I made this pandemic system map in April, basing it on current reporting. Looking at it now I can see the same parameters playing out and the factors in the map even more clearly represented. I did not reflect upon it specifically then, as in April it was more surreal, but there are many arrows leading to social unrest (on the right side of the map).
I drew this pandemic system map on April 17, basing it on current reporting. I see the same things playing out now, often more clearly, more intensely and on a greater scale, looking at all of the parameters. People are hurting. There are many arrows towards social unrest. x.com/axbom/status/1ā¦
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@kazarnowicz @Beastankar @emanuelkarlsten JodĆ„, de har sĆ„ smĆ„tt bekrƤftat. x.com/GreiderDD/statā¦
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@Beastankar @emanuelkarlsten Exakt!
@Beastankar @emanuelkarlsten Och se'n kollar man en gƄng till och inser att det fortfarande Ƥr mycket mƶjligt att det Ƥr deepfake... bara rƶsterna de behƶver ordna och nƤr de sjunger kan det fƶrstƄs vara lƤttare... men jag gissar att det Ƥr bekrƤftat av de medverkande.
@Beastankar @emanuelkarlsten TƤnker nƤrmast pƄ Sassy Justice och att det Ƥr sƄ lƤtt att glƶmma hur dessa deepfakes inte krƤver sƄ himla mycket lƤngre i produktionskostnader... youtube.com/watch
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@emanuelkarlsten Wow. Fƶrsta sekundrarna trodde jag det var deepfake, men nƤe...
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@ProfSunnySingh Imagining the private chatrooms of groups of legal scholars blowing up across the US. Oh how I would love to listen in on some of these conversations.
Debunked myths are a good thing. Repetition of myths keeps us from progress. Mothers are not favored in custody hearings. x.com/theasianfmnst/ā¦
"Hundreds of Western companies are directly involved in suppling authoritarian governments around the world with equipment that is used to filter the internet to block sites that are objectionable to them on social, political or security grounds."
theafricareport.com/50500/how-westā¦
In one cited example, Vodafone Group's local presence in Tanzania, Vodacom, agreed to block any text messages containing terms related to the opposition party, including the name of the main opposition leader.
Yes, you read that right.
"When stagnating economies make it harder to sustain popular support and patronage networks, they also face fewer obstacles to using repression to remain in power."
theafricareport.com/42006/the-riseā¦
"Transfers of power are not a silver bullet of course ā they may just involve replacing a good and upstanding leader with a dubious one. But they have been shown to disrupt corruption networks, encourage leaders to respect the rule of law, and boost public support for democracy."
"Failure to halt the production line of dictators will mean that in twenty yearsā time there will be more young people standing on cars across Africa trying to rid their countries of a new generation of authoritarian old men."
Good piece. 'Authoritarian old men' all all over.
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@augmentedrobot I have but I'd forgotten about it! Thank you for sharing.
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@ilovegraphics Exactly! I'm going to be thinking about all these threads for weeks. I almost read it as a journalist's version of a systems thinking map.
Please read this intense story by @sarahzhang. It's for everyone to read, because it is about the moral dilemmas of being human in a society of changing norms and options. The number of emotions I went through reading it was exhausting, but worth it.
theatlantic.com/magazine/archiā¦
"Recent advances in genetics provoke anxieties about a future where parents choose what kind of child to have, or not have. But that hypothetical future is already here. Itās been here for an entire generation."
Ā«He must be aware of the debate?ā I asked, which felt perverse to even say. *So heās aware there are people who donāt want people like him to be born?* Yes, she said; her family has always been open with him.Ā»
"Down syndrome is defined and diagnosed by a medical system made up of people who have to be highly successful to get there, who likely base part of their identity on their intelligence. This is the system giving parents the tools to decide what kind of children to have."
Gah. There's no quote I could pull that would give the richness of this piece justice. Just read it.
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@WolfgangBremer It's an anagram of "Immortal Lost Empire Sudo". Sudo of course is the Unix command "superuser do" which allows one user to execute code as if they were another user. This alludes to the immortal, but covert, mind control power of words: putting thoughts in the heads of others.
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@kolombiken This tweet is via Tweetbot. āļø
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@kolombiken I thought of you actually. I think I have to go 3rd party app as well.
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@GabiGitli Iām glad you asked š
To understand this one needs to understand two main problems:
1) A person using a screen reader may be exposed to multiple instances of āRead moreā without context.
2) A person controlling a browser through voice needs a unique phrase to activate a link.
@GabiGitli The best links are
a) understandable outside their visual context on a page, and
b) unique in the sense that the same phrase is not used to link to different pages.
@GabiGitli A common workaround is to repeat the title of the linked page in the read more link. But as the title of a āteaserā is usually already linked, this often creates duplicate links to the same article.
@GabiGitli The other option is to hide the āread moreā link altogether, and only link the title. This is valid but risks leaving the reader hanging, not knowing where to go from there.
@GabiGitli Another option is to include the full title in the read more link and NOT link the title in the teaser. There would be one understandable link providing the right context in the right position.
@GabiGitli But there is still a valid expectation of a linked title, which could be resolved by Javascript, pulling the link from the other link, and not exposing that link to the screen reader.
@GabiGitli One could also link the whole teaser block. When the reader reaches an ellipsis which breaks the content where the read more link would have been placed, they can still click anywhere to. Again this would require Javascript to ensure that the entire text is not exposed as a link.
@GabiGitli There are more options ā and a new attribute known as aria-labelled-by which can come in handy. The chosen option will depend on context. And in the end itās most important to bring in representatives who experience the issues we are trying to resolve, and listen to their input.
@GabiGitli To sum up: even seemingly small decisions will require effort to be inclusive. Many of them involve vulnerable people who are systematically ignored. And this is when change takes more time than at first feels reasonableā¦
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I have given talks for 20 years saying that links to the full text of articles should not only read āRead moreā. This has given me the experience to understand that I will be giving the same talk for 20 more.
That fleeting feeling of yet another in-your-face nonessential feature that can not be turned off because respecting human autonomy is too massive of an ask.
Enjoy this episode of CSI Stockholm, where James decides to examine the evidence in his lab, going deep into the code, in an effort to ascertain the meaning and purpose of the inexplicable icon. x.com/beantin/statusā¦
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@beantin @LinkedIn I love that inspecting the code is how you figured it out š
Everyone of course needs to listen to episode 244. Weirdly I was just recommending this episode in my morning meeting, for the same reasons - icons are not universally understood.
uxpodcast.com/244-icons-pictā¦