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   Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 (theogrin@chaosfem.tw)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jun-2026 06:14:06 JST Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊

   in reply to

   @DavidM_yeg @Paulatics

   I'm constantly struck by how the same logic seems to permeate the cruelties of the Conservatives in all their incarnations. Abortions, for example. Make abortions fundamentally illegal except in cases where the exceptions can never be met in a timely fashion -- and then eliminate childcare provisions (on 'ideological grounds'!), healthcare and the like for children.

   Or housing -- allow the private corporations and 'investor' class to buy up all the housing within a region in order to inflate the price, and then rather than assist with public housing, criminalize homelessness and destroy the property of the unhoused at every opportunity.

   In each case, blame the victim - the disabled, the homeless, the pregnant, claiming that their suffering is a moral failing on their part. And in each case, highlight supposed edge cases which really don't exist as an example of what 'harm' helping these people could cause, be it the hypothetical Einstein or the theoretical person who intentionally becomes unhoused in order to take advantage of the largesse -- or as noted, supposed children who might be killed under MAID. (Death panels!)

   The pattern is stark and almost impossible to ignore once it's seen.

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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Thursday, 14-Mar-2024 19:28:33 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

   Daily Inspiration: "World class innovators focus on customer-oriented innovation" - Futurist Jim Carroll

   When I started compiling my list of 'world-class innovation,' I knew that I had to include the fact that I was seeing a significant shift in the source of innovation within many of my global clients.

   What was the shift? Rather than pursuing an innovation pathway in which their internal R&D or leadership teams were always the origin of most new product and service development ideas, there was an increasing focus outward. There was a realization that the key source for innovation ideas would come from customers - what is now routinely called 'customer-oriented innovation.' It seems like an obvious thing to do, but to this day, many organizations don't enshrine this as a core value in their innovation culture and methodology - which is a real missed opportunity.

   In my view, three fundamental trends were underway with 'world-class innovators' that would forever shake up the world of ideas and invention:

   Upside-down innovation:  That's looking to customers for product ideas. Those ideas might be very different than the ideas you were thinking about.

   Proactive Innovation: Solving the customer's problem before the customer knows it's a problem! Anticipatory thinking matters!

   Iterative innovation: A step-by-step approach where regular customer feedback regularly determines future development!

   The importance of this shift can't be understated; I previously wrote about it this way:

   "Turn your creativity and imagination engine upside down! Make your R&D strategy less about what you see as opportunities – and more about what your partners and customers see.. Adopt the mindset that ‘customer-oriented and partner-based innovation’ will be a key strategy – and you might find that solution to challenges come faster!"

   Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2024/03/daily-inspiration-mastering-innovation-world-class-innovators-focus-on-customer-oriented-innovation/

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   Stu Duerson, machina exo deus (skydog@sfba.social)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jul-2023 03:54:44 JST Stu Duerson, machina exo deus

   in reply to

   @design_law

   This view may be obnoxious to most lawyers, so give me a good reason to believe otherwise...

   I've contended that the necessity to be able to defend either side of a legal issue, in law school, removes the metric of morality for academic purposes. And regardless of the personal ethics qualifications to graduate & enter the bar, the sense of the propriety of a morality is never academically reinjected.
   The same moral dispassion is being used in the selection of social media sites. The migration is not toward sites that reflect common community morality (i.e., away from sites that cater to inflammation, extremism, and creating bigotries), but toward those that provide the most extensive professional opportunity.

   In short, I think there are many businesses that give little thought to the strength of good media leadership and reasonable conversation, in deference to profit, of which lawyering is one.