with,
>>> for lack of time. I am willing to help with this effort only through
>>> continued contributions to Noisebridge via teaching people for free, when I
>>> am no longer on or off STRIKE. I guess?
>>>
>>>  mike
>>>
>>>
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