Yo computer touchers: there's a history of Black invention and ingenuity you may or may not know about, and a history of Black inventors' ingenuity being denied at a systemic level
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Yo computer touchers: there's a history of Black invention and ingenuity you may or may not know about, and a history of Black inventors' ingenuity being denied at a systemic level
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Rayvon Fouché’s research in history of technology reveals that Black inventors were largely excluded from “shop” cultures and “school” cultures where white Americans honed their technical skills through informal apprenticeship or formal education, then finding routes into scientific and industrial cultures where credentialed invention occurred. Even when they invented, though, they were often gatekept out of receiving credit for innovation. 2/
(CW antiBlack racism) 3/
Here’s Fouché describing what happened when an enslaved Black person invented a piece of agricultural equipment:
Why am I talking about hay rakes on a decentralized #opensocialweb network? This history is at play in some of the arguments we’re seeing about #Fediverse #atproto #activitypub right now
Whatever one thinks of Bluesky, the most innovative cultural and technical experimental space there right now is Blacksky; and it’s also the clearest example of decentralized possibility on the AT protocol. When people double down saying “AT isn’t decentralized”, they are denying that Blacksky exists. 4/
Does it interact with the "bluesky app"? That seemed to be the big focus in that argument and I just didn't know. I in fact don't even know what that means I guess.
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