Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
"If you want things off Discord then you need to do the work yourself" sounds great on paper, but it has the exact same problem as every other "be the change you want to see" solution:
It doesn't acknowledge the very real incentives and systemic issues that stop someone from *actually doing that*, and it turns "moving off hostile platforms" from a collaborative many-hands-make-light-work project into an individualist Sisyphean boulder being rolled up a hill.
It's not the reasonable position that it superficially seems to be. If you want people to do the work themselves - which is *in and of itself* a reasonable ask - then you also need to give them space and support to actually do so, and account for things like disability too.
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one thing I love about dogs is that they'll go "I don't know what you want, so here's all of my possible responses in the hope that one of them is correct"
or they'll do something random one time right before you feed them and from that day forward they will always do that thing when you're about to feed them because they don't understand confirmation bias
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this year, I'm unsubscribing from email newsletters and adding them to my RSS feed reader instead, so that I can ignore them in a different place.
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being inside a zip file must feel more or less like being in a pokeball
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Hey, pals! They dropped the list of the artists Midjourney has admitted to being ripping out!
Time to call your lawyers and sue the shit out of these thiefs!
Even if your name is not on the list you should rage at this billion dollars theft scheme.
We barely get to the end of the month while these criminals get billions and billions from investment firms!
Fuck Midjourney and their owners!
#art #AIScraping #SueMidjourney #JusticeForArtists
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.407208/gov.uscourts.cand.407208.129.10.pdf
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On an unrelated note, if anyone wants to start an illegal open source project with a friend of mine who's definitely not me to patch Bosch's stupid executable to not require login and then distribute it illegally on the internet LMK and I'll put you in touch with someone who just wants to be able to update e-bikes.
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Sure wonder if Jellyfin is literally ever going to fix their Chromecast bugs that have been making the casting functionality nearly unusable for years (or even respond to the issues at all)
re: politie
Ik ben inmiddels echt wel een beetje klaar met dat constante zielig-doen-in-de-media van de politie, "het loopt nu echt uit de hand" zullen we maar zeggen
politie
Ah ja, het is weer 1 januari, dus tijd voor het jaarlijkse artikel waarin de politie een aanzetje doet om hun bevoegdheden verder uit te breiden want "het loopt nu echt uit de hand met de jaarwisseling", zonder dat er naar de daadwerkelijke data gekeken wordt door een journalist om te bevestigen of dat ook echt zo is
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No shitposting: any time you hear a boss or owner describe their organisation as ‘like a family’, drop your shit and run. Leave your mug, leave your desk photos, drop the swipe card and keys in the door lock. Just get out now.
medication, needles, fireworks
Yeah, don't think I'm going to be taking my epo today, don't really feel like trying to stick a needle in me while people are still unpredictably setting off residual fireworks outside
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New Worakls Orchestra concert
\o/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNq6eAr_wIo
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I was looking for some more stories about the 12 percent decrease in the US murder rate and just look at the suggestions from search.
Naturally if you take these suggestions you'll find material that gives you the impression the rate is rising.
Some kinds of misinformation feel huge and intractable. No one wants to hear this, no one wants to looks for this, no one reports it and when they do it's literally headlines like "After Rise in Murders During Pandemic a Sharp Decline"
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Einen Vorteil hat es die 6 in 6-2-1 zu ignorieren, mensch kann um 2:00 Fotos vom #37c3 machen
I consider myself an anarchist, and I believe quite strongly in anarchist principles. And yet, I don't have anarchist 'branding' anywhere in my outward identity.
One of the reasons for that is that I've been very disappointed with the praxis in nominally anarchist circles around me.
I should not encounter ableism in anarchist circles, and yet I do. I should not encounter racism in anarchist circles, and yet I do. And so on, and so forth. None of these things should be as widespread as they are, if people actually lived by their stated ideals.
And all too often, the people I run into who *actually* put anarchist ideals into practice, unreservedly so, and on contentious topics as well, do not even identify themselves as anarchists!
In that context, does it really make sense to brand myself as an anarchist? #Anarchism
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Good morning 2024! I wrote a text about how I experienced some first time volunteers at #37c3 trying eagerly to do as much work as possible and what I told some before. As always: Other folks may have other views on this topic and this is OK.
https://jascha.wtf/angels-at-chaos-about-volunteering-and-fitting-in/
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Ah, much better.
Now if y'all could just stick to one or two phrases, I could get a certain mouse off my timeline. There are - and always were - much cooler mice out there.
Literally any other mouse.
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#Autistic Bread Making Challenge:
Remembering that when a recipe says, 'fashion the dough into a ball' they mean 'a shape that is more round than square', not, 'a shape so perfectly spherical that Archimedes, Kepler and Euler would go into paroxyms of ecstasy and invite you to join them in the annals of geometrical legend.'
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
