@bastardsheep

#liberalparty #preferences at work #OneNation #auspol

Day 32 cont

Take care #voting, make your #Preferences count.

“Preferences have become more important than ever in Australian elections, as the share of people supporting the major parties has dropped from more than 90% of primary votes in the 1950s to just 68.8% in the most recent federal poll.

The last Australian election saw 16 seats won by candidates who were not leading after the first count – the most ever, tied with 2016. And more than half of those winners were independent candidates – also the most ever.

Australia’s electoral system requires #voters to #number #candidates in their order of preference: their first choice, second choice and so on. During #counting, if no candidate has yet achieved a #majority, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated and their votes are redistributed to voters’ next #preference. This is repeated until there is a clear winner.”

#AusPol <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/datablog/2025/may/01/how-do-preferences-work-voting-party-australia-federal-election-liberal-greens-labor>

@Aphelion

I applaud the concern about alt text. One of my best friends is blind, and I like to see her properly supported in her online experience.

But sometimes it works to ask people to edit posts to add alt text on images. Not everyone knows about alt text at all, and some people who try to include it forget sometimes, or don't realize they can edit it in after the fact. I try to always assume that this error, when it happens, is not an intentional slight, and so is a learning opportunity. And especially where good content would otherwise be lost, it seems worth the effort.

Mastodon has user preferences to make the absence of alt text show up visibly or to just filter out things that lack alt text ... BUT (strangely) it has no preference I can find that says "warn me if I'm posting something that would need such a flag". There should be such a preference and it should default to ON.

I consider it a major faux pas in design to beat someone up for something technologically when you could have just dissuaded or prevented the bad thing with an equal application of technology.

This is what #Chartalism is all about: Money is a societal institution that follows a #society's #preferences.

By the same token (and as discussed by Prasad), one of the reasons why not to abolish cash (e.g., by way of a #CBDC) is that if society whishes to retain money in a physical form,
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After some work on the garden, I finalized the UI for preferences. Now you can choose, and it will be remembered for all your sessions. This is all handled by a simple web component I made in the process https://github.com/rarous/rarousnet/blob/trunk/www.rarous.net/src/esm/settings-form.js. #themes #preferences #indieweb #webcomponents

#ElonMusk is #supermad at #MarkCuban again.

The "#SharkTank" #star #posited that #Musk may have #adjusted #X's #algorithm to show #content based on the #Tesla chief's own #preferences

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-super-mad-mark-cuban-again-2024-8