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

My headcanon is that this radio only plays songs that everyone recognizes but no one knows the titles of.

Op wie jij morgen je stem uitbrengt, is een keuze die alleen jij kunt maken. Omdat we de vraag veel voorbij zien komen, willen we je toch nog even uitleggen waarom wij denken dat een stem op #BIJ1 juíst een strategische stem is.

Het is tijd voor een krachtig tegenverhaal.

Het is tijd om het publieke discours, door middel van de politiek, weer naar links te trekken.

Breek de ketens. Beken kleur. Stem BIJ1.

#StrategischStemmen #TK2023 #BreekDeKetens #BekenKleur #StemBIJ1

school-related anxiety dreams are always recurring for me

Ik zie veel ‘ik stem maar op een partij die verder van mn idealen staat omdat de partij die er het dichtst op staat er niet dicht genoeg op staat’ en ik vind dat jammer

Reminder that the "AI superintelligence" stuff is a red herring to distract us from the real dangers of using AI, which are things like this:

https://www.statnews.com/2023/11/14/unitedhealth-class-action-lawsuit-algorithm-medicare-advantage/

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.

Timetraveler: Moves a chair

The Timeline:

#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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