Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Kleine Warnung für alle mit #Rollstuhl , die in Hamburg Hbf vorbeikommen:

Das rolligerechte WC war gestern von Sanifair doppelt abgeschlossen. Ein Schloss ist mit dem Euroschlüssel zu öffnen, aber das andere kann nur jemand von Sanifair aufschließen. Da kommt aber z.T. stundenlang niemand, wenn mensch klingelt, und es lassen sich nirgendwo Mitarbeitende auftreiben.

Laut Touri-Info passiert das öfter. Heißt, das rolligerechte WC am Hbf ist gerade nicht sicher zugänglich. Die Bahn ruht sich natürlich drauf aus, dass sie nicht zuständig sind.

#Behinderung #Hamburg #Bahn

As a technical person, I usually critique generative AI from a technical perspective - its use of unsustainable amounts of electricity, its lack of world model meaning its output is never going to be correct, the business models not adding up, training material getting harder to find now that much text on the Internet is AI slop, how its purported connections to AGI are impossible sci-fi smoke screens, etc.

However, we forget the humanities at our own peril. I found this latest video by @acegikmo to be worth watching for a critique from a social and artistic perspective.

And also for a reminder of how much barely coherent AI slop is out there when you actually count it, instead of almost subconsciously discarding it out of hand. Finding information in a field you have no prior knowledge of must be a horrifying experience nowadays.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@acegikmo/113763950485888985

I think what's missing in a lot of communities is a culture of mutual improvement; the ability to trust that if someone calls you out on something, the intention is to make the place better for everyone, and not to kick you down or 'compete'.

"Making fun of people for caring about others" is bigotry, actually; specifically because a heightened sense of empathy is a neurospicy trait

“Ultimately, if you feel strongly about not using a product, that's up to you. But trying to impose your views on others is not cool. Instead, why not try politely letting them know about your concerns in case they weren't aware, and then leave them to make up their own mind.”
https://kevquirk.com/blog/on-virtue-signalling

It seems to me that when the powerful are terrible people and the weak are trying to articulate their anger, to organize, to get a mass movement going, asking them to politely make their case and letting other people make up their mind is reprehensible. By telling people not to fight for their rights but to just politely make their point and then shut up one aligns with the powerful, one dismisses the methods of resistance.

i don't think i've ever seen a wikipedia page cite itself before

Is this not a reasonable place to park?

Food banks and all variations on that theme should be seen as indictments of a failed state, not something to be encouraged or celebrated. They exist because we have collectively fucked up our economic system.

Sorry

your annual reminder that any brand recognition you have for AKG is now for naught because Samsung bought them, moved the manufacturing out of Germany, discontinued most of the classic AKG lines, and all the engineers left.

I just remembered that this happened and it made me sad.

most of the AKG folks are now at Austrian Audio.