Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

If you want to help trans people, and you work in tech: think about how your product handles names and genders. Can users change them? Is it a self-service? Do traces of the old name remain?

Then, fix it. Push back against resistance. Advocate for us.

It won't fix bigotry, or healthcare access, or w/e. But updating our details is a process full of hurdles that we have to go through at a really vulnerable point in our lives, and you can make a small improvement for a large number of us.

"Can you explain this gap in your resume?"

Yes. Life is about more than constant and meaningless toil for 40-50 years and a desolate twilight of failed ambitions. The social contract is broken and the system is a lie. You and I are both trapped in the same Sisyphean hell, where no amount of working harder or longer will ever truly grant the rewards we were promised. The real question is, why are there no gaps in YOUR resume?

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Errr, freelancing. I was freelancing.

Radical graffiti seen around Dover, UK

#ChatGPT and its ilk are effectively a large-scale DDoS attack on not only specific tasks (such as teaching, software maintenance and fiction editing) but on human creative inspiration, sense of self and ability to make meaning of the universe.

notice how they are
- creating work for us rather than saving us work
- automating inherently energizing and rewarding tasks such as making art rather than tiring and tedious tasks such as filing taxes
- flooding social networks with generated content that makes it harder to connect with real humans and build community
- distracting us with questions like “what if this machine is sentient?” which keep us from noticing and acting to prevent the suffering of actual humans

that thing where all search engines have become basically unusable because they’re stuffed full of AI garbage? i fear that’s about to happen to everything.

i don’t believe this is necessarily intentional, but no machine that learns under capitalism can imagine another world.

are there any itch.io curators who will tell me what horror games there are good and don't have jump scares?

Start posting your support of us. Start rising up with us. Start showing up to fight the legislation killing us. Start actually doing shit for once instead of sitting on your hands and shrugging this off cuz we're just a "tiny minority." You think it'll end with us? No, that's not how fascism works.

And it's not just us being targeted either. Black, Indigenous, and other people of color have continuously been targeted. So what are you willing to DO?

We're in a fight for our lives in the US.

If you see someone debating our right to exist? Don't join the debate! That legitimatizes the debate as worthy of discussion. You're not gonna convince them at this stage. Instead, shut it down.

Say: "We do not debate people's existence here."

Intolerance breaks the social pact of tolerating others. So stop tolerating the intolerant. They aren't worthy of it. Shut it down.

Bombard all news sites with intense consequences for posting this anti-trans evil. Make them pay for it. Shut it down.

Hello! If you primarily use a screen reader on mobile, I'd love to hear from you about what you find to be the best experience for mobile text editing (please specify iOS or Android). Could be anything: Notes.app, Google Docs, etc. (Reach boosts appreciated!)

Also, it's #ShutTheFuckUpFriday

If the cops suspect you of a crime, NOTHING you say will help you. Tell them you are invoking your right to remain silent and request an attorney.

GETTING YOU TO TALK IS HOW THEY GET CONVICTIONS

Your lawyer will help you decide, carefully, what to say if anything. Don't make that decision without your lawyer.

i've seen a couple of people with blinking idle terminal cursors in their display handles around here and i love it, it's cute as hell

and i also keep getting confused bc i know i have blinking cursors turned off in my terminal

Spoutible is apparently a reskinned version of cheap social network software you can buy off the shelf, which matches with my experience of Bouzy and his hyperbolic claims to the media and general huckster nature.

https://mementomori.social/@rolle/109845742736153944

Also for those of you sitting in the back: stop crunching it doesn't work

Assuming a 30 year career before you die of stress related cardiovascular complications, that's 1560 days of your life pointlessly burned on the altar of corporate wishful thinking that you'll *never get back*!

So the pandemic normalized remote work jobs, and companies that don't offer them now are limiting themselves to the dregs of the hiring pool. An estimated 6.8 million deaths were needed to get the people in charge to realize that sharing respiratory diseases is a terrible team building exercise.

What's going to finally redefine the full time work week as being four days? The science says we're all just burning an extra day of our lives every week to be less productive.