Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

okay but consider: LLMs in the workplace as the perfect tool for a saboteur who wishes to retain plausible deniability.

lots of ppl want to see their shitty (evil, destructive, anti-democracy, etc) workplaces fail, few are willing to risk drawing attention to themselves. working sloppily & priotizing the appearance of productivity over maintenance are real and accessible sabotage techniques. even if nothing goes boom, soaking up resources and introducing sources of error adds up.

accepting that everything is political, I think the "political" posts that people have in mind when asking for cw: politics tags have the commonality that they are

asking the reader to have an emotion or form an opinion (or even asking the reader to take action) about something

and I think it's reasonable to want to be able to use social media and retain agency in when you're positioned as a game piece to be knocked around by someone's pinball bumpers and flippers

(the other category being "current events related to political entities")

it's true that everything is political in ways that cannot be escaped

even "look at this cool thing I made" embeds either "…which I could do b/c politics hasn't [yet] outlawed me existing or making things" or the very pointed negation of that

but I don't think that's what people are asking for when they ask for content warnings / notes / subject lines on "politics" ?

(or maybe they are, I think a difficulty w/ this debate is that different people ask for the same thing for different reasons, and different people assume different motivations for the same request)

I think for a lot of folks it has to do with a *hypervigilance* about the political — not the privileged wish to be secure in ignorance, but the folks who can't be ignorant or secure trying to manage the when & how & how much of their anxiety intake in order to remain functional, to protect their ability to take action to protect themselves & others.

the autism/ADHD/AuDHD thing is important to know b/c ADHD is a much easier/clearer diagnosis to get — being *outwardly* divergent in ways that annoy teachers can get one put in front of a psych faster than being quietly divergent in ways that impair yourself much more significantly

so there's a lot of ppl with an ADHD diagnosis who "coincidentally" have a bunch of sensory processing issues, difficulty intuiting emotion or intent (of self or others!), muscle pain/damage from too-flexible joints…

aperiodic reminder (hi new followers) that probably everyone who follows me is some flavor of autistic (imo ADHD / executive disfunction impairments are a color in the autism spectrum) just in case you've been struggling in a way it seems like most people you went to school with aren't and you don't have a name for what's up with that

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It's so funny in games when you move between two areas and you see the colour grading change before your eyes, and then you turn back and the place you were just in now looks completely different

When I became a homeless, mentally ill sex worker in my mid-20s, I remained white and educated, and was able to talk myself out of more than one sticky situation with cops. I survived with trauma and a nicotine addiction so, practically unscathed.

Etc.

This Disablity Pride Month, please do not donate to me. Please direct it to a Black or Brown disabled person. That is always fairest, because of the widespread theft from their incomes and expenses by our entire society. Just my 2 cents.

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Bass: exists
Humans: wobble

"Trapping AI" – Slight Update! 🌀

Activity in the "Trapping AI" project is accelerating: in just under a month, over 26 million requests have hit our tarpit URLs 🕳️. Vast volumes of meaningless content were devoured by AI crawlers — ruthless digital leeches that relentlessly scour and pillage the web, leaving no data untouched.

In the coming days, we’ll roll out a new layer of complexity — amplifying both the intensity and offensiveness of our approach. This escalation builds on fakejpeg, a tool developed by @pengfold.

🖼️ fakejpeg generates fake JPEGs on the fly. You "train" it with a collection of existing JPEGs, and once trained, it can produce an arbitrary number of things that look like real JPEGs — perfect for feeding aggressive web crawlers junk 🗑️.

Explore fakejpeg: https://github.com/gw1urf/fakejpeg

Learn more about "Trapping AI": https://algorithmic-sabotage.github.io/asrg/trapping-ai/#expanding-the-offensiveness

See the tarpit in action: https://content.asrg.site/

always a good reminder for the freelancers out there, educate yourself a little on legalese. I'm not an expert by any means, but a little competency goes a long way.

I recommend the Graphic Artists Guild Handbook as a good reference for this as they have example contracts. I got recommended this early on in my career by a mentor of mine, and it changed how I approached running a freelance business: https://graphicartistsguild.org/the-graphic-artists-guild-handbook-pricing-ethical-guidelines/

I was a bit shocked. They weren't even offering a great rate. But still.

There's no way I'd sign a non-compete when I run a freelance business working with many direct competitors. They'd have to lock in a long-term contract with very high pay for me to even consider that.

No thanks.

Had a possible new client there who sent me their NDA so we could talk more in detail on the project before signing contracts. But it included, no joke, conflict of interest and non-compete clauses for up to a year... for an NDA!

They wouldn't remove them, so I walked.

Always read every agreement.