rumination on ableist language (by a sighted person)
It's so backward that "blindness" is used as a shorthand metaphor for being careless, ignorant, or oblivious when in fact many blind people I know are trained to be careful and pay attention to small details for their own safety. If anything, it's sighted people who are likelier to blunder carelessly by being overconfident in our vision and letting our preconceptions get in the way of good sense. So shouldn't ableist language targeting blindness be the other way around, like "stumbling sightedly" or "turning an oblivious, sighted eye?"
But that's unfair, sighted people might say. There's a wide range of carefulness or carelessness within any group, and it's prejudicial to chalk up obliviousness, ignorance, or indeed immorality to any whole group based on ability!
Yes, that would be unfair and imprecise, wouldn't it?
My point exactly.
Smithsonian Announces Landmark Decision to Repatriate Benin Bronzes
A year ago, Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III — who in 2019 became the first Black individual to head the institution — called upon the museum’s collections staff to form the Ethical Returns Working Group to make recommendations on collections policy that extended beyond legal title to ethical ownership. The new guidelines, which apply to all of the Smithsonian’s constituent institutions, take into account the objects’ communities of origin and the means of acquisition.
"Against Access" by John Lee Clark: https://audio.mcsweeneys.net/transcripts/against_access.html
Article by a DeafBlind author about the difference between being granted access via a purportedly-objective interpreter and getting support from an accomplice.
(h/t https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/chatter/11894-Against-Access )
I just posted an album to itch, at https://fluffy.itch.io/novembeat-2021
The neat thing about this is that this is also the first public, end-to-end test of pyBlamscamp! See https://github.com/fluffy-critter/pyBlamscamp for more information.
Thanks to @suricrasia@twitter.com for the inspiration and original web player. :)
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Hiding Images in Plain Sight: The Physics Of Magic Windows https://mattferraro.dev/posts/caustics-engineering
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