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politics, cryptobunk 

Also extremely depressing to see that said political parties have bought into the bullshit about how blockchains are super useful technology, when in reality they've been completely fundamentally broken for a decade by now

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politics, cryptobunk 

Goddamn neoliberals. e24.no/norsk-oekonomi/i/Po8z3b

To summarize/paraphrase: PoW cryptocurrency mining won't be banned in Norway because they "wouldn't want to inhibit innovation" and "it's not their job as politicians to decide what is and isn't useful for society" (WTF??)

grumble 

really hate how pervasive the concept of "stupidity" is in the collective conciousness. call people something else please

surely all the reasonable usage is covered by concepts like "negligence" or "ignorance" or "naïvité" or anything else that has more nuance and less ableism

also the inverse concept, "intelligence", is also not real thank you

Just deployed pages alpha v0.0.3-patch3!

It runs on pixie.homes, which has like 0 info on it yet oops, but you can already access the README for it's own repo through either:

homes.pixie.town (CNAME custom domain) or
main.pixie-pages.f0x.pixie.hom (automatic subdomain)

It's all still very early days but stuff kinda seems to work so that's neat!

all the source code can be found in git.pixie.town/f0x/pixie-pages

ableism and fiction 

One of the things that gets me about a lot of sci fi is the idea that Disabled people won't exist in the future. Like, they aren't even considered. Aside from the implications that they've all been cured or whatever, or some eugenics bullshit, it's lazy writing to me. I mean think! Just for a second, think of all the possibilities for a future where people are equal. If science fiction is all about asking "What if?" I don't care for a story where the question if "what if there were no Disabled people," but rather, "what if everyone were on equal footing and treated like they have agency?"

the switzerland experience is using things in english, half of it being german anyways and getting ads in french and italian

That model, of course, also neatly predicted the failure we're currently seeing with competing streaming services; which not only exceed the recommended price when you combine them, but also aren't interoperable *and* have DRM interfering with it. Which is why people are returning to piracy.

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This article is a fascinating read, and gives some insight into the history of piracy and music streaming: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_mus

10-ish minute oil pastel sketch without reference. It's a bit wonky but I like the textures ^.^ #MastoArt

I'm starting a small call for entries for a yet-to-exist 'zine on tech for resting, being lazy, letting be, and having a break. Share wide and far.

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For the first Fallow Zine, la Jachère is interested in contributions about the following topics, but not limited to them.

- Lazy tech or tech for the lazies
- Tech that falls into place, fits, is just enough
- Tech for rest, pause, have a break, take a breath
- Tech for preservation, of the status quo, of energy, of a moment, of equilibrium

More on jache.re/notes/call-fallow-zin

- Deadline: 21. June 2022 (more or less… deadlines are thresholds to play with)

#zine #technology

cis people LOVE to be like "ik this is controversial and idk if im allowed to say this because im cis but (transphobic take) (transphobic take) (extremely transphobic take) (facts twisted in bad faith) (transphobic take)" and all the other cis people in the room will be like "THANK you ive been too scared to say that!"

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Transphobia in policy, prison reform policy, ACAB 

It's funny that they came to an abolitionist organization and abolisionist activist for input on their horrifically transphobic policy, and tried to pull the "see were doing amazing work"

Like nah if you wanna make prisons better for trans people how bout you start off by doing away with prisons as a whole, and gender based correctional policy on top of that

Fuck cops, fuck the industrial prison complex

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working with foss shit is like

uh when you type the letter e into the search bar the entire thing crashes

"oh weird i didnt notice because i dont type the letter e. i just leave out vowels and it usually works fine."

no you misheard me, i said i work for a twink tank

That “clean your room thing” is hammered in people’s head starting from school really, only those that do well in school are able to criticize it

And the interesting thing is that the people that don’t do well also say this

Sounds a bit familiar, no?

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