mackenzian
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My kind of carrying on! (Both the pens and the allusions.)
August 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM
My kind of carrying on! (Both the pens and the allusions.)
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Split the games scheduled to be played in the US between Canada and Mexico. I'm an American and I agree. It's not currently safe to hold the World Cup OR Olympics in the US
August 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Split the games scheduled to be played in the US between Canada and Mexico. I'm an American and I agree. It's not currently safe to hold the World Cup OR Olympics in the US
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When you exclude the disabled and chronically ill from your activism (intentionally or unintentionally) you are excluding Black people, people of color, Jews, LGBTQ+ people, poor people…every single marginalization that exists.
That makes your movement weaker. Period.
That makes your movement weaker. Period.
August 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
When you exclude the disabled and chronically ill from your activism (intentionally or unintentionally) you are excluding Black people, people of color, Jews, LGBTQ+ people, poor people…every single marginalization that exists.
That makes your movement weaker. Period.
That makes your movement weaker. Period.
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Just the simple fact that you rarely see masks for the purposes of protecting health at protests and actions these days is a failure to create community in activism.
August 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Just the simple fact that you rarely see masks for the purposes of protecting health at protests and actions these days is a failure to create community in activism.
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He can do it. He's going to land at night
August 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
He can do it. He's going to land at night
Media savvy this decade isn't just the ability to recognize that the trampoline rabbits are AI-generated.
We also need the skill of reading tech reports and government memos to expose the ethics authors bundle with values like "security," "compliance," and "cross-agency collaboration."
We also need the skill of reading tech reports and government memos to expose the ethics authors bundle with values like "security," "compliance," and "cross-agency collaboration."
August 21, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Media savvy this decade isn't just the ability to recognize that the trampoline rabbits are AI-generated.
We also need the skill of reading tech reports and government memos to expose the ethics authors bundle with values like "security," "compliance," and "cross-agency collaboration."
We also need the skill of reading tech reports and government memos to expose the ethics authors bundle with values like "security," "compliance," and "cross-agency collaboration."
Am not on the ATTW-L anymore, but in my day Sam Dragga would be sharing the heck out of Hegseth's memos "as a timely teaching artifact."
August 21, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Am not on the ATTW-L anymore, but in my day Sam Dragga would be sharing the heck out of Hegseth's memos "as a timely teaching artifact."
Katz argues that a document can satisfy its technical purpose, meet contextual expectations, answer its primary audience's questions, and still be ethically bankrupt—and here comes our government with another example.
August 21, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Katz argues that a document can satisfy its technical purpose, meet contextual expectations, answer its primary audience's questions, and still be ethically bankrupt—and here comes our government with another example.
Steven Katz wrote about a similarly routine government memo, from Germany, 1942.
His article, "The Ethic of Expediency: Classical Rhetoric, Technology, and the Holocaust," divided the field of tech writing in the 90s and became a classic:
JSTOR link: www.jstor.org/stable/378062
His article, "The Ethic of Expediency: Classical Rhetoric, Technology, and the Holocaust," divided the field of tech writing in the 90s and became a classic:
JSTOR link: www.jstor.org/stable/378062
The Ethic of Expediency: Classical Rhetoric, Technology, and the Holocaust on JSTOR
Steven B. Katz, The Ethic of Expediency: Classical Rhetoric, Technology, and the Holocaust, College English, Vol. 54, No. 3 (Mar., 1992), pp. 255-275
www.jstor.org
August 21, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Steven Katz wrote about a similarly routine government memo, from Germany, 1942.
His article, "The Ethic of Expediency: Classical Rhetoric, Technology, and the Holocaust," divided the field of tech writing in the 90s and became a classic:
JSTOR link: www.jstor.org/stable/378062
His article, "The Ethic of Expediency: Classical Rhetoric, Technology, and the Holocaust," divided the field of tech writing in the 90s and became a classic:
JSTOR link: www.jstor.org/stable/378062
If I could advise these managers, it'd be to say don't outsource your ethical analysis now. Assess the scenario yourself.
Also give your staff the support they need to parse duty, impact, and consequence, not just for their individual careers but also for their team, communities, and country.
Also give your staff the support they need to parse duty, impact, and consequence, not just for their individual careers but also for their team, communities, and country.
August 21, 2025 at 12:36 AM
If I could advise these managers, it'd be to say don't outsource your ethical analysis now. Assess the scenario yourself.
Also give your staff the support they need to parse duty, impact, and consequence, not just for their individual careers but also for their team, communities, and country.
Also give your staff the support they need to parse duty, impact, and consequence, not just for their individual careers but also for their team, communities, and country.
For some civilian federal employees, "How might facilitating human trafficking serve as one of my annual KSAs" season just arrived.
Military employees are on their own track.
Military employees are on their own track.
August 21, 2025 at 12:36 AM
For some civilian federal employees, "How might facilitating human trafficking serve as one of my annual KSAs" season just arrived.
Military employees are on their own track.
Military employees are on their own track.