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I’ve seen a few people repeating Roy Wood Jr.’s joke about Clarence Thomas being an NFT.

And I’ve got to say, I’m a little conflicted on this – because I don’t really believe that’s our (and here I mean white people) joke to make. Calling someone a token is something Roy Wood Jr. can do. I don’t think it’s something we should be doing as white people.

I mean, I get it, it’s a killer burn, and it feels good to have something to give an apparently corrupt judge that’s insulting. But I think when we (white people) use it…well, it’s just not our place to make that determination.

If we want the fediverse to be more diverse, we need to see to at least some of the background radiation of racism. This is that kind of thing.

—@oldladyplays

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30 years ago, one decision altered the course of our connected world

On April 30, 1993, the World Wide Web was released into the public domain. It revolutionized the internet and allowed users to create websites filled with graphics, audio and hyperlinks.

馃敆 https://www.npr.org/2023/04/30/1172276538/world-wide-web-internet-anniversary

#technology #npr #news #press #media #independent #usa

—@npr

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Accessibility needs to be more than just going over a compliance checklist.

WCAG audits can be useful, but if all you鈥檙e going to do is sporadically order someone to make a list of pass/fail next to numbers, chances are you鈥檙e not gonna see much meaningful change.

For that you need to understand:

– What effect the (in)accessible solution has on the experience of disabled users
– How disabled people use the web
– How AT / a11y options work
– Techniques and tools you can use in your work
etc

—@fossheim

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Contacted Microsoft support to resolve an issue with paypal. Perfectly normal, cordial chat. The support person said I was the only nice person they’d talked to today… Which, yay, I’m awesome, great. But it made me feel bad for them! No reason to yell at people who are there to help you. I was wondering why they buried the text chat option, now I understand: people are assholes. If you think this is shitting on corpos in some cool way, or whatever, believe me when I say to you: it is not.

—@objectinspace

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In reply to @alexhern.

@alexhern This kind of reminds me of the early days of Clubhouse. And two years after that they've laid off 50% of their staff. I wouldn't be surprised if Bluesky fails in some similar ways, to say nothing of the fact that the same guy who handed Twitter over to Musk is behind it and we're suddenly supposed to give him a second chance or something.