➺ Ashley Blewer! ❥ @ashley@digipres.club

@ashley This got me to listen to the first https://archive.org/details/the-real-world-of-technology by Ursula Franklin. Thank you! Lots of connections forming with Ivan Illich ("Tools for conviviality"; http://akkartik.name/illich.pdf) and David Krakauer's notions of complementary vs competitive cognitive artifacts (https://nautil.us/blog/will-ai-harm-us-better-to-ask-how-well-reckon-with-our-hybrid-nature)

Somewhat tangential, but I think it's better to teach accessibility by examples ("screen readers will read this part," "an Alexa will speak it in this accent") rather than talking about HTML tags as if they represent some platonic ideal of semantics. The abstract stuff is hard to grasp, and it's often just wrong, e.g. when screen readers have bugs or don't implement certain things correctly. I like the author's example of "if you forget this, mobile users will have to zoom in which is annoying."

Well on my way to becoming Mastodon's DOS community's thought-leader of choice. (selfie, ec)

tfw you need the national guard to lock down a city so you can safely say 'democracy prevailed'

Which DOS error code are you today? I'm a bit 'Too many commands' and always a little 'Not ready'

New episode of @fossandcrafts! @mlemweb and I are joined by @vickysteeves to talk about open and reproducible research, FOSS and library sciences, and even a conversation about what the FOSS world can learn from game modding communities! https://fossandcrafts.org/episodes/21-vicky-steeves.html

My favorite episodes are ones that emphasize interdisciplinarity and gosh does this episode ever meet that criteria!

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/dec/12/ronnie-spector-i-love-metoo-and-times-up-because-mens-time-is-up

“When I was making my hit records, my ex was always ‘the genius’ and you felt like: ‘Well, who am I?’ You felt that small. I’m so glad I’m still on this Earth to see women going out there and saying: ‘You can be fabulous like me, you can do anything.’”

we've never seen garbage levels like this

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