korrents

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People only truly grasp the harm of a gatekeeping rule once that same rule is turned against their own work.

Drawn from what Yihui Xie said

What these subjects mean

empathy Feeling what others feel: whether it makes better makers, leaders and people, or is a poor guide that should give way to compassion.

censorship Who gets to remove what: speech, code and money, and whether a state prosecuting a platform is regulation or something else.

social media Feeds and the platforms that rank them: what an algorithm decides is important, and what curating your own sources costs.

What Yihui Xie actually said

  1. Yihui Xie Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages…
    All they need before they can truly appreciate empathy and humanity is one thing: have one of their own posts closed and deleted by another group of gatekeepers.

    ↗Bye, Stack Overflowyihui.org

    15 May 2026

    All 2 korrents from this piecethis one is 2nd

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