Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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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People think practices like restorative justice are ways to be “soft on crime.” Even left-leaning people. Especially white, left leaning people. Because our views on “crime” are even based in anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism.
You don’t practice restorative justice to “let criminals get off scott free.” You practice restorative justice to build your society’s ability to approach social problem from a restorative foundation.
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ikea stickers
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There's a somewhat popular idea that "computers have become too complex for anyone to really understand them" but honestly I don't think that's specific to computers at all.
The same thing has happened for goods and infrastructure; who *actually* understands anymore how the things they use on a daily basis are created, and what social factors play into that?
You can see this in the preppers who believe an isolated bunker will sustain them, the seasteaders who believe that they can just not pay taxes and infrastructure will somehow magically exist, and yes, also in the people on fedi who would rather just move to a shed in the forest that's cut off from society, but who have never thought through the implications that that has for their ability to eat.
All of them are completely disconnected from the process by which their daily sustenance is produced; there's no recognition that building social ties is *unavoidably necessary* to maintain a society or even just one's own life, that you can't just completely isolate yourself from others and survive.
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@operand They are absolute misery. Maybe they should just make their furniture out of those stickers and then it'll never break
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@joepie91 repainted some old thrifted ikea chairs a while ago and you cant even get that shit off with sandpaper!
There's a somewhat popular idea that "computers have become too complex for anyone to really understand them" but honestly I don't think that's specific to computers at all.
The same thing has happened for goods and infrastructure; who *actually* understands anymore how the things they use on a daily basis are created, and what social factors play into that?
You can see this in the preppers who believe an isolated bunker will sustain them, the seasteaders who believe that they can just not pay taxes and infrastructure will somehow magically exist, and yes, also in the people on fedi who would rather just move to a shed in the forest that's cut off from society, but who have never thought through the implications that that has for their ability to eat.
All of them are completely disconnected from the process by which their daily sustenance is produced; there's no recognition that building social ties is *unavoidably necessary* to maintain a society or even just one's own life, that you can't just completely isolate yourself from others and survive.
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The Nation serving Google ads on an op Ed about Google’s evils is ironic and morally short sighted.
Reminds me of lefty bent liberals with a Substack, or all the environmental websites pushing people to the Nazi bird site for traffic.
We have to start expecting moral and practical voices to walk their own talk, even if it’s less profitable.
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I'm not a big fan of copyright, but Meta's argument here is that they couldn't afford to pay for it and that justifies just taking it without paying. Extraordinary repudiation of capitalism from its heart.
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“Flash Games Were the Internet’s Crayon Box”
https://innerspiral.lol/Blog/flash/flash
I miss seeing the kind of interactive work and experimentation a designer could do on their own with Flash. There isn't really anything like it any more.
Meh. Weer hype-meuk op de HSNL lijst. Dit keer over LLMs, en weer dezelfde gast die voorheen helemaal in de blockchains en "IoT" zat...
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#spoonieTown has lots of front stoops, porches, and park benches to sit and chat with a neighbour whenever it takes your fancy.
...or to sit on, smile and nod wordlessly at passersby when yer not feeling chatty. People dig that too.
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crow/corvid people, some question, do crows sometimes swoop out of positive motives? was giving a murder peanuts yesterday and one crow that was particolare curious/brave and close ended up flying up and lightly swooping me from behind when i turned away from it, then landing in a branch very close to me, i think it wanted more peanuts/not be forgotten? like, no picking no claws, just wings and tail brushing my hair
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I "love" how we need to keep on studying things that are flat out good for society while bad things just get rolled out without the same onus of proof.
Things that need to be proven over and over and over:
- Universal Basic Income
- Walkable cities prioritising pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit
- Low speed limits for cars
- No-strings housing for homeless
- High taxes for the rich
And the list goes on and on... why do we make it so hard to improve our society while making it so easy to ruin it?
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USPol; Health; Lies; Death
So… if you listen to the current govement of the United States….. 
1. Covid is over. 
2. The latest epidemic is how my brain is wired (Autism) 
They are literally saying I am a bigger threat than a virus that has killed 7 million people. 
I don’t think I’ve killed 7 million people. I don’t think all autistic people combined have killed 7 million people. 
So if protecting human life isn’t the goal… what is? Oh right… Autistic people will challenge how people think because we think differently and we tend to challenge group think when we see it. 
These people rely on group think because they need people to do things against their own interest and the only way to make that happen is to engage group think. 
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After toiling away at this for a few months, I'm releasing two new Go projects for the fediverse today:
longdistance, a JSON-LD processor.
pana, an ActivityStreams library built on longdistance.
I built these projects with the hope to make it easier for folks to get started building on the fediverse themselves. You can read a bit about this on my blog.
(If you happen to have computer touchers in your followers, I would appreciate a boost.)
It occurs to me that the people who most enthusiastically accuse other people of being "lazy", are active proponents of capitalism, which has caused a cultural shift towards expecting convenience at any cost, eschewing building things with your community in favour of relying on centralized corporations for everything you need.
If "laziness" exists, it sure isn't the thing where people refuse to dedicate their lives to a corporate overlord, as it is commonly claimed.
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Every now and then when my blog gets attention, *especially* when the "How Decentralized Is Bluesky Really" post came out, you get a bunch of people complaining that the site looks like it was designed 20 years ago (it was)
@mkljczk made a "more modern version" of my blog https://mkljczk.pl/uploads/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/
Compare to the original https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/
Big step up!
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- 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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
