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@incurablehippie@verified.mastodonmedia.xyz
2024-04-02 15:53:47

Words that make me go hmmm: Safe rewritingsocialcare.blog/2024/

Words that make me go hmmm: Safe
There are 416 references to ‘safe’ / ‘safety’ / ‘safeguarding’ in the Care Act 2014 statutory guidance. The term dominates our narrative. But what do we really mean by ‘safe’? And is the extent of …

@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to
2024-04-16 07:51:03

"What has happened is not that we have become disengaged with computers. What has happened is that most of us with a computer do not care about it as a computer. Owning a Commodore 64 is no longer a badge of membership in the hobbyist computer club. That does not mean that the hobbyists are not out there, just that you have got to look harder to find them."

ZX2020
There is a common trope that says we would get more children interested in programming as a hobby if programming as a hobby was like the programming our generation did as a hobby. By our generation, I mean a broad swathe of people in WEIRD (Westernised, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Democratic) societies who are mid-late Gen X and early-mid Gen Y, who can claim to have "grown up" with microprocessors either as kit boards or in the form of slab-form-factor microcomputers, ending approximat…

@incurablehippie@verified.mastodonmedia.xyz
2024-03-25 12:27:01

Words that make me go hmmm: Safe rewritingsocialcare.blog/2024/

Words that make me go hmmm: Safe
There are 416 references to ‘safe’ / ‘safety’ / ‘safeguarding’ in the Care Act 2014 statutory guidance. The term dominates our narrative. But what do we really mean by ‘safe’? And is the extent of …