Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

🦆 how many times do I have to refresh my production instance before it updates to the code I'm editing locally

EDIT: Sorry folks, this was actually old news, and the call for views had already concluded. My bad!
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UK artists! Your government just published a call for opinions on AI generated artwork, and your voice is needed!

They are affirming that under current law, artwork used to train AI without license or permission is most likely copyright infringement - but they're calling for the public's opinion on whether the law should be changed to make exceptions for use with AI.

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/artificial-intelligence-and-intellectual-property-call-for-views/artificial-intelligence-call-for-views-copyright-and-related-rights

a re-creation of Dark Sky (weather website/API) based on open data was released today! 🌤️
https://merrysky.net/
https://pirateweather.net/

Some terrible trivia for y'all: When did the Hebrew #Wikipedia abolish the policy to misgender #trans people when describing the period before they came out?

#HebrewWikipedia #Transphobia

On Twitter, I had a hard time finding other trans people with shared interests to follow. On Mastodon, they’re just all coming out of the woodworks. It’s like that SpongeBob scene where he keeps opening different things and there are diapers. But instead it’s a good thing and the diapers are all #trans friends who become mutuals. I love this place.

Turns out that Adobe is collecting all of its customers' pictures into a machine learning training set.

This is opt-out, not opt-in so if you use Lightroom, for example, it defaults to adding all of your photos to the set.

If these are unpublished pictures, work-in-progress, etc. they'll still be analysed as soon as they're synced.

I've been using Lightroom to sync photos from my Windows desktop to my iPad. Now I need to reconsider that.

Active For Justice is een meldpunt begonnen voor Foie Gras in restaurants!
Weet je er een? Meldt het dan hier:
http://activeforjustice.nl/meldpunt

BOOST als je ook wilt dat het afgelopen is met het dierenleed van dwangvoeren van ganzen en eenden!

@dxciBel@fruef.social @blahaj@blahaj.zone Framing the fight for trans right as a debate is empowering transphobia. It's actively normalising the idea that our rights can be questioned, and that there are circumstances where our rights can take a back seat if an argument is well made.

The people debating don't care about the debate. They're not looking for answers. They're just making their feelings about trans folk known, because the debate gives them a chance to share their bigotry, as long as they do it in the socially acceptable way. Not a single person changes their mind and drops their transphobia because a trans person or an ally was willing to debate with them or "answer all of their questions".

We "win" the debates when people develop enough empathy to realise that making our rights contingent on debate is an act of harm in and of itself, and that takes empathy and consideration. And empathy and consideration will only develop when we are normalised. And normalisation is achieved by visibility, not by debate.

As for the comments, they were up for a VERY long time, including active death threats to trans people. I'll be waiting for a comment by them to show measures that ensure it won't happen again before I consider refederating.

just got yet another "why are you blocking my domain you have no reason listed and I don’t think that’s fair" email from a fedi admin who’s totally not upset that my single user instance is blocking his but thinks it sends a bad impression of him.

"it’s only 29 hours old and has no posts!"

yep, and before you installed GtS yesterday you ran pleroma on a different subdomain and federated with any and every cesspool that came your way.

now you’re using kiwi farms tooling to see who remembers and convince them they don’t.

fuck off, tiuxo dot com admin, I’m tryna have a nice end of year break.

I sometimes hear people who are not even millionaires saying things like, “Just being a billionaire doesn’t make someone a bad person.” It absolutely makes them a bad person. One doesn’t just happen to accumulate a billion dollars because one has a great product or service. It happens because you exploit the fuck out of people and resources. You hoard profits for yourself rather than share them with the people who are actually making your products and providing your services.

this is, once again, a case of the medical establishment reinforcing social stigma against normal physiological variations.

how many doctors tell you to just go to sleep earlier and tell you that sleeping late is unhealthy? this is just the same bullshit as always.

I'm here to tell you that your body knows what it needs, and if you listen to your body's signals and give it the amount of sleep it needs at the time when it needs it, you're doing everything right.

a lot of studies have been done and found that people who go to bed late have poorer sleep, poorer performance in life, more stress etc, but not a single one that I've seen has mentioned, let alone examined, the effect of social sleep norms and expectations, so I find them all questionable.

especially because many of them not only do not correct for, but in their methodology and their analysis actually reproduce and reinforce stigmatisation of "undesirable" sleep times.