Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

When I became a homeless, mentally ill sex worker in my mid-20s, I remained white and educated, and was able to talk myself out of more than one sticky situation with cops. I survived with trauma and a nicotine addiction so, practically unscathed.

Etc.

This Disablity Pride Month, please do not donate to me. Please direct it to a Black or Brown disabled person. That is always fairest, because of the widespread theft from their incomes and expenses by our entire society. Just my 2 cents.

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Interrail reminder: last day of the 20% discount, even with full 100% refund protection, a 4 day 2nd class global pass for adults is still 40,- cheaper than after today.

#interrail

Bass: exists
Humans: wobble

"Trapping AI" – Slight Update! 🌀

Activity in the "Trapping AI" project is accelerating: in just under a month, over 26 million requests have hit our tarpit URLs 🕳️. Vast volumes of meaningless content were devoured by AI crawlers — ruthless digital leeches that relentlessly scour and pillage the web, leaving no data untouched.

In the coming days, we’ll roll out a new layer of complexity — amplifying both the intensity and offensiveness of our approach. This escalation builds on fakejpeg, a tool developed by @pengfold.

🖼️ fakejpeg generates fake JPEGs on the fly. You "train" it with a collection of existing JPEGs, and once trained, it can produce an arbitrary number of things that look like real JPEGs — perfect for feeding aggressive web crawlers junk 🗑️.

Explore fakejpeg: https://github.com/gw1urf/fakejpeg

Learn more about "Trapping AI": https://algorithmic-sabotage.github.io/asrg/trapping-ai/#expanding-the-offensiveness

See the tarpit in action: https://content.asrg.site/

always a good reminder for the freelancers out there, educate yourself a little on legalese. I'm not an expert by any means, but a little competency goes a long way.

I recommend the Graphic Artists Guild Handbook as a good reference for this as they have example contracts. I got recommended this early on in my career by a mentor of mine, and it changed how I approached running a freelance business: https://graphicartistsguild.org/the-graphic-artists-guild-handbook-pricing-ethical-guidelines/

I was a bit shocked. They weren't even offering a great rate. But still.

There's no way I'd sign a non-compete when I run a freelance business working with many direct competitors. They'd have to lock in a long-term contract with very high pay for me to even consider that.

No thanks.

Had a possible new client there who sent me their NDA so we could talk more in detail on the project before signing contracts. But it included, no joke, conflict of interest and non-compete clauses for up to a year... for an NDA!

They wouldn't remove them, so I walked.

Always read every agreement.

if any programmers want to know what chronic pain or sensory issues feel like, set your compiler to "treat all warnings as errors" and to be as pedantic as possible.

anyway, empathy is an ideology according to capitalism instead of essential
all because it couldn't be commodified until charities came along

but is that commodified empathy, or commodified guilt?

netflix and chill
jellyfin and fuck

"[M]ost people don’t know what Pride is about. The anguish, and the hurt, and the reason why Pride started in the first place—it was an anti-cop event. Look, yes—I know there are trans police officers. You have Black people who are police officers, and women police officers. All that’s cute, but guess what: It’s blue first, your other allegiances second. Once you get on that blue, child, it goes straight through to your brain, dyes your brain blue, and you’re no longer whoever the fuck you were before. So no, they don’t need to be there. That’s where their loyalty lies. So stay the fuck away from me."

—Miss Major

["Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary" by Toshio Meronek]

#queer #trans #anarchism #pride #activism #policing #LGBTIQA #PrideProtest #FirstPrideWasARiot #MarshaPJohnson #MissMajor #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #CommunityNotCops #NoJusticeNoPeace #NoCopsAtPride

July is Queer Wrath Month, but it is also Disability Pride Month, and this month marks a special pride flag that many of us might not realize we get to fly.

Disabilities come in all forms, but the one that affects me most is an invisible one up in my brain: ADHD.

Executive Dysfunction, short term memory issues, and auditory processing disorder, are among the most pronounced symptoms that impact my ability to function at a normal level.

Image source:
https://www.afterschoolnetwork.org/post/july-disability-pride-month

it's one of the hard to swallow truths that at my age and with my background, if I'm ever at war for the revolution I'd be more useful as a comms officer than as a fighter. that was why I tried to get into amateur radio last year. but I was sidetracked by 1) my distaste for technology generally, and 2) my special distaste for "gearhead moneysink" type of consumption-based subcultures.

not even getting to the part where the hobby is dominated by cis white middle-class men or how you're forced to attach your login name to your real life name and address

They said they wanted a fairytale wedding, but when I show up and place a curse on their firstborn, suddenly I’m an asshole!