“consumer privacy apathy is now bone-grafted to the DNA of global corporate culture“
Author: Ryan Boren
Howdy. I’m Ryan Boren (he/they) with Stimpunks Foundation, a nonprofit by and for neurodivergent, disabled, and queer people. I’m a retired tech worker turned wannabe sociologist.
CV: I helped start WordPress.org, WordPress.com, WordCamp.org, and Automattic.com, among the first fully distributed organizations.
About: queer, vegetarian, autistic, bipolar, hyperlexic, power wheelchair user, neuromuscular disease
Location: Dripping Springs, Texas, USA, named after the springs at the Milk House Branch of the Edwards Aquifer, a gathering place for the Tonkawa people, who were here before us. We’re a little west of Austin in Texas Hill Country.
Current SpIns: pens and paper, everyday carry/coping, punk rock, queercore, Ezra Furman, The Linda Lindas, food anime, Thai fisherman pants, Tokyo street fashion, solarpunk, solar energy, heat pumps, electrification, library economies, third places, epistemic injustice, scrollytelling
“Fox News is now wittingly harming our system of government for profit.”
An “Ashamed” Fox News Commentator Just Quit The “Propaganda Machine”
“It’s just taken a long time for public opinion to recognize and react to their institutional sociopathy.”
“While education is often held up as the antidote to poverty, it is quite possible that the opposite is the case. An education that is dependent on homework, especially if it requires expensive technology, may actually reduce social mobility.”
Source: Homework is a Social Justice Issue – Hybrid Pedagogy
The strong institutional racism in the U.S. doesn’t need IQ tests to perpetuate itself, but those tests play a role in ‘scientifically’ reinforcing the idea that certain groups are inferior, whether the causes are genetic or not.
No one can deny the inequality in outcome for many people of color in the U.S., but many deny that there’s any inequality of opportunity, or that white privilege and structural racism exist. If the U.S. then functions as a meritocracy of sorts, any inequality is supposed to spring from something else, such as lower I.Q.s.
Steele found that the “root of black achievement problems is failure of American schooling to meet this simple condition for many of its black students”: “treatment as a valued person with good prospects.”
Source: The full scope of racial devaluation on economic opportunity – Long View on Education
The message this sends to the CIA workforce is simple: Engage in war crimes, in crimes against humanity, and you’ll get promoted. Don’t worry about the law. Don’t worry about ethics. Don’t worry about morality or the fact that torture doesn’t even work. Go ahead and do it anyway. We’ll cover for you. And you can destroy the evidence, too.
“To build a United States government of the worst people, one must not merely be amateurish. It requires a special hatred for America to form a kakistocracy.”
Source: Jamil Smith: Betsy DeVos, Trump, Worst Government Possible, on Purpose – Rolling Stone
“To build awareness around accessibility issues with our existing features and interactions, I’ve been putting together demonstrations to show everyone else at the company how these elements are difficult or impossible for people with disabilities to use.”
“The kind of writing that can be scored by a computer program (or by a human being chained to an algorithm that renders the human no smarter than a computer program) is not good writing.”
Readying my Autism Awareness Month and Autism Speaks counter-narratives.
Navigating Autism Acceptance Month and Autism Myths
I’m Autistic. Here’s what I’d like you to know.
Education, Neurodiversity, the Social Model of Disability, and Real Life
Identity First
Autistic Burnout: The Cost of Coping and Passing
