Anticipating and communicating risks of unintended system consequences in our fields of expertise is a good start.
We need to be better at practicing recovery from and correcting bad feedback loops; the responsibility is societal, and the conversation is vexed by notions of rights, blame, and responsibility anchored in the individual.
@kellogh@inthehands Waldorf ended up being a failure for our child especially during the middle school grade years. He didn't relate well with creating an artistic lesson book. He was very happy to go to public high school. The system overweights the class teacher's responsibility to handle everything, which can sometimes be good and sometimes very bad.
@inthehands I feel lucky, looking back, to have taken a course called "Method, Imagination, and Inquiry" in the English department at the University of Washington.
I find its history-of-Western-Thought content, as well as cultural anthropology, useful for insight into how people understand things together and share those understandings.
@thomasfuchs Tucson is the farthest east that I lived ('90s), and in other birds, I was surprised to discover that the cardinal (red-crested finch) ranges so far west.
It's a very lively desert.
Thanks for the bird! I think that might be a mesquite tree it's sitting in.
@thomasfuchs Tucson is a very lively desert. I lived there ten years. Big for sky shows: rainbows, lightning storms; moderate streetlighting for the astronomers' sake. I taught astronomy lab at the U of A before switching to computer science. A lot of wildlife visible on the edge of town.
@nova Social media for me is navigating your contact graph from friends and colleagues into new spaces of particular topical or cultural interest and exploring them.
The Twitter to Fediverse export gave me a grand jumpstart to this process with many familiar folks already present.