Notices by Melissa McEwen (melissamcewen@mastodon.social), page 4

12 Things Everyone Should Understand About Tech
- by Anil Dash
https://medium.com/humane-tech/12-things-everyone-should-understand-about-tech-d158f5a26411
1. Tech is not neutral.
2. Tech is not inevitable.
3. Most people in tech sincerely want to do good.
4. Tech history is poorly documented and poorly understood.
5. Most tech education doesn’t include ethical training.
6. Tech is often built with surprising ignorance about its users.
7. There is never just one single genius creator of technology.
8. Most tech isn’t from startups or by startups.
9. Most big tech companies make money in just one of three ways.
10. The economic model of big companies skews all of tech.
11. Tech is as much about fashion as function.
12. No institution has the power to rein in tech’s abuses.

Imagine if we have unions in tech which could have the political clout to push back on some of the unmitigated brokenness of technical interviews.

The general consensus seems to be:

1) 20th Century Fox owns the "Alien" franchise.
2) "Alien" xenomorphs are born from a Queen.
3) Disney is buying 20th Century Fox.
Therefore
4) Xenomorphs are Disney princesses.

I just don't want to be a software developer anymore https://medium.com/@melissamcewen/i-just-dont-want-to-be-a-software-developer-anymore-a371422069a1 https://mastodon.social/media/x8-frnp6BC1d1gzYcVY

#pixelart #8bit

I recently upgraded my on-the-go digital art setup to an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, and I've been really happy with it!

#SexingtheBody / #DelusionsofGender: both Cordelia Fine and Anne Fausto-Sterling cite studies demonstrating that young children first learn to distinguish gender through social markers (clothing, colours, occupations, gendered concepts like "rough/soft") before associating it with body parts, and before learning that body parts are permanent.

#pixelart #spaceart #gif #8bit #space