Omg. My mom just sent me a picture of HER GAMING SETUP. THERE'S AMBIENT LIGHTING IN TWO COLORS

@hazelweakly @inthehands @jenniferplusplus same and same!!

@hazelweakly code as thinking, just like writing as thinking ️ ! So many versions of it possible!

Lots of *talk* about getting young girls into coding.

This (open access) research tackles it empirically with students at a critical pre/early high school decision point! Underrepresentation cues (you can think of this like 'activating') stereotypes. But there's hope, we can *protect against* this knowing it is happening.

Also, spot yet another piece of evidence about sense of belonging, which we also positioned as central in our Developer Thriving model ️

Just a moment...

(www.tandfonline.com)

I'm a queer woman who was raised in a hard right community like most people here couldn't imagine and was threatened with physical violence about how I voted -- the people around me literally bought out the ammunition from gun stores around elections, I want you to take a moment to truly imagine being a teenager in the closet and seeing guns in the hands of people who regularly threaten you -- and I'm reading that ad about Republican women voting very differently than 99% of the posts on here

Just because the world wants what you can do, doesn't mean it always wants who you are; I see a large theme across all the research I ever do that speaks to this argument. If you want what we can do you better get out of the way of who we are.

This is not to say I don't see how much I have. So much to fight with. Every day I think about my people, I almost consider us family even in the same way I consider queer people family, all those with long covid who don't have the tools and the scientific expertise and the support and the language that I have. So you pick it back up and go back to fight for more, over and above how much you would do it just for yourself.

Sociology and psychology of discrimination talks about the "dual consciousness" and other bifurcations that happen because of how we treat others. Being successful, kick-ass, and having more impact with my research than I ever imagined does not fix the experience of disability in any way. I had my research findings go in front of boards and to wide public audiences the *exact same day* I'm called in to justify my need to breathe.

There's really nothing like having thought you'd already done all the complex and horrible work of advocating for yourself and your health needs and then having people just straight up forget or fail to document it and having to do it all over again.

Feels like being put on trial about some of the worst experiences you've ever had to go through.

"Political polarization and health"

This is gonna become a paper people cite a lot, I bet

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03307-w

I like to imagine this changed this man's entire orientation toward other beings

Thinking about how I was walking my dog and said "Good job!" when he stopped at a curb and this man walking by did a full body startle and said "Wow...I never thought you could compliment them" and I was like "oh this is the main way he knows he did what I was asking him to do" and the man said "wow, it gives you an entire different thing to do that's not punishment" like the entire concept of positive reinforcement truly blew this man's mind

I am done with this certain segment of tech "future" commentary that proposes that those of us who center living & suffering people right now, relationships, and social problems are somehow ignorant, less pure, less exalted, less morally righteous, less strategic, stupider, having less of a world-changing impact. That technological hierarchy is rotten and it's got roots a hell of a lot deeper than some are willing to admit.

And not a single piece of this means that I don't *care* about the ways we've failed to invest in shared infrastructure, in collaborative support, in true community repair and recovery that exists separate from these powerful forces, but in what way are you not living on this planet if you can't understand that *trying to survive how it works right now and still care for others right next to us* is still an integral part of *building a better future* and who has the resources to fight where

My aunt, working relentlessly & heroically after Lahaina was devastated, posted video after video on Facebook (figureheaded, of course, by someone who bought an enormous chunk of Hawai'i), bc that's where people were, and then posted an emotional thing about receiving support from Starlink, we all know who's the figurehead of THAT place, and the impact that receiving support to have internet again was enormous on the people grieving and their immediate emergency disaster life-or-death needs

it's possible for things to be bad, and people to be mean, and for some of us to STILL value connecting with ONE person in a shitty place over some abstract philosophical battle! Grow up! That's what life is! How dare we devalue the work that people are doing that is direct and immediate, just because we have uncomfy big feelings about things that *we* feel stressed about on our couches.

Warped, facile thinking. The arrogance of making tech trend topics "the battle."

Walk through mud, chilled to the bone, carrying someone out of a flooded house with your back aching, juggling a million points of communication about where food and safety and transportation is, and thumb your goddamn phone open for a second to use an incredible, from-who-knows-where reserve of energy to also post information wherever you can, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOUR SOUL if that's the part you're focusing on

Absolutely disgusted by people sitting around criticizing first responders for being on X/and whatever other platforms they damn well try/trying to reach people in the actual middle of disasters. Like THESE are the people we should blame for not like, having some kind of exalted philosophy and strategy around disinfo at scale. Literal! First responders!

The definition of reifying platforms and technologies over human beings and acting like you're the "human-centered" one

hashtag CARE ETHICS

honestly it's time to hit pause on studying human cognition to figure out wtf is happening with crows

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-024-01874-6

We are chatting with the coolest guests on our next Change, Technically episodes!!!! You don't even know!!!! 🥹🥹🥹