Notices by Drífa Jónsdóttir :kitty_trans: (drifa@yiff.life)

As should be obvious, this is a back-door assualt on a lot of people, particularly the LGBTQ community. If you can spare a moment for largely symbolic opposition, it'd be nice to flood the comments with opposition to this. The comment period closes on 16 September.

The US Department of Labor is proposing a new rule that would have the effect of allowing federal contractors to opt out of anti-discrimination requirements simply by stating that they are a religious organization:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/08/15/2019-17472/implementing-legal-requirements-regarding-the-equal-opportunity-clauses-religious-exemption

"Smart ovens have been turning on overnight and preheating to 400 degrees": https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/14/20802774/june-smart-oven-remote-preheat-update-user-error

Note the manufacturer's response: must be user error.

Bzzzzt.

A high-heat appliance turning on unattended is a big safety problem: fires start that way. If your user interface is such that multiple users are having that happen, it isn't the user that's at fault, it's your shitty user interface.

Why isn’t there one of these on the door to my hotel room?!?

Apparently my backyard is a very relaxing sort of place for a bun.

I worked the corporate pride booth yesterday. When I arrive, I saw a colleague I thought was a cis man wearing a ‘she/her’ button and another I thought was a cis woman wearing a ‘they/them’ button.

OwO, what’s this?!?

So I ask.

It turns out they both had been approached by someone distributing buttons, took the first one offered, and just … put it on. No clue that they were meant to select the one that told people who they were.

Oh gods, what have I done?!? :kitty_trans: