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Good morning 2024! I wrote a text about how I experienced some first time volunteers at #37c3 trying eagerly to do as much work as possible and what I told some before. As always: Other folks may have other views on this topic and this is OK.

jascha.wtf/angels-at-chaos-abo

re: lewd, somno, light cnc, "you" 

@somebodys_alt Now that is my kind of waking up 🥵​

Ah, much better.

Now if y'all could just stick to one or two phrases, I could get a certain mouse off my timeline. There are - and always were - much cooler mice out there.

Literally any other mouse.

@DarkSheepArts Relatedly, it took me *a while* to realize that exact amounts of ingredients in recipes are not actually expected to be followed as exactly as specified (except for when they are, which is left implicit)

#Autistic Bread Making Challenge:

Remembering that when a recipe says, 'fashion the dough into a ball' they mean 'a shape that is more round than square', not, 'a shape so perfectly spherical that Archimedes, Kepler and Euler would go into paroxyms of ecstasy and invite you to join them in the annals of geometrical legend.'

Diese Woche war so stressig, da habe ich ganz viel Zeit in meinem Nest gebraucht. Tatsächlich habe ich erst dieses Jahr den Begriff “Autistic Nesting“ gelernt, obwohl ich den Mechanismus seit meiner Kindheit nutze.

Kennt ihr das auch und wenn ja, wie sieht euer Nest so aus?
Ich wünsch euch einen erholsamen Sonntag! ❤️

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#Autismus #Autism #MastoArt

mickey mouse, copyright 

In addition to what's already been said about the racist background of Steamboat Willie, please remember that there's not much worth celebrating here - the copyright laws that made this a problem to begin with are still very much there, and even as a symbolic victory it is a hollow one.

The fight is not over until is abolished.

(No, I will not argue "reform vs. abolition" on this thread. That is a discussion for another time, and one I will only have with people who have done the work of asking themselves what *demonstrable* benefits copyright actually has. Do not argue about this in my mentions.)

"Aan water geen gebrek momenteel, maar wel aan schoon drinkwater. Het zuiveren ervan kost waterbedrijven steeds meer moeite. En daarom gaan de tarieven omhoog. [...] Leverancier PWN schat in dat een gemiddeld huishouden per jaar ongeveer 10 euro meer kwijt is. [...]

De waterbedrijven zijn genoodzaakt om de tarieven te verhogen vanwege de extra kosten die ze moeten maken om water te zuiveren. Dat is moeilijker omdat er steeds meer bronnen van verontreiniging zijn, zoals pfas of medicijnresten. Of mest en bestrijdingsmiddelen."

Veel duidelijker dan dit kan het niet worden, toch? Bedrijven vervuilen, en de maatschappij draait op voor de kosten.

(Bron: rtlnieuws.nl/economie/life/art)

@quincy@chaos.social This is exactly now I feel about it. The only reason I'm still evaluating it is because it happens to be a near-exact match for what I was looking for (whereas other things are not), but they are really not doing themselves any favours with this approach...

And as far as I can tell from my investigation so far, aside from some shaky (but probably fixable) architectural issues, I don't see a reason why they *couldn't* be transparent about it, so I just really don't understand why they're not.

re: on fetishising autism 

@flesh I think a big difference for me would be the underlying worldview that is implied - whether someone more broadly recognizes autistic folks as autonomous beings that space should be made for in society and communities, or whether they revert to ableist and exclusionary views outside of a sexual context.

I think that correlates a lot with the *way* in which it is fetishized.

Disabled folks at UC are constantly told the public university we pay for with our taxes, tuition, and fees finds accessibility "too expensive".

Yet when they raise >$7B dollars, where do they prioritize that going to? More goodies for abled people. #UCAccessNow #Ableism #NeoliberalHellhole @academicchatter @disability

A reminder that Mickey Mouse is thinly coded minstrelsy. A tune in Steamboat Willie, “Turkey in the Straw,” has a previous title so racist I won’t note it here. Minstrelsy is a long scar on our cultural landscape, one of the most popular forms of entertainment for a century, and its vestiges and symbols remain with us.

Happy New Year!

[Updated to correct error about where “Turkey…” appears; link to song details: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_i ]

@quincy@chaos.social Veilid honestly frustrates me because the idea and the philosophy are great, and then... the community is on Discord, there are no usable docs, lots of unanswered architectural questions, little outward communication about what people are doing with it

Like, they got 90% of the way there and then just... didn't??

happy fuckin new year, let's kick the fascists to the curb

@eater Yeah but you can do that with range requests, and that saves you a lot of DHT entries

The more I try to look into the question of "why does IPFS chunk files", the less convinced I am of its usefulness: github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/3 (but maybe I'm missing something?)

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