Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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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These machines can do neither. They produce strings of tokens that statistically appear like they were produced by a human.
To an LLM the statements “Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon” and “Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on Mars” are differentiated only in that more people have written the former than the latter.
That’s it.
AI doesn’t exist and companies letting what we DO have make decisions is just a way to avoid culpability for the results.
3/3
So... has anyone started posting ChatGPT-generated comments on Hacker News yet? Because I honestly doubt that an outside observer would be able to tell in that environment
Yikes, Disney has a stake in Doctor Who now?
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david tennant wearing a pride pin ever since one of his kids came out as nonbinary and saying cis people need to step up to make sure we stop a slide into fascism and loss of human rights is making him my fav doctor for the week
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politiek
LB: Polarisatie is niet een slecht iets, op zichzelf. Het is onwenselijk wanneer je te goeder trouw samen probeert te werken, dat klopt.
Maar in een vijandige situatie waar je waardigheid of zelfs leven bedreigd worden - en dat is in de hedendaagse politiek helaas het geval - is het absoluut *noodzakelijk*.
Doe je dat niet, dan is het alternatief namelijk dat je stem verloren gaat, en schadelijke ideologieen de overhand krijgen.
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Onderzoek na onderzoek laat zien dat mensen graag stemmen voor linkse standpunten, maar linkse partijen doen er niets aan om dat te verzilveren. Het is tijd om alle tegengestelde belangen op tafel te leggen, want niet iedereen wordt een beetje armer. Mensen met een laag inkomen, die hardwerkende Nederlanders, sterven gewoon jaren eerder, en in slechtere gezondheid dan zij met een hoog inkomen. Hoog tijd om te stoppen met pappen en nathouden, hoog tijd voor politiseren en polariseren.
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Cute queers in my computer, why are none of you here right now to snuggle me?
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angry, harassment
OK, a bit less subtoot this time: quantum computing as a field inherits the toxic culture of both academic physics research and 10x SWE techbros. As a result, harassment in general and sexual harassment in particular are absolutely pervasive in the field.
If you do not 100% take a proactive stance against that from the get-go, your space *will* be home to harassers. That's not a possibility, it's a certainty.
That didn't stop being true once the hellsite imploded and people noticed the fediverse. So yes, you need a code of conduct, and you need a moderation policy, and you need both in place *before* you admit a single fucking user.
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Think about it like this.
We’ve never seen a show that speculates what the world would look like if Natives defeated the colonizers and kept their land but have several projects fantasizing about what if the Nazis won.
That’s not by accident.
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I’ve just discovered r/BirdsTakingTheTrain, this is amazing
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Okay, you all seem energized, so here we go! This time, with feeling!!
The Icculus Microgrant has money to give out! If you have an OPEN SOURCE PROJECT OF ANY SIZE, you are eligible!
Just reply to this toot with your project(s) and I'll put you on the list!
You can nominate other projects, too. You do not have to be American to participate; I send money in lots of currencies around the world!
details: https://icculus.org/microgrant/
Still can't get over what they've pulled off with a *teacup ride*, of all things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXq6_bHk8Bo
(This toot brought to you by yet another recent comment on the internet arguing basically exactly that)
Like, if your response to "abolish marketing" is "but then how would I find good stuff", then you REALLY need to do some serious introspection about what exactly you think marketing is or whose rules it is following, and what that means for you
It really boggles my mind how people still cling to the idea that marketing is somehow a necessary component of society, that its purpose is somehow to 'inform you of the best options to solve your problem'
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I cannot imagine the gall of these companies forcing remote jobs to be on-site again. There's absolutely no limit to the power that companies will seize if they feel like they have even half a shot of getting away with it.
Like, having a paywalled video is one thing, but fuck off with this sort of bait-and-switch shit
Really not a fan of this recent trend of "the video on YouTube is really just a long teaser for a paywalled video on Nebula"
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
