halp! anybody have good popular media links (NYT, The Atlantic, Wired) or academic research on our 'click yes to continue' culture, where it's normal to click yes to something we don't read in order to get access to something we want/need?
i feel like somebody must be theorizing this better than i can describe it ;)
"It is a way to take the invisible and make it visible"
Toronto is participating in what's being billed as the first ever city-wide program to test and rate the indoor air quality of spaces where people work, shop, and gather. https://toronto.citynews.ca/2022/11/25/breathe-easy-testing-indoor-spaces-virus-transmission-risk/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/CityNewsTO/status/1596318834616840192
In Canada I always thought I hated neighbourhoods that had so many houses so close together (i.e., density).
I now realise I hated places that felt choked with cars and driveways (a townhouse with a 2-3 car driveway is all driveway).
When you remove the cars, dense neighbourhoods are picturesque.
RT @EpiEllie
The tweet below shows COVID hospitalizations in Australia.
I’ve annotated the image with what leaders around the world want us to believe. Can we stop letting them gaslight us and do something, please?! https://twitter.com/andrewhewat/status/1596110791056375808
“Current AUS wave started with as many C19 hospitalisations as peak of Delta wave. Even if this wave is not as big as BA waves, we have a health system & workforce that has been repeatedly smashed & we expect Business As Usual? This is not 'new normal'. It is 'new nightmare'.”
My rants do not belong in someone else's comments, so here is a shiny new thread of my own.
I am thinking about Whiteness as a Thing & the escape velocity it takes to escape the gravity of that complacency.
I've spent a lot of today seeing a lot of (fellow) white people get very upset at PoC for mentioning their whiteness.
It's the same fucking compulsion as when TERFs object to being called cis, btw.
They think they are default, normal, unmarked.
The post, and the poster's replies, indicate one of my broader critiques: the "open source world of builders" that the OP points to is one that, by OP's own admission, does not care about the social critique of the things they are building.
That is, in a "world of builders" the social organization of what is being built is less important than actually being able to build something. To the extent that the social is less relevant, this is that I "need to understand."
This shit demonstrates exactly some of the arguments I've been making here. The thing that I want to direct everyone to is this:
"There is a fundamentally diferent culture here that you will need to understand or accept or you won't make it here... This is a world of builders.. you won't get anywhere by publishing social thesis or critiques."
https://soapbox.midwaytrades.com/objects/0c9b5e2b-1673-408d-acef-e6e7024ff3f1
bonstewart
Megan
Daniel Brotherston
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him)
caz
Martha Crawford
Dr. Johnathan Flowers