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Amanda Blum
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Amanda Blum's personal blog at amandablumwords.wordpress.com covers culture and writing. Since 2013, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link this 2013 post as a source for the chronology of the Adria Richards PyCon and SendGrid firing, and to support their views on her past public call-outs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 14 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost14 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2013-03-21
- Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost 5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2013-03-21
What Hacker News says?
The PlayHaven employee was fired because of this event [1]. What led PlayHaven to conduct the investigation? Adria's tweet and blog post to thousands of followers. This isn't the first time she has used her considerable influence as a weapon[2]. [1] http://blog.playhaven.com/addressing-pycon/ [2] http://amandablumwords.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/3/ Edit: Changed a link.
Comment linking /2013/03/21/3/
on “A Difficult Situation”Submitted Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost as a story · 1023 points
HN discussionBut why did she tweet the photo? Why stir up a bunch of shit in public? Apparently she has done it before: http://amandablumwords.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/3/
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on “A Difficult Situation”Submitted Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis is an interesting take on the subject: https://amandablumwords.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/3/
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on “A Difficult Situation”And that's probably why this was written: https://amandablumwords.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/3/
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on “A Difficult Situation”https://amandablumwords.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/3/ Apparently she does things like this frequently, they just never hit the front pages of news sites before.
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on “A Difficult Situation”According to this article[1] this was not a single mistake, but a pattern of how she handles things. [1] https://amandablumwords.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/3/
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on “A Difficult Situation”"Unfortunately that isn't how she felt." So ... a man's behavior made her feel a certain way, such that she bears no responsibility for her reactions and their consequences? What is felt or what can be said is dependent on the circumstances of your birth, chromosomes, and DNA? Take your argument and spin it, and you're allowing that women are responsible for men's actions based on how the women act and behave. Or yo…
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on “Jon Ronson: How a Tweet Can Ruin Your Life”I'm pretty conflicted about this whole thing, and was back then, too. I try to be supportive of anybody, and generally go out of my way to be inclusive. I also make really stupid, juvenile jokes, although I am audience-aware. In this case, his audience was the guy he was sitting next to, and there was nothing overtly threatening in the joke. In fact, if anything, it'd indicate he was gay and not at all interested in…
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on “Jon Ronson: How a Tweet Can Ruin Your Life”She's someone with a history of senseless public shaming, and apparently a fair bit of grandstanding [1] You're entitled to your opinion, of course, but what's being discussed here isn't the ability to perform an action but the willingness to do so on a whim. [1] http://amandablumwords.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/3/
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on “SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas”Adria Richards really was harassed, by people that were extremely angered by something that should have been easily dismissed as a mistake. She got all sorts of nasty shit on twitter, threats, the whole works. I don't think her initial reaction was a good one, but it certainly didn't justify all the stuff that followed. Her apparent pattern of reacting loudly to small offenses ( https://amandablumwords.wordpress.com…
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on “Curt Schilling Fights Back Against Daughter’s Twitter Trolls”Lack of progressive thought on diversity? If you want an argument about dongle jokes creating an unwelcoming environment look elsewhere. The most sensitive among us don't set the rules. https://amandablumwords.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/3/
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on “Playhaven developer fired for sexual jokes”> Maybe you should actually think about the problem before dismissing it with a straw-man. This is not a straw man. There has been at least one event where Adria Richards, a well-known feminist, mistakenly started a witch hunt by incorrectly assuming that the stick figures drawn by a (female) designer were specific genders. [1][2] > It's called professionalism. Do you know what that word means? Yes, to the average p…
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on “Ways Men in Tech Are Unintentionally Sexist (2014)”Regarding Adria Richards, if you follow the "fuck them up" link[0], you'll see that he's not wrong. ———— 0. https://amandablumwords.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/3/
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on “A Strange Loop (about Curtis Yarvin Being Kicked Out of Strange Loop)”But the "discussion" about whether Richards did the right thing hasn't been a debate - it's been a general piling-on with a generous helping of condescension and chauvinism. There has been only a smattering of disagreement and it has been summarily dismissed with a combination of the most perfunctory hand-waving and sheer shouting down. The tech community immediately and decisively latched onto a convenient portrait…
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on “Fired SendGrid Developer Evangelist Adria Richards Speaks Out”There is a certain irony to Adria Richards, who got someone fired by online shaming them[0], complaining about online shaming. [0] https://amandablumwords.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/3/
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on “Online shaming: The return of mob morality [video]”Not sure I can agree with this letter. 1.) From what I can gather she wasn't the direct target of abuse, so to frame that was is disingenuous. I understand that making "dongle" jokes at a conference is inappropriate, but its nothing more than inappropriate. 2.) How she handled it was completely wrong and unprofessional. Again like Amanda Blum[1] states, she has frequently sidestepped the right channels and has taken…
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on “My letter to Jim Franklin about why I'm leaving SendGrid”I was pretty disgusted at how Blooberg news twisted the chronology of events to sensationalize the story. Amanda Blum's blog post was far come comprehensive and fiar in describing the chronology of events. https://amandablumwords.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/3/
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on “Silicon Valley Frat-Boy Culture Shown as Sex Jokes Spark Firings”
