Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Guess what % of plastics have been #recycled? No prizes :(

Update after April 2.

I was able to determine that, at least, my social security is still intact! But still no deposit as of yet, but the good news is thanks to the #Fediverse I was able to cover April's rent and deposit will resume in May! I am 99% sure I was the casualty of some rapid database breaking somewhere. I probably won't update this post again, but if you do have social security, the best thing I can tell you is to prepare for what happened to me, to happen to you as well.

This means downloading all previous records and statements while you still can. No telling if it will help you, as a *LOT* of people in my country really really want social security to be privatize and this means purging just because they need to be so called efficient. People in my country *want* social security to run like a business rather than a public good, so make it easier to sue them if they deny you in the future, and this means keeping any documentation you can.

See earlier post below.

On April 1 I Woke up to no social security deposit and I use that to pay rent.

Thanks to the Fedi, April rent has been paid for! My social security is still intact, and I was told deposit would resume in May.

There was no notification, no email, no letter from Social Security, and this was a scary thing to wake up to!

Even though April is covered, I still need mutual aid as a preemptive measure.

If you are in the US, Zelle is kingettr@gmail.com and other options at https://sightlessscribbles.com/support/ #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #Disability @anarchomutual @mutualaid@a.gup.pe @mutualaid@kolektiva.social @mutualaidmedia

🥽as much as I do think Booker’s filibuster matters, it’s also a clear demonstration of Democrat’s inability to fight.

That the moment he stood down the democrats allowed unanimous consent rather than continuing to drag out the confirmation hearing speaks volumes.

They could all go up and do what Booker just did, one by one, for shorter lengths of time, and grind the senate to a halt.

Instead, Booker does something inspiring and even important, but the democrats fail to capitalize on it in favor of patting themselves on the back and proceeding as if it’s business as usual.

Booker’s actions are absolutely being effective, but possibly not in the way he intends it.

in retrospect it's kind of incredible how many people fell for the ponzi schemes from a place called "silly con valley"

This is, in my opinion, a good April Fools day joke.

It's a joke.
It's a funny joke.
It's labeled as a joke, so there's little danger of it becoming disinformation.
It's a joke that doesn't really hurt anyone, other than possibly the manufacturers of non-repairable devices.
It is, I stress, actually funny, and got me for a fraction of a second before I realized.

https://mastodon.social/@iFixit/114263376609300795

The organization behind #NaNoWriMo is officially dead.

As a long-time fan of the event, I couldn't be happier.

Problems came up, and instead of addressing them, there was assorted pointing of fingers and a turning away of all who wanted to help.

The acting executive director burned all remaining good-will to the ground. (She even took a strange pro-GenAI stance for absolutely no reason.) Of course, her last message to the community was barbed and basically blamed the community for shuttering NaNoWriMo.

Over the past year or so there have been a lot of new writer communities pop up. There are plenty of places for writers to network and challenge each other.

The iOS contacts app has a pronoun field, and it actually comes with presets. I only filled in "ze" and it filled in the rest. I wonder where they got this list from. I had to edit it tho because my friend uses a different variation of "ze".

Additionally, it correctly gives a 2nd person and 3rd person field for Chinese, with no declension.

Wanted: a patched phone operating system which instead of having permissions for apps returns them all random data, unless I have allowed them access to the real thing.

Randomly generated address books, location coordinates, WiFi network names, picture folders full of noise, battery levels that fluctuate wildly.

Fucking poison the data gathering well. Make it looks pretty realistic. My phone has enough storage and compute to create realistic looking names and telephone numbers. Let the advertisers think I'm traveling back and forth on the Orient express.

TIL (because I was using some tools to hack on the files) that Wing Commander 1 lipsyncs the dialogue in the briefing scenes, and it does it by having a second copy of the line that's spoken in the dialogue file, but it's a simplified pseudo-phonetic version:

Text="We've got a lot of work to do, people, so let's get to it."

LipSyncText="wevgotalotofwerktodopepulsolesgettoit"