Month: 8 Av 5783 (July 2023)

@BarrenPlanet
It seems like the only thing centrists care about it overt racism. That’s a huge problem for them and they see it as “worse” than covert racism because for them racism is largely an aesthetics problem. It makes them feel icky and it hurts people’s feelings. They don’t seem to understand that for Black people racism isn’t about our feelings getting hurt. It’s about ‘how will this harm me? Will I get arrested, fired, killed? Will my kid get punished, hurt, killed?’ We aren’t worried about our feelings. We learned how to manage that by the time we left elementary school. We are trying to survive and covert racism is just as bad as overt racism and in a lot of cases it’s worse.
There is no “better racism.”

—@ReneeWestberry

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act)!!

While the ADA needs to be improved, it tremendously increased the legal rights of #disabled people who live in the United States, including #neurodivergent and #actuallyautistic, who get any accommodations in the States from being a part of the #disability umbrella.

—@Claire

Mozilla should call for a vote on the removal of Google from W3C over implementation of Web Environment Integrity. “But Chrome has 65% market share, what good is the W3C without them?” If Google can take unilateral action to fundamentally change the basic principles of the web, then the W3C is *already* useless. Google will have a clear choice: if they want to maintain the idea that the W3C matters, they should withdraw this implementation. (For the know how to crowd-> https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/6f47a22906b2899412e79a2727355efa9cc8f5bd

—@Braveheart

my two personalities, aloof international assassin and scruffy chaos kitten, competing for control of my day

—@ElleGray

get cat out of warp core

—@RikerGoogling

Thanks to @couts for letting me share the story of my blind friend getting scammed, using OSINT/social engineering to track down the scamming network, and reminding me of the importance of empathy in cyber. Also a great reminder of how people with disabilities experience the internet differently. https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-laptop-scam-hunters/

—@selenalarson

assert your dominance by staying seated when your apple watch tells you to stand

—@yurnidiot

everyone needs a friend who they probably shouldn’t be allowed to sit next to at a serious function.

—@benteh

The Medical Device Nonvisual Accessibility Act will give us autonomy over our own health, and will also allow us to care for loved ones. Currently, there are no accessibility regulations that allow blind people to operate medical devices fully and independently, straight from the box. This bill seeks to change that, and also to combat attitudinal barriers regarding the blind and our health.

—@nationsblind

Deeply appreciative of this op-Ed by Rabbi Abby Jacobson of #OKC

Rabbi: Public money should not go toward religious institutions
https://www.oklahoman.com/story/opinion/2023/06/11/rabbi-public-money-should-not-go-toward-religious-institutions/70298368007/

#Oklahoma #FirstAmendment

—@jmb

oh nothing, just a reminder that mitch mcconnell is going to be receiving healthcare that he thinks other people will never, ever deserve

—@danhon

Thanks for your message. I’m currently out of the office. I could have access to email, but, nah. Not gonna do it.

—@tayfonay

god it feels like encryption and the entire sanctity of the internet is constantly under siege by people who can’t open a PDF by themselves

—@thememesniper