<p><a href="https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/just-code-just-published" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cse.umn.edu/cbi/just-code-just-published"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cse.umn.edu/cbi/just-code-just</span><span class="invisible">-published</span></a></p><p>Just Code, just published!!! Open Access of full book is now freely available, see link above. OA made possible with an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant to CBI! Am so honored to partner w Con & work alongside 19 stellar, fellow interdisciplinary authors on this book! Full ToC in replies!</p><p>On mastodon <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@histoftech" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histoftech</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@scritic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>scritic</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@mysdick" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mysdick</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@dylanmulvin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dylanmulvin</span></a></span> </p><p>@histodon <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://sciences.social/@commodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>commodon</span></a></span> <br>@anthropology <br>@sociology <br>@politicalscience <br>@computerscience </p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/sociology/" rel="tag">#sociology</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a></p>
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<p>The family group/tribe is built on mutual support, but the modern conservative version is transactional, based on membership and loyalty. Actions that look like kindness are in reality actions to reinforce tribal loyalty. I think this is why so many people in conservative communties, who are trapped in entirely conservative information spaces, have a hard time breaking free. They see examples of community support as affirmations of their community goodness, and this narrative is drummed into them constantly. Conservative leaders have the advantage of labeling any disruptive people or ideas as 'foreign' and a threat, even if from within the community, so that they never even have to engage with new ideas on merit.</p><p>Kindness isnt a relevant trait to their tribal functioning, because the ability to be unkind and cruel to people who arent toeing the tribal line is necessary to upholding 'family law'. Kindness in others undermines their attempts to police peoples behavior (this is why its so important that men are in charge). Therefore, not only is kindness devalued, it is actively persecuted as a threat to conservative values. And that is only treatment of your in-group. If you reject kindness internally, imagine how easy it is to subject an out-group to cruel inhumanity. You can literally justify anything. What is horrifying is the degree to which everyday members of conservative communities have become willfully blind to the terrible treatment of others in order to hang on to an image of community goodness. I have witnessed far too much of this in my life.</p><p>Its worth stating that the left has its own, different kind of tribalism. They embrace kindness but there is a lot of pressure to prove the right kind of worth. It has a distinctly multicultural, anti-authoritarian tribalism, where the rules of the tribe are under constant negotiation. This makes communicating a platform challenging. Its a lot simpler for conservative platforms whose rules come from demagogues and an old book.</p><p>The flaw of designing a system without compassion is that the cruelty eventually becomes impossible to hide from the tribe, and the cruelty comes for everyone. <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#uspol</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/disability/" rel="tag">#disability</a> <a href="/tags/sociology/" rel="tag">#sociology</a> <a href="/tags/anthropology/" rel="tag">#anthropology</a> <a href="/tags/kindness/" rel="tag">#kindness</a> <a href="/tags/geopol/" rel="tag">#geopol</a></p>
<p>'Social Inflation'</p><p>I want to introduce a concept I'll call "social inflation", defined as 'the gradual thinning of the interpersonal resources of a society'. I imagine that the field of sociology has some language for this, but let's pretend I'm coming up with something new.</p><p>Economic inflation is something we are long familiar with, as it is just assumed that everything has to always get more expensive as 'standards of living' (for the wealthy) must perpetually increase (not wages, though). Social inflation, however, is impossible to define quantitatively. Leading up to times of turmoil there is a creeping breakdown of relationships that can snap suddenly, a socio-economic depression, to the point that our civil institutions can no longer function. Globally, we may be entering a socio-economic depression that will drastically reshape our states and institutions.</p><p>I believe that social and economic inflation, essentially the drawdown of resources that support our civic institutions, is driven by technological grifting and worker exploitation. <a href="/tags/luddite/" rel="tag">#Luddite</a> platforms simultaneously address workers rights and techno-scams. The foundation of <a href="/tags/luddism/" rel="tag">#Luddism</a>, to me, is addressing these two intertwining factors, by rejecting the hyper-technological 'growth' used to justify the 'trickle down' approach to economics that exploits workers and destroys the planet. <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#usPol</a> <a href="/tags/solarpunk/" rel="tag">#SolarPunk</a> <a href="/tags/sociology/" rel="tag">#Sociology</a> <a href="/tags/politicalscience/" rel="tag">#PoliticalScience</a></p>
<p>🎷🎶 « La fabrique de la sono mondiale. Des musiques africaines face à l’impérialisme culturel »</p><p>Le réseau thématique 14 « Sociologie de l’art et de la culture » organise prochainement un temps d’échanges avec Arielle Nganso, autour de son ouvrage :</p><p>Au cours des années 1970, la rumba, le soukous et le makossa forment une « sono mondiale » dont la circulation entre les continents est lourde d’enjeux politiques. Dans un contexte postcolonial fortement marqué par la persistance d’un impérialisme culturel français, leur renommée dépasse les frontières de l’Afrique centrale pour s’exporter en Europe et en Amérique, grâce à la popularité d’artistes comme Manu Dibango.</p><p>Cet ouvrage raconte la singulière histoire de ces musiques urbaines. De l’effervescence culturelle post-Mai 68 à la diffusion du jazz afro-américain, en passant par la promotion intéressée par l’État français d’une world music francophone, Arielle Nganso met en lumière les facteurs qui ont concouru à leur large diffusion et les logiques impériales qui l’ont structurée. </p><p>Elle souligne les grandes difficultés rencontrées par ces musiciens pour produire et diffuser leur art en France : se heurtant notamment à une conception exotisante de leur musique, ces derniers ont été contraints de la formater aux attentes des oreilles occidentales. Enfin, elle réinvestit la question de la restitution des œuvres d’art africaines, en y intégrant le champ musical.</p><p>🗓️ Mardi 16 décembre 2025, de 14h à 16h<br>📍 CNRS Site Pouchet, 59-61 rue Pouchet, Paris 17e - Salle 124</p><p>Éditions Amsterdam : <a href="https://www.editionsamsterdam.fr/la-fabrique-de-la-sono-mondiale/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.editionsamsterdam.fr/la-fabrique-de-la-sono-mondiale/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.editionsamsterdam.fr/la-fa</span><span class="invisible">brique-de-la-sono-mondiale/</span></a><br>RT14 : <a href="https://rt14.hypotheses.org/2358" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>rt14.hypotheses.org/2358</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.numerique.gouv.fr/@cnrs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cnrs</span></a></span> @cnrsshs <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/shs" rel="nofollow">@shs</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.sciences.re/@mate_shs_cnrs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mate_shs_cnrs</span></a></span> @sociology </p><p><a href="/tags/afs/" rel="tag">#AFS</a> <a href="/tags/sociology/" rel="tag">#sociology</a> <a href="/tags/africa/" rel="tag">#africa</a> <a href="/tags/culture/" rel="tag">#culture</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/rumba/" rel="tag">#rumba</a> <a href="/tags/soukous/" rel="tag">#soukous</a> <a href="/tags/makossa/" rel="tag">#makossa</a> <a href="/tags/imperialism/" rel="tag">#imperialism</a> <a href="/tags/worldmusic/" rel="tag">#worldmusic</a></p>
<p>🎮 Five winning games about communication announced: </p><p>▫️Non violent video games<br>▫️Games that teach young people about the importance of communication: conflict resolution; fact-sharing; healthy relationships<br>▫️Winning teams represent Argentina, Canada, France, and USA</p><p>From our nonprofit's 18th annual game design challenge. 🎉</p><p>🌐<a href="https://www.openpr.com/news/4202911/winners-announced-communication-video-games" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.openpr.com/news/4202911/winners-announced-communication-video-games"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.openpr.com/news/4202911/wi</span><span class="invisible">nners-announced-communication-video-games</span></a></p><p>[ Small instance; boosts appreciated. 🧡]</p><p><a href="/tags/nonprofit/" rel="tag">#nonprofit</a> <a href="/tags/videogames/" rel="tag">#videogames</a> <a href="/tags/communication/" rel="tag">#communication</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#publichealth</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/mediastudies/" rel="tag">#mediastudies</a> <a href="/tags/indiedev/" rel="tag">#indiedev</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#education</a> <a href="/tags/sociology/" rel="tag">#sociology</a> <a href="/tags/psychology/" rel="tag">#psychology</a> <a href="/tags/students/" rel="tag">#students</a> <a href="/tags/digitalhumanities/" rel="tag">#digitalhumanities</a> <a href="/tags/changetheworld/" rel="tag">#changetheworld</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://games.ngo/@stopTDV" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>stopTDV</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://games.ngo/@gamingagainstv" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gamingagainstv</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://games.ngo/@CommunicationGames" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>CommunicationGames</span></a></span> @communicationscholars</p>
<p><a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a><br>hejka, jestem Zosia 🤠 potrzebuję miejsca, żeby pisać sb rzeczy i czytać sb rzeczy. co czytać? co pisać?</p><p>załączam hasztagi: <br><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/illustration/" rel="tag">#illustration</a> <a href="/tags/graphicdesign/" rel="tag">#graphicdesign</a> <a href="/tags/typography/" rel="tag">#typography</a> <a href="/tags/animation/" rel="tag">#animation</a> <a href="/tags/mograph/" rel="tag">#mograph</a> <a href="/tags/ecology/" rel="tag">#ecology</a> <a href="/tags/nature/" rel="tag">#nature</a> <a href="/tags/sociology/" rel="tag">#sociology</a> <a href="/tags/socialjustice/" rel="tag">#socialjustice</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/queer/" rel="tag">#queer</a> <a href="/tags/psychology/" rel="tag">#psychology</a> <a href="/tags/neurodivergence/" rel="tag">#neurodivergence</a> <a href="/tags/fashion/" rel="tag">#fashion</a> <a href="/tags/thrifting/" rel="tag">#thrifting</a> <a href="/tags/fandom/" rel="tag">#fandom</a> <a href="/tags/histories/" rel="tag">#histories</a> <a href="/tags/diy/" rel="tag">#diy</a> <a href="/tags/food/" rel="tag">#food</a> <a href="/tags/cooking/" rel="tag">#cooking</a> <a href="/tags/baking/" rel="tag">#baking</a> <a href="/tags/maps/" rel="tag">#maps</a> <a href="/tags/geoguessr/" rel="tag">#geoguessr</a><br><a href="/tags/sztuka/" rel="tag">#sztuka</a> <a href="/tags/ilustracja/" rel="tag">#ilustracja</a> <a href="/tags/projektowanie/" rel="tag">#projektowanie</a> <a href="/tags/liternictwo/" rel="tag">#liternictwo</a> <a href="/tags/animacja/" rel="tag">#animacja</a> <a href="/tags/ekologia/" rel="tag">#ekologia</a> <a href="/tags/przyroda/" rel="tag">#przyroda</a> <a href="/tags/socjologia/" rel="tag">#socjologia</a> <a href="/tags/sprawiedliwoscspoleczna/" rel="tag">#sprawiedliwoscspoleczna</a> <a href="/tags/literatura/" rel="tag">#literatura</a> <a href="/tags/ksiazki/" rel="tag">#ksiazki</a> <a href="/tags/czytanie/" rel="tag">#czytanie</a> <a href="/tags/psychologia/" rel="tag">#psychologia</a> <a href="/tags/neuroroznorodnosc/" rel="tag">#neuroroznorodnosc</a> <a href="/tags/moda/" rel="tag">#moda</a> <a href="/tags/lumpiarstwo/" rel="tag">#lumpiarstwo</a> <a href="/tags/starocie/" rel="tag">#starocie</a> <a href="/tags/historia/" rel="tag">#historia</a> <a href="/tags/zrobtosam/" rel="tag">#zrobtosam</a> <a href="/tags/jedzenie/" rel="tag">#jedzenie</a> <a href="/tags/gotowanie/" rel="tag">#gotowanie</a> <a href="/tags/pieczenie/" rel="tag">#pieczenie</a> <a href="/tags/mapy/" rel="tag">#mapy</a></p>
<p>🚀 Our 19th annual game design challenge has launched!</p><p>💬 Topic: <a href="/tags/toxicity/" rel="tag">#toxicity</a></p><p>📆 Submit ideas by March 23, 2026</p><p>⭐ $10,000 in cash prizes<br>⭐ Critiques for all Finalists</p><p>🎮 Please boost to reach <a href="/tags/gamedevs/" rel="tag">#gamedevs</a>, <a href="/tags/designers/" rel="tag">#designers</a>, <a href="/tags/artists/" rel="tag">#artists</a>, <a href="/tags/writers/" rel="tag">#writers</a>, <a href="/tags/composers/" rel="tag">#composers</a>, and more.</p><p>🧡 Presented by an award-winning <a href="/tags/nonprofit/" rel="tag">#nonprofit</a> program producing trauma-informed videogames for <a href="/tags/violence/" rel="tag">#violence</a> <a href="/tags/prevention/" rel="tag">#prevention</a> since 2008.</p><p>Details, rules, and resources at the contest website.</p><p>🌐 <a href="https://toxify.org" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>toxify.org</a> </p><p><a href="/tags/games/" rel="tag">#games</a> <a href="/tags/gamedev/" rel="tag">#gamedev</a> <a href="/tags/indiedev/" rel="tag">#indiedev</a> <a href="/tags/gamedesign/" rel="tag">#gamedesign</a> <a href="/tags/gamejam/" rel="tag">#gamejam</a> <a href="/tags/nonprofit/" rel="tag">#nonprofit</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#education</a> <a href="/tags/edtech/" rel="tag">#edtech</a> <a href="/tags/sociology/" rel="tag">#sociology</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a></p>
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