#MastoHelp Alors voilà, dimanche dernier, dans mon TER pour revenir d'Amiens à Paris, j'étais toute seule, épuisée, je suis handicapée à 80%, et ma maladie Chronique fait que si je ne change pas de position, assez souvent, j'ai très mal.
Donc j'ai allongé mes jambes sur la banquette devant moi. Mes pieds ne touchaient pas le siège, juste mes mollets et le dessous de mes talons. Des contrôleuses sont arrivés en disant que c'était indécent et que c'était illégale. Et hop une amende de 60 euros.1/2
Je pense qu'il serait pas inutile de te rencarder d'abord auprès d'une asso de défense des droits des personnes en handicap histoire d'avoir les bons "éléments de langage".
I can't figure out if mastodon is a high context culture or not. People seem to be expected to give long introductions and do a lot of identity/positionality disclosure, but also an enormous reply guy culture which is defined by low context drive-by. Conversational turn-taking is extremely low compared to other platforms ime, but depth-seeking is high. What an interesting mix.
*obviously, these experiences are all situated within my own network effects, and I'm not well networked here.
@gregtitus Conversational turn-taking is a set of different interrelated social cues that we use to direct convo (not my area so not sure on terms but) things like reflection ("oh I like that you...interesting that you say...") and joint perspective taking ("I recognize x in your experience and to me I see it in y...")! So I'm thinking a lot about the diffs in the STYLE of convo here and what I experience here vs other platforms, and what this prompts me to do as well!
@grimalkina the default mastodon UX does not really encourage any of those things, which is part of the dynamic— a meta layer on top of all the various subcultures.
"When people are treated unfairly, for example, when they are not allowed to have input into decisions that will affect them, or when they are not given good explanations of why certain decisions were made, the symbolic message may be that the organization does not think highly enough of them (to provide input or to be given good explanations)."
@mlevison yeah if you pop it into google scholar or similar there is an open pdf on research gate. I typically don't link to ancillary docs because I want to link to the specific publication and then folks can use that to browse for open copies/plus people are super mean on here if you share a link they consider weird or maybe it's a platform they don't like idk. Not worth the bizarre blowback.
Someone said it's important say this publicly in the US: so I will. (And I think each of us should, online and to friends)
This November I will vote for Biden.
I would regard not voting for Biden, particularly in: PA, OH, MI, WI, IN, IL,VA, GA, FL, AZ, ME, NC, NH, etc. as a huge error. I'd be disappointed to find out anyone I knew didn't vote. It's one of a long list of things we need to do. We can't skip it.
And still? We deserve better choices, and in the future we shall have them.
We focused on certain things and they got better, we ignored certain things and they got worse.
Anyone who tells you it's just one more fight for utopia is a liar. It's an endless push for reform that we must pace ourselves for. Be alert but not afraid.
Seriously heard someone saying they don't listen to many black artists, because they aren't really into rap. Bitch please, feel free to share songs from Black artists from any genre. Here is one of my favorites, if you like this song please check out her other work:
I was just reminded of around twenty years ago when this guy who I knew on LiveJournal took extreme creative liberty and used the head from my LiveJournal profile pic and Photoshopped an image of me and sent it to me as a "gift" and I was just like "uhhhhhhhhhh...thank you?"
@Alice
I mean an American Girl doll staring from a hall closet fantasy seems like it would qualify as a weird fantasy instead of a normal fantasy.
You know like a normal fantasy might be… let’s say Dolly Parton’s face on a chocolate cake box singing “🎶 yawn and stretch and try to come to life🎶 just before seggsy time.
Or maybe Snoop Dog making parsley laced brownies so one can feel like part of the cool kids at his all nehked celebrity party.
Just for clarity, those are not mine. Just examples. 😬
Several of the major social media platforms - Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Twitter - have effectively declared war on linking to things and I absolutely hate it
"Link in my bio" / "Link in thread" / "Link in first comment"... or increasingly no link at all, just an unsourced screenshot of a page
@simon there’s also the “WARNING: this is a link to the outside of our walled garden, and could cause irreparable damage, for which we cannot be responsible” pop up approach.
It’s an older dark pattern, sir, but it checks out.
@nixCraft The User Interface of Excel is pretty much like CLI: extremely flexible and versatile, excellent for building ad-hoc tools. That's hard to beat! The only serious alternative product that is not a full blown database requiring an army of developers to build a freaking form is Filemaker.
One of the things that the Stack Overflow brouhaha demonstrates is that it doesn’t matter if a service was founded by people trusted by the community (Atwood and Spolsky) and was broadly community-led. If it’s a VC-funded startup, they will sell out their users at some point.
@baldur "VC-funded startup" isn't even the only factor - plenty of cool projects started out with no VC funding, but then got acquired later in their life by private equity types. A clean start is no guarantee.
Scoop: Solar storm is causing farmers' tractor GPS systems to go haywire. Many have shut down planting altogether during a critical period. A Deere dealer said accuracy is "extremely compromised"
@gsuberland@thetaphi@jasonkoebler Indeed, which also suggests that the over reliance on GPS for centimeter accuracy in crop planting is a nasty failure mode that should be avoided.
The solar storm is just a dress rehearsal 🎭 for nation state actors knocking out GPS and causing food shortages.
@mentallyalex@stux I believe 2G still exists as a fallback but 3G is being phased out. The same process will continue but it would probably take a decade or more for devices that came with a new technology to no longer be supported on the network
@GottaLaff Oh, I forgot to offer unsolicited medical advice: Perhaps set up an IV of Ringer's lactate. I have no idea what it is, but it was popular in the re-runs of '70s emergency dramas. ;)
I'm going to ramble a bit, but it will hopefully come around to something. When I was growing up, I read a lot of older historical book series, a big one would be the Little House On The Prairie series. While I really enjoyed it, there are some very obviously negative portrayals of Native Americans and African Americans. I remember being angry about it as a kid, and my Dad telling me, that part of learning about history is that we have to acknowledge the people we were, and still are. But because Little House on the Prairie is only semi-autobiographical, I still have mixed feelings about this. I do think they are well written books by a female author, an interesting perspective on early American life, and as an adult I can see and acknowledge the issues with the text. If we try to get rid of every author with racist ideas there wouldn't be much left to read from the 20th Century, and it also feels like being dishonest about who we are. So, I'm very mixed, how do you all feel about it? Do you think children can handle books with racial issues like this if it's explained to them? What is our responsibility here?
I walk this line every day as a teacher. Our model is one-to-one education, and while my student may be keen to tackle certain topics, there is always a chance the parents may take some offense.
It can be more than a little stressful and sometimes uncomfortable, but my personal goal as a teacher is to assist my students in developing critical thinking skills, and to do that, they need exposure to a wide range of information.
The saying is, “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” What this leaves out is that not everything from our past is awful; there are things we should repeat. We cannot retroactively correct the “bad” in our history. What we can do is analyze it from multiple perspectives and determine what lessons can guide us in the better actions we want to make moving forward.
@RickiTarr Kids (like the young of many species) are designed to be -mostly- sponges, they learn from what they are exposed to. If animals learn the wrong stuff, they don't survive.
The saying "garbage in, garbage out" while overly simplified, applies.
Far too many of us are already not spending enough time unlearning the garbage we were fed about racism, sexism, assumptions about how to live with others, peace, economics, how to treat the environment, etc. around us.