Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

philosopher-thinker types of guy love these wildly-contrived morality scenarios in which they can whittle an oppressive system down to its most niche possible use case to try and justify the entirety of that system. and they do this rather than accept that you could fundamentally alter the system and do away with the problem at least 99% of the time.

probably because they're unwilling to change or literally cannot conceive of doing anything different, and will go to unhinged argumentative extremes either to excuse some truly heinous bullshit or accidentally do so along the way

One of the wilder realizations in transitioning is how many of my cis women friends are more afraid of publicly wearing skirts, dresses, etc, and presenting more feminine in general, than I am. Like even in semi-private spaces with just friends, or explicitly safe spaces.

Society managed to fuck all us girls up good.

ChatGPT writes 15% longer and more critical performance feedback for women employees. It aso relies on stereotypes to choose pronouns. Examples: kindergarten teacher, nurse and reception = "she". Mechanic and construction workers = "he".
https://www.fastcompany.com/90844066/chatgpt-write-performance-reviews-sexist-and-racist

A server is a highly advanced machine, and when paired with a developer it can seamlessly convert immense amounts of electricity into stacktraces.

"I know you," said Alice. "Are you to present me with a puzzle? Perhaps one of you tells the truth and the other lies?"

"Oh no," said Bingle-Dum.

"We both lie," added Googl-E.

"But there must be a clue," pouted Alice. "For how else am I to tell when to trust what you say?"

"That's the point!" laughed Bingle-Dum.

"We don't know when we're telling the truth either!" said Googl-E, finishing the other's sentence.

I think of when moderation crises have happened in closed social networks, there's no real recourse or remediation.

On the fediverse, there seems to be at least some mitigation afforded by federation and account migration, allowing community to have some resilience to crisis.

this wired review pulls no punches, and their "purchase here" link goes to the Trans Lifeline donation page. A fine idea, i I do say so myself!

https://translifeline.org/donate/givelively/

https://www.wired.com/review/hogwarts-legacy-review/

Klassieke manier van #daklozen pesten; maak opvang minder toegankelijk en zorg vervolgens ervoor dat ze ook nergens terecht kunnen in publieke ruimtes.

Beschouw overlast van daklozen als een oproep tot compassie. Zorg voor goeie resources voor hun opvang en herstel. Ontmenselijk ze niet.

https://nos.nl/l/2463301

#dakloos #hostilearchitecture #Rotterdam

Few things make me angrier than anti-homeless shit. Fuck hostile architecture, fuck vagrancy laws, fuck businesses who throw away perfectly good food and then lock their dumpster, fuck businesses that say restrooms are for customers only, and especially fuck fuck FUCK the goddamn police.

If you're facing pressure NOT to offer online accessibility for courses, events, and other UC offerings, esp if admin is trying to keep such pressure off the official public record, please whistleblow to us. #UCAccessNow #HigherEd #DisabilityLaw #Disability #AcademicAbleism #UniversityOfCalifornia

The ostensible promise of technology is that it would liberate humanity from the drudgery of menial work, enabling us to engage with more meaningful and creative pursuits.

Instead, we have frenzied development of ML systems to centralize and replace writing, art and other meaningful creative pursuits, giving us more time for menial work.

This seems pretty contrary to any useful definition of progress.

Liever trots dan zelfingenomen.
Mooi cynisch stuk in NRC van Christiaan Weijts over ons landje en de multinationals.
https://12ft.io/www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/02/10/liever-trots-dan-zelfingenomen-a4156749

As it turns out, a *lot* of political divides come down to that kind of dichotomy, even if indirectly.

Take healthcare: the political statement that healthcare should be private immediately implies that people who are sick, poor, or disabled should just die. I reject that view entirely, even though that rejection is viewed as extreme in US politics.