The Am vs Have ontology is not just an academic exercise.

🤔 https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/19/cold-grammar-and-the-quiet-gatekeeping-of-philosophy/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

It has repercussions in peer-reviewed articles. We're taught that peer review is a gold standard, but it's orthodox gatekeeping over quality control. Referees have a narrow window into their own methods, so they reject those with counter or even hybrid perspectives.
#philosophy #journals #peerreview #quality #gatekeeping #access #academic #standards #orthodox #control #perspective #blog #podcast

Marcus Olang' on gatekeeping humanity

'The question of what makes writing "human" has become dangerously narrow, policed by algorithms that carry the implicit biases of their creators...Where does that leave the writer from Lagos, from Mumbai, from Kingston, from right here in Nairobi, who was taught that precision was the highest form of respect for both the language and the reader?'

#ai #humanity #colonialism #gatekeeping #writing

https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-like-chatgpt

Danke für diesen Thread. Der ist mega wertvoll – gerade weil er aus langjähriger Praxis spricht und nicht aus der Beobachterperspektive. Der Punkt mit dem #Gatekeeping trifft etwas, das ich in meinem Thread bestenfalls angerissen habe:

🚫 Oh, look! Microsoft's #AI is so cutting-edge that it's mastered the ancient art of saying "no" with a solid 403—proving once again that #software is best at denying access rather than providing it. 🙃 Bravo, #Microsoft, for pioneering the future of AI gatekeeping! 🔒
https://microsoft.ai/ #Gatekeeping #Error #Tech #Humor #Development #HackerNews #ngated

#gatekeeping #nepotism 🤔 Did they realize the fire within analogy wasn't just about inner strength, but a carefully constructed facade masking something far more complex?

Dealing with #government #gatekeeping #bureaucracies is sort of like repeatedly smashing your face into a concrete wall, except that with the concrete wall you can just stop any time you feel like it.

If science can't prove a singlet exists, how can it disprove a plural?

A critique of Sysmedicalism and the Theory of Structural Dissociation (TSDP) as applied to non-traumagenic plurality. This essay explores the "No True Scotsman" fallacy, the Hard Problem of Consciousness, and the ethical necessity of inclusive community building.

https://arcwolf.substack.com/p/no-true-scotsmen

We explore why medical models are maps of illness, not possibility, and how to build a culture that doesn't eat its own.

#Plurality #PluralGang #Systems #DID #OSDD #Sysmedicalism #Endogenic #Traumagenic #SystemSafety #CommunityBuilding #Neurodiversity #MentalHealth #Psychology #PhilosophyOfMind #Consciousness #HardProblem #Gatekeeping #NoTrueScotsman #EllisArcwolf

Bordeaux c la meilleur ville de france mais faut arreter de le dire a tt le monde #gatekeeping sinon ca va se transformer en hype marseillais

Soziale Praktiken, die die Toxizität von #Social #Media befördern:

#Catfishing, #Engagement #Bait, #Clickbait, #Concern #Trolling, #Sealioning, #Doxxing, #Astroturfing, #Ragebait #Farming, #CancelCulture #Exzess, #Virtue #Signaling, #Gatekeeping, #Main #Character #Syndrome...

gibt glaub ich nichts, in das ich nicht schon selbst involviert war, oder auf die ein oder andere Art und Weise betrieben habe. Manches dient der Selbstaufwertung.

(Versuch #Reflexion)

#SocialMedia #Toxizität #Toxisch

Savi Vs Jigra दिव्या खोसला ने लीक किया मुकेश भट्ट का फोन कॉल रिकॉर्डिंग बॉलीवुड ‘माफिया’ की गहरी खाई ने फिर मचाई चर्चा #DivyaKhosla #MukeshBhatt #BollywoodScandal #IndustryMafia #CallRecording
#SaviVsJigra #Transparency #Gatekeeping #Lobbying #BollywoodDrama
#SpeakUp #FilmIndustry #PowerDynamics #CelebrityControversy

https://vrnewslive.com/savi-vs-jigra-divya-khosla-leek-mukesh-bhatt-phone/

Application #Gatekeeping : An Ever-Expanding Pathway to Internet #Censorship https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/application-gatekeeping-ever-expanding-pathway-internet-censorship

@bluewitch @Landkieker gibt gute Gründe warum dies nicht vorgeschrieben ist:

• Eine #NSAfD-Regierung (oder auch nur #CDU / #CSU - #Copypasta) würden dies explizit zum #Gatekeeping und #Klassismus missbrauchen…

IMMER daran denken wie #Gesetze gegen einen als Waffe missbraucht werden können!

5G network access in #Malaysia is limited to a specific list of "certified devices", regardless of the device's actual capabilities.

Ookla's data shows that 55% of phones in Malaysia are 5G capable. Yet, less than half of those phones are actually connected to 5G networks.
Even for those who are connected to 5G, carrier plans severely limit speeds except for the highest (most expensive) tiers.
https://www.ookla.com/articles/malaysia-5g-performance-q3-2023

#5G #GSM #techtyranny #gatekeeping #smartphone

There's a division in left-leaning groups regarding protests like No Kings. The division is a bad thing,

TL;DR: If you think non-disruptive protests do nothing, then let them happen; they're harmless. If you think they harm resistance efforts, prove it.

There are many Very Online people criticizing the No Kings (and similar) protests because they are not strongly disruptive. Fair. They are likely to be much less effective than something that truly disrupts stuff (e.g., #GeneralStrike, which seems like a potentially excellent thing if we could get this to happen). However, the criticisms rarely stop at "useless." They often say or imply that such protests actually harm resistance efforts.

Then they tend not to present any convincing evidence of this claim. If you're going to make a strong claim like this, you need to do the hard work: Provide evidence (or at least clear reasoning) that non-disruptive protests have a negative cost-benefit ratio. That means you need to

a. List the costs/risks/damage with specifics (not simply "it does harm")

b. List or at least acknowledge the benefits of non-disruptive protests, such as awareness-raising, solidarity-building, message-sending, hope-inspiring, network-building, etc.

c. Make a clear, **head-to-head comparison **of some kind between (a) and (b)

Anything else, including a claim that there are no benefits, or listing a nerfed list of positives, is likely more propaganda than reasoned argumentation.

Also worth noting:

• If you claim non-disruptive protests "do nothing," then don't say or imply anything to dissuade people from attending. Are you telling people to stay home from their book clubs, their basketball leagues, or their D&D sessions because those also do not change the political situation? Something that "does nothing" also does no harm, so it's fine.

• If you think non-disruptive protests are a net negative--i.e., they actually harm resistance efforts--then you need to be willing to tell people to stay home and do NOTHING instead of going to the protests. Of course doing "something better" would be, you know, better, but apply some critical thinking: If something is harmful, then simply not doing anything is better than doing that thing. If you can't honestly tell people that staying home and doing nothing is better than going to a No Kings-type protest, then there's something not computing in your logic.

• It seems like a no-brainer that disruptive protests are more effective, but that needs to be spelled out, too. Disruptive protests do not always help; sometimes they provoke a backlash, for example, resulting in even more oppression, fewer rights, and reduced ability of anyone to protest in any way. Those risks need to be acknowledged along with the potential benefits.

• Comparing two courses of action like this has at least eight(ish) moving pieces. A reasonable comparison framework is:

1. Benefits (and probability of benefits) vs costs (and probability of costs) of Option A (e.g., disruptive protests)

2. Benefits (and probability of benefits) vs costs (and probability of costs) of Option B (e.g., non-disruptive protests)

3. Compare A to B

If any of those pieces are not specified, or specified badly, it's not a good comparison and is likely to result in bad decisions. It's also likely that ideology, personality, etc. drive the comparison, placing it farther up on the Propaganda Scale (which I just made up, but I think you can understand the concept).

One of the built-in problems here is that it can be hard to predict the probability of unknowns... i.e., to predict the future, which is what we are necessarily doing when we recommend various actions, hoping those result in certain outcomes.

Final thoughts: Given our recent history in the #USA, I think it's highly likely that good-faith "this is useless" positions are enhanced and pushed by MAGA trolls in disguise. The MAGA regime does not like these protests and spends a lot of energy bashing them in national media, so they are probably also doing what they always do: infiltrating progressive networks to send the same message.

I believe any message about activism that presents only one side of a comparison, or leaves out important pieces, ends up as some combination of #tribalism, self-soothing, #gatekeeping, and/or #PurityTest dynamics, even if it was not intended this way.

EDIT: Added this graphic, which might or might not be helpful. I'm not a "math person" so this might not be the right format or might make no sense.

EDIT 2: I should not post stuff like this until at least draft 5, because I keep needing to fix typos and other issues.

#NoKings #protest #disruptive #activism #resistance #influencers #CriticalThinking #comparison #uspol

Everyone is whining about people #gatekeeping each other.

Then who/where is the #keymaster ?

Omdat ik geen idee had wat de bedenker van ArchInk bedoelt met "gatekeeping" mbt archeologie, heb ik besloten het maar heel letterlijk op te vatten en de poort (gate) van een Romeins castellum te tekenen (voorbeeld was de Saalburg).

Dank je wel @flava voor het brainstormen!

#ArchInk #archeologie #gatekeeping #RomeinseLimes

@Waf @Edent @arya
Back when ChatGPT was less than 4 months old
https://youtu.be/N7v0yvdkIHg

#StackOverflow #Toxic #GateKeeping

This is middle aged man yaoi (NOT old man yaoi, they're only 40 here. And only 50 in s14.. they gotta be 55+ and getting AARP benefits to be oold #gatekeeping) BUT this too is yuri to me.

I'm not joking. Gal pals can hold hands and hug and kiss and maybe even go on dates when they're kids. But they are expected to grow out of showing affection for their friends once they're outta high school and have to get hetero married. You can call them your "girl friends" but not your "girlfriend" in this joker society....

SIGH Hank used to be a lot more openly emotional 🥺 I love seeing the life stages of a caterpillar to butterfly!!! I LOVE YAOI!!!

Also name orders:

Dale->Boomhauer->Bill->Hank

Hank is the mom friend and the womb friend AND also the one least willing to make yaoi 😀 yayyy for stoic ukes

""So, if coding as such is insubstantial to the extent that, much like writing, it only becomes relevant in the context of other things, what the hell is "tech"? And why do "tech" and "the tech industry" even things that we have to define and talk about in the first instance?" - @iris_meredith

#Tech #TechIndustry #Coding #Culture #Gatekeeping

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/dewaffling_tech

@mattblaze I'm of the belief that all these BlueSky refugees who think they can come to Mastodon and "change the narrative" need to bring us all cookies and candy bars before we let them in. I'll take chocolate chip, but macadamia nut cookies are fine, too. #fedsplaining #gatekeeping #nomnomnom