There's a very good chance this will turn into another essay soon, but it's too good to keep locked in my head until I have the spoons to write the whole thing, so this is what's been going on in my brain lately:
Disability-Driven Development.
Intersectional understanding applied to the creation of software tech.
Invert the usual hierarchy of privilege and access to making things (like, say, social networking infrastructure). Find multiply marginalized voices and put them in charge.
People whose life experiences and privilege have let them accrue technical skills and expertise are welcome to contribute what they can, but we don't make the decisions. That belongs to the voices that don't usually get heard.
Refuse to be about scale or monetization or growth. Reject the idea that appeal to the privileged "mainstream" is a viable route to health.
There is only one success criteria:
Are people who usually get left out of the development process getting to make things that improve their lives?
All,
The moment has finally arrived! 🥳
@McCullohMD
and I have been hard at work for the past week putting together a Mastodon instance so that we can create a backup disability and chronic illness community.
It can be found here:
For now, we have set up a terms of service, privacy policy, rules and best practices.
I have plans to set up a Twitter space to go through each of these with the disability community directly to add/subtract/reword things.
Intellectual property theft, boost please
So, DeviantArt opted in, by default, all existing art on the website for use by third-party AI.
Without notifying their users. For all existing art.
You have to go through your art pieces one by one and tick a box that you do NOT consent to this.
I learnt about it on Birdsite, by accident.
And of course, any inactive user or dead user will have their art used by AI models from now on, even though they never agreed to this.
Disgusting.
trans stuff ~, surgery ~, words are cool if you have them
I am once again having conflicting feelings about bottom surgery
do i want a neovagina? yes.
do i want to run the risks? no.
do i want to magically have a body part that aligns with who i am? yes.
do i know exactly who i am or what i need my body to be? no.
fuuuuccckkkkkk
i have a letter from GRS montreal saying they need funding info and then i can have my date but like...
i just.
idunno
Minecraft announces they will not support or allow NFTs
July 20, 2022
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=minecraft-announces-they-will-not-support-or-allow-nfts
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