Let us begin with The late Mel Chua on trying to build systems of integrity rather than systems of reliability, because all of the things about how ADHD gives you a wonky time sense, and especially the parts there about getting something done Now so that it never slides into the depths of not-now is basically how I worked my way through school and is how I generally try to approach work as well. Even if things aren't due until later, I want them done so that when the reminder fires for turning it in, it's already done and ready.
The author Celia Lake on disability history, and how knowing more and understanding better about disability and the people who have them shapes and changes the ways we interact with disability and the people who have them.
The possibility that several persons who were deeply embedded in accessibility and games, offering advice and perspective on how to make those games better, may not have existed as independent entities in their own right.
Your local library has things in it that will be life-changing. Which is absolutely true, and the hardest part of all of this is finding them, or having an inkling of what you want to look for so that the staff can help you find them.
A piece from some time ago that has aged perfectly well in the interim, unfortunately, about how having white privilege means that you can bend and break many rules and suffer no consequences for it. Which was put together (by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sonia) with Irene Y. Zhang's post about the moral dimensions of being a moderately successful computer programmer while also being a woman, which are mostly about how the men in the profession feel it is their moral duty to drive away women through disrespect and misogyny, and if they can't do that, to treat women as their mothers, wives, girlfriends, or daughters first and as professionals a distant second, trying to turn them into emotional support women for themselves. This is not just a phenomenon for computer science, but plenty of other professions that were started by sexist men, even if some of them have since come to be primarily women. Which certainly joins up with the ways that the "tradwife" fad also desires to remove women from the public or working sphere by insisting that a mother must do all the child-rearing herself, without the assistance of staff or the possibility of using child care facilities and other means of ensuring a child is being minded well so that a mother can do something other than child-rearing.
It also doesn't help when sex researchers keep asking questions that prioritize men and penis-in-vagina sex when it comes to asking about whether there were orgasms in sex. It says a fair amount about how little there has been research that asks women about themselves, which produces great results (as in the 1920s) as compared to testing what people, usually men, think about women.
( Several things more inside, which includes a lot of terrible decisions )
Last out, I was again reminded of NestFlix, a repository of shows-within-shows that have appeared in various media properties over time.
And something that's been getting some circulation in my circles: people attempting to solve a crossword where all the clues consist of regular expression syntax. While most of the things have commented on the fiendishness of the puzzle itself, it should be noted that this is one of the puzzles offered in a Mystery Hunt, an annual tradition of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, teams of puzzle-solvers, at least some of whom must be able to be on the MIT campus for the weekend, race to solve entire series of fiendish puzzles to find the mystery object (a "coin," even when it isn't actually a coin) that has been hidden on the campus. Once the year's Mystery Hunt is over, the puzzles and, if someone's feeling generous, their solutions, are usually posted for others to attempt to make heads or tails of. Possibly including any and all necessary supplementary material that might have been distributed to the teams during the course of the Mystery Hunt.
(Materials viaadrian_turtle, azurelunatic, boxofdelights, cmcmck, conuly, cosmolinguist, elf, finch, firecat, jadelennox, jenett, jjhunter, kaberett, lilysea, oursin, rydra_wong, snowynight, sonia, the_future_modernes, thewayne, umadoshi, vass, the ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
meta_warehouse community, little_details, and anyone else I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)
The author Celia Lake on disability history, and how knowing more and understanding better about disability and the people who have them shapes and changes the ways we interact with disability and the people who have them.
The possibility that several persons who were deeply embedded in accessibility and games, offering advice and perspective on how to make those games better, may not have existed as independent entities in their own right.
Your local library has things in it that will be life-changing. Which is absolutely true, and the hardest part of all of this is finding them, or having an inkling of what you want to look for so that the staff can help you find them.
A piece from some time ago that has aged perfectly well in the interim, unfortunately, about how having white privilege means that you can bend and break many rules and suffer no consequences for it. Which was put together (by
sonia) with Irene Y. Zhang's post about the moral dimensions of being a moderately successful computer programmer while also being a woman, which are mostly about how the men in the profession feel it is their moral duty to drive away women through disrespect and misogyny, and if they can't do that, to treat women as their mothers, wives, girlfriends, or daughters first and as professionals a distant second, trying to turn them into emotional support women for themselves. This is not just a phenomenon for computer science, but plenty of other professions that were started by sexist men, even if some of them have since come to be primarily women. Which certainly joins up with the ways that the "tradwife" fad also desires to remove women from the public or working sphere by insisting that a mother must do all the child-rearing herself, without the assistance of staff or the possibility of using child care facilities and other means of ensuring a child is being minded well so that a mother can do something other than child-rearing.It also doesn't help when sex researchers keep asking questions that prioritize men and penis-in-vagina sex when it comes to asking about whether there were orgasms in sex. It says a fair amount about how little there has been research that asks women about themselves, which produces great results (as in the 1920s) as compared to testing what people, usually men, think about women.
( Several things more inside, which includes a lot of terrible decisions )
Last out, I was again reminded of NestFlix, a repository of shows-within-shows that have appeared in various media properties over time.
And something that's been getting some circulation in my circles: people attempting to solve a crossword where all the clues consist of regular expression syntax. While most of the things have commented on the fiendishness of the puzzle itself, it should be noted that this is one of the puzzles offered in a Mystery Hunt, an annual tradition of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, teams of puzzle-solvers, at least some of whom must be able to be on the MIT campus for the weekend, race to solve entire series of fiendish puzzles to find the mystery object (a "coin," even when it isn't actually a coin) that has been hidden on the campus. Once the year's Mystery Hunt is over, the puzzles and, if someone's feeling generous, their solutions, are usually posted for others to attempt to make heads or tails of. Possibly including any and all necessary supplementary material that might have been distributed to the teams during the course of the Mystery Hunt.
(Materials via
adrian_turtle, azurelunatic, boxofdelights, cmcmck, conuly, cosmolinguist, elf, finch, firecat, jadelennox, jenett, jjhunter, kaberett, lilysea, oursin, rydra_wong, snowynight, sonia, the_future_modernes, thewayne, umadoshi, vass, the meta_warehouse community, little_details, and anyone else I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)
