Aaron Wolf @wolftune@social.coop

I appreciated this as a way to hopefully wake up people about invasive tracking: https://stealingurfeelin.gs/

(it's a public awareness video that does live tracking to demonstrate it to you)

"Hey, why did those people tell me I need to lift up my head more??"

"Oh, don't mind them. They're just the weird Neck Store neighbors."

2 parenting links I promote regularly:

https://letgrow.org/

https://commercialfreechildhood.org/

What's a healthy and effective way to describe feeling pleased with one's work without pride?

I say that because I have a recurring experience where if I *only* say: this social justice activist, I agree with them completely. Period. People assume I also am in lockstep with a certain social-justice groupthink echo-chamber.

And if I say I disagree with the "woke" groupthink echo-chamber, people assume I agree with the opposite side that defends patriarchy and capitalism.

The black-and-white / us-vs-them / polarized perspectives are dead-ends, and I'm not going to take those paths.

Just listened to early #TeamHuman episode https://teamhuman.fm/episodes/ep-13-kyragaunt/

Dr. Kyra Gaunt; wonderful discussion; & I agree with *everything* she says.

Incidentally, I disagree with a lot of the tactics and philosophy of much of the "woke" aspects of activists who otherwise join me in agreement with Dr. Gaunt.

There *is* a reasonable place for *agreeing* with all the anti-racist, anti-capitalist, anti-patriarchy views while disagreeing with misguided tactics (a topic too complex for this toot).

Google and Facebook are *advertising* businesses.

Apple is not *as* bad because they have a different business model: planned-obsolescence.

My argument against false dichtomies / us-vs-them / black-and-white thinking:

**There are many, many *different* ways to be wrong.**

(and thus, you probably are misjudging *why* and in *which ways* others get things wrong, even though chances are good that they are indeed wrong)

I saw a toot from someone being trite, insulting, and dismissive of someone else. I happen to disagree with much or most of what the object of the insult has to say and feel that they are overrated by those who like them, and I don't appreciate their style of rhetoric. Still, the insult was unfair.

I don't feel comfortable pushing back on the unfair insult because of the common pattern where any such push-back is seen as a signal of being on the "side" of the person being criticized.

Today's idea I won't get to actually creating:

comedy sketches based on huge quantities of novel absurd stereotypes (like inventing arbitrary stuff "you know how group X does Y all the time? wink-wink", but mad-libs style) to mock the use of stereotypes otherwise and to pollute that space in hopes of getting people to recognize the stupidity of stereotypes, especially in comedy

Really appreciated Nora Bateson's interview / conversation on Team Human https://teamhuman.fm/episodes/ep-106-nora-bateson-warm-data/

#warmdata

The call to recognize complexity in interrelationships everywhere seems to me the best antidote to all the simplistic black-and-white political rhetoric we see everywhere (especially in online social media) these days.

It's strange to think 25 years ago that our basic system of waste management can't possibly work, and then go years and years feeling baffled wondering how the heck it seems to be still working. Of course, I was right all along, I just live on the wrong time-scale.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/china-has-stopped-accepting-our-trash/584131/

Slow movement (culture): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_movement_(culture)

I just noticed this strange resentful condescension floating up in my mind after seeing a Mastodon post where someone was excited about some generic video game.

Then, my thoughts went to: "I bet this is how mildly sexist or racist folks experience their biases…"