if you’re white and you do any kinds of technical writing (not tech writing, just any writing of a technical, jargon-filled fashion, including medical and legal) it’s a really good time right now to show that you’re a person and you care about people because we really need to rebuild the bridge between experts and non-experts if we want to weather the storm together through all this political bullshit in the US/caused by the US, and even more important is to show especially to people who aren’t white normative North Americans that kind of personality and care and show any semblance of recognition of their inferior access to support.

because remember, being a white North American doesn’t make you rich or make your life good, but it gives you access to support that a lot of people who aren’t white are simply excluded from. and oftentimes this exclusion of support includes access to good, vital information, and the internet is more opaque and muddy now than ever.

and you need to reach the people you want to help. and you need to show that you’re a real person and not some disposable writer.

i was trying to get into factorio and it’s honestly an amazing field study of how NOT to design a videogame interface

it is SO incredibly designed by powerusers, for powerusers, and as a new player it is incredibly frustrating how baffling it is to try and do anything that they had to make me read Tutorials. if your game UI is so confusing that you need Tutorials you’ve already failed.

it really, really took the IndustrialCraft inspiration…

BetterHelp was an immediate redflag to me since the very start because they use a subscription “hook and pull” model that’s no different from what other kinds of medical scams do, like chiropractics, and no medical institutions should subject you to a subscription model unless they want you to feel the weight of a sunken cost fallacy when the practice is eventually found to be Not Helping.

now I just wait for a huge guy to expose them…