Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Turns out that Adobe is collecting all of its customers' pictures into a machine learning training set.

This is opt-out, not opt-in so if you use Lightroom, for example, it defaults to adding all of your photos to the set.

If these are unpublished pictures, work-in-progress, etc. they'll still be analysed as soon as they're synced.

I've been using Lightroom to sync photos from my Windows desktop to my iPad. Now I need to reconsider that.

Active For Justice is een meldpunt begonnen voor Foie Gras in restaurants!
Weet je er een? Meldt het dan hier:
http://activeforjustice.nl/meldpunt

BOOST als je ook wilt dat het afgelopen is met het dierenleed van dwangvoeren van ganzen en eenden!

@dxciBel@fruef.social @blahaj@blahaj.zone Framing the fight for trans right as a debate is empowering transphobia. It's actively normalising the idea that our rights can be questioned, and that there are circumstances where our rights can take a back seat if an argument is well made.

The people debating don't care about the debate. They're not looking for answers. They're just making their feelings about trans folk known, because the debate gives them a chance to share their bigotry, as long as they do it in the socially acceptable way. Not a single person changes their mind and drops their transphobia because a trans person or an ally was willing to debate with them or "answer all of their questions".

We "win" the debates when people develop enough empathy to realise that making our rights contingent on debate is an act of harm in and of itself, and that takes empathy and consideration. And empathy and consideration will only develop when we are normalised. And normalisation is achieved by visibility, not by debate.

As for the comments, they were up for a VERY long time, including active death threats to trans people. I'll be waiting for a comment by them to show measures that ensure it won't happen again before I consider refederating.

just got yet another "why are you blocking my domain you have no reason listed and I don’t think that’s fair" email from a fedi admin who’s totally not upset that my single user instance is blocking his but thinks it sends a bad impression of him.

"it’s only 29 hours old and has no posts!"

yep, and before you installed GtS yesterday you ran pleroma on a different subdomain and federated with any and every cesspool that came your way.

now you’re using kiwi farms tooling to see who remembers and convince them they don’t.

fuck off, tiuxo dot com admin, I’m tryna have a nice end of year break.

I sometimes hear people who are not even millionaires saying things like, “Just being a billionaire doesn’t make someone a bad person.” It absolutely makes them a bad person. One doesn’t just happen to accumulate a billion dollars because one has a great product or service. It happens because you exploit the fuck out of people and resources. You hoard profits for yourself rather than share them with the people who are actually making your products and providing your services.

this is, once again, a case of the medical establishment reinforcing social stigma against normal physiological variations.

how many doctors tell you to just go to sleep earlier and tell you that sleeping late is unhealthy? this is just the same bullshit as always.

I'm here to tell you that your body knows what it needs, and if you listen to your body's signals and give it the amount of sleep it needs at the time when it needs it, you're doing everything right.

a lot of studies have been done and found that people who go to bed late have poorer sleep, poorer performance in life, more stress etc, but not a single one that I've seen has mentioned, let alone examined, the effect of social sleep norms and expectations, so I find them all questionable.

especially because many of them not only do not correct for, but in their methodology and their analysis actually reproduce and reinforce stigmatisation of "undesirable" sleep times.

Its always morally correct to pirate @Adobe software, especially when they snatch data from your private artwork and feed it to their "Content Analysis" for (in their own words) Machine-Learning.

Good on Jon Lam for sounding the alarm. Remember: "Industry Standard" is a Marketing Term. What matters is if you can do the work well. Whatever tools work for you are what work best. Dont let corporations make you dependent on them.

Make changes to your Adobe account here:

account.adobe.com/privacy

crying about how you've been so righteous recently and the people being mean to you for not recognizing your own transgressions are somehow in the wrong betrays that you never actually did the total inward examination that comes with exiting alt-right spaces

spending even just two years in "alt-right rabbit holes" does more to your brain than just make you angry at everything all the time. its not enough to just disavow yourself of those spaces and work on correcting your racism, because the culture of those spaces builds up and reïnforces a particular type of hierarchical arrangement and liberal respectability notions that you also have to do work to interrogate and undo. its not enough to leave the rabbit hole and put a blm patch on

I have no internal speaker and I must beep

Looking for people who know something about early computing, especially in the Netherlands. Please boost and help me solve the mystery of this custom made plate that used to belong to my grandfather Bram Jan Loopstra, one of the pioneers of Dutch computing. What do the pictures mean? #computing #history (EDIT: Wow, thanks for the overwhelming response! You may have to check the post on my instance to see all the MANY helpful reactions.)

All I'm going to say is pay attention to the rage and defensiveness that occurred when I said I don't support any fediblock project that doesn't credit the authors.

Pay attention to how upset white people get about the basic idea of having to credit someone for work.

There was an easy solution to that situation but here we are.

A lot of people here need to really take a hard look at what kind of community they are contributing to.

The neurodivergent urge to put half of your statements in brackets* (because you want to give additional content)

*and pseudo-footnotes to everything you say

Me: I’ve been bitten by a wolf!
Doctor: Where?
Me: No. Just a normal wolf.

for the new year i'd like

a single follow-requester

to actually read my bio

*and* write a decent message