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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absolutely hate how having an intact moral compass is a disadvantage in this world
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Woehoe, de kraak is geslaagd! De politie is langs geweest, heeft binnen gekeken, en heeft #JAN10 laten zitten. En het was er super gezellig langs de route van de Vierdaagse.
classism?, reading
I've always been really bothered by the whole rhetoric of "people are reading less, this will mean the collapse of society and culture!"
And I think the reason for that is the classism inherent in it; presenting it as if 'reading' is the only valid way to learn things, to communicate things, to "expand one's imagination" - reading, crucially that one mode of action that's beholden to the literate
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Mac OS 9 draws these red title bars and frames around warning messages and it's so cool
Why don't modern OSes do this wtf
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"I don't want science to be political" is also saying "I don't want science to inform public policy" and perhaps some people do feel that way, but I don't want those people near science or public policy.
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NLSociety
Een zeer goede overpeinzing heeft Chris Keulemans hier opgeschreven, en ik herken het helaas in veel mensen terug. Het is soms best lastig progressief te blijven als je voordelen haalt uit de verworven positie in de maatschappij, daarom is het belangrijk om naar andere mensen die deze verworvenheden niet hebben te blijven luisteren en daar ook naar te handelen.
https://www.oneworld.nl/identiteit/mijn-linkse-generatiegenoten-glibberen-naar-rechts/
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Its likely that almost every person alive today has at some point foolishly dropped their phone on their face while lying on their back
Apparently today is just one of those days where everything keeps fucking breaking and getting in my way
I just want my computer to actually do what I tell it to...
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One of .art's rules is "Respect other users' boundaries.". This can be someone continuing to engage with you after you've asked them not to, disregarding a request you've made like 'no unsolicited advice', or it can be as simple as a stranger rocking up unannounced in your replies being rude.
The mods here are real people. Use the report feature, even if you're not sure, and forward reports to source instances. Even if it's something you're seeing as a third party, if it looks bad, report it.
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You want ethical alternatives? Let’s build a campus where folks can work on them without worrying about how to exist day-to-day (or fund their early-stage development like VC does for surveillance capitalism).
The extent of what public funding is doing today is “Oh, looks like you’ve got some alternative functional, let’s pay you to add Feature X to it.”
Better than nothing?
Sure.
Best we can do?
Not by a longshot.
https://ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of-internet-regulation-at-the-european-parliament/
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human: has *anyone* found a good use for LLMs in [domain in which we work]
LLM guy: here I've pasted your query into my favourite LLM and it says these things. I didn't think about your question or give it any human consideration. I'm basically doing LLMGTFY¹ and it's just as obnoxious!
¹ I'm portmanteauing LLM and LMGTFY if it wasn't obvious
LLM guy: here I've pasted your query into my favourite LLM and it says these things. I didn't think about your question or give it any human consideration. I'm basically doing LLMGTFY¹ and it's just as obnoxious!
¹ I'm portmanteauing LLM and LMGTFY if it wasn't obvious
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share if you think too much
Just realized that I can't write poetry for shit, yet I seem to use many of the same techniques in my *regular* longform writing
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“Where are all the ethical alternatives?”
Don’t know, as someone building one, I’ll let you know just as soon as I manage to secure us a place to live under seemingly bloody impossible circumstances.
re: climate justice, violence
Also, to clarify: I do in fact believe that "no violence should exist at all".
The problem is that whenever people *say* that, without extra context and clauses, that's never what they actually *mean* - instead, what they mean is "no things *that I recognize as* violence should exist", which is something entirely different and not something I can stand behind.
So apparently simultaneously joining several upgraded Matrix rooms at once basically kills the homeserver, good to know
re: climate justice, violence
That's only partly a rhetorical question, by the way. If someone has a legitimate argument, I'd be willing to hear it. But I'm skeptical of anything I've heard so far.
climate justice, violence
I am honestly finding pacifist stances regarding climate justice to be increasingly indefensible.
Like, I've never been a fan of pacifism in the sense of "nobody should be allowed to use violence ever", because "violence" is always defined in a suspiciously narrow manner that just so *happens* to benefit the established powers.
But like... we're getting *beyond* that point now. We're getting to a point where human-driven climate change is becoming so impactful and deadly that even the absolute worst hypothetical out-of-control 'mob rule' (the one that never happens but that people are always afraid of) couldn't possibly match the scale of violence and death in climate change.
When even the absolute worst case of violent resistance is less deadly and less impactful than *not* doing so... how can you possibly continue to argue for 'peaceful' resistance, by any reasonable standard of ethics?
And like, burning down polluting infrastructure will stop its pollution, the practical effect is not in question. This whole discussion is purely about ethical considerations and harm reduction.
So like, what's the remaining argument for 'peaceful' resistance, then? Because I'm not seeing it.
- 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
