User:NightMonkey

I live in Philadelphia. I've lived in San Francisco and Pittsburgh, PA in the past. I'm a Linux/UNIX Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer and Software Engineer. I've used the skills I've gained in for-profit and academic work environments to also assist non-profit organizations with technical work, for either reduced-rate or free, based on ability to pay. I enjoy working within the Open Source/Free Software model. I am a proponent of Continuous Delivery, OpenTelemetry and Site Reliability Engineering. The Agile Manifesto is always worth revisiting when your work as a developer seems to be bringing more pain than joy.

I alternate between atheism and agnosticism. I enjoy studying the history of religions and cultures, and I'm very interested in Anthropology, Sociology, and economic politics. I am pro-choice, and I'm reading Karl Marx's Das Kapital - truly an eye-opener! I've run a music record label (into the ground...), and had some working experience with grassroots political organizing. I like downhill skiing. I'm not a major sports fan.

I am a fan of debate, and love the challenge it presents. I really like the theory of NPOV, but...

I have not been active on Wikipedia for quite some time, primarily as edit warring increased and remedies were more work than the time was worth. I have become less enamored by the bias that relying on "reputable sources" seems to create. Who gets to define that? Wikipedia, through its policies, seems to favor ruling institutions and corporations. Many of these institutions have been shown to be either less or as reliable as sources that don't have wealthy capitalists to obliquely impose their editorial criteria. Yet the bias persists and seems to be growing.

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