I need to know the history behind why America decided to go with a different form of measurement compared to the rest of the world. What was the reason?
I (and others) absolutely want the twitter world in the Fediverse.
Unironically. IMHO the world "wants" a big universal microblog thing and will scale toward it; I think we either get everyone on a thing like this, or simply continue to get worse pockets of boring and/or garbage.
"Harm?" My parents were harmed. Black men in the justice system are harmed. Cops often cause actual harm to people who look like us. We're harmed when people deny us jobs and economic freedom. That is HARM.
All of this Mastodon mess that I have seen is overwhelmingly mostly just nerds (myself absolutely included) going blah-blah back and forth and isn't real HARM. If it is, LOG OFF
for the record, no? Ro never said or implied that at all? I do want to have the record be accurate.
He did what you're doing, but a little worse, reposted something I said and pointed to it along the lines of "hey, everyone, look at this sellout." Childish stuff, yes --but no, he never directly questioned my blackness.
Yeah, and honestly the only reason I'm comfortable even just talking about all this publicly is that -- I want Mastodon to be thing thing, including, and perhaps especially for black folks, and if you're a public-ish face of blackness here, I have to call it out.
(Had a bad feeling about him when he did a real childish thing when we were discussing something else; he did a "hey everyone, look at the sellout!")
I mean, I'm probably not gonna cop a ticket, but paying money to try to see Lauryn Hill even if she might no-show still makes a hell of a lot more sense than paying money to definitely see, I don't know, just about any top 10 chart rapper after her
It’s often very hard to make good metaphors about modern business practices in the tech industry. Imagine a stove that won’t heat your pots and pans if they are not from the same manufacturer as the stove. Imagine a pens and pencils that don’t write if you try to use it from paper that’s not from one of the pen manufacturers’ partners. These ideas are so absurdly inconceivable in other industries that metaphors don’t make sense, but these sort of practice are the norm in tech nowadays.
I teach in higher ed, and absolutely this, especially trying to critciize, e.g. Canvas.
Why would you require / expect high quality from forcing your blackboards and chairs and pencils and calculators and chalk and gradebooks and bluebooks ALL BE FROM THE SAME COMPANY?
It seems obvious to me, but I'm a tech geek. People just seem cool rolling along with this.