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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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a lot of processes in the industry i work in now rely on spreadsheets
like really janky ones with hours of people's lives burned away by copy/paste weekly or daily and pointing and clicking, following a checklist
so i think "aha! i can help!" and i replace the spreadsheet with an automated process
and hours per week are saved and i am a hero and it feels great
but then they need to make a little change and they can't, they have to go through me, i have effectively taken their power away
@stuebinm @nota@chaos.social (The deeper background for this is that I've been thinking a lot lately about ways to change my language that actually encodes the relevant properties into the name directly, rather than relying on an assumption that is not universally shared - to make it harder for terms to be coopted.)
@stuebinm @nota@chaos.social I guess I could've been a bit clearer, yeah 🙂 Thanks for the background!
I was thinking to use "agency over their work" to describe what people currently think "artisanal"/"handmade" means, which would implicitly allow for reframing "handmade" as a descriptor of labour rather than as a mark of desirability/uniqueness/craft/etc. - which would in turn hopefully create more room to talk about the *conditions* of that labour, getting rid of the assumption that "someone worked hard for this" is in and of itself a positive property (since as you say, that depends entirely on the working conditions!).
@stuebinm @nota@chaos.social (Where "creator" means the person who physically put it together and not the designer, but I'm having trouble finding a better word for this)
@stuebinm @nota@chaos.social I wonder if framing it in terms of "did the creator have agency over their work" would be a better way to talk about this than "was it made by hand"?
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@nota thinking about this more, i'm a little reminded of a discussion i read a while ago (on tumblr i think?) about "handmade" clothing, in which several people who were very into sewing absolutely lost their mind at people believing there's any sort of cheap clothing that's "not handmade" — it's just that it gets done in places that aren't usually thought about much (unless one wants to insist that "handmade clothing" prohibits the use of a sewing machine ig)
like it's the same kind of assumption that "mass-produced elsewhere" might as well mean "it just kinda materialised" (and credit is given to whoever designed it, not whoever made it)
like it's the same kind of assumption that "mass-produced elsewhere" might as well mean "it just kinda materialised" (and credit is given to whoever designed it, not whoever made it)
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Every time I hear the “novelty and creativity is rare” line I get so angry I have to stand up and pace to calm down
Language, art, and media are massively combinatorial. We’ve barely been able to scratch the surface of what’s possible because we’re locked in economic systems built on uniformity and in industries that always choose the broken and bland to boost short term profits
The absence of novelty is down to economics and your mindsets. The media themselves are as unexplored as the galaxy
I wish music festivals didn't allow national flags.
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Remember when we were all at awe at how we can access all the information we want like 10 years ago with the internet and phones
Well looks like the party is over with all the algorithmic intelligence poisoning SEO crap
Remember when Wikipedia was considered an unreliable source
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@aud right??? like nobody's saying it's easy, but if it's an important problem, we have to start by assuming we're going to succeed. that reduces it to the task of figuring out HOW.
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is this a large effect? well, it depends on the subject matter
is this the only thing that's needed to bring about change? almost never
is it a big deal that helps a lot? yes, definitely
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the world is just a collection of people who talk to each other. we all, including ourselves, tend to default to mirroring the attitudes we see around us back at others unless we've specifically taken the time to self-reflect and choose otherwise.
therefore, the way we talk about problems affects the people around us, which affects the world.
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please remember, always: the future is not written, and we all have the power to change it.
it is not inevitable that something will keep happening just because it has been happening.
when we talk about large-scale problems in public, it's probably a good idea to talk in ways that remind everyone of our own ability to choose, of the options we have, that express hope.
@smveerman Tjonge. Dat is echt weer een Flix-dingetje ten top 😂
Ach, je kunt niet zeggen dat 'ie niet opvalt, I guess.
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The way software development's shifted from people wanting to do it better to people wanting to get rich reminds me of how contemporary music schools shifted from people wanting to get better at making music to people wanting to get famous.
There's a real X Factor feel to the common discourse, with lots of folks obsessing over levels of commercial success they're never going to experience - too busy preparing for hypothetical stadium tours to learn scales.
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Boost with CW, COVID, Please mask
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once again subtooting a tweet I glanced at like 4 years ago that said something like
everyday billions of us wake up and remake the world exactly how it was but we could be creating something else, none of this is mandatory
politics in tech
@hyperreal (But this is a pattern I've been noticing throughout hype cycles, and rather than specific technologies, it seems to be the *class* of technologies where the overlap lies, these are just currently being hyped up)
- 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
