Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

If I was a fediverse admin right now with open registrations (why are you doing that?!!), given the #4chan hack, now would probably be a great time to finally close them down. There's about to be a lot of very angry and lonely trolls looking for somewhere to lash out

#actuallyautistic I and many women I know have a box love. You get things in really cool boxes and you say, I should save this and use it, cause that is a really cool box. In packing up I have found these & needed a stim so I spent hours with a hot glue gun, fabric, left over ribbon, and old DR WHO episodes. created boxes you WANT TO PUT THINGS IN. Packing is hell for autistic and ADHD brains. It is carnage on an epic level. I HAD TO CREATE.

I am very tempted to buy a 1st class Interrail.

Does DuckDuckFedi have any opinions?

My main reason for doing so it the massively increased short notice Eurostar/reservation availability.

OK, this is rad! Oregon, you keep winning!

Today's AI bullshit: Webex randomly said to me in a TTS voice that an AI generated transcript and summary of the meeting will be created. I was alone in the meeting at that point and just said "nein?" to myself and disabled the feature. So the summary only goes off of the word "nine" since I guess the speech model expects English

"Ordinary people have problems understanding me because I converse at a higher level" -> "No, you're just shit at communicating" energy going on here

This is the kind of commune I want to live in. https://supernuclear.substack.com/p/case-study-the-story-of-radish-81f3ca6b6616

We need to stop thinking that the company that most recently did a shitty thing is the worst company. Firefox isn't worse than Chrome. Brother isn't worse than HP

Semi related, we need to stop overblowing problems in open source. There's too much "I'm switching back to the proprietary one" even tho that company has done much worse things than the open source project

I reckon this is intentional. By placing massive friction around exercising consent, you make any worker who understands consent seem like a source of friction in the workplace.

It takes a worker who understands consent 10x as long to do anything in tech compared with a worker who simply taps [ALLOW] every time.

This effectively purges workplaces of any workers who assert their own right to privacy, have any boundaries or are generally in the habit of standing up for themselves.

We don't talk anywhere near enough about how the tech industry is fucking with the general public's understanding of consent.

Fairly often I will opt out of something that would have been obviously reasonable a few years ago, and people will look at me like I drove a truck through the room.

Things like:
- I won't be appearing on camera today
- I don't wish to speak on a recording to be published on the University website
- I won't be giving my personal details to an overseas third party just to use a notepad tool in one meeting

I see this seeping through into attitudes about consent in other everyday life contexts. People are so used to being walked all over by their tech that they're increasingly shocked by boundaries.

Today I learned that East German chemists created almost unbreakable consumer glassware in the 1970s. They produced hundreds of millions of drinking glasses, expecting significant exports to the west because the product was just so much better than regular glass.

Those exports did not happen. If you're a western marketer of glassware, you *want* your products to break so you can sell new ones.

Outstanding job, capitalism. This is why we can't have nice things.

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