Notices by Richard Littauer (richlitt@mastodon.social)

Having their Cake and eating it too: Conflicting and unreal expectations of women in "Short Skirt / Long Jacket".

In this essay I will...

"The first criterion of loyalty to the organization becomes complicity. Career advancement is not based on merit, and not even based necessarily on being someone’s cousin; above all, it’s based on a willingness to play along with the fiction that career advancement is based on merit, even though everyone knows this not to be true."

- David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules.

@ntnsndr I want to talk to you over a hangout for 15-30 minutes about governance of scientific nomenclature. Would you be up for that? I think you'd learn some stuff, and I think you could help me too.

Posting publicly because anyone else is welcome.

@khinsen I would be really interested to talk about this on the https://podcast.sustainoss.org podcast, if you're interested. :)

@ntnsndr I hear that! The difference is the lack of the original custodians of the land.

I agree that, as another way of demanding attention, it continues to be a tool of colonialization. I just argue that it is another tool itself, not an incursion on native land.

"Governable spaces must calibrate what they expect of people to a condition of metagovernance, of traversing multiple, plural governance environments in a way that is sustainable, tolerable, and comprehensible."

I think this requires higher policy changes between platforms, depending on the space. I think we've seen this sort of result come from cultural movements. CoCs spring to mind.

@ntnsndr

@ntnsndr You mention other books are better introductions for online governance. What are they for someone at my level, esp. regarding OSS?

Very much enjoying diving into Governable Spaces by @ntnsndr this evening. Already underlined and learned a few things, and I'm only four pages in.

@ntnsndr Can I post quotes and screenshots from within the book?

@sb What is a good alternative to Substack? TinyLetter just died, and I don't have an alt. lined up yet.

I have one greatest fear, and I'm coming closer to realizing it as my greatest desire and inevitability the older I get.

@clacke @erioldoesdesign Want to help me set one up? What's the best instance for that, you think - or is that a dumb question?