We would like to sincerely thank Senator Ed Markey for calling Elon Musk to account regarding his firing of Twitter’s accessibility team, and while we obviously hope that Musk starts taking accessibility seriously and rehires that team, we won’t be disappointed if the accessibility team members find jobs with companies who actually appreciate them and accessibility. https://www.worldblindherald.com/senator-markey-demands-twitter-reinstate-accessibility-team/

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Today’s young FOSS enthusiasts may not be aware of the SCO lawsuit, which 20 years ago launched an existential threat to Linux and kickstarted the age of copyright trolls. Back then it was a huge deal.

This post summarizes what happened, a cautionary tale worth reminding.

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/924577/75ae0a1538029fcc/

#linux #foss

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Disability Dongle by Liz JacksonLiz Jackson

Disability Dongles are contemporary fairy tales that appeal to the abled imagination by presenting a heroic designer-protagonist whose prototype provides a techno-utopian (re)solution to the design problem. Disability Dongle rhetoric instills in students the value of a quick fix over structural change, thus preventing them from seeking out, participating in, and contributing to existing inquiry. By labeling these material-discursive phenomena—the designed artifacts and the discourse through which their meaning is constituted—we work to shift the focus from their misguided concern about our bodies to their under-analyzed intentions and ambitions.

Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ (@arossp@mastodon.social) (Mastodon)
If you express a lot of concern about free speech and diversity of views on college campuses, but don’t express similar concerns about, for example, DeSantis banning diversity of views from primary and secondary schools, then consider you don’t so much care about actual diversity of views as you do about simply making sure that right-wing ideas, values, and social preferences have primacy over left-wing ones.