qoph @qoph@octodon.social
#Mefite (DM me for name). Non-Ivory Tower academic. she/her. "I beseech you in the bowels of christ think it possible you may be mistaken" Oliver Cromwell 1650
DHS plans to massively expand its collection of data on citizens and foreigners, combining everything from biometrics to information about people’s “relationship patterns” and “encounters” with officers.
This plan is fatally flawed and must be stopped. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/hart-homeland-securitys-massive-new-database-will-include-face-recognition-dna-and source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1006270018470809601
WE WANT TO PAY YOU FOR MICRO SCI-FI! This is an open call for diverse sci-fi writers that never expires.
- POC
- LGBTQIA
- Indigenous
- Neurodiverse
- Disabled
- Chronically ill
- All marginalised voices
We're open from Day 10-24 every month. storyseedvault.com/submissions
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
-- Bertrand Russell
I think it's good people are talking about the differences in platforms and all that, but the blind side I see over and over again from white people no matter how they align politically is that they assume their experience is the baseline. And it isn't.
If you are white, you simply do not have the same experiences as non-white people online. If you're a dude, you are not a target like women are.
A common failing is that white people tend to assume interactions are uniform.
This is false.
Yo, we _need_ diversity. It's that simple. We cannot keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect thing to change.
We need women, LGBTI, Black, Brown, Native folks in the game because we need their ideas to push the community and culture forward. We need to make our spaces _more_ appealing to them because we need them. We need their insight, knowledge and experience to find solutions that elude dominant culture.
Diversity isn't a bullet point. It's literally life.
suggested reading for tech people
This sculpture just hit me in the stomach. Anyone knows where it is? So perfect..
@Are0h Your Star Wars post the other day is what really hit home. Rather than dismissing certain behaviours as coming from a "small minority that doesn't represent all of us" etc, we SHOULD be calling the behaviour out!
Those two things are directly connected. One directly follows from the other.
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Jeff Bezos is already $40 billion richer this year—while the typical Amazon worker has made just $12,000 https://money.us/2JdUqJV
https://twitter.com/MONEY/status/1004049101196091393
Vocal science from 1980s still true now: at 15:00, Serious violent physical action like trying to lift piano, we have to grunt like "Huh!" cuz need to close the vocal folds, to stabilize the breath pressure in lungs, which gives shoulder & back muscles a firm base to work against. Laryngectomy means no vocal fold closure, & u have to retrain other muscles to take over that function. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VpgvqN-53o
RT @SamSykesSwears@twitter.com
Stages of a Toxic Fandom:
1. I love this
2. I own this
3. I control this
4. I can't control this
5. I hate this
6. I must destroy this
RT @jessamyn@twitter.com
“What do you do?”
"I'm a librarian"
"PAID TO READ ALL DAY!!!"
"Not really...."
* dramatic shushing sounds *
"Actually I do have one finger gesture..."
"I hated my childhood librarian!"
"I'm sure the feeling was mutual."
RT @anildash@twitter.com
Good explanation of how extremist axe-grinders take over “neutral” online platforms and push out any reasonable people, creating an environment of increased radicalization. https://twitter.com/wordmercenary/status/990933242130960385
RT @helpmeskeletor@twitter.com
I speak a little bit of white person and I’m fairly sure:
‘You’re being oversensitive why does this always have to be about race?’
Translates to:
‘We have a good thing going here don’t you dare ruin this for us.’
RT @EffinBirds@twitter.com
"@eff has joined the ACLU and a coalition of civil liberties organizations demanding that Amazon stop powering a government surveillance infrastructure." #privacy #surveillance
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/amazon-stop-powering-government-surveillance
RT @nkjemisin@twitter.com
Remember, it's now *policy* to take children away from their families and do "whatever" with them. We know some of the children ended up trafficked. Barely a month after SESTA-FOSTA, the US government is *facilitating* trafficking. https://twitter.com/taramurtha/status/1000027138957955074
