Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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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
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
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.
Joined Aug 2019
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🚨 URGENT: HOUSING 🚨
looking for a space in boston/greater boston area. im currently planning on applying for SSDI due to my leg
about me: im a 34 year old, jewish trans man, trained in barista work and proofreading/editing. im quiet and pretty insular
boosts and well wishes appreciated 
#mutualaid #MutualAidRequest #transcrowdfund #help #housing #boston
valentine's day joke
Polycule expansion day?
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oh it's single people awareness day
tangent, religion
... is this literally the reason that the Bible, Quran, etc. exist?
I feel like one of the most fundamental problems of open-access (including online) communities is the asymmetry of policymaking discussions.
If you have made a well-considered but unintuitive policy decision, and you have already done all the work of reasoning through the implications, an influx of new people will forever keep trying to recycle discussions that you've already had and are already tired of.
But the people newly coming in have never had this discussion before, and are not familiar with the rationale! And even if they are willing to 'take the culture as it is' and learn it gradually over time, it's very difficult to know what is expected of you without having access to the background.
And so you end up with the same discussions and arguments being rehashed over and over again, eventually burning out the people doing the policymaking and causing the whole thing to fall apart.
And so far, I have not seen any credible mitigations for this problem, because "read the manual before doing anything" is an unreasonable ask and so is "you will just have to accept that those are the rules", in the general case.
@scottjenson That is not what I said. What I said is that *demanding* calm and rational is a bad thing, when talking about consent violations. It is tone policing that fails to acknowledge the emotional impact that this sort of thing has on vulnerable people.
@scottjenson Someone is violating other people's consent. *Of course* that is going to result in emotional personal responses. I find it absurd to demand a 'calm, rational discussion' under those circumstances.
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Today on Valentines' Day, I'm calling for research into teleportation to finally end the tyrannical, transphobic reign of Distance and allow for the construction of a truly world-spanning trans polycule.
@scottjenson @snarfed.org@snarfed.org It's not that simple, see also https://mastodon.me.uk/@CatherineFlick/111929349006043333 and https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/111929890704529836
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Kunstenaar geeft opdracht Binnenhof terug vanwege Kamervoorzitter Martin Bosma - Joop - BNNVARA
Het is een begin. Een goed begin. Niet normaal maken wat niet normaal is. Nou de cateraars nog, laat die bruinhemden hun eigen brood maar meenemen ;-)
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4th wall, talking to reader
hey you
yes you, on social.pixie.town
you are good
@julienw So the thing is that over the years I've both had frequent close connections with Mozilla folks, but also a lot of 'outside perspective' from communities that have no knowledge about Mozilla internals.
And unfortunately, the explanation is not that "users tend to consider a bad agenda first". Mozilla has lost a ton of goodwill over the past decade or so, for various reasons, some legitimate and others not.
This distrust is not coming from nowhere; there are specific things that people bring up again and again that have eaten into their trust of the organization, and that were never rectified. People don't feel that there's even transparent communication.
That simply isn't going to go away until Mozilla as an organization starts - publicly - acknowledging and reckoning with this issue, and gives people reason to believe that it's not just a completely unaccountable tech corporation with a slightly different coat of paint.
Regarding the AI stuff: "AI Help" and "AI Explain" are fundamentally the same technology with the same problems. The framing that it was just one of the two that was a problem, has been repeatedly debunked in depth in the relevant Github threads. It's both.
@julienw Bluntly put: you cannot expect random people to follow the internal structure of an organization, be it Mozilla's or otherwise.
It's the job of Mozilla itself to convey things to the public accurately, and to give people a reason to trust the organization. So "different teams" doesn't matter for this to anyone other than Mozillians, regardless of whether it is true.
From the perspective of people who don't work there, it's "Mozilla" that has done such-and-such, and conclusions about trust will be drawn from that as such.
(The LLM nonsense has also never been 'rolled back', just turned into a different variant with the same problems - "AI Help" is just as problematic for basically the same reasons.)
meta, reference to 'rape culture', long
@tchambers It is of course your choice what policy you implement on your instance, but I see one big issue in that rationale:
Consent is something that can only ever be given by the person affected, to the degree that they are comfortable in giving it. It cannot be extrapolated from consent given for something kinda sorta similar.
The consent to federate, for instance, is given for a very specific subset of systems (other AP implementations) in a very specific cultural context with very specific expectations. You do not need to understand or agree with those constraints; that simply is the extent of the consent that was given.
You cannot then take something that is not an AP instance, go "this is kind of the same, so therefore I will interpret you as having consented, even though you haven't and you're actively objecting". That is a consent violation, and this sort of 'creative reinterpretation' of consent is very much a big part of the rape culture problem.
There may well be very good reasons that people consent to AP federation but not to BlueSky bridging. You may not be aware of those reasons, you may be aware but disagree with them, it doesn't matter - those are the boundaries that some people have set, and that's the end of that conversation.
To reiterate, what policy you implement on your own instance is your own choice, but I think you should be a lot more careful about the implications of what you say regarding *other* people's choices, even (or especially) if you know Ryan personally.
(Yes, I am aware that the post also says "there may be legitimate reasons to block them". But it still tries to extrapolate consent, instead of acknowledging that people's 'correctness' fundamentally does not matter here.)
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You can see why CEOs get paid so much, no-one else could make the big calls like how fast to copy whatever everyone else is doing regardless of merit
@anthony I'm inclined to say that Mozilla dug their own hole here, with the way they've approached the LLM nonsense on MDN, and this interpretation is simply a consequence of that.
When as an organization you've repeatedly breached people's trust, it shouldn't really be a surprise that you don't get the benefit of the doubt anymore...
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I’ve been on Mastodon for a minute, and I had *no idea* I could scope notifications to people I follow.
(Thanks to the friend who mentioned it.)
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I'm gonna keep posting this as it keeps annoying bootlickers.
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Transphobia, attempted murder
One year on from when Brianna Ghey was murdered in a vicious transphobic attack, we're now learning of another teenage trans girl subjected to brutal transphobic violence.
She was targeted with slurs at a rollerblading party before being stabbed seventeen times and rushed to hospital where she thankfully survived.
Let's be absolutely clear, these are not isolated incidents - this is cultural. This is the result of the constant, frothing hatred and cruelty directed at us as trans people.
It's the fearmongering media who villify us as dangerous predators, it's the disgraceful politicians who lie about and dehumanise us to score points with bigots, and it's the bigots themselves who harass and cheer for violence against us.
There is now another trans person who will live with lasting injury and trauma, countless other trans people who will feel even less safe in society, and there will almost certainly be at least one young person whose hate-fuelled impulse will lead them to spend years or decades locked in a cage.
Virulent transphobia is killing people and ruining lives, and it's not going to stop until we rip the people fostering this hateful culture from their positions of power and bury their capacity to influence so deep in the dirt that it never sees the light of day again.
I never want to read another story like this, but I know I will - and that fact turns my stomach, it makes me sick.
@1 sleepy beepy!
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
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
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
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.
Joined Aug 2019
