Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
NL elections
Excellent, some of the election posters for the local alt-right/fascist party have already been scratched off
I should probably take care of the remainder
Nice, the local train station in Rosmalen seems to be getting upgraded; the bicycle parking has been renovated (including fixing/replacing the very old bicycle lockers, some of which were broken), and new bike parking spaces are being built (stacked racks on one side). Apparently there are plans to upgrade the station itself too, in the near future.
the less polite version
IP is just an extension of private property, and it is an even worse form of rentseeking because it monopolizes something that *isn't even scarce*, and if this did not occur to you and you bought into the propaganda of it "supporting artists" (it doesn't) then you should REALLY pay closer attention to what is going on around you, because this probably isn't the only point where you're dropping the ball
(This is the polite version of this toot)
If you consider yourself a leftist and you're in favour of copyright/patents, then I would invite you take a moment and look into who is actually benefiting from it, and what it *actually* does vs. what it claims to do
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I really wish there was a culture in free/open source software of actually telling the person who made the thing when you do something good/interesting/cool/weird with it, used it in a workshop/teaching. It's super nice+motivating when I hear about tidal being used on a course or something, but it's generally only by chance.
I guess it's another case of people adopting the at-a-distance customer-supplier relationship of commercial/proprietary software, when free/open source _should_ take a friendlier approach
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Billionaires aren’t going to decentralise jack shit. If they were, they’d start by decentralising themselves instead of choosing to remain billionaires.
Don’t fall for it.
#Bluesky #JackDorsey #billionaires #SiliconValley #BigTech #oligarchs
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@tillianisafox instead of being called a deadname, it should be called a necronym
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who decided to call it emotional baggage and not a griefcase
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brb re-branding anarchism as "agile for societies" and radicalizing an entire industry
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The fact that so many of us are blaming ourselves for being crushed by a system that cares only about extracting our labor is a testament to how successfully social problems have been relegated to the individual. And how necessary the ideology of individualism is to the destructive machinations of capitalism.
venture capital bullshit
"Sadly, due to low usage, we have taken the difficult decision to close the StrawPoll.me website. We will not be able to provide access to poll data."
https://support.fandom.com/hc/en-us/articles/7951865547671
VC culture truly is something else...
Bonus: did you know that Fandom Inc. originates from Jimmy Wales, the Wikipedia Guy(tm)?
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The way to spot people who don't actually have any useful or good points is if they're constantly talking about getting cancelled but don't spend much time talking about their actual points
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“It’s like finding out that the CEO of McDonald’s is married to heart disease; like finding out that Joe Camel goes home every night to a talking tumor.”
A “Guardian” senior editor was married to a Mumsnet founder for 25y:
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“I tend to think that most fears about A.I. are best understood as fears about capitalism. And I think that this is actually true of most fears of technology, too. Most of our fears or anxieties about technology are best understood as fears or anxiety about how capitalism will use technology against us. And technology and capitalism have been so closely intertwined that it’s hard to distinguish the two.”
Ted Chiang
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Either they haven't thought about what they've written, or they're trying to create chaos...
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Not sure who needs to hear this today, but remember, your local public library benefits from being used! Usage statistics are how librarians argue for funding! By using this shared service more, you are making it BETTER for everyone else!
It's the glory of the commons, not the tragedy of the commons. Go to the library!!!
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Neo, unplugging from a particularly rough shift in the matrix: "what a week, huh?"
Morpheus: You believe it is the end of another long week, when it is in fact closer to Wednesday.
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
