Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I really don't understand why people think it/its is degrading. Why are you thinking of lesser things for it/its when the pronouns could represent towering mountains, harmonious sounds, powerful torrents and the limitless sky?

It /is/ dehumanizing, which is not a bad thing. I feel closer to the songbird and the volcano and the cassava plant and the stars. If your choice of thing to think about when you use it/its for me is degrading, then you have made the choice of thinking less of me because of it.

If you are cis and are talking about transphobia, you must use a CW (or else you're an asshole).

Otherwise, I would like to please encourage the use of CWs for these topics in these trying times to avoid traumatising your trans siblings. Thank you.

why on earth do academics care so much about students cheating with #ChatGPT and don't seem to mind the emergence of a new kind of platform economy that further abstracts labor in a series of services that just barely work enough to fool VCs, laundering liability for products through "of course the chatbot is imperfect," and a new set of chokepoints for tech companies to serve as obligate passage points for data harvesting? Some of them even seem excited for it magically solving the problems left by our dereliction of responsibility for maintaining our own infrastructure like informational synthesis, search, and discovery.

oh wait no that tracks.

in reading a little while writing this, people are marketing “opt-out consent” as a type of consent lmao

as if taking your info/data/whatever doesnt require consent to do, and they Will do it without your consent and only stop when you say so.

sounds exactly like the opposite of consent

again. techbros do Not understand consent and you will not convince me otherwise

We support the blockade of the Davos private airport by @DebtforClimate, demanding debt cancellation for the Global South. Thousands of private jets are using this airport to attend the World Economic Forum, where financial decisions strangling the Global South are made.#wef23 1/
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RT @DebtforClimate
BREAKING: We are blocking the private airport used by #Davos23 attendees to demand the richest 1% pay their climate debt!

#DebtforC…
https://twitter.com/DebtforClimate/status/1614893553955528704

Human Computer Interaction folks: is there any literature on designing interfaces for eventually consistent systems?

Whoever did this and I would get along well.

I wrote an entire mini thesis on the history and use of the word queer in college (at my school you had to write a 10-20 pg mini thesis for every class with a topic you picked that was related to the subject of the class and this was for an LGBTQIA+ history class). I spent hours every day for about 6 months extensively researching the history of the word, and its use in the US and around the world.

There are some nuanced parts of history of the word, but at the end of the day there is not any good faith argument for telling LGBTQIA+ people we cannot describe ourselves or our own communities as "queer".

Controversy over the reclaiming of the word (for individuals or the community as a whole) has historically and is currently almost always centered around the feelings of white cis gay men and lesbians who do not want to include trans people, polysexual people, ace people, and people of color (among other groups) from "their community". Do not let them get away with it.

If you don't want it used to describe you as an individual that is fine, but our choice to call ourselves queer deserves as much respect as your choice not to.

#queer #queerphobia #bigotry #transphobia #biphobia #panphobia #LGTQIA #trans #nonbinary #enby #pansexual #polysexual #queerstudies

@gsuberland Literally always buying the fastest computer I can so I don’t ever have to wait, because waiting means drifting.

Stop asking "could this meeting be an email?" and start asking "could this discord server be a support forum?"

Instead of going to Brussels in February, I'm going to print out this sign for my office door and then watch the talks on my phone from the kitchen for the proper #FOSDEM experience.

…and just a few other things…

Deep down, I think we all know that if you have a machine like this, you’re unanimously the bad guy, right?

ssttiill wwaaiittiinngg......

Measure once, print thrice.

Adriaan & Rocher present: alles wat je moet weten over Blue Monday! Check snel dit draadje om meer over dit fenomeen te weten te komen.

Blue Monday, wie kent het niet? Meer dan vijftien jaar geleden is de derde maandag van januari omgedoopt tot meest deprimerende dag van het jaar. Elk jaar weer berichten media over hoe ontzettend mistroostig deze blauwe maandag wel niet is.

my reaction when bottoms reply with an incomprehensible collection of keysmashes, punctuation, and emojis