Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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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
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Kleine Warnung für alle mit #Rollstuhl , die in Hamburg Hbf vorbeikommen:
Das rolligerechte WC war gestern von Sanifair doppelt abgeschlossen. Ein Schloss ist mit dem Euroschlüssel zu öffnen, aber das andere kann nur jemand von Sanifair aufschließen. Da kommt aber z.T. stundenlang niemand, wenn mensch klingelt, und es lassen sich nirgendwo Mitarbeitende auftreiben.
Laut Touri-Info passiert das öfter. Heißt, das rolligerechte WC am Hbf ist gerade nicht sicher zugänglich. Die Bahn ruht sich natürlich drauf aus, dass sie nicht zuständig sind.
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As a technical person, I usually critique generative AI from a technical perspective - its use of unsustainable amounts of electricity, its lack of world model meaning its output is never going to be correct, the business models not adding up, training material getting harder to find now that much text on the Internet is AI slop, how its purported connections to AGI are impossible sci-fi smoke screens, etc.
However, we forget the humanities at our own peril. I found this latest video by @acegikmo to be worth watching for a critique from a social and artistic perspective.
And also for a reminder of how much barely coherent AI slop is out there when you actually count it, instead of almost subconsciously discarding it out of hand. Finding information in a field you have no prior knowledge of must be a horrifying experience nowadays.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@acegikmo/113763950485888985
However, we forget the humanities at our own peril. I found this latest video by @acegikmo to be worth watching for a critique from a social and artistic perspective.
And also for a reminder of how much barely coherent AI slop is out there when you actually count it, instead of almost subconsciously discarding it out of hand. Finding information in a field you have no prior knowledge of must be a horrifying experience nowadays.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@acegikmo/113763950485888985
One of my most valuable life lessons has been that there is no such thing as 'multiple priorities'. It's in the nature of 'priorities' that they are ordered, and understanding that order lets you predict outcomes.
Sure, people or organizations can consider multiple things genuinely important, but what *really* drives the decisionmaking, is the answer to "if two of these important things ever directly conflict with each other, which one wins out?"
And in a commercial or business context, the answer is ultimately almost always "profit", regardless of the social or environmental virtues that a company sings about itself.
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Heads up, Apple doing non-consensual things with photos
Of course, this user never requested that my on-device experiences be "enriched" by phoning home to Cupertino. This choice was made by Apple, silently, without my consent.
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I think what's missing in a lot of communities is a culture of mutual improvement; the ability to trust that if someone calls you out on something, the intention is to make the place better for everyone, and not to kick you down or 'compete'.
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(neuro)spicy take, bigotry
"Making fun of people for caring about others" is bigotry, actually; specifically because a heightened sense of empathy is a neurospicy trait
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“Ultimately, if you feel strongly about not using a product, that's up to you. But trying to impose your views on others is not cool. Instead, why not try politely letting them know about your concerns in case they weren't aware, and then leave them to make up their own mind.”
https://kevquirk.com/blog/on-virtue-signalling
It seems to me that when the powerful are terrible people and the weak are trying to articulate their anger, to organize, to get a mass movement going, asking them to politely make their case and letting other people make up their mind is reprehensible. By telling people not to fight for their rights but to just politely make their point and then shut up one aligns with the powerful, one dismisses the methods of resistance.
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Anne C.A. Baanen
describing trains like user agent strings
Stevenson's Rocket (compatible; standard gauge; 320 km/h) Class/374 (Siemens Velaro, like ICE 3M) Eurostar/e320
@ClaudetteK That's why it needs to be a *culture*, though, rather than a lone individual's effort - because that's how you make it possible to engage with it honestly and without immediately engaging all defenses.
(This is not a hypothetical; I am in a community that got this right)
(neuro)spicy take, bigotry
"Making fun of people for caring about others" is bigotry, actually; specifically because a heightened sense of empathy is a neurospicy trait
Personally I'd go so far as to say that a community that doesn't have this, cannot ever be healthy for me - because if it doesn't, then it's even odds that any 'calling out' is going to be of the "bigotry towards neurospicy folks" variety.
I think what's missing in a lot of communities is a culture of mutual improvement; the ability to trust that if someone calls you out on something, the intention is to make the place better for everyone, and not to kick you down or 'compete'.
@bananas Yeah that's usually what happens with imported stuff, a translated sticker is put over it
@bananas The ingredient/nutrition/etc. label should still be in Dutch (legally)
@bananas Ah but this one wasn't multi-language, that's the odd thing 😅 It *only* had a German label
@bananas (Which also explains how a German-labelled product ended up on shelves in a Dutch store, despite the label being designed *very* differently)
@bananas Oh they are, but AFAIK that's just down to the regional office thing - every country has (AFAIK) its own national organization that's often subdivided into regional offices, and each national organization is governed more or less independently, but with shared suppliers and infrastructure (IT, logistics, etc.). So each country's Lidl is different 'enough' to adapt to the local market.
@bananas I can't find anything about this - the German wiki also only seems to list the regional office split: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidl#Unternehmen
@bananas Huh? I don't think that's right. AFAIK all of Lidl is owned by Schwarz, even though they have regional distribution offices
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
