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

sometimes i find it hard to do computer things while also having the flourishing of the possibility of all things be a core value because i think that it should at least be possible to make things up and be wrong about things and mildly break things as long as it doesn't cause material harm

Oh my god we've been joking for years that if you got rid of all the transit cops you could make trimet fareless, but looking at the last adopted budgets I think it's literally true that the salaries of the "safety personnel" are roughly the size of the fares collected from riders

It's a little hard to figure out because it was 53 million from riders estimated, and 59 million for safety and emergency personnel which does include more than cops but give that it's gone up by over 40 million in the past three years when they started hiring cops as fast as possible it's clearly mostly cops

so, yeah, it really is true that if we tossed transit cops we'd basically save enough to not have fares without changing anythine else about the budget

wild

me when i’m asked to do 1 task

If you use AI generated crap to illustrate something: STOP.

If you care about the environment AT ALL, stop using AI.
If you care about artists of any kind, stop using AI.

"EULAs of Despair"
https://www.pilotlab.org/eulas-of-despair

As an example, the first three tiers of the Amazon EULA terms total over 642,000 words of text, which translates into OVER 53 HOURS of reading at the rate of 200 words a minute.

Discord EULA is 5.63 Tolstoys

Google EULA is 9.33 Tolstoys

Reddit EULA is 11.58 Tolstoys

Twitter EULA is 15.83 Tolstoys

Snapchat is 17.10 Tolstoys

The Amazon EULA is 1.09 Tolstoys

"A Tolstoy is the metric we are using to emphasize just how large these EULA webs can become. One Tolstoy is the length of the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, or 587,287 words."

Bluesky is the Microsoft Word of social media, which I mean in the derogatory sense, as the fediverse is the LaTeX of social media, which I also mean in the derogatory sense

Serious question: what's the appropriate/respectful reaction, as a non-Māori, to witnessing a Haka? Cause, like, my first instinct is to cheer/woop, but that doesn't sound right, and it's not appropriate for me to join in. But just standing around looking serious seems like I disapprove? #aotearoa

I'm glad a critical mass of Black folks finally got their ass up and left twitter. Been past time for awhile now. So yes I'll be vacationing there de temps en temps when the mayo gets too intense around here, it'll be nice to be around more Black folks again.

The wave should have come here, but y'all fucked it all the way up for that. Well, hopefully we can get our fedi shit together so that in a few years when the corporate overlords put the money squeeze on bluesky, we've got a better setup on here.

Am I optimistic about that? Not so much. But we'll see.

My coworker apparently has a "no agendy no attendy" policy and I'm stealing that phrase 😆

yknow, it would be pretty cool if libraries let the public mirror their digital collections.

more floating copies of things some authoritarians would rather be buried

Rare ‘hidden’ trans archives to be digitized to bridge generations - University of Victoria https://www.uvic.ca/news/topics/2024+hidden-trans-digital-archives+media-release

TIL: The UVic Libraries’ Transgender Archives is the largest collection of original materials chronicling Trans+ history and activism in the world.

#LGBTQ+ #archives

For trans visibility week, I'm wearing a shirt that says "mh-" on it.