Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Saved and liberated the books I "bought" at Amazon for my Kindle. Amazon will stop offering the "Download & transfer via USB" option, so I have downloaded all 210 books. After downloading, I hunt them through Calibre and a certain plugin to remove the DRM stuff, convert the books to EPUB format so I have my private backup and can put them on a new ebook reader that is more open than the Amazon walled garden. And in future I will buy my eBooks someplace else. #ByeAmazon

This guy did something dumb a decade ago and is still living with the consequences. He's a bit desperate financially, but still won't resort to a memecoin, it's too wrong.
https://trending.knowyourmeme.com/editorials/interviews/the-man-behind-the-burger-king-foot-lettuce-meme-talks-getting-doxxed-fired-and-tanking-bks-sales-for-stepping-in-lettuce

#BlackHistory. Meet Kizzmekia Corbett, leader of the team that gave us the Covid-19 vaccine. Thank you! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kizzmekia_Corbett

@Luczeproblemen Het doet me denken aan een vriendin bij een andere verzekeraar. Alles digitaal, tracking-app op de telefoon. Sport zich in ruil voor wat spiegeltjes en kraaltjes een slag in de rondte, terwijl ze dat eigenlijk niet aankan. Maar het extraatje kan ze wel goed gebruiken…
Dát is wat prijsprikkels doen.

fuck assimilation. i don't want a slice of your blood pie. i want sustenance that isn't made of suffering.

Friends, the whole thing with trans erasure is very deeply sinister. Like, they're going to murder us level sinister.

Allies, you need to be super clear that you support trans rights. Your civic organisation, religious group, union, workplace - every organisation needs to be putting out messaging that you support trans people. Issue a statement. Speak from the pulpit. You can do this. It's ok to take initiative. Step back if a trans person wants to lead, but if they can't, you can. If you need help writing a statement, DM me. You can do this.

Put trans stickers on everything. You car, every surface in public spaces. Fly flags. Make support visible. Sew a patch on your jacket.

Put pronouns in your email signature, in your messaging app, in every profile. When you introduce yourself, say your pronouns.

Write letters to government officials, to your local newspaper, to every place that will print a letter. Thank officials doing the right thing.

Find out when demos are and show up. Organise a demo. Get some mates and a few flags and stand on a corner in your town's centre on a weekend afternoon, waving signs saying you support trans rights. You can just do this. You don't need trans people to organise this. You can just do it. Print out some leaflets from trans orgs and hand them to people.

Put a big banner on a freeway overpass.

Donate to trans rights groups. And to clinics that offer care. Give money to planned Parenthood and your city's free clinic.

Have you fantasised about what you would have done in a historical moment? This is that moment.

i dunno. when someone makes a post that's only like "pass it on!" or "this!" no cw, with an image that contains the actual information of the post, without alt text so it's both inaccessible and unfilterable, i feel like that person doesn't respect other people enough to be worth hearing from

The main thesis of this article is sound: the far right loves image generators because they hate art and artists. https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/

There are a few cringey errors and a wee bit of overreach, but I really think his main point is solid. Indeed, I would go further on a few examples he raises.

The author discusses dictator hair, saying it's ugly on purpose. He describes Trump's hair as a microagression of ugliness. While this is largely correct, I think he's missed some nuance, especially in terms of gender. Women of the far right have impeccable hair and carefully chosen wardrobes. It's only the men who dress badly, wearing ill-fitting suits and inexplicable haircuts. Therefore, bad hair is a gender expression, and I would argue, one rooted in homophobia. There is a lingering stereotype of hairdressers and stylists as gay. So Trump and Milei and even Boris Johnson all have hair that symbolises neglect.

In actual fact, Trump spends a lot of time on his hair and makeup, but the result symbolises contempt for the workers who prep him for the public. He uses their labour but disdains their craft. The symbol of his hair as anti-hairdresser supplants the reality.

When a symbol becomes more important than the thing it represents, it's called a "fetish". In that sense, Trump's hair is a fetish for utilitarian masculinity and compulsory heterosexuality.

Zou het helpen, zo’n antidiefstalbordje?

I’m fucking tired of people working at the same company reviewing and merging each others PRs. I’m fucking tired of corporate interests putting their own capital gains ahead of the project. We need to actually give them resistance when they do this, instead of worshipping them and putting them on a pedestal and contributing to their personality cult. They are fucking cancerous to nix/nixpkgs/nixos and everyone that gives a shit about those and have power in the project have a duty to start speaking up louder against this shit.

God forbid you’re not employed by them? Get a spine. Most of these places are shitty employers anyways.

Domen, creator of devenv, recently added telemetry to his devenv thing, as part of adding AI to the product, and when nixpkgs contributors removed the telemetry, he reverted the change, with a self merge, without a fucking review even.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/381981

This is a clear conflict of interest. We need to stop this from happening in the NixOS organization, corpos need to have some respect for users.

Discussion thread: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/should-commercial-actors-ship-telemetry-in-nixpkgs/60279/8

#nix #nixos #nixpkgs