Aral BalkanJul 3, 2024

Technology is political.

If your project or organisation has a “no politics” clause, you’re saying you’re happy to exclude people whose very existence is political in our societies.

It’s only defensible if you’re coming from a place of privilege where the dominant politics are to your advantage so you can take them as given.

There is no such thing as “no politics”; there is only “no politics other than the politics of the status quo that I benefit from, which I’ve internalised as normal.”

Show threadRobots can be gay deal with itJul 3, 2024

@aral Everything is political, it's one of the facets that most man-made things have.

Why does the US and Japan have the same outlets? Taiwan too? And the power standard is mostly the same? 🤔

Why do TVs scan left to right? Does it have anything to do with how English is written? 🤔

Show threadMx Verda
@MontgomeryGator @aral huh. I’ve learned something today. I always thought they scanned top down
Jul 5, 2024 at 6:33pmWeb
Show threadRobots can be gay deal with itJul 5, 2024
@MxVerda @aral What's weird, is that the scanning pattern could be really strange but work. There's a kids movie called Planet 51 where the aliens still use CRTs, and they scan in a spiral inside out. Thing is, round CRTs were a thing in oscilloscopes, and there were even round screened TVs (they were a gimmick mostly). Oscilloscopes don't really scan, and the round tubed TVs scanned as a square but there's nothing preventing that scan pattern that could be round and scan outward like in that kids movie.
Show thread[email protected] is my main [fds]Jul 7, 2024
@MxVerda CRTs scan a line left to right, then the next line, etc, and the lines go top to bottom.

@MontgomeryGator @aral