Twitter thread on the police pretext of the "routine traffic stop" (cw: discussion of racist police violence) https://twitter.com/sahrasulaiman/status/1381743169583259651
How Apple taught its users to hate Android through subtle design cues. | by S.D.C. | Medium
https://medium.com/@_sdc/how-apple-taught-its-users-to-hate-android-through-subtle-design-cues-518cd7eda80
random thoughts on gamification in learning (2/2):
The problem with apps that gamify learning is that they take as an unexamined axiom that learning is unfun (I blame school trauma). So the app devs don't have the arcade goal: making every single second engaging and pleasurable. They start from the evil mobile game premise: ok doing this is a chore, how can we get them to do it anyway? This approach leads to burnout.
The only worthwhile gamification of learning is the one that goes right back at the core meaning of the word: a game is something you do for its own sake because the doing itself feels good, it's a thing of joy. Can you make your language learning etc. app to that, or are you trying to paste over bad design with medals and gold stars?
abuse meta, "positive" effects
Reminder that people who mistreated you get no credit for any skills or positive traits you developed in response to mistreatment; that was your own resilience and ingenuity in response to a bad situation, not something they did for you. The line that bullying and abuse build character or make you a better or more capable person remains a giant, harmful lie.
pol, militancy
Have you ever heard the somewhat cliche phrase "no justice, no peace" at a protest? It has a nice multilayered meaning.
On the one hand, it says that there can be no true peace without justice. That such apparent tranquility is a false peace based on exploitation.
And on the other, it is an often un-actioned (and thus ignored) threat: if there is no justice, we will destroy any false peace.
Wendy Carlos, early prolific synth centric score producer and personal trans hero talking about her Moog Modular for nearly 4 minutes.
Your welcome:
https://youtu.be/4SBDH5uhs4Q
Kinmisia in the Transgender Community: A Body For Me, But Not For Thee. Dreamwidth entry, public. Basically what it says on the tin. An intro the the topic, more than a deep dive.
Work, plurality on Mastodon, funny
I think it's kind of telling that I've gotten so exposed to plural people that I almost said "fronting" rather than "primary" when describing which of our servers was currently acting as live in our DR setup. XD
The Internet really does bring you into contact with people you wouldn't otherwise be likely to meet. :)
plural.cafe instance and server admins
median
aromantic
queer
white
"mental illness is IN
being a normal person is OUT"
-- some random pleroman
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