Drago 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈✊🏽🇵🇸🍉
@dragomedia.bsky.social
Unceded Ramaytush Ohlone
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Just read your substack post sharing the convo you had with a rabbi. Thank you for sharing. Very insightful.
May 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Just read your substack post sharing the convo you had with a rabbi. Thank you for sharing. Very insightful.
Likewise. Love your user handle. Still have the Malibu? :)
May 19, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Likewise. Love your user handle. Still have the Malibu? :)
This is his first photo. He came into our lives when he was just 9 weeks old.
May 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is his first photo. He came into our lives when he was just 9 weeks old.
It feels like 20, but it’s actually 10.
May 11, 2025 at 6:19 AM
It feels like 20, but it’s actually 10.
Where are you located?
May 10, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Where are you located?
@rivjoy.bsky.social I really appreciated the way you inquired. Many operate from a place of entitlement, stuck in B&W thinking, unwilling to examine how the privileges they possess shape their views.
It takes real awareness to pause, reflect, and ask questions with an open mind.
It takes real awareness to pause, reflect, and ask questions with an open mind.
May 1, 2025 at 12:17 AM
@rivjoy.bsky.social I really appreciated the way you inquired. Many operate from a place of entitlement, stuck in B&W thinking, unwilling to examine how the privileges they possess shape their views.
It takes real awareness to pause, reflect, and ask questions with an open mind.
It takes real awareness to pause, reflect, and ask questions with an open mind.
You must also trust that the Interpreter is ethical and will keep all of your confidential medical info private.
In settings like these, I’d much prefer the avatar.
In settings like these, I’d much prefer the avatar.
April 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
You must also trust that the Interpreter is ethical and will keep all of your confidential medical info private.
In settings like these, I’d much prefer the avatar.
In settings like these, I’d much prefer the avatar.
Another example: The Deaf/Interpreting communities are tiny. Most of us know each other.
Imagine you have a doctor’s appt and request an interpreter. You won’t know who you will be assigned until they show up at the doctor’s office. It could be someone you don’t like.
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Imagine you have a doctor’s appt and request an interpreter. You won’t know who you will be assigned until they show up at the doctor’s office. It could be someone you don’t like.
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April 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Another example: The Deaf/Interpreting communities are tiny. Most of us know each other.
Imagine you have a doctor’s appt and request an interpreter. You won’t know who you will be assigned until they show up at the doctor’s office. It could be someone you don’t like.
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Imagine you have a doctor’s appt and request an interpreter. You won’t know who you will be assigned until they show up at the doctor’s office. It could be someone you don’t like.
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So much out there is not accessible to us.
If I have to choose between not having access to something or watching an avatar translate for me, that’s a no brainer.
If I have to choose between not having access to something or watching an avatar translate for me, that’s a no brainer.
April 30, 2025 at 8:39 PM
So much out there is not accessible to us.
If I have to choose between not having access to something or watching an avatar translate for me, that’s a no brainer.
If I have to choose between not having access to something or watching an avatar translate for me, that’s a no brainer.
That said, there are many instances where this kind of technology would be extremely useful, especially in light of the fact that we have a nationwide shortage of skilled, ethical and culturally competent/humble ASL interpreters.
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April 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
That said, there are many instances where this kind of technology would be extremely useful, especially in light of the fact that we have a nationwide shortage of skilled, ethical and culturally competent/humble ASL interpreters.
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Is it a good thing?
That depends on how the technology is used.
ASL interpreters don’t only translate info, they also serve as cultural mediators. As long as deaf people (whose primary language is ASL) exist, human interpreters will be needed.
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That depends on how the technology is used.
ASL interpreters don’t only translate info, they also serve as cultural mediators. As long as deaf people (whose primary language is ASL) exist, human interpreters will be needed.
(cont)
April 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Is it a good thing?
That depends on how the technology is used.
ASL interpreters don’t only translate info, they also serve as cultural mediators. As long as deaf people (whose primary language is ASL) exist, human interpreters will be needed.
(cont)
That depends on how the technology is used.
ASL interpreters don’t only translate info, they also serve as cultural mediators. As long as deaf people (whose primary language is ASL) exist, human interpreters will be needed.
(cont)