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    Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 18:05:44 JST Aral Balkan Aral Balkan

    Technology is political.

    If your project or organisation has a “no politics” clause, you’re saying you’re happy to exclude people whose very existence is political in our societies.

    It’s only defensible if you’re coming from a point of privilege where the dominant politics are to your advantage so you can take them as given.

    There is no such thing as “no politics”; there is only “no politics other than the politics of the status quo that I benefit from, which I’ve internalised as normal.”

    In conversation about 11 months ago from mastodon.ar.al permalink

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    • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: and clacke@libranet.de is my main like this.
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      Estarriol, lucozade dragon (thebratdragon@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 22:39:25 JST Estarriol, lucozade dragon Estarriol, lucozade dragon
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      @aral 99.9999% of no politics clauses actually mean, we are out and out fascists but you are not allowed to comment on that as you build improved IBM Punch Cards for their concentration camps.

      In conversation about 11 months ago permalink
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      Alexander Hay (alexanderhay@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 22:39:36 JST Alexander Hay Alexander Hay
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      @aral "No politics please!" is the sort of argument a politician would make.

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      Professor_Stevens (professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 22:39:36 JST Professor_Stevens Professor_Stevens
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      • Alexander Hay

      @alexanderhay @aral

      Actually, as a person who was a politician for several years, I can tell you that "no politics" is something people trying to feel noble say to avoid responsibility for taking a position. I became a politician so I could fight for a position and, yes, against another one. I needed all the allies I could get. Every group, person, or institution that said, "We're not political" was saying, "We're of no use to you at all."

      Yes, politics please! Lots of it!

      In conversation about 11 months ago permalink
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      Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 23:29:09 JST Aral Balkan Aral Balkan
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      • cood pood

      @meowski https://ar.al/bio/

      Now fuck off.

      😘

      In conversation about 11 months ago permalink

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      cood pood (meowski@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2024 23:29:15 JST cood pood cood pood
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      @aral tell us you've never written a line of code or done any sort of technical work in your life, without coming out and saying it directly.

      injecting politics into tech projects is parasitic garbage. screw off
      In conversation about 11 months ago permalink
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      Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2024 18:31:07 JST Alexandre Oliva Alexandre Oliva
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      you're probably not going to see this, but...
      there's a part of politics that has to do with excluding or not excluding, but that's not all that politics are about. politics are more often about allocation of resources, about decision-making processes, about fairness and justice, rights and duties. what's more, every political choice you make, every stand you take (or refuse to take), may exclude some, whether because the choice itself excludes them, or because they will refuse to play with you because they refuse to go along with the stand you chose to take, or with the stand you refuse to take. no political choice is universally inclusive. for every political choice, there will be someone who finds it intolerable and hurtful, and only some of these assessments will be grounded on perceived loss of privilege. not every decision to stay out of truly controversial matters (say, those that lead to conflicts that span multiple generations) amounts to supporting oppressors. forcing the hand of those who'd rather focus on specific issues for them to side with any political position you promote is also oppression, and it's often not even disguised. when oppressors prove to be present on both sides of a controversy, sometimes the right stand to take is to reject both.
      In conversation about 11 months ago permalink
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      Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2024 18:36:28 JST Alexandre Oliva Alexandre Oliva
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      I guess I know now what motivated your post. that specific topic was not in my mind, but even though I'm favorable to the use of inclusive and gender-neutral language, I sense and disapprove of oppression and violence as means to promote it. I'm also sympathetic to people who are triggered by such controversies and confrontations, and who would much rather avoid being dragged into such fights between opposing oppressors. when such means of promotion are adopted, no matter which side prevails, oppressors will have won.
      In conversation about 11 months ago permalink
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      DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2024 19:55:41 JST DCent DCent
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      • Alexandre Oliva
      • ar.al?
      • cood pood
      @aral @meowski
      What precidely is causing this discussion?

      If fediverse is going to be a place where people can come together, despite their ideological differences, then we cannot have rampant #isolationism. I'm seeing a dangerous trend in fediverse that is mostly coming from the mastodon crowd, that appears to be more and more trigger-friendly.

      Oh, you are a small business, sharing your wares? #capitalism BLOCK. Oh, you are talking positively about the legal tender of #ElSalvador (hint: the currency that is not the US dollar)? #ecoterrorist BLOCK. Oh, you are pointing out how #Germany in the 1930s was bankrolled by the US and UK? #conspiracy BLOCK. Oh, you don't like that the kindergarden is making gender discussion fun? #terf BLOK

      This is isolationist and ultimately will... (1 of 2)
      In conversation about 11 months ago permalink
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      DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2024 19:58:30 JST DCent DCent
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      • ar.al?
      • DCent
      • cood pood
      @aral @meowski
      (2 of 2)... ensure that everyone on fedi loses because we will not be able to interact with the apparent "unwashed masses". People are going to come here with baggage from the silo-networks and may have different opinions that might seems unshakeable, our role is to be fabulous examples of awesome, and they will slowly get over themselves. As individuals, muting is fine, but I do take issue with wholesale trigger happy blocking by instances, and algorithms to filter the chronological feed. It just means we keep people on the #fakebook-style platforms, which are extracting the very life essence from our societies for multinational corporate gain.

      Please stop and think; there is more to a person than their stance on #gender. We cannot stop the greater ills when we are made to be divided. 🤔😘

      Again, I'd like to know what actually spurred this thread.

      #identityPolitics #bigotry #intolerance #fediblock
      In conversation about 11 months ago permalink
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      Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 03:54:30 JST Aral Balkan Aral Balkan
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      • Kai Klostermann

      @OddDev 👍

      In conversation about 11 months ago permalink
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      Kai Klostermann (odddev@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 03:54:31 JST Kai Klostermann Kai Klostermann
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      @aral Is that about #ladybird?😏

      In conversation about 11 months ago permalink
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      Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 05:22:20 JST Alexandre Oliva Alexandre Oliva
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      • Alexandre Oliva
      it looks like someone mistook my post for some kind of dog whistle, and responded spewing prejudice against trans people. I suppose the local instance operator blocked the response (thanks), for I can no longer see it, but I got it in an email notification, so I'll follow up to the transphobe:
      excluding trans people from your project is a loss to your project. there are great developers who are trans, and allowing your disgusting prejudice to guide your decisions tells me a lot more about your capabilities than about theirs.
      but there's more: they have exactly the same baseline right to exist and to be themselves as you. and as long as they don't engage in similar behaviors to your wishing them not to exist, I'd much rather be in their company than in yours.
      now, do I wish you were different? guilty as charged, I do wish you weren't so hateful. as much as I reproach your disgusting prejudicial hatred, I struggle to, and hopefully succeed in, not reciprocating your hateful behaviors, because I don't wish to become a monster, and I hope nobody else becomes a monster in response to your behavior.
      In conversation about 11 months ago permalink
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      Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 05:30:31 JST Alexandre Oliva Alexandre Oliva
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      • DCent
      I share the concern about people's AFAICT-growing intolerance to different ideas. diversity is one of the pillars of the fe*diverse*, but tolerating diverse thoughts doesn't seem very much in the radar. I suppose it stands in the way of the dopamine releases afforded by infinite scrolling in uniform filtered bubbles, and perhaps this is not a good medium for intellectual debate, after all. but I seem to be unable to help trying :-(
      In conversation about 11 months ago permalink
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      Marko Vujnovic (dawngreeter@dice.camp)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 15:58:18 JST Marko Vujnovic Marko Vujnovic
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      @aral Female hair is either long or political. Sexual orientation is either heterosexual or political. Gender identity is either cis or political. Clothing is either gender stereotyped and boring or political. City infrastructure is either car-focused or political. Energy is either fossil fuels or political. Education is either white christian propaganda or political.

      Everything follows the same pattern, tech included.

      In conversation about 11 months ago permalink
      Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:, Alexandre Oliva and clacke@libranet.de is my main like this.
      Aral Balkan repeated this.
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      Scott Matter (scottmatter@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 18:03:42 JST Scott Matter Scott Matter
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      @aral

      Paraphrasing from the field of research, there’s no such thing as apolitical, everyone’s got a political position whether we acknowledge it or state it explicitly or not. The opposite of politics isn’t “no politics” it’s bad politics.

      In conversation about 11 months ago permalink
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      aspragg (aspragg@ohai.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 20:58:28 JST aspragg aspragg
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      • Marko Vujnovic

      @dawngreeter @aral The status quo is never "political". Change is political.

      In conversation about 11 months ago permalink
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      rob (robparsons@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 21:00:10 JST rob rob
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      • Marko Vujnovic

      @dawngreeter @aral true conversation on a doorstep a few years ago. "We're voting Conservative. My father was Army, my husband was Army, and we're non-political".

      In conversation about 11 months ago permalink
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      Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 22:00:21 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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      @aral And the way technology gets designed is very political, after all "code is law".
      As proven many times by the software used and made for public services and utility companies.
      In conversation about 11 months ago permalink
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      Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 06:00:22 JST Aral Balkan Aral Balkan
      in reply to
      • Adél Kučera

      @bzzzwa 💕

      In conversation about 11 months ago permalink
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      Adél Kučera (bzzzwa@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 06:00:23 JST Adél Kučera Adél Kučera
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      @aral Thank you for saying it!

      In conversation about 11 months ago permalink
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      Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 05:05:30 JST Janneke Janneke
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      • Marko Vujnovic

      @dawngreeter @aral
      Male hair is either short or political. Male faces are either shaved or political. Male clothing is either a suit or political. You either wear shoes or are political. Relationships are either strictly (or serial?) monogamous or political. Your software is either backdoored big-tech surveillance or political. Your social media is either big-tech spyware or political. Your education is either classroom and strictly year group based with a fixed mandatory curriculum and tests or political. Your diet is either full of animal cruelty or political.
      #FreeSoftware
      #poly
      #vegan
      #democraticeducation
      #barefoot

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      Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 08:07:35 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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      • Trolli Schmittlauch 🦥

      @schmittlauch @aral Well that one works, at least when implemented like in Pokemon Gameboy:
      > Are you a boy or a girl? [Yes] [No]

      The evil is when it's an enum.

      In conversation about 11 months ago permalink
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      Trolli Schmittlauch 🦥 (schmittlauch@toot.matereal.eu)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 08:07:36 JST Trolli Schmittlauch 🦥 Trolli Schmittlauch 🦥
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      • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

      @lanodan @aral gender: bool

      In conversation about 11 months ago permalink
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      Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 16:52:52 JST Aral Balkan Aral Balkan
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      • S.P.Zeidler

      @spz I think you misunderstand. This isn’t about turning your issue tracker into r/politics. It’s about some organisations and projects barring anything they deem “political” from affecting the decisions taken by the org/project. It stems from a particular “no politics” project rejecting gender-neutral language because it is political. In other words, it’s about orgs/projects rejecting certain people and their needs because it js deemed “political”. Which is, itself, political.

      In conversation about 11 months ago permalink
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      S.P.Zeidler (spz@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 16:52:53 JST S.P.Zeidler S.P.Zeidler
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      @aral ok, so how do you say "so your polity will have elections and you care a lot, and one or two other persons on our lists may, too, but the rest of us don't live there and don't care, put a sock in about how great 'your' politician is, this is not your canvassing venue"?

      Just because the US right have weaponized the words "politics" to mean "everything of any societal impact" and "polite" to mean "I can harass anybody not white+male" we can't use them any more? Which can we use instead?

      In conversation about 11 months ago permalink
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      Marko Vujnovic (dawngreeter@dice.camp)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 16:55:18 JST Marko Vujnovic Marko Vujnovic
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      • Waldo Jaquith
      • kccqzy

      @kccqzy @waldoj @aral Conversation topics are either comfortable and familiar or political.

      In conversation about 11 months ago permalink
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      kccqzy (kccqzy@techhub.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 16:55:19 JST kccqzy kccqzy
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      • Waldo Jaquith
      • Marko Vujnovic

      @dawngreeter @waldoj @aral This reminds me why I hate politics, something that seems to consume every discussion and every topic.

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      Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 17:30:00 JST Aral Balkan Aral Balkan
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      • S.P.Zeidler

      @spz You express is by stating clearly, as you’ve just done, that one of the political stances your organisation/project takes is that bigotry is not allowed.

      In conversation about 11 months ago permalink
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      S.P.Zeidler (spz@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 17:30:01 JST S.P.Zeidler S.P.Zeidler
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      @aral sorry, bear with me. I'm not steeped in US usage. How do I express the one without implying the other?

      I want to express e.g. "I think trans/racist/gender slurs are nasty and I don't want to see them, ever" without writing a sermon and without inviting rules lawyering of the "but you didn't list this kind of nastiness".

      "Be polite to everybody" used to be a short expected behaviour description. It's not meant to say "you can't complain about being treated unfairly". So how?

      In conversation about 11 months ago permalink
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      Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 00:18:18 JST Aral Balkan Aral Balkan
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      • ​

      @mintplague You seem nice.

      In conversation about 11 months ago permalink
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      ​ (mintplague@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 00:18:19 JST ​ ​
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      @aral >people whose very existence is political in our societies.
      All self-imposed. Literally nothing stops them from contributing code without making a fuss about how they don't receive preferable treatment.
      In conversation about 11 months ago permalink

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