Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Anyone working on "ethics" "fairness" "responsible AI" and such at these companies is giving cover for them to commit genocide. The only ones doing actual "ethics" or "fairness" are the ones protesting this and getting fired.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/microsoft-azure-israel-top-customer-ai-cloud

this new discord update is awful

May I offer u to build a community in those trying times

Public service announcement: this is *not* a dire wolf.

It is a genetically modified grey wolf made to resemble an extinct species, so a bullshit company can raise more money for their bullshit projects.

#Deextinction is a scam on so many levels I don't even know where to begin. It will *not* help us save endangered species. Instead, we should spend our money on preserving their habitats *before* they go extinct.

RE: https://ard.social/users/tagesschau/statuses/114307651578714673

i just discovered https://openinframap.org/ and i'm very autistically interested

https://mastodon.ie/@detachedspork/114307889002840241

goddess, I'm so fucking lonely lol. It wasn't like I was good at making friends before the covid pandemic, but it's so much harder now trying to meet others to talk to and befriend. I'm really struggling to find covid conscious folks in my area or even my country that isn't some kind of facebook group lol. Currently very socially isolated and really only talk to one person who lives with me, but it's starting to eat away at my soul having so many barriers blocking me from making connections.

I'd appreciate any form of contact from CC folks, despite the fact I'm extremely socially anxious and quite avoidant. It's just getting too much to bear being so isolated from the rest of the world.

#CovidIsNotOver

So something I am just going to keep in mind going forward is that quite a few people only care about oppression if it happens to them. And this can apply to anyone, even sometimes multiply marginalized folks.

For these people, oppression that they experience is a serious issue that needs to be addressed. Oppression that they don't experience gets dismissed as "purity politics" or "leftist purity tests" or the ever popular "idpol".

People who think like this are always easy to spot because they will use the same tools their own oppressors do to dismiss the claims of others, including tone policing, DARVO, gaslighting, and others. And, just like the folks oppressing them, they will never tolerate someone trying to convince them that they're doing harm.

You can come to them nicely, or you can be aggressive with them. You can approach them privately or you can call them out publicly. It doesn't matter because the issues you're trying to bring to their attention, they didn't want to hear about in the first place. It just doesn't matter how you say it when the message was never going to be welcome.

It's this kind of behavior that one might expect from well-known bigots but can be a nasty surprise from the people we're close to. At the end of the day, we don't have the power to make anybody care about someone else. All we can control is our own actions. So the trick is to find people who are actually aligned with our values and keep them close. And that's really all you can do, and that's okay!

Just a reminder.

When it comes to the tariff stuff I think the take that makes me bite my tongue the most is seeing people lament that they can't mass produce merch of their OC/sona anymore.

I get it everyone has to eat but also the fact leftists are more upset they can't exploit foreign workers for cheap crap made of mostly if not completely plastic that's going to end up in a landfill for centuries than just about anything else is uh...

De NVWA vindt 1600 liter illegale bestrijdingsmiddelen bij een aardbeienteler. https://www.nvwa.nl/nieuws-en-media/nieuws/2025/04/09/nvwa-iod-vindt-1600-liter-illegale-bestrijdingsmiddelen-bij-fruitteler

finds open source project
"made by Google"
ask about state of finely aged (stale) 6 months PR
no response

ask around
all people working on the project at Google were fired and its barely maintained
ffs

Op 12 en 19 april houd #RepairCafe weer een #Linux Repair Café in #Amsterdam. Daar zullen ze je helpen Linux te installeren en te gebruiken.

Ben je nog niet zeker? Je kan er ook Linux proberen op een PC van hun alvorens je de keuze maakt het te installeren.

Voor meer info, zie: https://www.repaircafe.org/linux-repair-cafe/