If institutions care about burnout they can change their organizational culture.
If they don’t, they can stop wasting their employees’ time with pointless empty performance of helpfulness and care.
Dear workplaces:
Please consider the message it sends when you schedule an extra bonus one-hour event that will take us away from doing our actual work…
…to have someone tell us what we can do as individuals to be less exhausted, stressed, and burned out.
Because I don’t think you can both genuinely care and have thought this out very carefully. And it seems like possibly neither one of those things applies here.
I recently had surgery and since I've come back to work I've been noticing how inaccessible a lot of our staff areas are in collections, it's really something. The public areas are much better. I wonder how common this is in other repositories; do we assume that people with physical disabilities just won't work here? (I think so, especially in archives specifically.)
Some veritcally arrange macro shots of varying provenance. As usual, I have absolutely zero scientific information to add. I'm a photographer not a horticulturist.
#Photography #MacroPhotography #Macr #Nature #Flowers #Leaves #Seeds #Autumn #Spring
I don't think it's unreasonable to expect people who use social media regularly to know that a website lives on a computer and that someone has to pay for that computer.
It's not "computer science homework", just like knowing that your car needs oil to keep working isn't "mechanical engineering homework". It's an integral part of the thing you are doing.
Lots of sentiment out there that we can't reasonably expect The Users to know anything at all about how computers work and that's just not a useful way to look at things. If every innovation has to work perfectly, the first time, for people who don't care to learn what a file is, we are doomed to make endless VC funded iOS apps for eternity.
The price for doing new and interesting things that run counter to the interests of capital is that you have to engage with the world, just one little smidgen. Just a pinch of giving a shit about how your civilization functions. That's all.
It's particularly ironic how they're talking about preventing "takeover of the fediverse", without acknowledging that that is *the exact thing they are doing* by trying to centralize governance into an inaccessible pseudo-official conference
Reading some of the #FediForum meeting notes and oof, this has quite some 'privileged tech dude with a new toy' vibes
Taken just now, an april shower rolling up our valley towards us.
#photo #photography #photooftheday #smartphonephotography #umbria #italy #landscapephotography #landscape #AprilShowers #clouds #PhotographyIsArt #ArtistsOnMastodon
it's actually free (and extremely sexy) to tell capitalists (and their wannabe shills) to fuck right off
if a capitalist is selling you on some shiny new thing, it should invariably be regarded with suspicion if not outright hostility
in the great, great majority of cases, technology that's being pushed on us makes our lives demonstrably worse, not better; interesting technical innovation comes from solving problems from below, not enforcing so-called 'solutions' from above
@same "this protects you from really nasty shit. anyways we disabled it"
Today I learned there’s a term for the reductionist thinking where management looks at a graph as the thing, instead of the underlying things the graph represents, and makes decisions based on that. It’s called surrogation, and it can cause companies to fail. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogation
the nitrokey post on Qualcomm chips
Does anyone have more insight on Nitrokey's claims about Qualcomm chips sending data? The whole post feels a bit 'off' to me, it feels more like fear-based marketing for their own products than like legitimate security research. Lots of oddly-placed hyperbole and the commentary is all over the place.
I'd love to know if anyone can reproduce/confirm these findings independently.
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Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.