m.SocialJustice.Engineering is now online!

We seek to host engineers', scholars', and activists' conversations around Science, Technology, and Society!

Examples include:
- analysis of sociotechnical systems (cyberfeminism, systemization of injustice, power imbalancing, etc)

- contextualizing cultural norms of engineers

- developing a sustainble engineering practice that works for all of us

- interdisciplinary connection & education

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Heya peeps!

I'm finally actually migrating off this account & returning to the fediverse.

My more political stuff (lots of what used to be here) will be happening instead at @hani

Must watch video for all who have paid attention to Laci Green ever.

Thanks to kat blaque for patiently parsing through so many important points https://t.co/EndWVE3t6Y

solution to the problem of mastodon.social having too much influence on the fediverse

registration is closed permanently

and every week users must successfully complete a series of challenges

or face being CAST OUT by the cold uncaring algorithmic hand of

SURVIVOR: MASTODON EDITION

It is 2074. Copyright is no longer extended since rich people no longer die. All librarians are unseen outlaws building archives underground. This is their story.

@twryst@m.socialjustice.engineering
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The amount of tech-literacy which is required to have any semblance of privacy on Mastodon right now with the 1.3 change is waaayyy overboard. You have to already be incredibly fluent in how federation and servers and whatnot works to even UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS A PRIVACY CONCERN IN THE FIRST PLACE.

(3) Requiring users to exert labour to vet and background-check literally everyone who follows them AND maintain a locked account if they want to share things privately is a bad solution to the problem and like literally Twitter wouldn't dare implement that it's so awful

This just REINFORCES the impression that Mastodon devs don't care about client devs enough to warn them about things ahead of time or (ideally!) give them a way of knowing which features a particular Mastodon instance supports. AFAIK Amaroq has no way of notifying users if their instance is running the 1.3 update or not.

ANYWAY, for those who haven't heard, Mastodon recently changed how private posts work. I wrote up a quick overview of the changes, which you can read HERE: >>>> https://marrus-sh.github.io/mastodon-info/everything-you-need-to-know-about-privacy-v1.3-020150428.html

ANYWAY (1) This change should have been announced to everyone, and MOST IMPORTANTLY to client developers, AT LEAST A WEEK before implementation. Right now Amaroq (for example) still says that private posts only federate to "followers on your instance", even though THIS IS NO LONGER TRUE, because the app hasn't had time to update to reflect the new changes.

(2) Changing the name from "Private" to "Followers only" might be a helpful and good change, but I FEAR that it is being used AS A COP-OUT for not better implementing real privacy features before shipping. People WANT private posts. And by "private" I mean "as private as e-mail, or Facebook". They don't want "followers-only-and-I-abdicate-all-responsibility-for-what-happens" posts.

'Sexual harassment, bullying and racist stereotyping are common in the technology industry, creating a culture that drives underrepresented employees out of their jobs, new research has found.

One in 10 women in tech experience unwanted sexual attention, and nearly one in four people of color face stereotyping ...surveyed more than 2,000 people who left tech jobs in the last three years.'

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/27/tech-industry-sexism-racism-silicon-valley-study

With news of Unroll.me selling user inbox info to Uber, lots of people are repeating "if you're not paying for it, you're the product."

I've said before, and will continue to say, that that is the wrong formulation. Sometimes you pay for it and you're still the product – look at US ISPs. Sometimes you don't pay for it and you're not the product – free software.

The real question is whether a software or service empowers users, which can't be boiled down to whether you paid.

follow any supply chain and you'll find brutal, inhumane conditions
this is more than just some "cronies" spoiling capitalism
it is the nature of capitalism for more profitable ideas to win out, and human interest simply isn't profitable on its own

@u2764 I was in a love pentagram that constituted the entire math team of my year.

So not recommend.

The only immigration-related crimes I know of were perpetrated by US Border Patrol and ICE

Remember when Google did this with YouTube only instead of “offensive content” it was gay people https://icosahedron.website/media/tJfoSTdFVVvMAZS-c_U