Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

there is nothing inherently intelligent about a market and I wish economists and market anarchists would stop talking about it in terms of complex systems when they are talking entirely out of their asses. There is no emergent intelligence, or consistently beneficial properties, that can be quantified. If anything it is a pristine example of a completely non self-regulating chaotic mess that will spit out different outcomes with minor random changes in its environment which are difficult to plan for.

No, its all bullshit. Actually the people who benefit from this are the ones aware of the chaos, who can take advantage of how disorganized everything is, and create auxilliary systems of control like finance.

the wisest.

me, glaring at my unhealthy queer friends: lesbian culture is eating your vegetables. bisexual culture is going outside and taking a walk

Infodump on my #Framework Display Kit re-use project

Also contains lots of loose info on Type-C P/D alt-mode (DisplayPort) negotiation and implementation options that might be interesting (or totally wrong, this is all pretty new to me)

https://community.frame.work/t/custom-lcd-driver-board-for-display-kit-as-type-c-monitor/26910

In general I’m at a bit of a crossroads in the project now, unsure what option to design around since none seem particularly enticing…

Periodic reminder that we are not anything like "post"-pandemic. We are mid-pandemic; Peri-pandemic; Right smack dab in the fucking middle of a goddam pandemic and no amount of squeezing our eyes shut and plugging our ears and going "la la la it's not real" while wishing it were otherwise will make it so.

It's 2023. "Gosh, we didn't realize how people would misuse this" just isn't believable anymore.

Bare minimum, with any new tech:
1) How would a stalker use this?
2) What will 4chan do with this?

And don't release, not even as alpha or beta, before mitigating those risks.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23579289/ai-voice-clone-deepfake-abuse-4chan-elevenlabs

#AIethics #ethNLP

news item from our local paper, 50 years ago

Have several options to look into — thanks all! Will be muting now

Is there a well-regarded bicycle-themed instance? I’m trying to get my husband to join Mastodon and this is his major interest

#Bicycle #Cycling

Update: moved this to my new writing site so there’s a new URL.

Every hashtag on every post on every platform should ALWAYS be pascal case. I wrote this to illustrate how screenreaders read hashtags based on their case.

It’s a small thing that all of us can do to build a more inclusive, accessible internet for all. Please take the time to use pascal case.

Read more:
https://markwrites.io/hashtag-accessibility-by-everyone-for-everyone

#Accessibility #WebAccessibility #Usability #Readability #Hashtags #SocialNetworking #Blogging #UX

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On our digital collections site someone on staff accidentally uploaded pictures of birds from their phone, with accompanying text from anti-war pamphlets. The result is modern art