Here’s a thought experiment: If you had a small group of skilled mobile, desktop, server, and web front-end engineers who have access to time and money, and are eager to MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE USING THEIR SKILLS (and not just spin up yet another exploitive startup) what would YOU have them do?
Be specific.
Assume cost is no object.
It’s time to stop bellyaching about how bad tech is, and start brainstorming about what good it can do.
Please repost for exposure.
EDIT: Let’s add hardware, industrial design, and UX engineers in the mix as well, to round things out.
One more reason -- and an extremely important one at that -- NOT to change the clocks! It's so hard on people with #dementia, especially those who experience #Sundowning, and their #caregivers. November is #AlzheimersAwarenessMonth and #NationalFamilyCaregiversMonth. Let's do better by this community -- 6.7 million and counting -- that already has so many challenges.
I feel like every personal essay ever about the climate crisis inevitably turns to talk about the author's children and how their fears about climate change became real / top priority now that they have kids.
Good for them, I guess? Meanwhile I seem to have grown empathy for GenZ and Alpha without a child forcing me to reckon with the reality of the crisis.
Idk it just annoys me. Not sure I can articulate why in this space.
Worrying about #Normalisation just now. Not the rapprochement btw Israel and Arab countries but the normalisation of suffering and ongoing problems; that the longer the Gaza bombing goes on, the more “normal” it becomes and the less attention the world pays (as with other ongoing conflicts). Same with #ClimateEmergency - we are quickly getting used to all the catastrophic news. So important to tell #HumanStories, to keep #Humanism and #Empathy for everyone alive, in all of us
Trying to set up #RemoteAccess on #Ubuntu to help my father with a computer issue. A few years back, an #XMPP account in the #GNOME instant messenger client #Empathy was enough, because it used a quite clever mechanism to set up a #RemoteDesktop connection. What’s the best way today? GNOME now supports RDP natively, but by default it seems to only support link local connections, not over internet? Do I really need TeamViewer for this?
1/20 There's something I haven't seen discussed online a lot. But it affects a lot of people, in negative ways that are not immediately obvious to the people around them.
I'm describing this to ask you to think about it a little, and, I hope, perhaps treat the affected with a little more #empathy once you understand.
I have to tell my own story to get into this, but it'll be short.
One of the senior executives in my organisation has just returned from three weeks in Italy and, in an all-staff email, is telling people how wonderful Venice is to visit.
Such a thoughtful message for those struggling with ever-increasing mortgage payments
In #JesseWatters' world, the #homeless aren't #victims of circumstance, but architects of their own downfall, undeserving of #empathy or assistance. It's a narrative that's as convenient as it is #cruel, absolving society of any responsibility to address the issue while scapegoating those who are most affected by it.
Great question in the @glitchdotcom community forum: What skills do software developers have beyond writing code?
To me, it's mainly about the ability to step back and evaluate how your decisions and your behavior affects the world around you, through empathy.
And you really have to be empathetic to yourself as well; know the value of your time. Opt in for simpler, more straightforward solutions. Ask for help when you need it.
"We are, all of us, engaged every day in the construction of a moral order: by our accumulated individual examples, the words we use, the acts we condone, we can make it one that encourages decency and compassion towards others, or the reverse. This is particularly true of those in positions of leadership, political or other."
When a person living with #dementia asks the same question repeatedly, listen to the question differently and you may learn more about the needs underlying the question itself.
#Mastodon has a veneer of civility to it, but the lack of #empathy here is astounding—and from people who should know better, too. I’m growing tired of this echo chamber that, with all its calls for inclusion, still thrives on lumping people together and demonizing them. The #fediverse was my last hope for #SocialMedia, but maybe the whole concept is just a bad idea. It’s too easy to dehumanize people because we’re, ultimately, talking at each other through machines—not with each other.
Growing up, Mimi felt ashamed because she wasn’t like other #girls, but a chance discovery at 21 changed that. >>>
When she was first told about the enzyme deficiency, she says she was "reassured that I was...a girl, but that I just couldn't do the things that typical girls could do. I was also told that I couldn't tell my siblings or friends about this."
If you show the value of a victim, you feel empathy. This increases the desire for equality but you feel bad: it endangers your health.
On the contrary, iIf you stress the mistake of a victim, you protect yourself: you feel like it should not happen to you. Society supports such detachment if the perpetrator is a white man or a police(wo)man.
Blaming the victim justifies inequality, discriminations, violence by the strongest. It normalizes (adult, white, male or cis) privileges. Therefore it normalizes patriarchy and white supremacy.