On a metaphysical level I never understood why so many people who align toward their idea of "chaos" are self-centered narcissistic dickheads.
That's the norm. That's boring. That's doing what everyone else with a shred of power in this world does. Focusing on your own power and how to grow and exert it over others is milquetoast privileged bullshit.
True chaos is what results when you use the power you know you already have to empower others. You want chaos, try predicting what an artist will do when you give them the safety, means and power to create.
rpi meta
@Lazol@yiff.life @Juju @boisdevache@guineapig.party That's possibly the best part of this; even *if* it were true what they are claiming (which it's not, lol), it would essentially be an admission that a bunch of bored queer folks could wreck their company out of nowhere. Like, how exactly do they think this is a good look?
more defederation talk omg
I've seen so many bad takes lately about how defederation is "overreaction" or "childish" or whatnot
Usually seems to come from the idea that Fedi is "a platform"
and I'm like
No
No it's not a platform
it's a loose federation of a bunch of small social networks (one per instance), and any "a platform" that you might see is the emergent result of admins doing all the defederation and cleanup work behind the scenes
@Are0h @MerlinJStar@weirder.earth Can't speak for the UK, but unfortunately we have quite a bit of it in the Netherlands as well. Not *as* bad as the US though... yet.
raspberry pi, ACAB
There is no good way to hire a cop who proudly took part in mass surveillance programs so intense and privacy violating that even their government admitted it was in violation of human rights after international human rights orgs intervened post Snowden.
Especially being proud of the fact that he used their devices to do it.
Even if RPi had handled everything perfectly after their announcement, this should still be disgusting and unacceptable.
@determinerik (Dat wil dus ook zeggen dat het moet draaien om "waar wil je zelf hulp mee" en niet om "we gaan je leren hoe je in de maatschappij past". Dat is conversietherapie, en een bron van trauma.)
@determinerik Zelfbeschikking. Ze moeten de clienten serieus nemen, op hun woord geloven over hoe zij dingen ervaren, er vanuit gaan dat *clienten* en dus niet hulpverleners in de beste positie zijn om hun situatie te begrijpen, en vooral geen conversietherapie-achtige praktijken toe proberen te passen (zoals helaas wel gebruikelijk is binnen de GGZ).
@datatitian Note, though: it's possible that some of the "participants" have been misled into joining. There's at least one known case of this.
A lot of people are apparently twigging to the fact that the transhumanist/accelerationist/longtermist/effective altruist/singularitarian threads that run through the entirety of silicon valley and the Western technosocial context is intimately, innately tied to the project of eugenics and let me just say: Welcome to the conversation.
Very good read for anyone working on accessibility:
Avoiding the engineer-saviour trap - Jenny List, Hackaday
https://hackaday.com/2017/08/03/avoiding-the-engineer-saviour-trap/
"And in that moment, I almost fell into a trap. I was setting myself up to be the Engineer-Saviour, riding in on my white charger to deliver the users of the room from the ceaseless hell into which its designers had put them. The overwhelming smugness of Helping Someone Less Fortunate Than Myself was reaching out to envelop me, and it was time to put the thought down and back away real slow."
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