Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

You know what I "love"?

When people who were previously openly bigoted towards me feel a shift in attitudes and start appealing to my humanity or sense of community or empathy or good political sense without owning up to, or even acknowledging, their past wrongdoing.

Pretending to be the "bigger man" when no longer allowed to be shitty has got to be amongst the most disgusting tactics out there.

The first step of creating a #wheelchair model that isn't a total disgrace is to not forget about the human.

Step zero might be having friends in wheelchairs or having seen actual wheelchairs.

(if you want to know why this trot seems a bit salty, look for wheelchairs on sketchfab ...)

Feel free to give feedback if you use wheelchairs.
#3dart #blender #modeling

saying “LLMs have their uses” is like saying “Agent Orange has its uses” - technically correct. more correct than LLMs often are, even, but folks, I hate to break it to you: “technically correct” is not actually the best kind of correct except in a very very narrow set of circumstances that you’ll rarely find yourself in. “technically correct” is just another version of the Torment Nexus.

I wrote a CDC Archive Archiver to pull public information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. Just in case people get weird ideas of removing science from the public discourse. This is part of a larger effort that, among others, @lavaeolus initiated. You are welcome to chime in if that's up your alley.

- https://codeberg.org/antifascistDH/academia-preserver/src/branch/main/cdc_archiver
- https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113882207119609662
- https://codeberg.org/thgie/antifascist-archives-action-sticker

#AntifascistArchives #DigitalHumanities #ArchivalPractices

Nieuwsartikel dat Buienradar en co het KNMI aanklagen omdat ze een 'te goede' app hebben gemaakt. Dat vinden ze concurrentievervalsing.

Ik wist helemaal niet dat het KNMI een goede weerapp had, maar nu wel, dus nu gebruik ik die i.p.v. Buienradar. Bedankt, Buienradar!

Something I've been noticing lately, in a lot of different places, is that as economic conditions get worse, things start getting stolen more often.

I'm not talking about shoplifting here; I'm talking about people stealing from their own communities. I've noticed increased reports of this in a wide variety of communities, across countries.

Please be mindful of who you are stealing from, and don't let it be your community. And conversely, if you are still doing well financially, look for people in your community who are financially drowning and how you can help them.

Massive tech companies have invested absurd amounts of money into "AI" systems, recentering their whole business around it.

It seems to me that one of the most effective ways to hurt these tech companies, would be to sabotage their play by making "AI" as socially unacceptable as possible, so that their investments turn into useless bricks that nobody wants or trusts.

Wow, a single comment questioning @dansup@mastodon.social and I was immediately blocked, not even a discussion man? really?

their choice to keep calling loops "open source" while the code is closed, as well as the recent post about hiding federation features behind extra menus so all new users auto-signup to services controlled by him, is concerning for genuine reasons (although I'm sure he's already called me a troll or something)

This combined with the comments/jokes about "exploring" advertising for the loops platform is highly concerning, here you have somebody siphoning users into a single server they control, while developing an app they call open source without any code being available, who also thinks advertisements are a reasonable business model for the fediverse...

We could have just spoken about your views on this, but I suppose my ideas about FOSS and no advertising were too threatening lol

Think twice, or thrice, about actually signing up and supporting #Pixelfed or #Loops while dansup is behind them tbh

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Edit: I've found a local place, thank you for all your suggestions!

I need a few small plates. Anyone here sell food-grate pottery? If so, please send me the link to your stuff!

With “DEIA” being dismantled, it’s time to rethink what we want. What we were doing wasn’t very effective; much of it put lipstick on a hierarchical pig. It’s time to think instead about what actually enables the thriving of the people targeted by white supremacy and what undermines the power of white supremacy.

To me, the hierarchical nature of most workplaces—a nature DEIA efforts worked within rather than challenged—is a big part of the problem. The bias of others who rate you and hand opportunities to you matters much more than the bias of a colleague you can associate with, or not, as you choose.

Another problem is the need to do something you hate doing because it helps nothing but an owner’s wallet. Owners *need* to control you, and an authoritarian power structure and infighting helps to achieve that control.

To achieve a world that is just and equitable and accessible, we need to radically rethink power relations, not establish yet another powerless committee.

realistic factorio-like where you have to rent a little building to build a production line for like toilet brushes or something else mundane

How do people go about making alt text for abstract art?

#Alttext #art #accessibility

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