Russell Brandom

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The flood of merge requests has gotten so bad that open-source developers are building new tools to manage it. Earlier this month, developer Mitchell Hashimoto launched a system that would limit GitHub contributions to “vouched” users, effectively closing the open-door policy for open-source software. As Hashimoto put it in the announcement, “AI eliminated the natural barrier to entry that let OSS projects trust by default.”
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a block of text reading: "Anna's mother Noula, on the other hand, exerts influence over her husband and children primarily through a tendency to become irrationally anxious and "upset." Much of the family life has therefore always been arranged around their collective efforts to prevent Noula from becoming "upset," which involves concealing from her by almost any means necessary the existence of any problems or potential conflicts within the family circle. Noula lives, to some degree, in a fictitious world acted out for her by a special dramatic troupe consisting of her own children and husband, a world in which none of her loved ones have ever been unhappy, sick, depressed, disappointed, hurt, anxious or frightened. But this, in Anna's view, has also had the perverse effect of making Noula feel as if her own anxieties are, in fact, the only anxieties that anyone on earth has ever experienced, and that her suffering is something she alone, the only unhappy person in a world full of thriving and self-confident individuals, can understand."