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↪ Replying to @unknown
@stephenfry Please do credit @CorridorDigital
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Comedians complaining about negative feedback (“Everything has to be so damn politically correct these days!”) makes me wonder why they think they should have feedback immunity when clearly everyone is being criticized to a larger extent today.
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And also, why do so many (looking at most news outlets) treat social media backlash as always representative of real public opinion?
I admit, I can sometimes laugh at off-color jokes, but that does not mean I can’t also reason around the inappropriateness of me doing so. We’re not perfect. Discourse is good. Listening to feedback and reasoning around the validity of it is healthy.
Listening to people who experience harm is a must. When comedians say they have to pay high prices for the “wrong jokes”, let’s relate the size of that “high price” to the price being paid by vulnerable, sidestepped, invisible people throughout their lifetimes.
Comedy isn’t dead, but it likely is evolving.
Thanks to feedback.
While many are stealing clips from the latest Bosstown Dynamics video made by @CorridorDigital, and posting on their profiles, here is the original video. It’s seriously impressive.
youtube.com/watch
(Links, they are a perfectly good way to share content.)
The “How we faked Boston Dynamics robot” video is worth a watch to understand the work that went into creating this.
youtube.com/watch
↪ Replying to @Scott_Matter
@Scott_Matter Yes, and while agreements are hard to follow, I like that you started brainstorming :) This made me consider only allowing retweeting people you follow. The reasoning there being that you show you trust the source enough that you actively follow them. Far from perfect though.
A balanced article on recording experiences with photos in this day and age, and debunking the idea that influencers are “flocking to Chernobyl”.
We need more friction for that retweet button.
theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
↪ Replying to @beantin
@beantin Haha, I realized this kind of when I was writing it as well, but I wanted to see where it would take me. I’m not sure either. Perhaps I would argue that voting rights mean that the voices are not invisible in that case.
@beantin But that would have to mean equal voting rights where voting is readily accessible to all... not something you for example have to apply for.
@beantin I mean, In Sweden we removed adult rights (and hence voting rights) for many people with disabilities up until 1989. A lot of voices have been, and are, invisible in countries that are democracies on paper.
@beantin Now you really sent me down a rabbit hole reading up on direct democracy, consensus democracy, increases in income inequality, Switzerland, Norway and more... 😬
I also hadn’t realized how the US has been downgraded from a full democracy in 2016 by EIU: eiu.com/public/topical…
They key to digital ethics lies not in finding a set of rules that will guide an ethical mindset (which can mean so many things), but in ensuring that we have ways of always listening to the voices of those who keep being harmed.
#digitalethics #digitalcompassion #designethics
Insistence that guidelines invented by a select few can represent a multitude of invisible voices, is a path to accelerated inequality and oppression.
↪ Replying to @brownorama
@brownorama I sometimes see independent contractors list their clients as if they were employed there. LinkedIn doesn't make it obvious how to list long-term assignments.
@brownorama Sidenote: I've also found that "freelancer" carries different connotations in different cultures/countries. Everything from "Wow, you must be clever and doing really well!" to "Oh I'm sorry you couldn't get a real job." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
↪ Replying to @DrBevW
@Dr_Bevlash @jacobhaddon @JohnRHornbuckle @summerbrees84 @AOC +1. I took 8 months off with my first kid and 6 months off with my second. The first one was 17 years ago. It’s not a new thing. And it’s not like a birth comes as a surprise; there is time to plan(!) for this. I’m in Sweden, where this is not even a political issue.