Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

you put some cardboard boxes by the door so you remember to take them out for recycling. then after a few weeks they;ve become the door boxes

disappointed but not surprised

https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/114426679790988963

Sock migration season has begun. Nature is amazing.

#Caturday

every fucking time someone talks about Nazi Germany and "first they came", they always, ALWAYS fail to mention disabled people.

they always forget to mention how disabled people were among the first people to be explicitly targeted. they were deemed "unfit" to the "Aryan" image.

(strange parallel: a lot of people became disabled as a result of the Great Flu. a mass death and disabling event. kind of like what we've got going on today with COVID, which isn't over...)

(another strange parallel: a lot of people already believe that disabled people are a "burden" on society, and that they should have their benefits cut to serve some "greater good." a lot of those people either already believe, or could be convinced to believe, that disabled people should "just die" for the same reason. this rhetoric was also popular back then, given the economic turmoil that the world - and, in particular, Germany - was in.)

(one more thing: these attitudes - and some of the actions - towards disabled people were in no way unique to Germany at the time. and they are in no way unique to any one country now.)

in 1933, forced sterilizations began on disabled people. pretty much immediately upon the Nazis claiming power.

as for when people started getting killed en masse: look up "Aktion T4". fucking sit with it. absorb it. they emptied the fucking hospitals and asylums. where do you think those people went?

how many of our precious "leftist" voices even bother to look into this, let alone inform people of it - and not as a gotcha or some quick aside?

no, instead, we remain silent on the atrocities done to disabled people. every fucking time.

this is not said as some sort of """oppression olympics""" bullshit, this is said because so few people bother to remember this.

they aren't even in the goddamn poem.

Edit: I failed to address/clarify some thoughts here.

I personally don't believe in the "first they came" framing. These are incredibly linear and simplistic terms to think in, and while I do absolutely believe that some groups were persecuted more harshly than others - they were all hated for being "un-German." For "desecrating" the "Aryan race."

What I mean here is not that "they sat down and wrote down a list of who was the easiest to go after, and didn't do anything to anyone else until then." What I mean is that "among all the other groups they were actively targeting for discrimination and violence, they recognized that disabled people were often derided and left behind by society, and therefore, fairly easy to go after." Think "floating the balloon," to see what they could get away with - not just against disabled people, either.

What I also mean is that a lot of people, at least outside of Germany, may not have learned about atrocities like Aktion T4. They may not have learned about how the Nazis weaponized disablities resulting from WWI and The Great Flu, and used them to further their various agendas.

As for the "precious leftists," I mean the people who tend to get the largest microphone in ostensibly leftist spaces (online and offline). They're usually able-bodied, cis, white men, and they may use those privileges to uplift other voices. It does happen! But often, even they fail to go into depth about the targeting of disabled people, beyond an aside or a gotcha statement, or to make themselves look good.

A lot of left-leaning types do fight fervently for disabled people, and I am incredibly thankful for that! But often times, disabled people don't get access to a large platform, or they're talked about, and never to. Algorithms are much less likely to show their content to the able-bodied viewer, and people may hold subconscious biases around whose voices they choose to listen to. Much like how white people tend to listen to other white people when it comes to issues of racism, or cis people tend to listen to other cis people when it comes to trans issues: able-bodied people tend to listen to other able-bodied people when it comes to disabled issues.

As leftists, we need to recognize this and try to subvert/weaponize it, wherever we possibly can, so we can better educate others that may be politically elsewhere - as well as ourselves!

I recognize that the post was maybe a bit inflammatory; it probably wasn't helpful for actually doing anything, but at the same time: I do believe that people are allowed their anger over issues like this.

@joepie91 Tja, het blijft looopings... De Telegraaf van het pretpark nieuws 🫣

@joepie91 Additionally, some of the arguments against defederation seem to boil down to...

Some instance: We're defederating from you because $Reason.
Accused admin: Although I fully deny $Reason and state that you're crazy and/or lying, I emphatically demand to remain federated with you.

Or...

Some rando: If $Instance keeps defederating like this, they'll just end up cut off from *everyone*!
$Instance: You suspiciously care an awful lot about who *we* want to collaborate with.

@joepie91 truly one of those cases where I have to go to my storage room and rummage about for 20 minutes to find one of my smallest violins

Looopings is bijzonder vaag over de exploitant van de kermisattractie Energizer waarmee een ernstig ongeluk is gebeurd (Niek Moonen dus).

Looopings verkoopt ook Energizer-merch in hun webshop, en dat roept toch wel wat vragen op, zeker aangezien er geen enkele disclosure in het artikel staat over hun samenwerking met de exploitant...

does anybody know any good books on anarcho-leftist theory and practice? i want to reccomend to a friend who is interested in learning more

espeically concerning details of how we envision the future, how it will work and be built, and anarchist action

P.S.: also especially some stuff on the harm of black-white thinking

To say nothing of how this affects people in countries without access to speedy low latency internet or end user devices that are capable of solving these challenges in a reasonable amount of time.

We’re excluding whole swaths of the planet because we’re lacking the will as a people and a profession to stomp these companies into the ground.

Proof-of-work challenges have become the current hotness for defeating AI scrapers. I think it’s great we have these and that they’re getting deployed to great effect. But I’ve also seen a lot of people claim the “AI scrapers” problem is now solved and I’m sorry to tell you this but no it’s not.

The reason it’s solved right now is because most of these scrapers don’t execute JavaScript. But with enough people deploying PoW proxies, the economics around that change enough to make it worthwhile for AI companies to do so. AI companies have more money than you. Yes it’ll cost them, but that cost is worth it to them because otherwise they don’t have a business.

(Also Anubis and other solutions default to only triggering if the User-Agent header contains Mozilla so guess what! It’ll soon need to be enabled regardless of the value of that header because it’s trivial to circumvent. Then the cost goes up for the operator too as more and more users get affected.)

The JS needed for the PoW stuff isn’t complicated. A small JS interpreter can handle that. What mostly remains is then the cost of the hash. Right now most things use SHA256, for which we have CPU extensions and AVX instructions to speed this up. Constantly increasing the PoW rounds doesn’t solve this. Eventually the experience degrades too much for real users, whereas servers literally don’t care. Nobody is sitting there waiting for the output to be rendered. All they want is to get the content to train on.

PoW proxies are a stopgap, and a very useful one. But a stopgap nonetheless. We’re buying ourselves time. But we’re going to need more than this. Including legislation that outlaws some of this shit entirely.

AI is a technology, but the root of the problem we’re facing is a societal and political one. We cannot ignore those aspects and exclude them from a solution.

Feels weird that there's a demographic of people who boo and hiss that "immigrants are taking our jobs" but will cheer and holler that "AI is taking our jobs"

Have you been watching the #Fosstodon thing happen over the past week, and wondering, "what the heck's going on?" "who said what?" "what's a carrotcypher?"

Guess, and be confused, no more. I put together exactly what you need to see in order to understand what these people did, and why their instance is being silenced.

Neutrality, the biggest problem with large Mastodon instances.

(general warning for topics relating to fascism and the current political climate in the US)

https://mkultra.monster/social-media/2025/04/28/fashtodon