Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Man, I fucking hate LinkedIn.

It feels even more performative and inauthentic than most social media which is a staggering achievement. Maybe I'm just not on other social media anymore.

The only good thing I've ever seen on LinkedIn is @vilmibm's profile which is damned art:

your outie is terminally eepy

R.I.P. James Harrison, Australian hero, whose blood contained a rare antibody used to create medication to protect babies from a rare blood disorder. Having the antibody was just luck. What made him a hero was donating plasma every two weeks without missing one appointment for 60+ years. There's power in just reliably showing up for other people who need what only you can give them.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4xqe60gyo

Still can't find the work phone but found a couple of pentium 3 xeon CPUs in my car lol

@joepie91 will post wee woo exactly 3 hours later next month for opsec

Hello! We thought we'd freshen up our introduction!

Every day women have, and are, making history. ​We're a project that posts every day with what women did #OnThisDay. We're all about highlighting #WomenInHistory.

Women in history are, just like men, complex. Sometimes a woman who has achieved something amazing was not a nice person.

Follow us to find out what happened on this day, and carve her name.

#Introduction #Histodons #WomensHistory

I have a meeting planned with the head of my department to voice my concerns about using Google Cloud.

I have two points that I would like to make:
* Ideological, about whether we should sponsor Google, which was so quick to step in line with Trump and Elon
* Operational, about the risk we take by relying on a platform that is easily weaponized in a trade conflict

Are there more arguments to be made against US cloud that could be compelling?

Unreal tournament? You mean a misinformation contest, like Twitter?

It's the size of about 4 football fields. No, not American football fields, I mean metric football fields

This is hardly an original take but I absolutely hate the way the word "content" has become the main way people refer to any creative work, that would previously have been referred to by more meaningful words, like "writing" or, y'know, fucking "art", that people put on the internet. And I hate the way the phrase "content creator" (or its short form, "creator") has come to replace words like "artist" or "writer".

Like how did the MBAs manage to convince everyone else to see works of human creativity as consisting of generic stuff that (interchangeable and insignificant) people produce that they can shove into interchangeable containers (the word "content" literally just means "the stuff inside a container") for economic consumption as an unremarkable by-product of their moneymaking activities, instead of the reverse, that artists produce art in some particular medium and then the (interchangeable and insignificant) businesspeople scrape money off the top of the process of distributing that media, like we'd been doing until like barely ten years ago.

I don't know about you, but you won't hear me use the term "content creator", at any rate because I find that to be an insult to the people who actually deserve recognition.

It’s especially frustrating when I discover someone thinks I’m doing something socially advanced and devious. I’m just struggling to seem normal, buddy. I don’t have the time, or the understanding of people required to plot anything against you. Just tell me what’s annoying. I do not know. Please just tell me. People are terrifying and inscrutable and I don’t want to be one of them in your life.

I wish there were a socially acceptable way to tell people that one has problems picking up subtle social cues, hints etc.

With most people I know well and get on with they eventually tell me something like “when I first met you I thought you hated me” or “I thought you were trying to make me look bad by correcting me”

I don’t let this feedback just wash over me. Project “Less Obnoxious! more Approachable!” has been ongoing for decades. But, even still I can’t read minds.