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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- 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
@bert_hubert Bedankt voor al het werk dat je hiervoor doet.
Ik vermoed dat we best wat verschillen in politieke uitgangspunten hebben, maar je hebt absoluut gelijk op dit punt, en ik waardeer je doortastendheid in het ter sprake brengen erg. Dergelijke doortastendheid is veel zeldzamer dan het zou moeten zijn!
Today I learned that Servo has an excellent "AI" policy: https://book.servo.org/contributing.html#ai-contributions
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@jonny I feel like there's two separate issues at play here, in that "insular response" and "lack of governance structure" are two separate things.
The lack of a governance structure/process of some kind is indeed a problem, though one that IMO is subject to the exact same power dynamics as the 'politics of fascism'; in that there are a handful of 'figureheads' who de facto hold decisionmaking power regardless of the intentions of anyone else around governance (and who don't seem very interested in sharing or making space).
The "insular response" is more complicated though. Many (especially marginalized) folks are here not because they signed up to 'fix society', but because they were seeking refuge personally, in a social space that is made for them, where they are not excluded like they are everywhere else.
Which raises an uncomfortable question: is it actually even reasonable to essentially draft some of the most vulnerable and lowest-spoons folks into becoming responsible for fixing world politics? *Can* you actually expect "fedi" as a whole to be the solution here?
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EDIT: Fixed it. Updating my system solved it. 🤦♀️
Plasma broke for me yet again 😖
I had an issue where plasmashell would crash immediately as soon as I logged in, and part of the solution was to delete several Plasma configuration files (in ~/.config and ~/.local/share).
Sadly, this made the Window Decoration I was using completely break (see attached image + alt text). I already tried removing and reinstalling it, to no avail. And it's ONLY that deco that broke - others still work.
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“‘read, write, own’ web” - "Those who don’t remember the web before platforms, tend to believe that for 10 years web users stared at their monitors in anticipation. Actually they were made to believe it. First by Web 2.0 proponents, and nowadays by aggressive Web3 campaigns that rewrite the history by stating that Web1 was a dull, passive, read only place.”
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Happy captain james cook getting what he deserved Day!
british colonizer captain cook was killed by Native Hawaiians on this day in 1779. cook, whose men spread disease & used violence against Native Peoples for rejecting his rule, was stabbed to death for trying to kidnap the ruling chief of Hawai'i, Kalani'ōpu'u.
*Just reminding folks that Native Hawaiians have asked that commercial travel cease to their islands due to environmental disasters brought on by colonialism.*
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I've been thinning out my record collection, and these have to go.
This is mostly easy listening I pulled together for a festival chillout/cafe tent project that never got off the ground.
There's also some 80/90s pop in there, 12" singles, but a few now albums etc, some kids novelty records...
Nothing with much resale value.
Seems a shame to send it to the tip, but splitting/selling it is omgsomuchwork
If anyone wants the whole lot, and can collect from #Bristol (UK) let me know!
Dan plaats je een reactie op een video over fietsongelukken dat de gegevens van het CBS laten zien dat het probleem bij auto's ligt, en dan gaan er meerdere(!) mensen reageren met "het ligt aan de elektrische fietsen", die dus duidelijk zelf niet naar de CBS-data gekeken hebben...
Dat propagandapraatje over hoe gevaarlijk elektrische fietsen wel niet zijn is toch wel heel effectief gebleken, hoor.
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Saved and liberated the books I "bought" at Amazon for my Kindle. Amazon will stop offering the "Download & transfer via USB" option, so I have downloaded all 210 books. After downloading, I hunt them through Calibre and a certain plugin to remove the DRM stuff, convert the books to EPUB format so I have my private backup and can put them on a new ebook reader that is more open than the Amazon walled garden. And in future I will buy my eBooks someplace else. #ByeAmazon
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random talk about religion
so, one of the big reasons why "atheist" is not a religion is because religions are far more than a belief system: they're also a culture and a set of traditions. it's why so many people are proudly Jewish despite not really believing in God
but also, the weird thing about this is that the most popular religion in the US and Europe, Christianity, has replaced most of its culture and traditions… with capitalism. every Christian tradition except Christmas and Easter has been removed completely, and those two are still mostly about buying gifts or chocolate eggs
so, in a very real sense, the primary religion of the US and Europe is capitalism, not Christianity. and this openly tracks with basic Christian morals like "love thy neighbour" being completely omitted in favour of capitalist bullshit
the irony, of course, is that Christianity at its core is very anticapitalist, but that's far from what people believe nowadays
random talk about religion
@clarfonthey On the note of 'atheism', I feel like that particular view of religions necessitates a distinction between 'atheism' and 'Atheism(tm)', so to say.
I'm thinking of eg. the 'atheism youtubers', the 'rationality' crowd, etc. which absolutely do have associated culture and traditions (that, ironically, frequently contradicts rational decisionmaking).
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This guy did something dumb a decade ago and is still living with the consequences. He's a bit desperate financially, but still won't resort to a memecoin, it's too wrong.
https://trending.knowyourmeme.com/editorials/interviews/the-man-behind-the-burger-king-foot-lettuce-meme-talks-getting-doxxed-fired-and-tanking-bks-sales-for-stepping-in-lettuce
re: personal, activism
@cafkafk That's the problem, I literally cannot do that on my own without at least some mutual emotional support
personal, activism (2)
Oh, there's one more variant: local 'anarchist' meetings that ostensibly exist for organizing and meeting new people to work with, but which have exactly zero COVID safety guidelines and which pretend that the pandemic is over, and so I cannot even safely attend them
personal, activism
It immensely frustrates me that I *want* to get involved in effectively (locally) organizing against fascism, but I cannot do that on my own and almost everyone I talk to either:
1) Is completely politically apathetic and uninterested in doing literally any work to improve things to begin with,
2) Fails to pass even the most basic intersectionality test (usually in the form of holding differently-bigoted beliefs and absolutely refusing to introspect on them),
3) Is completely uninterested in any kind of creative strategizing, insistently sticking to the same three strategies that haven't worked for decades and that just burn out participants, or
4) Just outright doesn't have the energy/spoons to be actively involved, usually due to disability (which I obviously don't blame them for, but from a practical perspective it doesn't help to get things moving).
Like, it shouldn't be this difficult to find even a few people who are genuinely interested in making things happen, and have the energy to do so to at least some degree?
(This is in the Netherlands, to be clear)
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#BlackHistory. Meet Kizzmekia Corbett, leader of the team that gave us the Covid-19 vaccine. Thank you! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kizzmekia_Corbett
One of the things that continues to baffle me is how willing so many people are to just *believe* the things that corporations tell them unless disproven.
Even if you believe that some corporations are truthful, clearly *many* corporations must be structurally lying (even if you don't know which), otherwise the world couldn't look like it does today.
Isn't that an obvious reason to be more skeptical of corporate claims by default, rather than giving them the benefit of the doubt...?
@hazelnot AFAIK this depends on the motherboard (and it's the motherboard that controls it); a lot of modern motherboards have a setting for it in the EFI/BIOS somewhere, but not all
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@Luczeproblemen Het doet me denken aan een vriendin bij een andere verzekeraar. Alles digitaal, tracking-app op de telefoon. Sport zich in ruil voor wat spiegeltjes en kraaltjes een slag in de rondte, terwijl ze dat eigenlijk niet aankan. Maar het extraatje kan ze wel goed gebruiken…
Dát is wat prijsprikkels doen.
- 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
