Re: Nominations for Anthropic’s Claude for Open Source program

[Jeffrey Walton via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2026 at 9:44 AM Alexandre Oliva via Gdb
<gdb@sourceware.org> wrote:
>
> On Jun 18, 2026, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> [...]
>
> > I'm disputing your uncalled-for attack on David
>
> Erhm.  What attack?  There's no attack on David, or on Carlos, for that
> matter.  What I'm doing is call out the initiation of the threads as
> spam, and insisting that we shouldn't normalize or repeat that kind of
> post, because it would be detrimental to our shared goals.

Related (or maybe off-topic)...  I think this is one of the behavioral
attributes of Gen-Z and above.  The behavioral psychologists tell us
that kids raised on smartphones and social media can lack problem
resolution skills and they are hypersensitive to criticism.[1,2,3,4]
To them, nearly everyone who disagrees with them is an attack.  (Big
Tech acknowledges the problems, but disputes the cause).

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/teen-childhood-smartphone-use-mental-health-effects/677722/
[2] https://www.vox.com/24127431/smartphones-young-kids-children-parenting-social-media-teen-mental-health
[3] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/social-media-algorithms-warp-how-people-learn-from-each-other/
[4] https://www.noemamag.com/social-media-messed-up-our-kids-now-it-is-making-us-ungovernable/

Jeff