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47 lines
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# FOSDEM 2025 Keynote
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Handed off by bkuhn to Karen and Denver due to someone (very possibly Henry
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Poole) giving bkuhn COVID-19.
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## Title: Slide 0
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Put it up as people are arriving so they know I'm not there. My name is
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striked out with apologies.
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## Kant: Slide 1
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Kant slide, (First slide (after title slide). Please read this prepared
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statement from me:
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> Bradley is heartbroken to not speak today — he last keynoted about five
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> years ago, and was excited to keynote again. FOSDEM is a unique event in
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> the world, as its organizers focus on community, not for-profit interests.
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> Those who saw Bradley yesterday know that he work a tight fitting N-95 mask
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> the entire day, as he did nearly the entire time since leaving his home for
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> the trip to FOSDEM — he took his mask off only to eat, drink, and speak on
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> stage. Nevertheless, he tested positive for COVID-19 this morning for the
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> first time in his life. He actually feels reasonably good and since he has
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> received absolutely every recommend vaccine, his symptoms are quite mild.
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> Bradley asks the entire FOSDEM community to reconsider their safety
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> protocols. Bradley believes deeply in the moral imperatives of Kantian
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> ethics: that, as this quote says more formally, humans have a moral
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> imperative to voluntarily take every action so that it maximize the rights
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> and welfare of all humanity. As such, he has quarantined today for our
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> safety, and while he does not call for a return to mask mandates, he would
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> like FOSDEM to return to “masks strongly recommended” policy indefinitely
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> for the years to come, and for all of you to wear masks voluntarily,
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> especially when in the audience of crowded DevRooms.
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> The science shows that masking works best in disease prevention if everyone
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> participates. Bradley noticed anecdotally that less then approximately 2%
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> of attendees wore masks yesterday and and at earlier fringe events. We
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> should all commit to voluntarily to making that 98% because it's the right
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> thing to do.
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I do ask that you read the statement above exactly as written it. What
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continues is just what I would probably say. Once I hand this off to you
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(probably around 12:30 local on 2025-02-02), please feel free to turn it as
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much into “your talk” as you'd like. I just wrote all this out to help you
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understand where I was going to go.
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