Notices by Falcon Darkstar (falcon@mastodon.falconk.rocks), page 2

What do you do with old busted cable modems?

You put them in the QAMpost.

@lookitmychicken from experience, the subsequent offers are not much less suspenseful.

Man, two (2) people are boosting piles and piles of COVID alarmism in my feed. Do I just unfollow them and all else they post, or do I continue to mute the senders of each toot forever? Decisions.

Alarmism as usual solves nothing. There is a common sense approach that "be scared still!" doesn't advocate.

Do you like being sick? Do you like health authorities advising you to wear surgical masks in public? Do you enjoy avoiding shared experiences and travel?

Neither. So clean our god damn indoor air. Stale air is unsafe, but we still don't get that due to the cult of personal responsibility and panic.

Everyone be all "wear a mask to protect the vulnerable" and not "shoot the landlords who don't want to spend money on HVAC to keep the vulnerable and everyone else safe"

@kevinriggle @maddiefuzz @clacke @drwho I imagine at least part of this is that these technologies become more useful to us when we acknowledge their limitations and applications, and stop imagining nonsense about singularity and AGI.

@Moon sure, and diversity means foregoing the convenience of one's comfortable prejudices and the simplicity of working with people who are just like you, and the doing of a lot of effort. These are sacrifices but I think what I am trying to get at is that it doesn't involve sacrificing outcomes. In fact the outcomes should be better.

That is to say, I feel most safe when my work receives the same level and type of feedback and notice as that of the straight, neurotypical dude next to me with his normal circadian rhythm. The kind of guy I have had to work harder than, get more credentials than, negotiate harder than, and sometimes work around the feelings of.

Being seen as a peer is ideal. Being seen as a pet - shielded, given a lower bar to meet - is absolutely not.

You do not get to shut down valid criticism of your work and actions just by virtue of being a member of a minority. I can't believe how often this comes up even still.

Obviously if one is targeted, that's a problem, but please look up and understand disparate treatment and disparate impact. These concepts are /comparative/. Between marginalized and non-marginalized groups.

Also fwiw my own experience is that I feel most safe when my work gets the same type of feedback others' does.

What this means is, I expect, if I fuck up, to be told. And if I hear valid criticism of my work, do you think I will say, oh you just hate queer people? Oh, you're targeting me out of ableism?

No, I will do my best to listen and do better, and I don't know a lot of successful people who do otherwise.

It isn't the point of diversity to accept worse results as some kind of sacrifice in the name of fighting past wrongs (and sacrifices don't right wrongs anyway).

Diversity means we play to everyone's strengths and incorporate viewpoints and needs different from our own; by doing that, we achieve more than a homogeneous group could. By including and empowering everyone, we get the benefit of everyone's contribution.

It's not about comparing oppression or letting people take revenge.

@GossiTheDog truly it would not be better if they tried to implement all the W3C features from the ground up, in house, with proprietary code.

@aral I wouldn't take it too personally. My read from their posts and the rage.love site is that this admin is a completely out of control clout chaser.

Security isn't about making getting access to things a huge hassle. I wish people would get that out of their heads.

The fact that book sales spiked enormously during the internet archive's short-lived NEL program is a very strong argument that we could substantially weaken copyright protections and still provide sufficient incentive to create new cultural works.

@evan sure but you have to protect the interests of people who did not destroy the bank but depend on it, like employees. It's good in this case to see the shareholders soaked, the executives sued, and the depositors whole.

Parking validation is bullshit. Anyone who wants to offer it should have to also be able to boop a transit fare refund onto your orca card if you choose that instead.