Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

@mcc as I understand it:

"effective altruism" is "use your money in the ways that produce the most good" which became "give the already wealthy all the money because once they have infinite wealth they'll do something good with it. right?"

longtermism is "greater long term good is more important than small short term good" which became "the things the rich are doing are awful for everyone right now, sure, but they'll create a utopia in millions of years"

tech optimism in the 1990s: computers allow unlimited copying. this will be revolutionary for society! that's right, no more property! communications that the government and corporations can't trace! yay, free culture!

tech optimism in 2020: with this revolutionary new technology we can make private property and money a reality on the Internet. we'll financialize everything and force the middle class to live in VR! all at the small cost of disastrous climate change!

when thinking about cloudflare trying to get in on the fediverse hype, you should remember that their vision of "free speech" means shutting down a mastodon instance for sex workers while platforming literal nazis

I just want to be treated with kindness, consideration, and care, consistently.

That's the non-negotiable baseline.

everyone is always talking about the top of the morning, but what about me, the bottom of the evening?

i put together a automatically-updating list of wildebeest instances, for convenient blocking or silencing:

https://wesleyac.com/wildebeest

please do your part to push back against the corporate takeover of the fediverse by a company that profits from platforming nazis, fascists, and bigots.

#fediblock #MastoAdmin

i have a cat. i also have meetings every two weeks. my cat is mostly respectful of the fact he's not allowed to jump on my laptop or climb on my body while i'm working... unless it's meeting day. how does he know. please get off of my shoulders.

A thought. Here’s the thing about sharing pronouns on profiles, even if you think it’s obvious or think it’s not for you because you’re cis/straight.

Sharing your pronouns is using your privilege to normalize the practice of doing so. If more of us share our pronouns, it becomes a WE thing instead of a THEY thing.

This reduces the othering people who aren’t cis/straight experience every day.

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#LGBTQ #Pronouns #Allyship #Unity #Humanity #Empathy #Othering

#FediBlock cloudflare.social

because fuck crimeflare, also: didn't people suggest to fediblock all wildebeest instances on sight? now it's got a public release...

So much of tech discourse asks us to be excited about the nexus, never wary of the torment.

(The Torment Nexus meme is honestly one of my favorite Internet Darmoks, right up there with Milkshake Duck.)

Looking for anti-Elsevier propaganda, logos etc; I can’t find any on the web!

So I and the other folks at mastodon.mit.edu were offline for a couple of days because (so I’ve heard) a pipe froze and burst in the MIT student center, knocking out the server of the student group managing this until just now.

Which on the one hand, sure, that didn’t happen with the birdsite. But I had forgotten how strangely comforting it is to know exactly where your data is and who is managing it.