Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
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Do you ever search the Internet for an error message only to find out nobody else in the world has this problem because your teammate wrote the code that makes this error?
The perpetual conflict between wanting more shared/reused infrastructure for FOSS projects to extract sustainable funding from businesses, and not wanting FOSS to center around business funding because of the perverse incentives it introduces
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The window cleaning guy is in the street. A bunch of houses in the street pay for his service. He arrives in a little van and pulls out a hosepipe that is the length of the ENTIRE STREET and walks back and forth with it cleaning the windows, yellow hosepipe strewn over the road haphazardly. Never has a person wielded as lengthy a hosepipe as this.
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When BSDCan started, there was discussion about starting a yearly BSD conference in the US.
Then we looked at the Patriot Act and said, "Y'know, maybe it's best to just have everyone go to Canada."
I'm feeling rather prescient these days.
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So with Kagi and DDG all-in on "ai" and otherwise enshittening themselves, what are people recommending for search?
I can't even use the DDG app without bumping into surprise chatbot buttons any more.
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ropol, probably good, genocide mention
Oh ok turns out they are charging him with building a fascist group, promoting the cult of personality of perpetrators of genocide, and building or participating in antisemitic groups
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Democrats: "we need to figure out how to improve our messaging"
also Democrats: "pay us to ex officio stymie the hegemonic authoritarian oligarchy vis-a-vis patrimonialst plutocracy and noncromulent demagoguery"
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the road to hell is closed for resurfacing
TIL that there used to be a ban on toy-oriented children's TV shows in the US, until Reagan abolished it
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Seriously, if Mastodon would rename 'CW' to 'Subject' or 'Subject/CW', it would alleviate so many hassles and conflicts while helping folks adjust to Mastodon norms.
As an Admin of a Topic Based community instance, in the years since the Twitter takeover, the biggest challenge our moderation team has faced has been to get dudes (yes, it's almost always dudes), to add CWs to certain topics.
Simply calling it 'Subject' would have helped in maybe 50% of conflicts over our asking for CWs.
Showing me a paywall for an article, but only below the fold once I've already started reading, is a very good way to ensure that I will never visit or link to your site again.
CW-boost: sexual assault
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US politics and clinical trial regulation
The STAT news podcast hosts wonder why the medical device regulators were cut more harshly than the drug development regulators
And not to state the obvious but
Musk owns Neuralink
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ropol, probably good
Lmao the neo-nazi presidential candidate got arrested
Not for the nazi shit, for "ties with the Russian state" (🙄) but still probably a good thing that it happened lmao
grumbling, noise
A leafblower is not a tool for cleaning your goddamn vehicle! Fuck off!
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"De historisch hoge prijs voor koffie stuwt de winst van koffiebedrijf JDE Peets op. Het moederbedrijf van onder andere Douwe Egberts en Senseo heeft afgelopen jaar bijna de helft meer winst behaald dan in het jaar daarvoor. [...] Volgens JDE Peets overstijgen de resultaten de verwachtingen, onder andere door een zeer sterke stijging van de koffieprijs. De prijzen zijn hier meer dan verdubbeld."
Duidelijk. Die 'hoge koffieprijzen' zijn dus voornamelijk het gevolg van winstbejag van Westerse tussenhandelaren zoals JDE Peets, en hebben weinig te maken met het meer (moeten) betalen bij de bron, de boeren die het daadwerkelijk verbouwen.
Een verrassing is het niet, droevig is het wel.
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“What radicalized you? Nothing. Not wanting people to starve and suffer is not radical, it’s normal. Stop saying it’s radical to be base level empathetic, and start asking what made people into sadists. Call out sick behavior, because I’m tired of people thinking kindness shouldn’t be the default.”
—credit Tara Belle Enoch
political assassinations (2)
I don't talk about this kind of topic often, because it's very easy for people to steamroll the nuance and misconstrue or misrepresent what I said.
Don't make me regret this.
political assassinations
Something I think isn't talked about enough, is that political assassinations are neither fundamentally effective nor ineffective; it all depends on the context.
Broadly speaking, assassinating someone to stop them from causing damage doesn't work. In relation to my last boost; it's the underlying systems where the harm comes from, the individuals in charge are 'just' their avatars. Shooting Trump would not stop things in the US from falling apart.
But that doesn't mean that there's no purpose to assassinations either. A good example would be the UnitedHealthcare shooting; it didn't directly stop UnitedHealthcare from causing harm, but it sure did spook the hell out of the entire healthcare insurance industry.
Less claims got rejected for a while; harmful policy changes got cancelled; executives of various insurance providers suddenly felt threatened and were more careful with what they did or said publicly. These were indirect but useful effects.
It wasn't removing a CEO that made the change; it was connecting very visceral consequences for the perpetrator, to the harm being caused, making other executives afraid of exercising their power. The public and sensational nature of the shooting contributed to this effect.
Should a whole society be run on this concept? Absolutely the fuck not. Can political assassinations be an effective political tool for dealing with gross power imbalances where other solutions have proved ineffective? Certainly, as long as you have the right expectations.
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
