Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@social.cleverlibre.org

Republicans, led by DeSantis, ludicrously blaming the Silicon Valley Bank crash on "woke" is the same exact thing as Republicans blaming the Great Recession on too many Black people taking home loans.

They don't come with new ideas. Just new ways of saying the n-word.

Iggy Pop’s full name is Ignatius Lollypop.

There are only 14 counties in the world that offer full legal rights to women. The US is not one of them.

Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/03/only-14-countries-have-full-equal-rights-for-women

Every time one of these articles come out, I remember the time in 2013 that the editor of a major academic journal desk-rejected an article of mine about data leakage from gay dating apps via ad networks, because “gay-focused apps are too niche and non-representative a topic for research to warrant mainstream publication.”

Also, this story is absolutely wild: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/09/catholics-gay-priests-grindr-data-bishops/

happy international women’s day we demand reproductive rights

International Women's Day - a reminder that we make up over slightly half of all UX designers, yet leadership roles are still predominantly male, women make less money & are often left out of the histories.

Help me change that & support the Women of IXD project to expand the website to develop a resource to learn about the amazing contributions of women in UX. I'm raising money to hire a developer to build out the redesign.

https://gofund.me/0ab1b6f3

#WomenOfIxd #IXDHistory #UXDesign

So much modern tech leadership is based on a mental model of "machine" rather than "ecosystem". When reading some guru wisdom or another scaling framework, ask: "do they assume a machine or are they enabling an ecosystem?" because we need less machine and more ecosystem.

⚙️ or 🌱

@dkiesow @mmasnick @jeffjarvis Any code that I wrote more than a few days ago was written by somebody else. And that guy was probably a moron.

In software development, finish lines do happen, of course they do. But they don't happen nearly as often as developers invoke the FINISH-LINE frame.

When we lean on this frame too heavily, we're prone to making decisions that might help us *win* this race while *losing* everything that comes after.

FINISH-LINE can encourage us to cheat, it can tell us that rest isn't important, it can easily create rigid and unchangeable systems. And remember, software development *is* change.

I have a favor to ask. If you work in #infosec, as a #programmer, or other tech-connected job, please take a look at what data your company collects and whether some might be relevant to #ReproductiveHealth.

Are you in a position to change that or at least protect the data better? Can you push your org in the right direction? Please do.

This is no longer an abstract issue. People are doing to jail.

https://www.businessinsider.com/police-getting-help-social-media-to-prosecute-people-seeking-abortions-2023-2

📃🧵 Our upcoming #CSCW paper "Beyond Transactional Democracy: A Study of Civic Tech in Canada" with Curtis McCord is available as #OpenAccess #Preprint now: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06651 #CSCW2023 Key argument: As a participatory practice, #CivicTech can expand and reconfigure the democratic roles of participants. @sigcas

Our website for the new Institute for Technoscience & Society at @yorkuniversity@firebird.mullet.social has just launched!

https://yorku.ca/research/its/

For those interested in #STS #science #technology #innovation

It’s such a weird idea: that we have *destroyed* Scott Adams’ reputation, simply by observing that he has said the things he said. That your income should be guaranteed after advocating a racially separatist state, as if being a racist fuckwit puts you in a protected class.