Notices by Laura Kalbag (laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com), page 4

On Zuckerberg’s “privacy” announcement yesterday, I’ve only found one article in my RSS feed this morning worth reading… 🔥

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/06/mark-zuckerberg-discovers-privacy/

Facebook’s lobbying against pro-privacy regulation is awful. Using Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In as an attempt to bond with commissioners who are women is a-whole-nother-level icky.

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252458229/Facebook-asked-George-Osborne-to-influence-EU-data-protection-law

@frotz @skynebula got to build bridges (I agree) also easy-to-use alternatives aren’t so widely available

Thissssss 🔥 (via @aral )

https://www.dearbigtech.org

I wish tech journalism would find more diversity in the experts whose opinions they quote. I want to hear from experts who understand and represent the needs and concerns of people from marginalised groups. (And I couldn’t care less about what yet another startup CEO farts out.)

@Gargron that’s one of the things that makes it such an interesting dynamic!

@david it is. I found the first episode of The Orville utterly unbearable in its lazy stereotypes bordering on misogyny. But I hear that it improved?

@ted yes! I’m sorry you had to go through that. This kind of guidance could benefit so many interactions between strangers.

They’re making a Discovery spinoff about Section 31 starring the Philippa Georgiou character? YES PLEASE.

MICS, I meant mics

After I had a couple of bad experiences recently, I wrote a blog post about fitting mic to people without making them uncomfortable:

https://laurakalbag.com/mic-issues/

“The white Other still benefits from white supremacy. We face discrimination, trauma, pain, violence, exclusion, but it is not the goal of our societal structures. It is more often a product of it.”

https://progressive.org/magazine/to-my-fellow-white-others-strangio/

I’ve always known seating, tables, phones and lecterns weren’t built for me, but didn’t realise my car isn’t designed for me to drive and, because of that, could easily kill me.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/feb/23/truth-world-built-for-men-car-crashes

(via @aral)