Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

The culture that prides itself on moving fast and breaking things and insisting the government is too slow is now experiencing a government agency that is famous for moving fast and breaking things.

Oddly they seem displeased.

Customer: MY NAME IS BROCK AND BROCKLI (BROCCOLI) IS MY NICKNAME.
DMV: BROCOLLI CAN BE ANOTHER WORD FOR MARIJUNA

Verdict: DENIED

I keep seeing academics very excited for some bright and shiny #AI future where like all information self assembles and you can know anything instantly and you write papers by just gesturing at a thought with a couple of sentences and I have no idea how they don't see a) that playing out as them getting further trapped onto extractive platforms, b) not actually going to work even remotely like that and c) that sounds pretty bleak to me even if it did work 100% as intended

had a lot of fun hanging out with Peter Thiel last night over wine. we came up with a goofy idea to short Silicon Valley Bank then induce a bank run by telling all of his startups to withdraw at the same time. thankfully it was just a fun thought experiment to prime us for the cocaine we ended up doing. i don't remember the rest of the night, it's probably fine. now, let me take a big sip of this coffee while I check my Bloomberg terminal and get my day started

I remember when I was working at Technorati, the first and best blog search engine, and Google announced it was going to do blog search. We said something very similar to this:

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/110001525647048508

In the airport there are people wearing masks and people hacking their lungs out, but somehow these are never the same people.

Ik ben fucking woest.

De gemeente liegt over hun communicatie, ze zijn alweer mensen vooraf aan het arresteren, er staan hekken rondom de tunnelbak van de A12.

https://twitter.com/LWinnips/status/1634309627314683904

https://www.omroepwest.nl/nieuws/4692213/gemeente-plaatst-zwarte-schermen-om-klimaatdemonstratie-aan-zicht-te-onttrekken

Demonstratierecht gaat regelrecht de afvalbak in lijkt het. "gaaf land".

Ik ben fucking woest. Tot morgen.

I don't even think apps are bad, but I just wish we could recognize what that term has come to mean: a tightly coupled stack that includes a client, server, service, protocol, and platform.

That coupling can absolutely help in some ways but also makes our technology far more vulnerable to monopolizing and Doctorow's enshittificaton. It can put us at risk of our data and our social interactions being fully captured by corporate interests.

It's essential for media to take protocols, clients, and interoperability seriously, not to be an active party to monopolization.

Tech media stop dismissing anything that isn't an "app" challenge (impossible).

Misschien kunnen we beter gewoon aannemen dat in iedere context waarin sprake is van hiërarchie en onevenwichtige machtsrelaties, er ook een grote kans bestaat op sociale onveiligheid en/of grensoverschrijdend gedrag. En ik zeg dat niet om het groeiende aantal klachten en meldingen hierover te bagatelliseren - maar, integendeel, omdat steeds duidelijker wordt dat het hier gaat om structurele problemen die vragen om structurele oplossingen. En niet om symptoomdestrijding.

The EU’s “chat control” legislation is the most alarming proposal I’ve ever read. Taken in context, it is essentially a design for the most powerful text and image-based mass surveillance system the free world has ever seen.

i assume this silicon valley bank thing means the entire area of silicon valley is bankrupt

...that's how it works, right?

I think it is fine for someone to use Mastodon DMs to send any message that they would also feel comfortable sending over unencrypted email. For some people that is "basically nothing" and for others that is "basically everything".

I am making this post so that I can link it in future discussions here so I do not have to type it again.

If you are seeing this post because I linked you to it: greetings from the past! It is March 10, 2023 and the weather today in Portland, Oregon, USA is dreary.