Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

New article alert! My hatred for all things AI forced me to consider the lovely drug that is cognitive dissonance once again.

In the article, I present a visual metaphor that explains cognitive dissonance clearly: the cognitive dissonance pyramid.

The metaphor comes from the book Mistakes Were Made.

#blog #tech #AI

https://www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/the-cognitive-dissonance-pyramid/

do you think the people who work at google have old google hidden away somewhere or are they also slogging through a mire of dog shit every time they try to search the internet

'D66 wil maatregelen om medicijnen aan te passen op vrouwenlichaam'

"Vrouwen krijgen vaak nog steeds geen medicijnen die zijn toegespitst op een vrouwenlichaam. Daardoor lopen ze een veel groter risico op ernstige bijwerkingen dan mannen en duurt het langer voordat ze hersteld zijn."
"Ook stoppen vrouwen vaker met hun geneesmiddelen dan mannen vanwege de heftige bijwerkingen."

"De D66-leider stelt onder meer voor dat medicijnfabrikanten verplicht gaan testen wat de werking en bijwerkingen van een nieuw geneesmiddel op vrouwen zijn."

"Ook moeten de bijsluiters van bestaande middelen een apart gebruiksadvies krijgen voor vrouwen. Daarnaast moet er meer onderzoek komen naar de juiste dosering van geneesmiddelen voor vrouwen."

https://www.skipr.nl/nieuws/d66-wil-maatregelen-om-medicijnen-aan-te-passen-op-vrouwenlichaam/

#gezondheid #vrouwen #bijwerkingen #politiek #D66 #Jetten

ai;dr (AI; Didn't Read)

This might seem silly, but please keep posting about nice things in your life! There are lots of terrible things out there, so knowing about people's projects, successes, relationships, hobbies, nice meals, quiet moments of joy, etc. are lovely! I like knowing people are experiencing nice things, especially in a world that doesnt support that well.

Just read the most infuriating blog post ever, where this person tries to equate alt text as a HOA, Homeowner association. Fuck you, and can someone make a block list of these jackasses so I can nuke them all in one place?

The first reasoning is also flawed. Maybe it's a screenshot of a different sentence than the one you have as a featured image on your blog. The point is, you know, we don't, and it sounds like this person is using his limited knowledge of screen readers to justify his individualistic brave stance online.

His second point deserves no rebuke.

But I've long since muted him. This also might shock you, but you're also using HOA wrong as well, if you really wanna get nit picky about it. Why don't you actually try learning what the HOA actually does offline to enact discrimination instead of using it incorrectly.

But I'm starting to see this kind of attitude all the time, and it always, always, comes from the mainstream internet, where everybody never had to think about others.

It's getting to the point where I mute/block everyone that uses the word, HOA, because these very Twitter people can't comprehend communities.

I've made it my personal mission to be blocked by these kinds of people by scolding them until they block me. Trust me, they won't be worth your feed.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/02/on-blocking-mastodon-hoa-edition/

Updated the post, here is, as it were, the money shot.

You can see that the frequency on the EU side goes low and then rises while the one on Baltic side goes high and then falls right before sync - I wonder if that was intentional! But in any case, you can very clearly see the point where they sync! so this experiment was as far as I am concerned a full success!

https://halcy.de/blog/2025/02/09/measuring-power-network-frequency-using-junk-you-have-in-your-closet/ #BalticSynchro

#SilentSunday

wanna know something really fun?

one of Spain's biggest ISPs is blocking connectivity to -all Cloudflare- on the hours when the Spanish football league plays because some pirate streaming servers operate behind them

@flesh

farmer's delight is an amazing one. makes cooking and farming so actually fun and is also very aesthetically pleasing. there are many submods for it that add even more food!

another good one is create if you like steampunk stuff or like making various builds with mechanisms and automation. it's an analog to redstone that uses clockwork and cogwheels.

biomes o'plenty and oh the biomes you'll go are also astonishingly cool

minecraft is like, my comfort game. you know how people have comfort plushies they hug every time they're feeling bad? this is this game for me

Birding this morning was lovely, always good to get out there. Happy we still have our winter ducks around.