Lady @Lady@cat.family

if you are going to buy a corn chip from Frito Lay, JUST BUY SANTITAS

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@gaditb @futurebird there is no word because there is no framework for understanding the transgression. the West understands data as “belonging to” [framed as intellectual property] the people who collected it, not the communities from which it was collected. we do not have a concept of intellectual property which belongs to communities and covers the information that comes from them, so we cannot name a transgression when that information is wielded against those communities.

this has been a topic of discourse re: legal studies re: traditional knowledges and “development” of the Global South since at least the 90s. the Big Data angle is just one particularity, and not even a particularly urgent one in the face of biopiracy and paywalling of traditional learning materials. but i would start my research there instead of reading Western Internet Scholars, who probably lack the means to even conceptualize what is really going on considering Western Society does not even register this as a problem

@SportsGoblin oh god did they not already know this

there is a genre of japanese 4koma comic which to me feels basically like Family Circus. and i am pondering this and wondering if maybe we Americans are failing as a culture to develop a capacity for appreciating these things

@aschmitz yeah i mean i think “good website” needs to be very broad and largely objective in order to do something like this

this of course implies a good website webring

how many good websites could we pay domain and hosting for with good website fund

good website fund that pays you $100 a year for having a good website