What is vexing about folks like JP is that no amount of good faith discussion will make a difference. The cognitive dissonance of their fragility is like a forcefield that allows no information to pass. I have no idea how you solve this problem.
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Replying to @_danilo
Your concluding question motived my phd. Coming up on the end, I have lots of qualitatively pleasing / compelling prescriptions. But, only as abstractions in closed systems. In the wild, complexity reduces their impacts to something grossly swamped out by reality.
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It was really unsettling to me for a while. It rejects the mindset of optimization as a general solution that I had taken to (for lots of reasons I'm sure you could diagnosis easily). And, it leaves perpetual activism and vigilance in its place.
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I mean, what about works of culture? I do find that, in my work doing tech D&I, leveraging culture to make a point is a reliable approach. Star Trek as a parable for inclusion, for example
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Sorry, I may have been using your thread as rubber duck debugging almost. But yes, culture is the fabric I was trying to study / manipulate. I did so hoping to find technical solutions to mutating culture to produce better outcomes. (Which, yea, doesn't really work.)
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Like, I have lots of specific applications to mediums like twitter. But, my conclusion was (mostly) one every sociologists learned early on: there aren't technical solutions to social issues. It's mostly doing what you're doing. Speaking truth to power stuff (at high cost).
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(Which is disappointing to someone like me who started out looking for change by version bump.)
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Oh, I may have misread your response though! Yes, I think leveraging culture is valuable. If you can get people to engage their attention in something well-thought out, they inevitably put themselves in some character and integrate it in their subsequent, real world expectations.
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(I still have never watched Star Trek...)
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No? Here’s a quick primer on how it’s all allegory for inclusive workplace, if that’s interesting. Distributing these stories was, imo, a very scalable form of activism via technology https://write.danilocampos.com/inclusion-is-a-captains-job-5c433726bd33 …
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Gonna read this in twenty. Thanks!
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