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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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- 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
There are so many "Twitter things" that I'm still in the process of unlearning... like how I don't need to write defensively against bad-faith interpretations here, or how I tend to overextend myself in "amount of started conversations" because I'm used to barely anyone seriously engaging with discussions
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Mijn non-binaire vlag voor de Pride Walk a.s. zaterdag is binnen! 
🎉
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meta, my two cents
this is hardly the first time i've disagreed with the babka team's judgement on Israel-related issues and what constitutes bigotry and been like 🤨
scattered thoughts:
- as an trans Asian anti-Zionist Jew, this is why I am not even going to bother with a Jewish space unless it's explicitly anti-Zionist, secular-friendly, and anti-racist.
- some of my fellow diasporic Jews resent being involved in discussions about Israel/Palestine but, like, I don't think it's always inherently antisemitic or irrelevant. As long as Israel wants to be The Jewish State, defenders claim criticizing it is antisemitic, and diaspora communities and organizations pour resources into Israel, it's every Jew's problem.
- some things SHOULD be polarizing. Jews are divided over this! We've always been! If we're not going to fight about THIS, what the hell are we going to fight about, gefilte fish recipes?
ok that's all i have actual work to do
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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.
- 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
