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@so_treu I feel like I'm just barely catching my breath a little bit after the way this year has opened, myself, so, yeah... solidarity :heart_cyber:
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Amelia
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Proudly: trans, queer as in anti-normal, invisibly disabled, and autistic. Also: white and physically able (er, to a point).
Born Ungovernable.
I care about people - often fiercely so - and I stand against anything that wants to stop us from caring for each other.
Creator of #DisabilityDrivenDevelopment and SpoonStack.
Not Safe for Whiteness. Act accordingly.
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@tillshadeisgone @welshpixie
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Ah yes, this one: https://ideas.starshipgender.com/quotes/non-apology.html
At this point, I'd almost be tempted to pay higher costs for services that explicitly won't try to add "AI" crap to anything.
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@so_treu One of the things brewing in the back of my mind is ideas for tech to do proper history and, like, archival, by-and-for oppressed communities.
Because there's just no excuse for how often this kind of erasure just... goes unchallenged, when book deals and media outlets are the only game in town.
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@so_treu Oh I would absolutely love to dig into it, yeah!
What'd work best for you as far as figuring out logistics to do that?
If your analysis of whiteness only cites white writers, you have not yet begun to do your homework.
A sad consequence of living in a deeply ableist over-culture is that when we have to say things like "I can't do that right now," it can feel like some kind of personal failure.
Especially when the thing in question feels big and important to our personal values.
But truthfully? From my perspective, having enough wisdom to recognize and honor our own limits is priceless success, every day of the week.
When a society and culture prize domination and control, ableism is not only inevitable, it will unavoidably be considered a virtuous thing - if value comes from the ability to coerce towards one's will, then inability of all kinds will by necessity be treated as lesser.
Because of this, anti-ableism and liberation are inextricable causes. We cannot attain or practice either one without also embracing the other.
Scrabbling over who gets to be in control merely reproduces logics and patterns of oppression.
But when we choose to reject the idea that control is good, we open ourselves up to a world that can be so much more - no longer a place of struggling on individualistic merits, but a place of care, support, collective purpose, and love.
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@wren6991 I don't know of a specific name for it in test land, but in ops, it'd be called "alarm fatigue." The clincher isn't a test failure per se, it's the response to test failures.
It's a very general psychological phenomenon, because it's a property of biological nervous systems - any repeated stimulus that evokes an "oh no" response will lead, over time, to one of two converged outcomes.
One outcome is fairly high-cost and requires a supportive context, but is ideal: a careful, root-cause analysis is performed, the true origin of the failure is identified, and the entire operational context is subject to potential adjustment to systemically preclude further failures in an identical mode. Needless to say, most teams and orgs... aren't getting this right.
Far more common is the other outcome: people brand a test (or an entire suite) as "flaky", the collective culture shifts towards ignoring the failure due to irritation, and maybe someone will get bored enough to "solve the problem."
But now, that doesn't mean addressing the real issue, it means making the alarm shut up... and before you know it, you can have a full on choir of a dozen fire, tornado, and alien invasion sirens all going off at once and people'll sleep right through it and just keep punching the clock.
Blerf.
$24,000 to keep a roof over my head.
(Or, more accurately, to replace the one that's on the verge of collapsing.)
Guess I'm going to spend my summer trying to up my crowdfunding game...
https://spoonstack.org/support.html for my current links. I'll do something more formal once I can catch my breath and recover a bit.
The bunnies know what I need.
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@nick@bath.social From my own personal experience: focus on the community relationships first and foremost. Let the tech work be an almost-afterthought.
It's much harder to end up getting quietly taken advantage of (even by sheer accident) when we're regularly communicating, setting boundaries, and navigating consent and transparency with each other.
It's an approach that's outside the comfort zone for many, but if you're not confident about doing this already, I promise learning the skills will do more for your tech work than anything else you could try to pick up.