In the next installment of “Kill Your Heroes,” Linus Torvalds (who doesn’t write Linux kernel code anymore), gives a full endorsement of the use of proprietary software to generate computer documents.
Using Google Antigravity (which is just a reskin of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code product) he created a GUI in python. His excuse is that he didn’t know how to write Python to create a user interface, being the egocentric millionaire who worships the US and hates Russia, he somehow could not find anyone in the world who would be willing to help “the Linus Torvalds” make a user interface or hire someone to do it for him. 
Imagine being a millionaire and being so lonely and defeated that you can’t find anyone to help you write part of your hobby project. 
He should try abusing people on the mailing list again, that should help.
Posts documenting Torvalds’ russophobia and finnish racism (spoiler: Torvalds is a euro supremacist)
- https://hexbear.net/post/3747267
- https://hexbear.net/post/3747255
- https://hexbear.net/post/3759883/5549992
Google Antigravity (warning slop product page)
Phoronix article that summarizes this
I’m willing to guess that most Linux end users’ knowledge of Linus Torvalds begins and ends with “he made a thing I like and rely on every day” plus hashtag inspirational posters on FOSS-related Facebook pages plus short decontextualized video clips that portray him much more favorably than he really deserves. So his lionization is basically built by momentum (is that the word I’m looking for?) more than anything else, right? People uncritically imitating what they see as “Linux culture”. That’s the explanation I’d come up with.
The momentum is from the “Open Source” de-radicalization sphere. Capitalists fed into the open source counter movement explicitly to defang free software, you’ll see Linus torvalds in the California computer history museum but not Richard stallman whose work on GCC and the GPL allowed Linux to actually succeed in the first place.
Its the Chomsky effect where torvalds will speak truth to power when it affects him and isn’t intentionally trying to be dishonest for selfish gain. But you have to wonder why all the capitalists are happy spreading his name around specifically.
Capitalists love Open Source just like they love “Free Markets.” Take a look at any corporate license policy page and take a look at which licenses they leave out (spoiler, all the licenses that compel them to give a shit).
Yeah, I was gonna say, Torvalds gets to have the finger thing as his “moment”, while Stallman has the toe thing, right? But God knows Torvalds has plenty of “toe moments”, too, so the way they’re presented in media doesn’t match with their actual contributions and characters.
Stallman is, uh, not without his flaws
I vaguely recall some sort of Epstein thing, yeah. Point is that there are no heroes, only weirdos.