Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Yeah, yeah, “director’s cut”… When am I gonna see a “key grip’s cut”? “catering’s cut”? “studio janitor’s cut?”

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Wish people would think more critically before being like "lol look at this zany ad I got"
Yeah thats literally what they want you to do. The ad worked. They WANT you to show it to other people. Youre propagating the meme. You're advertising for free.
Stop doing that shit. You should know better.

took the elastomeric respirator out for its first spin today getting some groceries, and funnily enough, received no weird stares or comments despite it being more noticeable than auras are

it was pretty comfy and fits amazingly. wasn't hard to breathe at all in it. definitely feels empowering being able to go outside safely thanks to it

I’ve finished Deviations now but I wanted this to be my last quote in particular because of the mention of Hirschfeld. The Nazis shut his institute and burned his research but what he’d already published stayed out there for later generations of queer people to find and to build on. It’s easy to focus on loss - repression, censorship, the loss of communities - but it’s never total. And so the voices get passed down, for us to add our own and pass them on in turn

Actually, I want to point something out here. The exact words vary, but I often hear the same kind of argument: "I just need a few assets for a game", "I just use it to help me do art, I'm bad at it", "I just have it do the hard parts".

That is labour exploitation too.

It's not any less labour exploitation because you're small-time. You know how there's landlords that 'only' own 3 buildings, and they let them rot and screw over tenants, but if you say anything about it, they're just an uwu smol landlord and they just don't have the money to do it right? That's what this is.

This is how LLMs are *intended* to diffuse responsibility and immoral actions; and they're not the first tech products to do so. Remember how Uber called itself a marketplace, claiming they don't control the market's desires, they just facilitate it and the responsibility for labour exploitation lies with the nebulous cloud of their 'customers'?

This is exactly what OpenAI and the like do. They build the tools, knowing full well what they are going to be used for, and then go "oh well you'll have to talk to our users about that" when someone calls out the labour exploitation and worker abuse, and all of the users believe they're not doing much harm because they don't use it *that* often, and boom, everyone is complicit but nobody is responsible, while OpenAI or Google continues to rake in the cash.

Stop being complicit in this. Stop being the moral fall guy. Stop being the small-time landlord. Stop using these services, and trying to excuse it away by making it "labour exploitation but cute".

If you have trouble doing art, commission an artist. If you have trouble writing, pay someone to help you with it. If you cannot afford these things - and I mean *really* cannot afford these things, not just assume that you can't or dislike spending money on it - then find someone who is willing to help you out for free *with their consent*.

And if you still choose to do labour exploitation, then yes, I *am* going to judge you for it.

I just summarized my view on LLMs to someone this way, and figured it might be worth sharing here too:

The two options for using LLMs are "weapon" or "labour exploitation" and that is why I treat people advocating for them with extreme suspicion.

73% van de agrarische grond in Nederland wordt gebruikt voor de verbouw van veevoer.
Plus 3 miljoen hectare grondbeslag in het buitenland voor veevoer. (vooral soja)

I pulled this lipstick plant out of a skip outside the vet over a decade ago when I was living in London - there were three of them but I could only carry one and a feisty cat in a carrier. It plodded along for years in various places I lived in the interim until I left it at my parents' house last year, and some magical combination of light and conditions there mean it's now thriving.

#HouseplantsOfMastodon

Elephant brain, please help: I remember one of the queerfeminist scifi authors I like having said something along the lines of:

"Whatever I write, I will never write about queermisiac violence. I want my readers to feel safe that I'm not going to hurt them like that."

It was in a podcast or a panel talk, and most probably Annalee Newitz, Becky Chambers, or Martha Wells. Does someone know for sure?

I use Signal on a google-free LineageOS device, installed directly from the official apk. For a couple of months now, I'm struggling with disappearing messages. Sometimes it's just individual chats, sometimes all of the chats at once, and I have no idea what to do about it.

It seems to happen mostly (but not exclusively, and not always?) after phone reboots and/or after the Signal backup process ran. Most of the time, messages that disappear from the phone are still synched to the linked desktop app, so it's most definitely a phone thing. When it's individual chats disappearing, I couldn't find any pattern. Sometimes it's older chats, sometimes one of several from "today's chats."

A Signal re-installation and restore from backups didn't help. I run LOS 20 on a LG G5. I believe the pioblem existed already on LOS 19, but not as severe.

Any ideas to what I can do?