@jenstrickland
Not Chicken Little. Cassandra, motherfuckers! I’m a challenge for the simple mind to try to make sense of,with labels, prejudice, & stereotypes. 👉🏼Assumptions are ignorant! Accessibility, equity, webcraft, webperf, public service, W3C, musician, artist
BLOG: Trump gave the trumps up, UK supplied weapons, and Europe had no backbone. Israel got very busy implementing its final solution in Gaza - death by starvation. Precedents? The Holodomor, Biafra in Nigeria, and the Warsaw Ghetto. www.jandehn.com/post/israel-...
They don’t want people to learn to think for themselves. They want obedient, beholden workers.
Here's a detailed breakdown of DRF's sessions at @rightscon.org to add to your calendars! 🗓
🌟 With workshops on #digitalsafety and panel discussions on #gendereddisinformation, we're proud to partner with CSOs around the world to raise our voices collectively for tech justice ✊🏽
#RightsCon2025
Followed by a conversation on (AI) technologies during war and military conflict and platform accountability:
✊ Marwa Fatafta (@marwasf.bsky.social)
✊ Maha Hussaini
✊ Htaike Htaike Aung
✊ Sadaf Khan
✨ The #RightsCon2025 Opening Ceremony ✨ will set the stage for critical discussions on the challenges to digital rights today. Let’s unite and spark conversation & action as civil society grapples with interconnected struggles in times of crisis. Join us in shaping a rights-respecting future!
Due to the current chaos in the US I’m no longer able to present at @rightscon.org and I strongly encourage YOU ALL to attend—remote is an option.
New: Last night, hundreds of CDC post-doc fellows were fired, including all in the group who call themselves the "disease detectors," and are the future of public health lab leaders. One senior official told me, "It is going to cripple public health for decades."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
New guidance has been shared with coalition members. If you’re outside the coalition, please download anything you might need. Terminations will escalate this coming week.
Please rent homes for me. Your taste is 👩🍳💋
Elon Musk claims it’s a crime to publish the names of the young engineers who work for him who have access to government systems that they shouldn’t. Here they are:
Akash Bobba
Edward Coristine
Luke Farritor
Gautier Cole Killian
Gavin Kliger
Ethan Shaotran
The DOGE tactics so far are about getting information about people that can bring them down. This access is inappropriate to the clearance levels, but what exists to stop them?
Folks: I understand your fear and exasperation and why so many of you are demanding that Democrats "DO SOMETHING" to stop Trump. I want you to know this Democrat is doing everything he can of to meet this moment and make a difference. If you have better ideas, I'm all ears.
Top Security Officials at Aid Agency Put on Leave After Denying Access to Musk Team Workers at the U.S. Agency for International Development are bracing for a loss of its independent status and sweeping layoffs as President Trump continues slashing foreign aid.
Gift: Top Security Officials at Aid Agency Put on Leave After Denying Access to Musk Team
NYT confirms CNN & AP and explains: DOGE "is not a dept but rather a task force that nevertheless has been granted unusual power."
I deleted Musk's photo leaving a bare URL:
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
2/2 Why do we calculate the impacts of living wage proposals only by the impact on workers who will either see increased/decreased wages, be laid off, rehired, etc.?
Why aren’t profit margins part of the economic equation?
Any economics folks?
We have to set minimum wage regulations because some employers will take advantage of workers.
Why don’t we regulate minimum/maximum profits?
1/2
Sell your Tesla. ❌
Sell your Cybertruck. ❌
Get off Twitter. ❌
Don’t sign up for Starlink. ❌
Bankrupt him. It will take while but it’s possible. ✊🏻
#resist
We're entering a dark period in US #accessibility.
The White House home page has a bunch of links with "aria-hidden" and "tabindex=-1".
This hides the links from assistive tech like screen readers & makes them unreachable with just a keyboard.
Critical #WCAG compliance errors! But who can sue?
Native *can* be faster than the web - but not by default.
The web can render a LOT of content and scroll through it effortlessly. By default. Native apps? Not so much.
birchtree.me/blog/web-tec...
I’m going to reach out to all my congressfolk tomorrow to report it. I know it’s like taking a piss on the LA fires, but I am distraught at the attack on people.
To explicitly make it that AT users can’t access information. It’s cruel and an attack, as I understand it.
@ashleemboyer.com Thank you for posting & taking time to investigate. As I understand this, a dev would have to intentionally add aria-hidden=“true” & make tabindex negative. This seems like a deliberate action to block access for assistive technology users. Is there another way to comprehend this?
New social media - I’m sure I’m doing this wrong. I guess I’ll see - I am a slow processor with big events so watercolors are a perfect companion. Here’s a page I finished while trying to make some sense of things. #vermontartist #watercolor #imaginaryfriends #drawing #art
Another great @sustainoss.bsky.social #Podcast this time with @brianmuenzenmeyer.com on Approachable Open Source podcast.sustainoss.org/262
Lots of nuggets for #OpenSource maitenance.
Worth checking out his book too:
approachableopensource.com
#FOSS #SustainOSS #FOSS
Spotify unwrapped - I paid 143 GPB to Spotify. Spotify paid 0.72 GP to my favourite artist(s) for 1066 minutes of playing in 2024. spotify-unwrapped.com
Streaming is easy... You get a lot of content with little effort.
But know that it also comes at a cost
People involved in creating that content are not always paid or paid less www.spotify-unwrapped.com
Streaming has a negative environmental impact
greenly.earth/en-us/blog/e...
#spotifyUnwrapped