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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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- 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
@buherator @esther@strangeobject.space This is a really common argument I hear, but it falls flat when actually scrutinized: because advertising, in the sense that it is meant here, is fundamentally based on *asymmetry*.
The whole point of advertising, and advertising spend, is to elevate your presence above that of the competition. Which is to say, every dollar you spend on advertising is a dollar you spend on *reducing* the discoverability of your competition, ie. of other options.
Since there are more competitors (who lose discoverability) than there are "you"s (who gains discoverability), this means that every dollar towards advertising is a net-loss for total discoverability; most things become *less* visible, only one thing more so.
If we designed our society around discovery of options, it wouldn't look like advertising. It would look more like an ad-free phone book, or perhaps a consumer-reports-style comparison table or facet-based search engine. Crucially, there would fundamentally be no relation between ad spend and discoverability.
TL;DR: Advertising does not actually serve improved discovery of options and in fact does the opposite, that's just the moral fig leaf the industry uses to justify its "social license to operate".
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"Police interactions are people's first engagement with the prison system. Police can be in any public setting. They're on the street. They're in hospitals, libraries, train stations. They're in our schools. They're in our workplaces. They enter our homes - sometimes when summoned, sometimes by force, with or without a warrant. As K's experience illustrates, police bring the threat, and often the reality, of harassment, surveillance, criminalization, arrest and even death. Patrolling protests - including protests against the police - is part of their job. Police ensure that, particularly for marginalized people, there's always a possible path from everyday life to prison."
— Maya Schenwar, Victoria Law, Michelle Alexander: Prison by Any Other Name, p. 144
Being detained three separate times in my life (one for shoplifting, once for fare evasion and another for protest activity), this whole chapter, especially being based in New York City, is really getting hard to read, but I feel seen in a way I wasn't expecting.
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Make this Doctorow 's article your most important week reading:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/17/hack-the-planet/#how-about-a-nice-game-of-chess
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boost with CW: food used as a metaphor to make a really important point about AI and image descriptions
https://mastodon.eternalaugust.com/@pencilears/112978735034497272
re: meta, communication styles
@farhaven I mean, it's not quite that simple - it depends a lot on who's talking to who. There are some clearly identifiable differences between this pattern and mansplaining, but... they may not be so clearly identifiable to people unfamiliar with the pattern, and that's usually where conflict happens.
Basically what I'm describing is a form of miscommunication, rather than people genuinely believing on a moral level that these two are equivalent (at least as far as I can tell).
(The issue gets complicated further by people who *themselves* both use this pattern *and* also mansplain, which also happens, but is avoidable if you try.)
re: meta, communication styles
@silvermoon82@strangeobject.space I don't think classifying it as 'neurotypicals being neurotypicals' really covers it, to be honest; I've seen the same conflict happen in communication with other neurospicy folks (who just don't happen to share this particular communication pattern).
Like, to some degree it's a matter of "you can always block the people you don't like", sure, but IMO there should always be an attempt to reconcile different expectations and communication styles - and sometimes that will turn out impossible and that's okay, but I don't want to be assuming that prima facie.
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we have to kill capitalism so the internet can be good again
meta, communication styles
I've noticed that the (autistic?) practice of "repeat in different words what was said to explicitly acknowledge it and incrementally add onto it at the same time" often gets interpreted as "mansplaining" on here and I'm not sure what to do about that
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You know how everyone votes for a politician for their populist progressive promises and is all surprisedpikachu when the politician fails to achieve any of them?
Just once I would love to instead see a politician get elected on their safe corporate moderate platform and then shock everyone by implementing surprise socialism
Just once I would love to instead see a politician get elected on their safe corporate moderate platform and then shock everyone by implementing surprise socialism
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Het is weer zover.
Den Aha levert diepvriesspul.
In een tas.
Die in de tas babyromaines zit. Bevroren dus, 5 stuks.
Winterwortel: deels bevroren.
Bleekselderij: idem.
Prei: idem.
Dan nog groente in stukken.
Een fles kapot.
Op de kokosnoot 'zit iets raar nats'.
Ik snap dat gewoon niet. Ze vergoeden het maar ja: te laag bedrag voor bezorging dus ik moet naar winkel die ver weg is, dus met tram.
Soms, soms gaat het goed.
Meestal niet.
Vandaag dus weer niet.
@pascaline Bij mij blijft er gelukkig meestal meer heel, maar ik krijg wel sterk de indruk dat de inpakmethode in het distributiecentrum wat weg heeft van "donder het er maar bij".
Zware dingen bovenop lichte dingen, vaatwasblokjes (geeft lekker veel geur af!) naast voedsel, veel te zwaar beladen papieren tasjes met potjes en blikjes...
Als de bezorgers hier niet zo voorzichtig waren, zou het denk ik een stuk slechter gaan.
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Just Stop Ads
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Wat een nuance in een programma voor kinderen, iets om als volwassenen van te leren:
Indonesië in de oorlog, Klokhuis
"Honderden jaren was Nederland de baas in grote delen van wat we nu kennen als Indonesië. Janouk gaat vierhonderd jaar terug in de tijd en ziet hoe Nederland delen van het eilandenrijk met geweld veroverde. Veel Indonesiërs wilden een eigen land. In augustus 1945, kort na het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog, riep Indonesië de onafhankelijkheid uit. Janouk ziet wat voor oorlogen er nodig waren voordat Indonesië eindelijk een eigen land werd, en hoe deze tijd hier in Nederland wordt herdacht. In de sketch zien we hoe Nederlandse kolonisten zichzelf heel erg beschaafd vinden, maar zijn ze dat ook…"
https://hetklokhuis.nl/tv-uitzending/5519/indonesie-in-de-oorlog
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Whenever you see a headline or an editorial piece which is wildly at odds with the evidence of your eyes and ears, just ask yourself, "How would the public accepting this as fact benefit/empower/enrich the billionaire who owns this megaphone?"
re: microsoft
@eldaking With my (probably justified in the case of Microsoft...) conspiracy theory hat on for a moment, they are entirely too insistent about having a TPM for it to (just) be about security of the user.
I bet this is related to DRM in some way.
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So, Microsoft decided to break lots of people's computers:
https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-cracking-down-dodging-windows-11-system-requirements/
Any "security improvements" that require people to buy a new computer (or phone) is a security upgrade that poor people and/or people in the third world don't benefit from.
It is worse than useless, it is discriminatory, it is obscene. It throws people under the bus, causes us great economic duress, for the sake of other people's security. It erects a walled community and keeps us out, and pretends things are safer by removing us from the statistics.
@jon @bohwaz@mamot.fr ... wait, so what are people supposed to do who don't *have* a surname?
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Eckartsberga. Het station lijkt haast bevroren in de tijd, er zit zelfs een vuilniszak in de afvalbak #Pepermuntje
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I have managed to create a table style that I am quite proud of
this is all done with CSS
- 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
