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mental ponderings, ~ 

What is the most important thing I could be doing right now? I don't know, but I'm not sure it's any of the things I would've answered 5 years ago, and this greatly bothers me.

@accretionist@techhub.social Okay, then, so you're not going to learn anything from this. Bye, then.

@accretionist@techhub.social A strawman argument is not a valid excuse not to consider your own privilege and moral framework, and that is all I have to say about that.

@accretionist@techhub.social And just to make this complete: please consider what it means for you to assume that "if it's available, that means it's there for me to do with as I please".

@accretionist@techhub.social That is called "being an asshole and violating people's consent", when it's already made clear that this is not wanted.

@accretionist@techhub.social @thiswomanswerk Dude, take a fucking hint. And no, you do not have "equal right to engage". It was pretty clearly communicated that such engagement was not wanted.

You are not actually *entitled* to a conversation of any kind, regardless of whether you disagree.

Interesting paper about #adblocking that I just found out :blobcathugublock:

Energy Conservation with Open Source Ad Blockers

This study, although preliminary, clearly showed enormous potential for open source ad blockers to reduce consumer time waiting for Internet ads to load as well as the electricity needed to run their computers (and other electronic technologies) during that time. In addition, the externalities (including premature fatalities) associated with fossil-fuel-based electricity spent using computers by eliminating ads during Internet browsing and video streaming would be reduced.

https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7080/8/2/18/htm

@joenepraat @x_screamodeath_x @Ravotr @Jo It's not just them, though, that's my point. I generally don't see this stuff being improved by the people talking about solidarity and mutual aid either.

There should be a list of "music podcasts that do not have someone talking through the music"

@joenepraat @x_screamodeath_x @Ravotr @Jo Oh, I know it's not specific to anarchist circles. But anarchists are the ones where this most obviously violates the stated ideology.

"Interference" is the "it's always DNS" of hardware design

@perigee I likely caught it at the very start of the pandemic, back when there was no testing infrastructure yet - which is why I simply don't know :/

I love itch.io as a platform, and I can understand if they need to serve ads when people download stuff for free, but this is not okay -- they are serving what's most likely a type of malware in an ad that's designed to trick people who are trying to download the project. I honestly don't think I can stay on the platform if they keep doing this -- I don't want to put people who download my projects at risk.

@joenepraat @x_screamodeath_x @Ravotr @Jo Unfortunately that largely hasn't translated into *actual* safety measures for COVID, though.

I'm still almost every time reading about an announcement for some nominally anarchist event, and then be unable to find any information whatsoever about what COVID precautions they have taken.

Or consider meetings; sure, hybrid meetings are a thing. But what if you can't do online meetings due to auditory processing issues, *and* also are particularly susceptible to COVID?

That would be me, and I continue to feel excluded from a lot that's going on. Ableism is still widespread, despite it being called out at times.

“It’s all about parents’ rights”

A parent’s right to what?

Really feeling the exhaustion of living in a world where the default is that I will be misunderstood and judged.

#ActuallyAutistic

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