Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Thinking about some ADHD crap today, specifically around abruptly shifting interests and how that intersects with community.

As in, there are communities for every one of my special interests. People make friends in those communities. But that only tends to happen for people who stick around consistently and become recognized as regulars. That's just how human socializing works.

For me, though, interest is inconsistent. It's rarely sustained long enough for me to show up as a regular anywhere.

It's recurrent, though, as I rotate through interests: For example, I tinker with electronics and retro computers every few months. Then I'll abruptly switch to writing or music or woodworking or a single video game for weeks at a time. Then, I switch again.

So, I tend to repeatedly (re)appear as a stranger in communities around my interests. And don't make many friends. That's an annoying thing for which I've never found a solution.

“User Interface”? You mean clicking randomly on the ⁝ and ☰ and ⚙️ buttons trying to figure out what's in each one?

I need every infosec person to understand that surveillance capitalism is structural, not individual, and we are not going to ethically-consume our way out of it please and thank

Hey real shit, if you’re an anarchist with a dog and not critical of your classic training methods, huge overlooked blind spot. Absolutely wild to me that more anarchists are not Positive Reinforcement (R+) training nerds and double wild to me that there are anarchists actually rolling or hitting their dogs.

No gods no masters means you too.

It's really frustrating when I see people do good work, but then don't bother to make it accessible.

Real examples; Drag queen story time in a building with no wheelchair access
A union or organization putting out a statement through an image without adding alt text.

Just, a little solidarity would go a hell of a long way.

Why are men's clothing always barrel-shaped? Everything is straight; uniform; conformative; bland. Why are there no interesting shapes, styles or fabrics? Just jeans and shirts. It's like society is trying to tell us something.

This is an example of Speex, an audio compression codec specifically tuned for the reproduction of human speech.

knowing whether someone uses the way world of warcraft's chat filter rewrites the word "lol" as shorthand for laughing is a pretty good indicator of what kind of ideologies they subscribe to

my game is not available on Steam China. but that hasn't stopped 245,548 people in China from downloading my game for the first time during the past year.

building a ten foot wall around the internet just creates a market for eleven foot ladders.

"Match Group, Inc. is an American internet and technology company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. It owns and operates the largest global portfolio of popular online dating services including Tinder, Match.com, Meetic, OkCupid, Hinge, PlentyOfFish, Ship, and OurTime, totalling over 45 global dating companies."

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World'o'Techno is an amazing location specific generative music machine that has made the rounds at SHA, EMF, CCC and now #mch2022. It has a label that says "Please take the art for a walk" http://www.jarkman.co.uk/catalog/robots/worldotechno.htm

in case there was ambiguity: there is currently no immunity to sars 2. if you haven't been recently boosted (<6 months) then you probably don't have antibodies. if you HAVE been boosted, it was with a vaccine made from an extinct strain. if you've been infected, your antibody response is very likely to be worse than if you were vaxxed. if you were infected, your T cells have probably become seriously fucked up (which is why monkeypox outbreaks started to happen after widespread covid infections)

"you probably already got [disabling virus that confers no immunity to itself] so there's no sense in continuing to avoid it" is such a nuclear take that only public health "experts" could've come up with it

Ah yes, the Netherlands

what would a cool cute name for an actually good not shit, secure, local only, no ad libraries mood tracker app be? not that im building one or anything like that tho hahahaha 👀

Are there any Netherlands-based artists here who can talk about doing commissions and how taxes work with that? Asking for someone who'll be watching the replies to this thread :) Thank you!