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

It's annoying when people who aren't furry or autistic or queer insist that making local friends is as easy as just going outside. Sure it might be when the world is made for you.

Streaming platform executives:
“I don’t think enough people are pirating. Let’s see what we can do about that.”

I somehow ended up getting on an entirely empty carriage on the Bakerloo line from Piccadilly Circus

This doesn’t feel right, it’s 5pm on a Saturday

Day 15 of the #A12 blockade is bringing attention to the Wadden Sea.

A #UNESCO World Heritage site, where numerous bird species depend on the exposure of the seabed during low tides to obtain their staple foods. It is extremely vulnerable to the effects of #climatechange. (1/3)

ah yes. the two types of visitors to the railway museum: families with small kids and autistic queers on dates

One way to #TalkBetterAboutAI when referring to use of #TextGenerators is to try using words like "typed," "input," or "entered" instead of "asked."

To describe the text generator (aka #LLM) behavior, instead of "answered," try "generated" or even "completed" or "continued."

It might feel a bit awkward. (I know it does for me!) But I think it could be a useful experiment, at least, to practice reframing our relationship to these tools.

What are phrases you would use to #TalkBetterAboutAI?

regex decompiler: you input a regex and it outputs a list of all strings matching the regex (throwing an error on * and +)

I'd be a lot more willing to believe the whole "what if reality is a simulation?" hypothesis if I didn't know speedrunners.

If you see somebody described as "he's just like that" or "he can't help himself", ask if he's like that when he might be held accountable. E.g., in front of his boss, his mom, at church, when a video camera is recording.

Occasionally, he really can't help himself. But it usually turns out that he can, and that there's a pattern to when he can't. E.g., he's a jerk to juniors and peer women, but perfectly controlled in front of his male boss. That's when you know it's not illness, it's abuse.

For SNCF the last summer was a big succes, with 80% occupancy of the TGV’s and 40% of all trains sold out. But there is something hidden from this success story: SNCF reduced their fleet of TGV’s from 2013 to 2023 by 20%, shredding about 30.000 available seats.

https://www.trans-missions.eu/y-a-t-il-moins-de-tgv-en-circulation-aujourdhui-quil-y-a-10-ans/

I want whatever kind of privacy settings let me and my friends and colleagues remember what were talking about, but my employers cant find all the times I talked shit about them

Pssst... planjeprik.nl is al in de lucht. Wie wil (en ervoor in aanmerking komt), kan een afspraak maken voor een corona-herhaalprik. #ikvaccineer
En nee, bedankt, discussies hierover heb ik vaak genoeg gevoerd.

@sf_cablecar @phire

this is what the Door-in-the-face method of coercion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique) looks like:

https://blog.unity.com/news/open-letter-on-runtime-fee