Adria LeBoeuf @Adria@qoto.org

Here’s an idea: let’s call people “people” on the fediverse instead of “users” whenever we can.

Compare:

“There are 42 users on this instance.”

vs

“There are 42 people on this instance.”

Which acknowledges our humanity more?

Language matters. We don’t need to perpetuate mainstream technology’s othering/colonial framing of “us” – designers/developers/other “clever folks” – and “them” – the users (usually one step removed from “dumb user” and usually the ones who get used).

#peopleNotUsers

Hi everyone. I’m Jess, a materials scientist working on next-generation optical and electronic devices. I spend all my free time trying to make science more inclusive. For the last four years I’ve spent every evening writing the Wikipedia biographies of scientists from historically excluded groups. I’m nearly at 1800!! #WomenInSTEM

Intro post: PhyloPic is a website by @keesey with thousands of organism silhouettes available under Creative Commons licenses. Everything is taxonomically indexed, so you can find related species, or search all silhouettes within a clade. And anyone can submit silhouettes through the Contribution Website! Have a look at the beta version of PhyloPic 2.0: https://beta.phylopic.org

Until now, encyclopaedias have mainly been written by men, about men, for other men. They’re full of content gaps, and when it comes to info about emerging scientific topics (eg the climate crisis), they go out of date as soon as they’re printed. Wikipedia gives us a chance to change that. We all have a responsibility to make the world’s most widely used reference source more accurate, inclusive and complete.https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/10/17/jess-wade-scientist-wikiepdia-women/