Why does everything look infantilized?

On CPG, infantile branding, and overproduction

Assemblage

A prominently advertised new feature in Apple’s Numbers spreadsheet is support for… STICKERS!

That's exactly what I always wished for when using a spreadsheet for gaining meaningful insights and making serious decisions: fun stickers, ideally animated, to distract my ADHD mind from all those boring numbers and dull calculations.

I just can’t… 🤦‍♂️

#macOS #infantilization #UX

@tbernard That is the #Infantilization of the user. And it is precisely the reason why I don't like and don't use #Gnome

Petersen is one of these serial filers….

The majority of school book objections center on titles by or about #LGBTQ individuals or people of color…. Petersen, though, has just one criterion by which she judges a book. Does it contain material that, under #Virginia #law, qualifies as sexually explicit, pornographic or obscene? Less than ⅓ of the titles she challenged have LGBTQ characters or protagonists of color….

#BookBans #Education #Literacy #Extremism #Infantilization #Heterosexism

She challenges one school book a week. She says she’ll never stop.

The majority of all school book challenges in the United States came from just 11 people. Meet Jennifer Petersen.

The Washington Post
Are We Infantilizing Ourselves?

YouTube
The infantilisation of Autistic people and the future of our blossoming culture - Emergent Divergence

I would be lying if I said I was not somewhat inspired by the fact that it is Valentine's day today. It's a day that gets mixed responses from the Autistic community. Relationships are often a touchy subject for us. We live in a world that fights hard to keep us at the fringes. This,

Emergent Divergence

playing with AI-backed output generators, text or image = Lacan's Mirror Stage

"look, when I do this, it does that! - it (which is me) there seems so much more together than my experience of me (here) - wow I(t) is impressive! I wish to be its version of me from now on."

#infantilization