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.
- 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
re: fighting fascist media, meta
@freakazoid (I will get back to this thread later, I want to give it my full attention before responding)
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"If there are no loud Black women in the room that you're in, you're not in a radical space. If there are no Black women who's presence inherently makes white folks uncomfortable, then your space is not as radical as you think it is." - ahbeeolah on TikTok
I also recommend watching this stitch by nonsomorah:
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGe7TcEqf/
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take that techbros would hate
accessibility includes supporting old hardware, nobody has the same economical status as you to afford a new machine
@MegaMichelle I have no idea, honestly - I only use Mastodon on desktop, so I don't know what the mobile interfaces are like.
I would *expect* it to be viewable by long-pressing the image, but that's entirely an 'informed guess' based on how I've seen other mobile app designs work in the past, so no guarantee that it works here.
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Let's all hold hands and watch bitcoin and AI crash together.
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jk rowling, terf, etc
from shon faye, author of the transgender issue, found re-posted on tumblr and i thought it was good enough to put here, i love to save stuff i find, don't mind me
(I've been checking for quite a while already. But the last boost told me that the issue is actually worse than I thought.)
re: fighting fascist media, meta
@freakazoid It sort of is a recruiting question, but more about preventing recruiting from the right. They are fishing in the same 'moderates' pool, and the whole right-wing media empire is set up to do exactly that, and it's why more and more folks keep becoming right-wing extremists.
Sure, recruiting for leftist ideology is generally a good idea (as long as it's *actually* leftist and not someone's disguised scheme to gain power...), but that alone doesn't do much to prevent eg. racist violence. We also need to deal with the other end.
Grmbl. Since this apparently needs clarifying.
I will not boost pictures without *useful* alt text. Technically having alt text that's completely useless to the reader ("an image", "a tweet", etc.) is not enough. Yes, I check.
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I just saw an alt text somewhere that described something as, and I quote, "An image". For fucks sake people, I know that already, the whole point of alt text is to *describe* the image. I know it's an image, maybe tell me what the fuck the image is? If you can't add good alt text, don't ad it at all.
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@DeArcheoloog @TiciaVerveer It worked! It is really possible to turn wood without a toolrest on a pole lathe with a medieval chisel.
The chisel is quite heavy, but that helps to keep it steady.
I hope I can improve my skills this week, and make something useful. My ultimate goal is the late medieval children's tabor pipe I measured at the archeological depot of Leiden. But that feels far away: I need a lot more skill for that. I think I will start with the handle of a shoemaker's awl.
CW-boost: racist violence in UK
@teo Hmm, I haven't quite observed that pattern before, but it's very possible that I missed it. Could you give some examples of what you mean?
'intellectual' podcasts
I think I've finally worked out what annoys me so much about these 'intellectual podcasts'. Like, sure, they're almost always laundering right-wing politics, but I find them grating in a much more visceral sense than that, and this includes the ones that *aren't* right-wing.
I think it's because of how those shows are almost entirely centered on a few people sitting in a room enthusiastically agreeing with each other. There's a pretense of intellectual debate, but no actual depth of any sort.
There's no room for learning of novel perspectives, of different experiences. It's just two dudes - it's almost always dudes - talking over each other about how right they both are. No genuine reflection or inquiry.
@teo Right, but the question I am trying to answer with this hypothesis is *why* that is, especially on the "by technical folks" side. Because that's a cultural thing, and that comes from somewhere!
@freakazoid I sort of treat those as agency issues, personally, because they tend to indirectly result *from* a lack of agency.
In a healthy organization, the amount of power that someone has over something, corresponds with the amount of responsibility they have over it. That's ultimately what agency is about in a project context, IMO.
But in the examples you mention, there is an (implicit) responsibility of keeping the thing running, because you will definitely be blamed if it fails, but no corresponding power to actually do so in the best way (eg. refactoring the code). Instead the priorities are set by someone else, who ultimately isn't the responsible party despite what the org chart says.
Likewise, peer feedback needs a healthy balance of power and responsibility; in this case it sounds like the power was functionally with senior folks, but the responsibility was passed off to others (by eg. punishing them in peer review).
I think something similar applies to a lot of workplace issues, where they derive - directly or indirectly, sometimes across multiple steps - from what is fundamentally a problem of agency.
@bananas A big reason I tend to avoid the term 'coop' is precisely that sort of issue; I prefer describing it in terms of people actually having agency, leaving the exact implementation of that undefined
Hypothesis: the fact that tech workers have little genuine agency over the work they do and how they do it (the boss decides in the end, not them) leads to bad technical choices sticking around institutionally because the inertia is hard to overcome if you don't have power over the direction, and those bad technical choices are introduced in the first place through hype cycles because "banding together around an exciting new tool" is the closest thing that anyone has to community organizing.
(This is an unrefined thought)
Pondering about the relation between worker agency/ownership and the susceptibility of the tech industry to hype cycles
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"Social media wasn’t web 2.0, it’s what *killed* Web 2.0!
You might think I’m arguing over mere nomenclature but the important fact is that this era existed, and the Web3 pitch pretends it didn’t. We already had decentralized internet with social features. This fact contradicts the story the Web3/blockchain advocates want to tell you, so their story skips this entire era."
Good post over here: https://accordion-druid.tumblr.com/post/685175656750972928/dont-lie-to-me-about-web-20
- 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
