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

"When Justice is only violence, violence is the only justice"
Seen in Paris during the ongoing mass protests against Macron's retirement law.

So, hang on, wait; clearly Google Deep Dream was early marketing for AI art, but... with hindsight, it was deliberate spin to try and push the inherent flaws of the process as advantages, wasn't it?

Deep Dream was a project with the message "AI can find patterns that aren't there and amplify inaccurate information; isn't that so cool?" and, like, no? Turns out, that's bad, actually? It also popularised the term "hallucinations" as a positive-sounding spin on the-thing-where-an-AI-returns-nonsense.

It was surprisingly prescient, in the bad sense of a company realising that tech they were working on wasn't going to work out the way they'd hoped, and getting ahead of public backlash by spinning the issues as intentions. We still can't accurately tell what objects are in a picture (my fave is still the Tesla that thought a horse-drawn carriage was a truck driving straight towards it)... But hey, at least we can turn the picture into a bunch of dogs! Dogs are cute, you like dogs, what's the problem?

no dear US person, my phone number doesn't have "too many digits", it has a fucking international prefix

someone should come up with a tiling pattern that looks like spock so we can have spoxels

The unions are asking for at least 10,5% more pay and a general lift of 250€/mo for everyone, based on 10+% inflation since quite some time now. The employers offer 5% and a one-time payment of 2.500€.

A new day, a new time zone database release: https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2023-March/date.html

Ramadan Mubarak to all the Egyptian and Lebanese software providers that now need to scramble to get their stuff updated because their government gave them less than a week notice of these changes.

Casual UvA: how to organise a grading strike with 200 lecturers
https://www.doorbraak.eu/casual-uva-how-to-organise-a-grading-strike-with-200-lecturers/

"Last spring the organisation Casual UvA (University of Amsterdam) staged an impressive grading strike involving over 200 university lecturers on temporary contracts. Lecturers refused to submit their students’ grades into the administrative system as a way of putting pressure on university management. Casual UvA’s main issue was the successive one-year contracts that temporary contract workers received, only to be fired after three temporary contracts.

We talked to Casual UvA representative Alex Lopez about the strike, and about how Casual UvA itself is organised." 👌

#Arbeidersstrijd #CasualUvA #English #Interview #Studenten #Vakbond

If GitHub cannot secure their own server’s private key from accidental disclosure, you think any crypto companies can?

I’m good at both kinds of programming: overcomplicating simple things and underestimating complex problems

*Morgen* (zaterdag) hebben veel hackerspaces in binnen- en buitenland een open dag.

Wij doen ook mee! Wil je RevSpace bezoeken? Regel een gratis ticket op https://pretix.eu/revspace/opendag2023/

Een overzicht van alle Nederlandse hackerspaces die deze zaterdag te bezichtigen zijn, vind je op https://hackerspaces.nl/open-dag/

Watching Twitter leftists/queers getting their accounts un-suspended by claiming they were "targeted by woke cancel culture for their right-wing beliefs" is hilarious to watch, but also a *really* good reminder of who gets a free pass on Twitter and who doesn't, and I really hope more people come to realize this and form community elsewhere. If it's willing to give a free pass just for *pretending* to be a right-wing chud, imagine what it's willing to actually let the chuds themselves get away with.

a big part of why i use actual physical bound paper to manage my life tasks is that no app designer can decide it's profitable to turn it into an attention gauntlet