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Was talking with a friend of mine in academia here in Ireland about introducing one of the universities in Dublin to the concept of the Small Web and Small Tech. She asked her faculty if they’d be interested.
Their response?
“We’re not looking to change things.”
I shit you not.
(In case you’re wondering why we’re fucked or who exactly is complicit. These are folks that have multi-million euro relationships with Big Tech.)
@aral@mastodon.ar.al I constantly run into this same exact attitude here in India too.
It is incredibly frustrating as an educator when you get stonewalled with no room for discussion because the people in charge just want to coast along and not actually do anything.
@axel @aral I agree on the frustrating experience. but let's look at it from the other side: we're asking for more work, possibly requiring more qualifications without any educational support, more responsibilities, for the same job and wage. why any sensible person would respond to this with something different than "no, FCK you"?! we must move a few levels up: this must be a legal requirement, with a suitable budget.
@joe_vinegar @axel Not sure what you’re on about: they said no to even hearing about it. I was going to give a talk about it to them and see if we could work together on something. The budgetary and time requirement for them was exactly zero. So they should have told me to “fuck off?” Nice. (Don’t worry, they did tell me to fuck off in their own way so the world’s not all bad.) Would it be great to have budget/funding from a higher level? Sure. But take a wild guess what the asshats at the higher level think when they’re in the pocket of Big Tech too. And then in a few years time, they’ll all turn around and cry “buh, why did the fascism happen?”