Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Hello police? I need to report some escaped Amiga 3D rendering demos

gotta remember for the next interview, "Tell me about a time this company turned down a project for ethical reasons."

If you thought that the Dutch are big on tulips - think again. We are much more talented at growing fiber uplinks at seemingly random places.

🦝 ugh what am I going to do with all these websites

...

...

🦝: starts another website

"who would have thought that building a militarized police state that outdoes stalinist Russia would end up being used to oppress people?"

Almost everyone.

The socialists saw it from a mile away. Everyone from anarchists to tankies to social democrats all realized it. Left liberals also mostly got the memo as well, to their credit.

The GOP intended to use the police state for their authoritarian capitalist pet project, and they were among its architects. Of course they fucking knew, they're far right freakazoids who get a hardon from killing Black people and Middle Easterners.

The only people who didn't get the hint were centrist liberals who thought it was for "public safety" and "fighting drugs" and "eliminating terror". The Democratic leadership is generally high on official US propaganda, and really they've politically suffered for it.

We zijn in Nederland niet overgeleverd aan Big Tech. Nederland heeft namelijk het geld, de expertise, innovatiekracht, en nu ook de urgentie om onze digitale autonomie terug te winnen. Nu het geloof in onszelf nog om die toekomst te realiseren. Een beweging met de durf van Silicon Valley en de publieke waarden van Nederland. Evelyn schreef erover in NRC. (let op: paywall; de opinie verschijnt na twee weken ook op onze website).

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/03/21/we-zijn-in-nederland-niet-overgeleverd-aan-big-tech-a4887226

@hugh
ahh yes the ‘SELECT COUNT(*) FROM genders’ genders

i want an indestructible flipphone running modern android and i want it to not be made by a company complicit in crimes against humanity

„Fandom and the multimillion dollar business of monetizing volunteer work ” is my newest blog post about Fandom (big F), wikis, volunteer work and capitalism. If you have the time and any of those topics interest you, give it a read.

https://frisk.space/posts/fandom-and-the-multimillion-business-of-monetizing-volunteer-work/

#wiki #volunteering #Internet #moderation #Fandom #capitalism

https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/how-denial-of-airborne-covid-transmission-broke-the-world/?s=09

Respirators are so effective that United Kingdom research has indicated their use by the public would have dropped the rate of COVID transmission by an estimated factor of 9, compared with 0.6 for surgical masks. A factor of 9 is enough to put SARS-COV-2 into exponential decay, meaning the virus would have been highly suppressed for as long as respirator use continued. The exponential math of viral spread also means that perfect masking compliance would not have been required to achieve suppression.

@maskup

#CovidIsAirborne #WearARespirator

one of the worst parts of our modern scam culture is how it's designed to make you feel guilty when you fall for it

you heard an interesting fact that was actually propaganda? Your fault. Fell for an image? Your fault. Got scammed money wise? Your fault

but that in itself is the biggest scam of all

“Where do you get your ideas from? - by Joel Morris”

https://joelmorris.substack.com/p/where-do-you-get-your-ideas-from

> So if you put out an episode once a week, and you make it to being one of the world’s most successful podcasts… you’ll be paid enough for a pizza per episode, provided you don’t go for any side dishes.

The modern media economy is unsustainable

I have been playing with a new term: "slop huckster"

A slop huckster is more than someone who likes to play with generative AI, or has some arguments for why they've been able to use it productively

Slop hucksters argue that generative AI means you should stop doing creative and productive things, kind of likes to rub it in your face that they can make creative persuits useless

The attitudes of slop hucksters resemble incels, a kind destructive bitterness stemming from jealousy

I guess it's possible the issue gets accidentally fixed or becomes irrelevant, but something about *closing* a perfectly valid issue report because nobody from the project has checked it out rubs me the wrong way. Similar to closing an issue as WONTFIX does versus a more precise “out of scope” or “design conflict.”

It really turns me off as a potential contributor who is trying to help, and makes it less likely that I would actually stick around and help with that much needed issue triage.

I get that issue trackers are hard, but I feel like stale bots that *close issues* come off as so hostile. I shouldn't have to come back to the issue tracker every month to confirm, “Yes, this is still an issue!” to prevent the issue from getting closed.

Tag an issue as “stale” for easier triage—that’s fine! But “oops you aren’t engaged enough, sorry, your issue doesn’t exist anymore” feels like a bit of a slap in the face. Especially if it gets closed as “not planned.”