Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @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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Microsoft folks: we’re not evil.
Also Microsoft folks: …
(Hey @EU_Commission, mind forwarding this to @EC_Commissioner_Vestager for me? She doesn’t seem to be active here but something tells me this might interest her.)
#competition #antitrust #eu #microsoft #edge #bing #mozilla #firefox
re: debts, poverty is expensive
To clarify, I am no longer in debt, and I'm doing okay now, at least financially (mentally is a different story - also partly because of poverty).
I'm just sharing this to show, with a first-hand example, just how much poor people get fucked over.
debts, poverty is expensive
About a decade ago, I was in poverty and, more importantly, deeply in debt. Here's an excerpt from just one of the many, *many* letters I got from debt collectors at the time.
The original debt was 750.25 EUR, racked up because I couldn't afford the (legally mandated!) private health insurance.
(Which, by the way, results in additionally getting fined by the government, but that's a whole separate story.)
After adding debt collection charges, the total came out to owing the health insurer 1971.46 EUR, almost three times(!) as much as the original debt.
Poverty is expensive. 
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Kacey
Next time someone complains about singular "they" I'll point them to this 17th century rant against singular "you"
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We have a new study out!
The short version is this: "Car Brain" - the cultural blind spot that makes people apply double standards when they think about driving - is real, measurable and pervasive.
Read on for more details... 1/14 @SwanseaUni@twitter.com @UWEBristol@twitter.com @EdNapierTRI@twitter.com
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grumbling, activism
If you feel that radical folks are "too radical" and "scaring off others", but "you agree with them in principle", why aren't you volunteering to do the job of explaining this to liberals/centrists/etc.?
Why are you instead demanding that the radical folks moderate their speech, look friendly, and generally shut up about the incredibly taxing and frustrating experience of constantly getting the same milquetoast subtly-bigoted shit thrown at them masquerading as progressive politics?
Why are you expecting the people who are *already* bearing the brunt of abuse and doing most of the work for social change, to do *even more* work to look less scary and more appealing? Why aren't *you* the one doing that?
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Just saw Servo is getting full time developers again in 2023! https://servo.org/blog/2023/01/16/servo-2023/
Servo is the "write a browser in Rust" project Mozilla started in 2012 (and which created the whole Rust language as part of the work) - they stopped working on it a few years ago
The new development looks like it's backed by Igalia - "a private, worker-owned, employee-run cooperative model consultancy focused on open source software" based in Spain: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igalia
More: https://people.igalia.com/mrego/servo/igalia-servo-tsc-2022/
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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.
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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.
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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.
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All I'm gonna say is that everyone saying we need to do "prefigurative politics" to make some kind of "better world" but who refuses to even engage with the existence of children and teens? And somehow aren't questioning the existence of schools?
It'd be great if they'd either help those of us wanting to build healthier SDE/unschooling communities and make them accessible or shut up forever, lmao.
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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
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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
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Human Computer Interaction folks: is there any literature on designing interfaces for eventually consistent systems?
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rant around the BS about the word "queer" (with the context of being a queer person who has done extensive academic research into the history of the word)
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
So... did the UFoI thing die out, or what?
- 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
