2025-12-08
The phrase that comes to my mind is “putting lipstick on a pig.” They're doing awful things in awful ways, and it doesn't matter if they know which fork to use. (Which is almost always the one furthest to the left, so I don't know why we make a big deal about that either.)
Washington Post
A look at an “etiquette camp” in San Francisco that teaches young founders how to dress, act, and talk, amid shifting expectations as the industry gains power
Not that I like Silicon Valley bros, but clinging to dated stereotypes in a workshop and not trying to nudge folks to more collaborative behaviours overall is a fail in my book. @d...
2022-02-02
Stripped of the description of soul-searching, this sounds remarkably similar to what employees at open source companies are told when Leadership decides to chase enterprise markets. https://twitter.com/...
Politico
Nonprofit suicide chat service Crisis Text Line ends its data sharing relationship with for-profit spinoff Loris.ai and asks the company to delete existing data
and it's striking to be offered so much inside info about the CTL/Loris debacle — but it also doesn't fully connect the dots. A few thoughts/questions: https://www.zephoria.org/......
2022-02-01
Stripped of the description of soul-searching, this sounds remarkably similar to what employees at open source companies are told when Leadership decides to chase enterprise markets. https://twitter.com/...
Politico
Nonprofit suicide chat service Crisis Text Line ends its data sharing relationship with for-profit spinoff Loris.ai and asks the company to delete existing data
The nonprofit mental-health hotline Crisis Text Line ended its data-sharing relationship with a for-profit spinoff Monday …
2018-01-16
A really good piece on VR and empathy that reminded of hearing a local artist who works with VR talking about the “walk a mile in their shoes” kind of empathy as violence. https://www.topic.com/...
Topic
Psychological research suggests the effectiveness of VR as an empathy machine is debatable and in some cases may even cause harm
Rose Eveleth / Topic :