Laura Kalbag @laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com

@cooper there will be a video! I’ll let you know when it’s up.

@shellkr thank you! 😊

@mike Aw thanks Mike. There’ll be a video, and I’ll post it to our site when it’s ready!

@labellaragassa Thank you so much!

@jalalski thanks! The video will be on our site without trackers, and @aral has been getting a great setup together so we can do tracking-free streaming in the future.

15 minutes til I’ll be on with Josh live at https://heyst.ac/live

“In this critical time, when scarcity is a reality, you see the hierarchy. Certain groups are valued over others. This is the world that so many disabled and chronically ill people already live in. Our lives are still seen as expendable. Now the magnitude is much greater.”

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a32474779/alice-wong-interview-coronavirus-covid-19-lessons/

We’d make a good crime-fighting duo for children’s tv.

‘“We’ve been active in trying to sound the alarm bells around facial recognition, both as a threat to privacy when it works and a racist threat to everyone when it doesn’t,” said Phil Mayor, an attorney at [ACLU Michigan].’

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/technology/facial-recognition-arrest.html

“All the tenets of intersectional feminism, web accessibility, and diversity and inclusion are inextricably tied up in making the web a better place, for all and by all.” —@oluoluoxenfree

If you didn’t read Olu’s article earlier in the month, read it now! https://alistapart.com/article/building-the-woke-web/

@rick_777 I could write that book, but it’d probably be tediously angry.

Chapter 99 in The Tech Industry Is Broken With Problems It Has No Desire To Fix.

Maybe I’ve not been saying it loudly or frequently enough for the last however-many years…

Privacy is not a luxury.

Same with accessibility. Neither are luxuries, they’re life-sustaining rights. And you’re unusually privileged if you’ve not had to care about either.

So suddenly there’s a lot of attention around email and it’s exposing how many people in the web community still use Gmail. Like actually trust all your personal information and communication (and that of your potentially marginalised or vulnerable contacts) with Google. 🤮

There are a lot of hard problems and lack of alternatives when it comes to rights-respecting technology. But email (as imperfect as it is) has a fair few affordable alternative providers. Small change, big difference.

And I should say, the tickets are free!

Really looking forward to this… and @aral has fixed up a fabulous setup for streaming video.

Hey! Live: Using the web for social good with Laura Kalbag. 2nd July 2020:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hey-live-using-the-web-for-social-good-with-laura-kalbag-tickets-110789053040

@claudius @aral (that’s my thumb! Cheers Claudius!)

Having trouble keeping my grownup-sized mask on my small round face so I had to go to the supermarket with a bear face.

Fairytale

Love being part of this A Book Apart love letter to the editors. (They’re the greatest.) 💌
https://abookapart.com/blogs/press/love-letter-to-editors