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

Also, my non-white culture, Chinese diaspora immigrants to the US can be xenophobic and racist af to both white people and to any other race or culture. I've had older relatives take it as a point of pride to be that way.

This also complicates things like growing up mixed excessively. I've had to explain my identity to Chinese aunties and grandmas more often than I can count (and I'm a technical kind of person, so I can count pretty fkn high). I had to explain myself decades before I truly had any chance of understanding myself.

So tl;dr, I'm pretty familiar with the theory of Crenshaw's intersectionality, along with a lot of antiracism Discourse, through both formal and informal study, and while I do very much agree that white supremacy tries very hard to other as many culture as it possibly can, if you too understand Crenshaw's intersectionality, perhaps don't pontifiicate too far into how my identity works (or doesn't). I'm pretty sure that if you don't have an origin pretty close to mine, you can't even begin to imagine just wtf happens when I walk into a US Chinatown.

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So I'm mixed Asian (Chinese) and I've been reading a lot of pontificating about identity centered around the idea that if one is mixed (white and another identity or collection of identities), because of how white supremacy works, one has no place in whiteness.

I respectfully beg to differ. I think that for white-passing mixed folks, and especially for those of us who come from cultures that sometimes try _extraordinarily_ hard to assimilate and pass and achieve "model minority" status, the reality is way more complex.

Most assuredly, when white supremacy is really and totally in effect, no one who isn't accepted as wholly white is safe. But my ancestors sacrificed the comfort and safety of entire generations in order to pursue the dream of assimilating and becoming acceptable to white people. Some managed it, somewhat. I'm not saying that's the right call. It sure isn't for me. But it inserts an unregarded system of complex layers that get missed by the standard Discourse.

The reason I hardly speak, read, or understand any Chinese at all is due to my father and my close relatives intentionally losing ancestral knowledge, in a bid to make me and my cousins more acceptable to whites.

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We had a visiting lecturer last week discussing use of AI in software development. They lost me at quoting GitHub research claiming copiloting is 55% faster and then showing a demo that generates *wrong* week numbers. Onejan (1st of January) is not how week numbers get calculated.

Writing wrong code fast is not a positive trait. Accepting - and leading large audiences to accept this - is making me angry.

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#Sicherheit und #Leichtigkeit des #Verkehrs ist in aller Munde.

Gerade bei schlechten Sichtverhältnissen sind die leuchtenden und bewegten #Werbedisplays eine echte Gefahr.

Sie blenden, stören und lenken ab.

Und sie werden auch bei Nacht und Regen nicht abgeschaltet.

Remember everyone, when a job is so low paid the government has to top it up via benefits, it's a direct subsidy from taxpayers to shareholders, and from the poor to the rich.

Oh. Looks like people are (once again) figuring out that silicon valley and effective altruism and longtermism and the rest are all bound up root to ass with eugenics and white supremacy.

So: Welcome to the party; there are a LOT of academic, researchers, and people witj direct lived experience, already here.

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De reactie op Greta Thunberg bij de Klimaatmars was misschien wel het duidelijkste voorbeeld dat ik tot nu toe in Nederland gezien heb van "you retain your white privilege until you use it to threaten white supremacy"

"Going anywhere for the holidays?"
"Yes, upstate."
"Plane or car?"
"Oh Jesus no! Train."
"How long will that take?"
"9 hours. But my vacation starts when I get on the train, not when I get off the plane. It's much less stressful."
"You know... I can see that..."

Folks, I may have a made a convert today. Let's be real. Driving is work, and flying is torture. A train ride, might seem "long" but did you count all the time you spend getting to the airport, the security checks? The silly rules?

Heeft iemand een tip voor een systeem of dienst om een adresboek te beheren in de cloud? (waarbij je er dus altijd vanaf meerdere apparaten bij kan?)

De diverse diensten waarmee je je contacten mailt en hen zelf hun adres laat invullen zijn niet wat ik zoek.

Ja, ik kan zelf googlen. Ik vraag naar tips op basis van eigen ervaring.

#Linux op de middelbare school in plaats van de voorgeschreven #Chromebook? Dat kan gewoon. Als gevolg meer privacy, minder leveranciersafhankelijkheid en een langere levensduur van apparatuur. Lees de blogpost van Dennis Pennings uit de praktijk https://eerlijkdigitaalonderwijs.nl/linux-in-de-klas-werkt-gewoon/ #CEDO #Onderwijs @CEDO #EerlijkDigitaalOnderwijs