Why does everything look infantilized?

https://assemblagenyc.substack.com/p/why-does-everything-look-infantilized

#HackerNews #infantilization #visualculture #societaltrends #designcritique #culturalcommentary

A prominently advertised new feature in Apple’s Numbers spreadsheet is support for… STICKERS!

That's exactly what I always wished for when using a spreadsheet for gaining meaningful insights and making serious decisions: fun stickers, ideally animated, to distract my ADHD mind from all those boring numbers and dull calculations.

I just can’t… 🤦‍♂️

#macOS #infantilization #UX

@tbernard That is the #Infantilization of the user. And it is precisely the reason why I don't like and don't use #Gnome

Petersen is one of these serial filers….

The majority of school book objections center on titles by or about #LGBTQ individuals or people of color…. Petersen, though, has just one criterion by which she judges a book. Does it contain material that, under #Virginia #law, qualifies as sexually explicit, pornographic or obscene? Less than ⅓ of the titles she challenged have LGBTQ characters or protagonists of color….

#BookBans #Education #Literacy #Extremism #Infantilization #Heterosexism

She challenges one #school #book a week. She says she’ll never stop.

The majority of all school book challenges in the 2021-2022 school year came from just 11 people. Meet #JenniferPetersen.

#BookBans #BookBanning #Censorship #Education #Politicization #Library #Literacy #Extremism #SystemicBias #Infantilization #Repression #Oppression #Heterosexism #Hysteria
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/09/28/virginia-frequent-school-book-challenger-spotsylvania/

Elliot Sang once again doing important critical thought:

"Being coddled for just existing."
~ comment by a #trans man on the experience of #infantilization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ymJv4QDpOE&ab_channel=ElliotSang

#SelfInfantilization #satire #inaction #agency #colonialism #WorkCulture #gender #whiteness #Leftism #dehumanization #ableism #autism #normalcy

The infantilisation of Autistic people and the future of our blossoming culture

https://emergentdivergence.com/2023/02/14/the-infantilisation-of-autistic-people-and-the-future-of-our-blossoming-culture/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-infantilisation-of-autistic-people-and-the-future-of-our-blossoming-culture

#AutisticCommunity #AutisticSexuality #autisticcommunity #actuallyautistic #infantilisation #infantilization #neurodiversity #counterculture #neurodivergent #autistic

playing with AI-backed output generators, text or image = Lacan's Mirror Stage

"look, when I do this, it does that! - it (which is me) there seems so much more together than my experience of me (here) - wow I(t) is impressive! I wish to be its version of me from now on."

#infantilization