Daniel Cardoso @danielscardoso@scholar.social

@mo

Think of difference between telling a child they did something bad and telling a child they are bad.

WP (myself included) are children that hear "You are a bad, bad person" whenever we are called out for DOING something bad.

We never learned that good people can do bad things. We hear even direct "This thing you did here" criticism as an attack on our value and worth as human beings.

"I'm not a racist" is never true. Anti-racist is not the same thing as racism-free. WP can't grok that.

❓ Poll: Have you ever had to report content in your feed to a fediverse mod?

Followup: how fast was the response time?

Boosts requested; I'm writing an article about the moderation of decentralized networks.

Pro tip from a mistake-maker: It's super valid to congratulate yourself for becoming less bigoted and unlearning harmful ideologies. You should feel good about that!

It's NOT valid to therefore expect praise or adoration from marginalized folks, or to expect people to thank you for not considering them 'beneath' you.

Cheers to everyone who's working to unlearn toxic nonsense.

I used to think that I had limitless supply to hold other people up through emotional crisis but really I just had no respect for my own wellbeing.

I am unemployed. I don't believe I will be returning to academia.

If you or someone you know is looking for a high skilled, highly motivated Unix admin, technical writer, infosec consultant, or tech researcher, please get in touch. Willing to relocate anywhere (after the COVID-19 situation, of course) and work remotely in the interim.

(Please feel free to star and boost.)

"A non-binary dominatrix has been using Animal Crossing: New Horizons to humiliate clients during lockdown, beating them with a butterfly net, locking them in cages and accepting bells as payment."

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/13/animal-crossing-new-horizons-non-binary-dominatrix-bdsm-sex-work-nintendo-switch/

adding "white feminism" to the pile along with "transmedicalism" and "homonationalism" and labeling the whole thing "Propping Up White Supremacist Ideas But Sounding Woke While You Do It", and then burning the whole thing

i was now years old when i suddenly realized that the expression "cut to the chase" is about movie editing.

bro you just made an ontological assumption

Zoom meetings aren’t actually end-to-end encrypted, despite misleading marketing on their website, in their security white paper, and in the user interface in their app https://theintercept.com/2020/03/31/zoom-meeting-encryption/ by @yaelwrites and myself

dem uma olhada no meu protocolo de autocuidade coletivo para saude mental https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F9rbKBb5C8K5IKpdfP0ThjwY1iNtUUqVn2GnJEB0pCg/edit?usp=sharing

Epidemiology is hard. If you see someone who is not a trained epidemiologist posting numbers that are out of line with those reported by WHO etc., they are almost always wrong. Either they are using words to mean something different than you (or they) think they mean, or they are missing crucial concepts about how epidemics & public health data work.

This is still true even if they have a lot of graphs in their Medium thinkpiece.

Well this is cool, JSTOR is making some of their database accessible to non-registered users:

http://www.universitytimes.ie/2020/03/jstor-makes-database-accessible-to-the-public/