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

Hey infosec people: do me a favor and assume the "use case" for anyone you don't know personally includes facing poverty, discrimination, state-sponsored oppression, corporate surveillance, domestic abuse and harassment while using your product.

Then design accordingly.

please and thanks

Please don’t confuse what is legal with what is right. There is some overlap, of course, but not as much as one might think. Laws are generally written by the rich and powerful to protect their interests, often at the expense of the poor and weak. Many atrocities are lawful, and many acts of mercy are unlawful. I say this as an attorney.

me: ok i did a task where's the dopamine

my brain: ...

me: brain,
me: brain where is the dopamine?

brain: was it a special interest?

me: no

brain: was it one of 5 things your hyperfixated on rn?

me: (tiredly) no

brain: what does that mean?

me (exesperated): no dopamine

brain: thats right! no dopamine!

brain: have a nice day!

"stroustrup" sounds like a legacy C string function that has been proven to have 3 different memory safety issues

Huh.

The richest people are meeting at Davos and they have HEPA filters in every room, they PCR test everyone, disabling your key card if you fail to test or test positive, and wear winter clothes indoors, which suggests plenty of ventilation.

Wonder why kids in schools, ppl in hospitals, malls, libraries, or shelters don't need all these too?

One standard for them, one for those of us who keep the economy going for them.

#CovidIsNotOver

This is the epitome of #privilege in #tech. White tech-bros earning millions on the sweat labor of Black workers. And the great irony is that the Kenyan labor force was working to make the system less racist:

“ChatGPT’s predecessor had already shown an impressive ability to string sentences together. But it was a difficult sell, as the app was also prone to blurting out violent, sexist and racist remarks.”

https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/

#ChatGPT #WhitePrivilege #Exploitation #Labor #TechBros

This.

I'm sharing my 2023-01 Krita brush bundle under CC-0/Public Domain, I hope you'll like them!
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#MastoArt #krita

Allowlist nothing. Blocklist everything!

If their business model cannot survive without selling advertising, that is not your problem.

Remember: Everyone in your life needs good adblocking. Help them have good adblocking. End internet ads.

Posted this to Twitter today.

You know, human beings really are creatures of habit.

We will put up with so much as long as it comes with a little gratification and validation. Even when the good parts are outweighed by the bad.

Some of the same people who moaned about how "annoying" Mastodon is, are the same who moan about Twitter's many issues.

I'd rather experience some growing pains than slow poisoning.

Thank you to everyone who was willing to make a new start here.

"You can't recycle your way out of climate change. You can't shop your way out of monopoly. Systemic problems need systemic solutions.

What the individual can do is think of themself as part of a movement. If you join a movement, then you and the people with you can make change. But not you on your own."

—Cory Doctorow @pluralistic

talking with other leftist coalitions in the area and the way they think about burnout is like this inevitable contagion that just happens when you're leftist enough but like
IDK, is it burnout you're feeling or is it being normal tired from doing regular work, or do people feel aimless and are disillusioned with a nebulous goal, or are beaten down by project failure, or see no example to strive for, or feel no connection and community with the group, or etc etc etc
I feel like there's this tendency towards blaming org issues on burnout because it individualizes the problem, but it's exactly that tendency towards individualizing issues that we're actively fighting as leftists

If you feel that radical folks are "too radical" and "scaring off others", but "you agree with them in principle", why aren't you volunteering to do the job of explaining this to liberals/centrists/etc.?

Why are you instead demanding that the radical folks moderate their speech, look friendly, and generally shut up about the incredibly taxing and frustrating experience of constantly getting the same milquetoast subtly-bigoted shit thrown at them masquerading as progressive politics?

Why are you expecting the people who are *already* bearing the brunt of abuse and doing most of the work for social change, to do *even more* work to look less scary and more appealing? Why aren't *you* the one doing that?