The creator of FOSS BIOS Libreboot, Leah Rowe, wrote a book. It’s called “a mostly bloodless coup” and it’s a sort of memoir and it’s on her website. The contents are really frightening. In it she:
- Breaks a man’s nose at a gay bar because he won’t have sex with her
- Verbally abuses her girlfriend daily
- Later moves the now-ex-girlfriend back in with her because she “wanted a driver” and “wanted a maid”. Keeps her there for 4 years, verbally abusing her the entire time
- Cynically joins the “Stallman Support” campaign, despite not supporting him actually (and knowingly collaborating with white supremacists on the campaign), to distract from the coup she was doing at Libreboot. (For the record I hate Stallman too, this is just to highlight the scale of consciously manipulative stuff she’s happy to do to entire communities when it serves her interests)
- Stalks, while calling the police to snitch on, a family because they offered her heroin
- Gets kicked out of more trans support groups/IRC channels/Discord servers than I can count
- Identifies as a compulsive liar. Describes many of the lies in detail
- Wrecks seemingly every hotel room she stays in, with vomit and physical destruction from drunkenness
- Describes terrorizing everyone around her and feeling no remorse
- Describes that she is not capable of feeling remorse
- Identifies as a sociopath/ASPD, but insists that cognitive behavioral therapy and talk therapy are equivalent to conversion therapy for sociopaths, that fearing sociopaths is discriminatory, and that society should be restructured to accommodate sociopaths
- So many more things
Look I hate the FSF and Stallman, and I have a Librebooted computer that I rely on every day. I knew there was a bunch of drama around Leah but I had no idea that it was like this. In all the things above, I’m not “reinterpreting” the events, it’s her words. For example with the guy whose nose she broke, here’s what she said:
“There was one person who tried to seduce me all night, before deciding not to come home with me, which annoyed me as I was indeed quite horny. My taxi arrived. I asked the driver to wait, went back inside, hugged him, smiled, and broke his nose. I saw a blur that was his face falling backward as I calmly and quickly walked out of the bar, my whim now satisfied. His friend called me a dirty [T-slur] as I quickly entered the cab, unscathed. I did it on a whim, feeling no hatred or malice in me whatsoever. I felt great satisfaction as the driver took me home, and I worked on Libreboot all night.”
I just haven’t seen this being discussed anywhere and I don’t know how a community manages a person who has done these things.
You’re brain is likely pickled more than the person you’re responding to with that word salad.
You call someone out on picking on Stallman unprompted as virtue signalling, but you don’t recognize when you preface with your own virtue signalling, do you?
Making something important in the past doesn’t make them a saint for their entire life and taking back things you say on the internet is a lot more easier than nonchalantly saying bullshit in real life, from the moment you write it, edit it to the time you press post.
So yes, imo, you’re trying to defend RMS statements. Defending and trying to do damage control for someone else’s problematic statements like this on the internet is fucking cringe.
But i hope he sees this, man. 👌