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

The retrotech cycle:

1. Thing is cool
2. Thing gets mentioned on youtube
3. The Ebay People
4. Somebody makes replacement parts out of new parts to try and avoid The Ebay People
5. Whoops, the replacement parts were in a single batch of like 30
6. No worries, just replace the whole thing with a raspberry pi
7. Raspberry pis are on backorder until september 2024

current generative AI tools operate at, roughly, the level of a first-semestor high school freshman who is morally committed to never paying attention but is good enough at plagiarism that their English teacher, who also isn't paying attention, hasn't flunked them yet (cuz it's still the first semester).

on one hand this is, in all seriousness, an impressive technical achievement

on the other hand, the correct answer is to "should you put a dishonest freshman who isn't paying attention in charge of anything important?" is "no".

"what if they worked for free?" "no."

"what if microsoft/amazon/venture capitalists payed you millions of dollars to hire them?" (where we are now btw) "make sure you get paid in cash, not store credit, and still don't put them in charge of anything important to a real person (venture capitalists aren't real people)."

We hebben nu een betaalbaar, toegankelijk en rechtvaardig zorgsysteem nodig. Zet niet winst, maar de mens centraal. ⁠

Lees al onze punten over #zorg in ons verkiezingsprogramma.

https://bij1.org/programma/zorg

#BreekDeKetens #BekenKleur #StemBIJ1

A new mug that I made, fresh from the kiln, trying a different glaze scheme with this style :)
#art #mastoart #clay #ceramics #pottery

A new flower dish that I made

current IETF status: "one way to get people to actually engage with a document is to go to last call, so lets do that"

@Vitchu@corteximplant.com

Oh this is upsetting. Who designed this

Random thought/question - Is it possible for those of us who are #actuallyautistic to bring a class action #lawsuit against legal firms that try to claim #Autism is caused by things like taking Tylenol during pregnancy since we've known for a fact that Autism is genetic since the 1970s & claims like this make life harder for us Autistic folks?

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.