Mozilla is comically inept and clueless.

In five years, I doubt Firefox will be around. No reason for it. Sometime soon, I plan to switch to Chromium myself after I figure out what Google spying is going on, and then block that.

Firefox has no advantages over Chromium any longer, so why should I bother with its ever-changing bullshit?

The reason “social justice warrior” has become a pejorative is not because people are opposed to social justice — well, at least not most people.

It’s because a large part of the movement has become a thug-like goon squad, ignorant of history, or standards of evidence, of basically anything but their feelings. Which feelings can’t be wrong. But, well, they sure can be stupid.

As a former preschool teacher… it is hard for me to give credence to a claim that there is something objectionably “appropriative” about a blonde ­haired child’s wanting to be Mulan for a day. Pretend play is the foundation of most cognitive tasks, and it seems to me that we want to be in the business of encouraging the exercise of imagination, not constraining it.

A kid wanting to emulate Mulan actually increases the possibility of cultural understanding. At the worst, it’s merely harmless.

If I were a conspiracy theorist, I’d say that a large, shadowy right-wing organization was pretending to be these rabid SJWs to discredit the whole project of secular humanism. I wish I could believe that. But in reality, it’s just that these people are truly this obtuse and oafish.

This is not at all surprising.

It’s horrible, but merely an intermediary step towards automation. The moment some AI or semi-AI (or even just a shell script) becomes cheaper (not necessarily better) than the IT worker in question, that’ll also be the end.

And that is happening very quickly, by the way.

What is a little mystifying is that I’ve been on the other side of offshoring/outsourcing (though never laid off), and without exception the support is worse, slower and of extremely low quality.

In addition, the company will lose the flexibility and years of accrued knowledge and experience that long-time IT staff will possess.

Cengage talks about flexibility, but in reality all that just went away; major changes they want to make in the future will be difficult to nearly-impossible as they are now locked into that vendor, and it will be difficult to extricate themselves. And having just discarded all the institutional knowledge possesses by their IT staff, it won’t be long before no one there actually knows how all of their systems function.

But hey, they’ll make more profit for a few quarters! That’s what it’s all about, right?