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Comes up with a login prompt. I gather one needs an actual account to see the public content there?

#tallship #no_joy #exclusionary

eicker.news #technews »Why did the #TwitterMigration #fail? #Decentralisation is not a selling point for 99% of people. Decentralisation makes the #userexperience worse. In no small part, #Mastodon’s culture is #exclusionary.« https://blog.bloonface.com/2023/06/12/why-did-the-twittermigration-fail/

I don't use a kickstand, but the amount of hate that people get over at #Reddit's /r/bicycling when people ask about kickstands is ridiculous.

"i PaID a MiLlIoN dOlLaRs FoR a BiKe ThAt Is OnE oUnCe LiGhTeR aNd NoW yOu hAvE tHe AuDaCiTy To AdD wEiGhT tO YoUr BiKe To MaKe It MoRe PrAcTiCaL???!!1!? I hAtE yOu NoW!!!!!1! ZOMG"

#Bike #BikeTooter #Bicycling #Kickstands #Rant #Snooty #Exclusion #Exclusionary #Kickstand #Practicality #Utility #Utilitarian

I see this #ungrading movement in higher Ed and I'm very curious and oddly unsettled. Not because I think it's coddling, grading is necessarily #exclusionary and produces immense stress in students, myself included.

But I do think grading is a metric that should gouge mastery, not learning. A C student who struggles through the class learns far more than the A student who stayed back a year or transferred in but the credits didn't count (3 credit to 4).

The suit adds to Google’s mounting #legal challenges, as the company is already fending off a separate federal antitrust lawsuit that was filed in fall 2020 during the Trump admin. That suit is scheduled to go to trial later this year & alleges that aspects of Google’s contracts w/other companies are #exclusionary & serve to reinforce Google’s #dominance at the expense of rivals. #Google also faces multiple #antitrust #lawsuits led by state attys general.

So, preparing the turkey this morning, I was pursuing the included instructions when something gave me pause.

It's all in English. All of it.

I know that the whole #Thanksgiving thing is stereotypically a white American holiday, but isn't this a little #exclusionary? It's at least a little rude coming from an enormous brand like #Butterball. If I can expect #Spanish in the manual for my food processor, I feel like we should expect it here as well.

#Inclusion #Bilingual #Consideration