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

There's no convincing or reasoning with people if they think your facts have a bad vibe. Explaining things, with references, has no impact because the references are gauged based on vibes and not how well the studies were structured or how well the paper is argued. There is no difference today between decision-makers in tech and the antivaccination crowd. They both operate on the same epistemology and worldview

One of my realisations I've come to during my newsletter/blogging pause is that the vibes crowd has thoroughly won, both in tech specifically and in general. Facts don't matter. Research doesn't matter. If it has research aesthetics and has the vibes you like, people treat it as truth. Motion and churn with the right vibes count as progress. Revenue is treated as evidence of inevitable future profit, no matter how irrational the underlying economics are.

The Treachery of Images now in the (US) public domain, for all your not-a-pipe needs

Kafka monitor #5 (antifascistische onderzoeksgroep)

Antifascistische onderzoeksgroep Kafka "is een antifascistische groep die onderzoeksjournalistiek bedrijft naar extreemrechtse stromingen in Nederland. De resultaten van dit onderzoek publiceren wij op deze website en in bladen. Met onze publicaties willen wij bijdragen aan een goed inzicht in de handel en wandel van rechtsextremisten en hun organisaties. Ons doel is om op deze manier bij te dragen aan de bestrijding van rechtsextremisme.

http://afanederland.org/2025/01/01/kafka-monitor-5-antifascistische-onderzoeksgroep/

for the younger ones, an mp3 file is like a spotify track that you can listen to offline and don't have to pay for each month and it doesn't run ads.

An #ITU study https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2024/11/10/ff24-internet-traffic/ reports that we transferred over 7 zettabytes of #Internet traffic in 2024. However, the authors do not describe what all those data actually were.

Therefore, I have performed extensive research to classify every byte, and I can now share this summary of the purposes of all the year's traffic.

Happy New Year!

War voor dag is het vandaag?
#annaWilGraagWeten

@bert_hubert @SandraDeHaan omdat we een overheid hebben die extreem goed geworden is in geen enkele verantwoordelijkheid nemen voor de fouten die ze zelf gemaakt hebben.

Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard.

Learn more about the creative works from 1929 & sound recordings from 1924 that have moved into the public domain in the US in 2025: https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025/

A more detailed writeup of how the FSF is not only wrong about TPMs being involved in hardware-based DRM, they missed the actual user-hostile hardware DRM implementation: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/70954.html

i got to press the fish doorbell!!!!

I am here to announce that I have decreased #spam on my web contact form from 1 message every 15 minutes (for months straight) to 0 messages in the last week by adding a "I am a spam bot" radio button.

I am not joking.

No I am not using something like ReCaptcha, I literally just added a radio button to the list.

UPS, are you... good?

@jonny sorry but 2025 has already gone into production with most of the world's clients and honestly having differing versions is just going to be confusing

so we'll just deal with the "sapient grass" issue if it actually affects stakeholders

my parents did the single and only anticapitalist thing they have done in their life: setting fire to an alexa

Anyone who understands how custom emojis propagate via federation? Let me know, or point me at a document. I feel like my mental model is broken.

Found that post about fruit New Year’s resolutions

kink is a very demanding hobby. your project isn't something it's some_one_. you can't half-ass it with someone at your mercy, you need to be fully, 100% assed.

in retrospect I think this is one thing that kept me away from it. the feeling that I don't have the physical and mental space for it, that my house is a mess, my life, how am I supposed to project confidence and power. I'm going to be a disappointment. I need to first fix literally everything about me, and then in the future where I got my crap together and became That Girl, then maybe I try domming again.

you know, That Girl? gets up at 6am, does mediation and fifty burpees, moves her perfect chiselled ass to the kitchen to have a breakfast all of nutritious, delicious, and cost-optimised, treats her skin to a perfect care routine before assembling an effortlessly chic athleisure OOTD, all sustainable fair labour fashion ofc, then sits in time to work on her poems before work... 41 years and so far nothing, but I'll be becoming her any day now I'm sure.

this is exactly backwards, I think. see, as soon as I first tried to do a "time log" on my bujo I quickly realised that what I felt as a "lack of time" was really a lack of energy, of wherewithal. my ADHD, my emotional baggage. my feeling of ostracism, of disposability, my overwhelm, my helpless sadness and fury over the pain of the world, the constant bitter humiliation of having to submit to forms and meaningless busywork to be allowed to *exist*. all of that stands between me and cleaning up the table and making breakfast, the emotions, the feeling like you can't do anything.

Now bear with me here cos I'm going to say a crazy theory that I've been developing:

Domming makes me feel powerful.

Weird, I know. Like right now I feel ready to tackle the entire world. Bring it on I mean ok it's a fantasy, an illusion we constructed together, me and her, bit of a head trip if I'm honest. I'm not going to single-handledly dismantle capitalism and human supremacy by Tuesday. But if it feels like I can, then I can certainly take out the trash, right? All this daily stuff that a month ago felt so overwhelming now feels so... small. Of course I can walk out in the cold, what, is a bit of stairs supposed to intimidate me? I can do much more than that, I can do whatever the Hell I want to, I am Mistress.