Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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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
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PS: I don't share this story to brag or to complain about others. I just hope it can give people an example and ideas.
It is not inherently a failing if a person contracts Covid.
However, it is a failing if leaders (whether of small groups or large governments) don't enact meaningful mitigations to try to prevent it.
I want people to know that they aren't alone, that there are still others masking and prioritizing health, and that not everyone is ok with locking disabled people out of society.
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Only that one group got sick.
No one else at our event wound up ill or testing positive.
We didn't have transmission.
It's entirely possible to have responsible gatherings that take the wellbeing of attendees into account while still making it possible for old friends to see eachother and for new friendships to be made.
It takes a bit of extra planning and consideration, but know that you can do it.
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We hear lots about Covid transmission at gatherings that had no precautions, but not enough about events where folks were successfully protected.
I coordinated a meetup for https://Kind.Social during PAX West '23 which was deliberately held outdoors with free 3M VFlex N95s. 
Covid was present, but it didn't spread.
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https://kind.social/@texanalysis/111106639213990570
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https://kind.social/@texanalysis/111106642021715508
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@novid
#Covid #Covid19 #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #CovidCautious #WearAMask #WearARespirator
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Sorry, what company removes their TOS they published a couple years previous for transparency, because it had a low view count?
🥺 no-one read our legal documentation
🥺 so we removed it
🥺 s-sorry
🥺 pls don't leave us we're only a small company
🥺 who made $1.808B, from June 2022 - June 2023
🥺 a 48.25% YoY increase
🥺 just a little guy
🥺 why are you doing this to me
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The Dutch Mountains. Man made mountains, mostly on former garbage dumps, renatured and opened for recreational purposes in the Netherlands (Source: Volkskrant 23 September 2023)
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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.
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Streaming platform executives:
“I don’t think enough people are pirating. Let’s see what we can do about that.”
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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
mh-
Love anxiety attacks and the resulting shaking for several hours /s
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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)
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ah yes. the two types of visitors to the railway museum: families with small kids and autistic queers on dates
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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?
civility and peaceful protest, directed at reader
LB: broadly speaking, the reason you feel that civility and "peaceful protest" work fine for you, is probably because you're part of the demographic that the system is built for.
It's not the civility itself that makes it work for you. It's your position in society.
More marginalized folks do not benefit from such a position, and telling them that they should be less radical and more civil to accomplish things is... well, a very good way to show your privilege, let's put it that way.
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regex decompiler: you input a regex and it outputs a list of all strings matching the regex (throwing an error on * and +)
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I'd be a lot more willing to believe the whole "what if reality is a simulation?" hypothesis if I didn't know speedrunners.
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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.
meta, social.tchncs.de
Growing increasingly tired of the aggressive replyguying coming from social.tchncs.de, *almost* all of my interactions from that instance are bad...
If you're a follower and you're on that instance, I'd recommend looking for a better neighbourhood, because it seems I'm not the only one who's running out of patience with that place, so I imagine it won't be long before it gets defederated from places, if that isn't already happening
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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/
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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
- 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
