moved to @ebel@moytura.org @ebel@witches.town
New account: @ebel
google captchas are fucking unethical stop making me train their neural nets to log in to my accounts
The vast majority of people have an above average number of legs.
The sun never set on the British Empire because not even God himself trusts the British in the dark.
RT @wycats@twitter.com: The "every new thing is just rebranded old thing" take drastically undervalues #usability.
The individuals who do the work of polishing good ideas into usable products are invisible, even to other #tech people who should know better.
Fight "both sides"-ism everywhere. The bigots will use it against us.
Repeat after me:
Not everyone online is American
Not everyone online is American
Not everyone online is American not even if their English passes for native
wondering if there are any video games that are either anti-capitalist or at least blatantly cooperative. sims especially.
i've been playing Sims Freeplay and Stardew Valley and i enjoy them, but i also note how centered they are around acquisition.
I really like this aspect of the #CodeOfConduct from the #LGBT in Tech slack community:
"[we] prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort."
"The administrators will not act on complaints regarding: [...]
Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions"
http://lgbtq.technology/coc.html
This is exactly what you need from a #CoC
When people talk about "work-life balance" they really seem mostly to be talking about "work-family time" balance, per heteronormative reproductive futurist standards of what kind of life you're expected to have outside of your job. Its supposed to mean "your spouse and kids".
what about those of us who's "life" outside of "work" is well...more work? Our own work, self-directed, probably creative or community-oriented in nature, and never likely to be successful according to capitalism?
A #CodeOfConduct sometimes expects politeness & respectfullness from people. Does that apply to reactions to speech that violates that CoC?
eg X politely, calmly says a sexist thing. Y tells them to "f**k off". X has broken CoC. Has Y broken CoC? 🤔
Thoughts? Comments?
RT @TechnicallyRon@twitter.com: In all fairness #Brits probably don't do #Thanksgiving because if we had to take a day off for the anniversary of us fucking over a #native people and ruining their country we'd never have to go to work.
Source https://twitter.com/TechnicallyRon/status/933798953216364544
I do not believe that a low number of edits automatically makes someone bad for a position of responsibility in #OpenStreetMap, or #OSMF.
There *are* many ways to contribute.
@claire primitivism is fascism in slow motion. the rejection of technology is equivalent to calling for the genocide of the people who need it to survive. a world without pharmaceuticals, without mobility devices, without exogenous hormones and insulin, without the agricultural and industrial infrastructure to support the human population and free us from the tyranny of subsistence foraging, is pure barbarism.
There is a lot of problems with requiring "professional manner" in a code of conduct. "professionalism" has been used against many marginalised groups, like camp men, women who don't wear heels, and black people with dreadlocks.