@smveerman Yikes...
@sindarina I wonder how far you'd get with some tiny "autonomous" robots (PCBs on wheels basically) that do nothing but randomly wander around things-that-look-like-sidewalks and emit a MAC address
Your reminder that posting fascist shit with a 'dunking' caption is still posting fascist shit
@betalars The DPA over here barely makes any effort at all... likely because they are not getting enough funding (which seems deliberate)
@silvermoon82 I know that there are at least some adtech companies that do, yeah
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@StroomAfwaarts Het gaat niet om redenen, maar om oorzaken. Dingen hebben oorzaken ongeacht of die oorzaken als rechtvaardiging kunnen fungeren; en met alleen maar zeggen "dit willen we niet" los je het probleem niet op.
Sinds een artikel van de Correspondent benoemde hoe berichtgeving over verkeersongelukken altijd de nadruk legt op de fietser/voetganger maar nooit op de bestuurder van het motorvoertuig, al dan niet via passief taalgebruik, kan ik het niet meer ont-zien.
Echt bizar hoe wijdverspreid dit fenomeen is. Nagenoeg 100% van de nieuwsberichten, zelfs van de partijen die *niet* van het ANP overnemen, heeft dit probleem.
musings about how the web used to be better, long
I often see people musing about how the web used to be so much better two decades ago, and while I don't disagree...
I think it's important to realize that we're remembering the *good* parts of the web back then; the parts that provided us with community and a sense of togetherness.
But there was widespread corporate meddling in communities back then, too. There was plenty of co-opting going on, too. There were a ton of unsustainable exploitative tech companies too - that's what the dotcom bubble *was*. Even the oft-lauded things like webrings often had commercial encroachment going on.
What made the web good back then wasn't the absence of shitty corporations. It was people building and finding community *in spite of* shitty corporations and hostile environments.
Yes, there's a subtly different set of problems on the web today. But what really makes the situation different isn't that the environment is more hostile now; it's that people have, by and large, given into it.
The way we fix the web is not by musing about former greatness, or by trying to replicate old protocols. We fix the web by *taking* it back, and that goes well beyond "being on the fediverse". It means taking on a subversive attitude towards the established systems again, and deliberately not playing along with them, in every way we can.
And, ultimately, making it so that we don't *need* corporations anymore to keep communities alive, make them obsolete. And hopefully fix things for the long term, this time. And yes, that is going to involve anti-capitalism somewhere along the way.
The fediverse is a good first step. But it is only that. And now it is time to organize further.
@msw My first thought upon reading this was "wait, there's yet another Misskey fork??"
The results are in for the #4DayWeek (i.e. paying employees the same dollar amount for 32 hours of work instead of 40).
For individuals (n=3500):
* 71% reported decreased burnout.
* More than 40% reported improvements across mental health, sleep quality, and fatigue.
* Workers are not using their day off to take paid work elsewhere, but instead for hobbies, leisure, housework, caring, and personal maintenance.
* 90% of people want to continue.
For businesses (n=91):
* YoY revenue up by 35% during trial period.
* Employee attrition down by 57%.
* 91% of companies immediately established the 4-day week permanently.
* Another 4% are leaning toward continuing.
Report available here: https://www.4dayweek.com/
re: drug mention
@benaryorg I should probably look into this more at some point to figure out what's going on there
re: drug mention
@benaryorg Oh no, my problem is not with your translation, all the English-language sources about the German system also use the term 'intoxication', I'm just wondering why it's called specifically that in German, because it doesn't make a lot of sense to me from how I understand cannabis to work
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Ik zou graag eens wat meer analyse zien over *waarom* er schijnbaar meer geweldsincidenten in treinen plaatsvinden, i.p.v. alleen maar observeren dat het zo is en het omschrijven alsof het een regenbui is waar je nu eenmaal niets preventief aan kunt doen...
Tot zover lijkt de NS zich redelijk in te houden qua roep om meer 'tegengeweld', maar dat lijkt wel de richting te zijn waar het publieke debat nu naartoe schuift, en daar gaat niemand beter van worden
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
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Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.