Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

"A handful of companies own the #patents on virtually every #seed planted in the US. Now, a new crop of unowned seeds is bringing #biodiversity back to #farming."
https://worldsensorium.com/open-source-seeds-loosen-big-ags-grip-on-farmers/

#agriculture #food #monopoly #ossi (Open Source Seed Initiative)

FYI, I link to two earlier reports on this problem (2017 and 2019) in a tweet from 2020.
https://twitter.com/petersuber/status/1317831041055399936

Eventually people are going to need to admit that the internet is very much so a real and impactful part of our lives.

iiiiiiiii need some advice from other amateur porn people who have shot with partners. i want to shoot porn with someone. obviously there are collabs if i find someone else interested and then we find a way to share.

but i don't live near many porn people

can i just bring in a grindr dude who offers to "film together" and keep all the footage to myself as long as i cut identifying features out of it?

should i be paying them? if so how much?

One of the wilder realizations in transitioning is how many of my cis women friends are more afraid of publicly wearing skirts, dresses, etc, and presenting more feminine in general, than I am. Like even in semi-private spaces with just friends, or explicitly safe spaces.

Society managed to fuck all us girls up good.

ChatGPT writes 15% longer and more critical performance feedback for women employees. It aso relies on stereotypes to choose pronouns. Examples: kindergarten teacher, nurse and reception = "she". Mechanic and construction workers = "he".
https://www.fastcompany.com/90844066/chatgpt-write-performance-reviews-sexist-and-racist

A server is a highly advanced machine, and when paired with a developer it can seamlessly convert immense amounts of electricity into stacktraces.

"I know you," said Alice. "Are you to present me with a puzzle? Perhaps one of you tells the truth and the other lies?"

"Oh no," said Bingle-Dum.

"We both lie," added Googl-E.

"But there must be a clue," pouted Alice. "For how else am I to tell when to trust what you say?"

"That's the point!" laughed Bingle-Dum.

"We don't know when we're telling the truth either!" said Googl-E, finishing the other's sentence.

I think of when moderation crises have happened in closed social networks, there's no real recourse or remediation.

On the fediverse, there seems to be at least some mitigation afforded by federation and account migration, allowing community to have some resilience to crisis.

this wired review pulls no punches, and their "purchase here" link goes to the Trans Lifeline donation page. A fine idea, i I do say so myself!

https://translifeline.org/donate/givelively/

https://www.wired.com/review/hogwarts-legacy-review/

Klassieke manier van #daklozen pesten; maak opvang minder toegankelijk en zorg vervolgens ervoor dat ze ook nergens terecht kunnen in publieke ruimtes.

Beschouw overlast van daklozen als een oproep tot compassie. Zorg voor goeie resources voor hun opvang en herstel. Ontmenselijk ze niet.

https://nos.nl/l/2463301

#dakloos #hostilearchitecture #Rotterdam

Few things make me angrier than anti-homeless shit. Fuck hostile architecture, fuck vagrancy laws, fuck businesses who throw away perfectly good food and then lock their dumpster, fuck businesses that say restrooms are for customers only, and especially fuck fuck FUCK the goddamn police.

If you're facing pressure NOT to offer online accessibility for courses, events, and other UC offerings, esp if admin is trying to keep such pressure off the official public record, please whistleblow to us. #UCAccessNow #HigherEd #DisabilityLaw #Disability #AcademicAbleism #UniversityOfCalifornia

The ostensible promise of technology is that it would liberate humanity from the drudgery of menial work, enabling us to engage with more meaningful and creative pursuits.

Instead, we have frenzied development of ML systems to centralize and replace writing, art and other meaningful creative pursuits, giving us more time for menial work.

This seems pretty contrary to any useful definition of progress.