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.
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- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
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
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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"highlighting the points of convergence between AIDS and COVID makes it possible to remember the importance of a communal fight against the hierarchization of lives, for the defense of preventive, patient-oriented/care-oriented public health and in favor of a medicine that remains evidence-based and scientifically produced and validated."
[translation: mine, if you find mistakes please let me know]
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morrowind and racism
so recently i found out about that morrowind mod that adds a complete recreation of emba-5 (a real small military town that was built in kazakhstan during the ussr times). the mod was made by a person who lived there and i thought it was kind of cute until it turned out the mod maker is a russian religious quack nazbol guy who says that it's a "uniquely russian" town and believes kazakh people cursed it and bastardized it after ussr fell. wack.
@valentyn @remixtures I mean, what isn't clear about that is that people have been saying for years that "that's in every service's terms of service, it's boilerplate text" (which is approximately true) and "it doesn't mean anything" (which is *mostly* but not entirely true).
So this framing feels a lot like victim blaming to me. There *are* realistically no services that don't have this clause, and this exact same clause is used to deal with a legitimate legal issue (namely, vagueness about what constitutes a derived work in a network context), so arguing "well it's always been there and you should've noticed" really doesn't help anyone.
If you want to criticize something, that criticism is better aimed at the culture and legal environment that have allowed this boilerplate to persist for so long without scrutiny.
subtoot, schools, LLMs
@feliks I'm not sure how this is relevant to the post?
@stellarskylark @schratze I feel like you're just solving the "getting rid of dust" problem here, to be honest
I find it really fascinating how an ever-increasing proportion of "folks I have stayed in touch with after meeting them in various completely unrelated communities over the past 15 years" are turning out to be trans in some way (even if I have a pretty good idea about why this happens)
subtoot, schools, LLMs
Like, I get it, LLMs are terrible and all, and you won't find me disagreeing there, but "our sacred homework standards!" is extremely *not* the hill to be dying on there
subtoot, schools
"Why would you use LLMs to do your homework instead of learning things??"
...because students are coerced into doing homework they never asked for and they have been taught for a decade+ that grades are the only thing that matters, and so they have no real choice but to optimize their participation in this bizarre social dance of pretending to learn things to participate in society?
If only people had been warning for decades that common schooling methods are inefficient and encouraging the wrong things. If only.
@barefootrambling Netherlands: pro, local hospital proactively provided accommodations (eg. private room) when I was taken in for kidney issues. Con, it's (along with ADHD) a reason to require an additional psych visit to get a driver's license.
(The implications vary by where you live)
Looks like my own implementation works, at least: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/a7235920e314f37a992c6ed078970ddc?ts=4
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re: Honestly curious philosophical musing that's not intended to be adversarial, feel free to ignore
@malcircuit That is going to depend on the exact circumstances, and is generally a process that requires the input of the victim. Whole books have been written about repairing harm, resolving conflicts, and (social) accountability.
A better question is, why *would* punitive measures repair harm and prevent reoccurrence? As basically all evidence is against this concept, and it often has the opposite outcome.
re: Honestly curious philosophical musing that's not intended to be adversarial, feel free to ignore
@malcircuit I'd respond to that with a philosophical counterquestion: why would the primary qualifier for something being "justice" be "experiencing pain or discomfort", rather than "repairing harm and preventing reoccurrence"?
Because that to me sounds more like revenge than like justice. Is the intention of justice to make things right and make society better, or is the intention to "get the last word in", so to say?
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transphobia, harassment
My SECOND overt transphobia ever! Dang, they're coming often now!
I'm walking down the street, minding my business, some kid, he wasn't even twenty probably gives me a weird look. Then another. Then another.
Don't judge a book by its cover, but this guy is not winning any Nobel Prizes anytime soon. He doesn't have a very... thoughtful expression. Even though he's clearly puzzled.
I don't bother, I do look... striking today, and I've been given looks before. We stop at a red light. I don't look at him because who gives a fuck.
"What's that you're wearing?", I hear. The verb "wearing" genders me as a guy.
I look at the guy "pardon me?"
"What're you wearing? Why'd you leave the house like this?"
He's still gendering me make. I repeat the verb at him in the correct gender to correct him. He repeats the incorrect verb. It goes back and forth like this two times. I smirk.
"You're a boy", he says accusingly. He's about half my age but he uses the familiar "you". It's a bit rude in Polish to address a stranger like that. Also, "boy"? Fucker, I could be your mother, lmfao.
I smile. "Nope, I'm a girl".
"You're a boy". He's very angry.
I laugh a little. "Whatever you say." The light is green. I cross the street.
"Faggot.", I hear behind me. I turn sharply and take just one step towards him. I'm a good deal bigger and taller than him.
He scurries away like the rat he is. He taunts me, implying he wants to get violent. But curiously, whenever I take one step towards him, he takes two steps back.
He keeps acting "tough". I'm losing my patience, so I calmly but menacingly invite him to show me what he's got. He moves even further away, all the way talking shit.
"You're running away that easily? That was quick", I comment and move on.
Transphobes are weak spineless bitches. So are homophobes. I'm pissed off, but also very satisfied with this encounter. Those shits are weak. Even the ones who are physically strong.
prisons, spicy take to some
Imprisonment is a form of torture, no matter how 'humane' it is on paper, and should be treated as such from an ethical perspective.
And when you argue for imprisoning people as a form of 'justice', you are arguing for torture as a form of 'justice', with all of the implications that that has.
It's just a form of torture that's easy to rationalize if you don't want to confront those implications.
(I've figured out my own but want to see if there are any better options out there)
Are there any established algorithms for merging multiple overlapping but gappy sequences of items into a single sequence?
@amy When this happens to me, very often it seems to be a case of "the social convention is that you do not point this out to people and confront them with it, and you have broken that social convention".
Very often they are conventions I absolutely do not subscribe to for ethical reasons...
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One of weird things about being autistic is when I make observations about people and then they get creeped out or tell me it was unsettling.
Like, I'm literally commenting on something so obvious to me that it would have felt weird not to say something.
re: politics, kind of a downer, worries, and my living situation
@mynameistillian There's always going to be a risk, no way around that, the best you can do is to mitigate those risks upfront as much as possible. Staying where you are isn't without risks either, after all! I guess the only question really is which risk is bigger to you.
I've sometimes regretted taking risks, but most of the time they've worked out well for me, especially when I did preparation work ahead of time.
- 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.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
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
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
