Programmers can't even organize themselves well enough to get offices with doors, how can we expect programmers to effect moral change? https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1003088259105243136

So many programmers with fake twitter names trying to explain to me how planes work right now. [zero empathy expected from you, ladies, feel free to chuckle]

For folks late to this thread, this is about **voting machine software**, and how the software industry (Google and Facebook, specifically) hasn't earned the trust required to manage democracy securely.

Two heavyweights from Google (Chrome "engineer") and Facebook's former CISO saw a cartoon and attacked the cartoonist: https://xkcd.com/2030/ 

They called the cartonist a "non-practitioner" (though he had programming experience at NASA), and a nihilist, and belittled the relative maturity of risk management in the aviation industry (they appear to have been "non-practitioners" of aviation).

There's nothing that the software industry can gain by belittling the life-safety industries that they can learn so much from, just because a comic strip hurt their feelings.