Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

It's truly stunning to even attempt to explain, what #congress is to people that don't know.

Like there's this event with hackers and they have a whole radio telephone network but you can also use your smartphone, because the venue has a mobile network too and ... 🤯

You will save more lives by being an ear* and a shoulder and helping hands digging garden rows, than a megaphone for your own anxiety, a great deal of the time.

This is hard if you're young and this is your first time experiencing this cycle.
It's hard if you're older and not used to being threatened.
It's hard if you're white and not used to not being centered.
But you've gotta practice.

We're in that phase again. Get there every time something Scary happens.
Trying to invent new resistance on the fly, urgently, is not *helpful.*
If you feel desperate and disconnected.
If you feel like you need to swing in and save the day in order to be meaningful.
Your job is to show up in communities and listen.
You don't lead by showing up at the end of the beginning.

Me, being very smart and proactive: I'll write down notes about this coding idea so when I get to implementing it I can read them and remember my thought process

Me, later, reading the notes: what the fuck was I talking about, what the fuck does any of this mean

What is with websites these days fading content in as you scroll down? It's like someone looked at an N64 game and was like, know what this ecommerce site needs, distance fog

Question for people who do on the ground organizing — is there a reason that so many action requests come day of or with less than 24 hrs notice?

I can’t make arrangements to attend a rally when I hear about it 2 hrs before and I often need a day or two to research and craft a message to my electeds.

It’s very stressful for me, but this happens so frequently I figure it’s purposeful. I’d just love to know why?

#AskFedi

@xgranade doctors who don't wear masks confuse me

De Belgen hebben ‘boekenstouw’ dit jaar tot nieuw woord uitgeroepen. Het ‘ontbreekwoord’ noemen ze het.

Betekenis: de stapel boeken die je nog moet lezen. Vertaling van het Japanse woord ‘tsundoku’.
https://www.vrt.be/vrtmax/luister/radio/n/nieuwe-feiten~11-9/nieuwe-feiten~11-27310-0/fragment~6bc15257-3234-4b8d-9a1d-5a92cce14e75/

@aroma koplopers need pats, too

today's train trips are sponsored by #SNCF "gate closes 5 minutes before departing" shitfuckery

Twitch's version of a wrapped report dropped and... hmm... I've become really, really uncomfortable with the idea of distilling things down to numbers so flippantly. Especially in a space where distilling things down to numbers then tying those numbers to success and even money is a lever for abusive practices.

If there's anything I've learned from a lifetime of constructing metrics, alerts, and statistical models it's that you never measure just what you think you're measuring. Any distillation is lossy, and frequently abusively and deliberately so.

The blood has been taken out, the epo has been put in, the oil change is complete

Once more for the people at the back.

There is no ethical use of LLMs.

The under 12 ticket at is called Railrunner. It was named after Rappy Railrunner, who used to be on gifts one would get when buying a Railrunner at the ticket office.

LIVELEAK EXCLUSIVE: Luigi Mangione leads police on a cross-town chase, takes out a cruiser before being stopped

every now and then i come back to this idea for a minecraft server where, rather than new players spawning at global world spawn, each player would be given a random, unique spawn point, suitably far away from every other spawn. to make it harder for players to meet up, the server would lie about the world coordinates (telling each player that their own spawn is close to (0,0)) and prevent chat messages appearing to players who are too far from the sender. but then, modded items would allow these restrictions to be overcome; say, a radio that can communicate with other radios over long distances, or a compass that points to the true (0,0).

the experience then would be a multiplayer server that starts singleplayer, with finding and meeting others - likely over very long distances - a major part of the arc of the game. i think it'd be interesting to see what people do with that.

now the sneaky thing is that you could hide this in some unrelated modpack or something: you think you're creating a singleplayer world, you're actually joining this secretly multiplayer one. i think that'd be a fun reveal (imagine exploring and coming across structures that look suspiciously like a player-built base!), but it would probably be against every terms of service so. maybe not worth it.

#minecraft