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

One of the things I think is interesting about cultural change is that (and I totally recognize that globally, this is still a transitional thing, still contested) in my social circles, normative entitlement is waning.

By which I mean, people who are in roles traditionally associated with privilege are slowly losing their grip on entitlement.

And by that I mean, they are slowly losing the absolute certainty that everything is their business. To question, to comment on, to give knowing side glances to their friends about, to post on Nextdoor about, to presume they know, or ought to know, other people's business.

It certainly is still contested, and a lot of white, privileged people still do performative meltdowns and performative incompetence to sidestep having to be responsible to us, the marginalized, the queer, the deviant, the heretical, the different.

But their grip is slipping, and I celebrate every time I get a friend to see the sham of privilege and entitlement and start doing the work to decolonize themselves.

#SpotifyWrapped #spotify

open source maintainers should tell entitled corporate users to fuck off more often

my entire timeline, the entire local timeline, the entire federated timeline, and every post on the list i titled "better federated" are all united around one thing tonight and i am HERE FOR IT

In case anyone needs it tomorrow. #HenryKissinger

In honor of #HenryKissinger, the traditional rule to not speak ill of the dead is hereby suspended for the next 10 days.

Oh hey also as a reminder:

Laughing at shitty people dying is great! What's better is paying attention to the communities hurt by those people and listening to their voices above all. Don't let your partying overshadow their strife and their reparations.

friendly reminder to add alt text to your images so the visually impaired can also celebrate kissinger's death

#accessibility

Wikipedia editor "Asticky" edited Henry Kissinger's article at 8:46 ET and then changed her userpage to this (with the edit summary "lmao")

wow a Rolling Stone gathers no moss and pulls no punches

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/

(archive link in case they're forced to soften/edit it: https://web.archive.org/web/20231130015817/https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/)

if you want to modify your body and medicine allows it, you should just be able to do that

it’s called “sysfs” because interacting with it feels like pushing a boulder up a hill

Can we please all agree that COP is now just an excuse for rich bastards and world leaders to fly somewhere to sit around tables and agree that the climate is fucked, sign a bunch of inconsequential paperwork that nobody takes seriously, promise to do better, then fly back home to carry on business as normal? #COP28

I wish there was a "digital divide simulator" which takes your existing computer and makes it work slightly less well, each click/response takes a bit longer, each application loads more slowly, each tab opened gradually slows down the machine, newer apps (Slack) don't work at all. Wifi iffy.

I'm using a machine exactly like this, and even being totally savvy and being able to make good choices, it's still wild having to suddenly be this parsimonious and economical with my tech use. Educational

this is such a good debugging story ("Rust std fs slower than Python!? No, it's hardware!”) https://xuanwo.io/2023/04-rust-std-fs-slower-than-python/

I'm so tired of the discourse on #adblocking being framed as users vs. creators.

Creators suffer from rampant unregulated advertising attached to their hard work. Seeing their labours being exploited to promote scams and enrich surveillance capitalists with no control or recourse. Seeing potential subscribers close the tab because their impression of the channel in those crucial first few seconds was some obnoxious ad.

You think makers *want* this system? Hell no. We just want an income.

Creators, more than anyone, need to speak out against this false ‘us vs. them' narrative. It's a disingenuous ploy, like when Facebook said cross-app tracking was ‘good for small businesses’.

I encourage anyone to adblock my stuff, and I know I'm not alone in that. Every creator has a part to play in promoting better security practices and fairer business models.

I made this image to put into the credits of future videos. I release it into the public domain; feel free to use it in your own.