If you’re in the position & haven’t finished making your donations for the year, will you please consider donating to my dear friend’s GoFundMe for her cancer treatment? And regardless of ability to donate, will you please share the GFM link? TYIA! www.gofundme.com/f/sabs-strong/

Sabs Strong, organized by Jaclyn Ford

Before I say anything else, I want to say that Sabrina has given me permission to create this GoFundMe page a… Jaclyn Ford needs your support for Sabs Strong

learning to make things

his “please, I beg you, feed me!” face that accompanies a gently pawing at me

Imagine playing two of the greatest TV characters of the century and neither of them are your character from The damn Shield

Sometimes when I’m doing access work people will say something along the lines of: “No one here has that access need.” Which may or may not be true. I have a few responses to this though:

calling majestic pups?

I met with my thesis supervisor today and I’m about 2/3 to my survey recruitment goal! Can you help me get the rest of the way there so I have enough data to make this a valid study? (Please?) The study is on medical gaslighting/diagnostic overshadowing due to mental illness.

I hope he knows he comes home smelling like blueberries

If you build a platform, but do not a) decide how it will be used, and b) build the controls to maintain that scope, your platform will be used to erode the fabric of society. This is the disinformation age, and the purpose of a system is what it does.

Facebook lied about how much video people were watching which led media outlets to “pivot to video.” Tens of thousands of journalism jobs were destroyed and never came back. People killed themselves. Do not forget. https://slate.com/technology/2018/10/facebook-online-video-pivot-metrics-false.html

The Real Lie About Online Video Runs Deeper Than Facebook’s False Metrics

Everyone bought into the fable that users actually wanted more video.