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

made a palette for the lospec palette contest, based on pictures taken with disposable cameras

#lospec #palettes #PixelArt

But how can I hear “diverse opinion” if X opinions are banned/blocked/moderated in the first place?

There is no space where all opinions are welcome. It simply does not exist. Some opinions are going to force out others.

If you run a space where Nazi opinions are okay to speak, you can't really expect to hear Jewish opinions. Or opinions of PoC or queer people or disabled people and so on and so on.

So most places do the calculations. You can ban this one view. And in return an entire spectrum of views becomes more welcome.

Bigotry is a painfully simple, painfully shallow, and painfully boring viewpoint. It is almost completely one-dimensional, simplifiable to the idea that the "other" is inferior or dangerous and is to be shunned or feared. It is a viewpoint that we all already know, one we have all already heard. Banning it loses us almost nothing, and in return we gain so, so many more valuable insights.

Utrecht Centraal by night.

fun fact: if you design a product that takes a barrel-jack plug, and don't specify anywhere if it's center-positive or center-negative, you go to hell when you die

OH “This train will be diverted to the classic line. Our delay will be 20 minutes”

Train then takes the fly-over to the high speed line 🙃

🇬🇧 The failed cover-up of the EU Commission's anti-encryption group shows: #Chatcontrol is the product of the lobby of an international intelligence-industrial complex. Netzpolitik.org reports (in German): https://netzpolitik.org/2023/geheime-liste-wie-der-sicherheitsapparat-die-chatkontrolle-praegt/

instead of just telling them to "use linux" maybe we should work on legislating more rights for software users across the board legally instead of making them reinstall their OS

"If you ever see a black light but the bulb itself glows blue: that's not a black light but an unshielded UV lamp" is not something I thought would have to be survival knowledge but here we hecking are I guess.

@actuallyautistic @neurodivergents

In case this helps anyone, here's one of my best Autistic hacks for dealing with intrusive thoughts and anxiety spirals. ( This works for me because I'm by myself a lot.)

When the thought spiralling starts, I choose a mildly complex subject that interests me, and explain it out loud. Over and over again, trying to get the explanation as clear as possible.

I do this when I go for a walk, when I'm driving, or just pacing at home.

Topics that work for me: how binary numbers work in comparison to decimal numbers, the rules of a board game, the various ebook formats and how they compare, the motivations of characters in a book I'm enjoying, the best way to introduce a new rat to an established group of rats, how to set up an aquarium, and so on.

Apart from soothing my brain, it also helps me to assert this behavior as normal for me, where previously I was hyper aware how others might judge it as weird.

#ActuallyAutistic

I click the little box, but honestly I’m not sure that I’m not a robot.

A new acronym that just muscled its way into my head: MOLaR

Megaproject
Of
Last
Resort

Action films are chock full of MOLaRs:
- Shuttles in Armageddon
- Jaegers in Pacific Rim
- Nuclear Sun Rebooter Spacecraft in Sunshine
- Magma Doom Trains in The Core
- etc.

A lot of #geoengineering proposals also have a MOLaR vibe to them.

I wanted to share a part of a recent conversation I had which triggered my old defense mechanism related to often being put in situations where the expectation is that I adhere to any line of questioning, and rarely consensually, in order to be “understood” and in turn validated by others

So much harm can be inflicted because “you just want to understand”

I've written an MSC that should, if it gets approved, make the review and approval process for #Matrix spec changes *much* faster and less painful than it is today: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/4073

Review comments are welcome - do make sure to stay constructive in your comments, and follow the usual review process! In particular, try to avoid 'peanut gallery'-style commentary.

At the risk of opening Pandora's discourse I am so curious what people think the ideal, landlord-free system of commercial real estate looks like. Does the state use tax revenue to allocate office & manufacturing space to corporations for free? Should businesses need to purchase an entire building in order to operate? Are banks considered landlords for profiting off of mortgage income or no? If condos, are their fees a mutual aid scheme or extractive rent-seeking evil? https://dads.cool/@alex/111369160655657656

One of the best feelings in the world is to find someone thinking about exactly the same things as you at exactly the same time but further along. Then you get to see into the future, only its a different future where you are also a different person that can see the problem in a different way than you can. It seems like the healthy response is to want to talk to that person and hear what they think and tell them what you think, since you are both thinking about the same things.

How sad is it that many of our friends in academia feel exactly the opposite: you need to constantly be watching out for someone thinking about the same things as you to beat them, cut them down, or coopt them. The last thing you would do is talk to them, because they might "steal" your precious ideas.

The prestige cult is depressing, and if that's an inroad to help our colleagues help themselves to not do DoD supersoldier research or pay for another RELX/ICE surveillance apparatus it seems worth taking