Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- 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
"Time crystal" sounds like some pseudoscientific woo, and yet
In a bit more detail: the specific thing that frustrates me here is when people go hypothesizing into thin air about how horrible things might maybe be without Section 230, and acting as if there's no possible way to predict what the outcome would be of *changing* Section 230
When like, the rest of the world is *right there*, and *already* implements different variations on this concept, and all these hypothetical conundrums are not actually hypothetical at all, and different forms of carrier protection *work fine* in practice too
But US exceptionalism means that if it doesn't happen in the US, it doesn't even get considered, no lessons are drawn from it.
It's just a complete lack of imagination, and it's not just conservatives doing this, but also progressives, and liberals, and anarchists, and everybody else.
Like so many culturally ingrained things, US exceptionalism will not go away unless you deliberately kill it in your head.
Also hey maybe aforementioned USians could learn something from how other countries approach Section 230-esque stuff, because yes we do have those protections here as well and mysteriously it's not a major driver of fascism
Yes I realize that I am ranting about something I have already ranted about, but people are still doing this shit, so
Also seriously, can we not import this shit to fedi where people assume that the US is the only thing that exists in the world and wholly decides what people can and cannot do
And if your counterpoint is "but things are bad here!", congratulations, they are bad here too, when will I see you talking about non-US issues?
Solidarity works both ways, not just "from international to US"
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In good news, the US NLRB ruling that nondisparagement clauses are void is apparently _retroactive_! Meaning everyone is now free to talk about former employers: https://ogletree.com/insights/nlrb-general-counsel-says-confidentiality-nondisparagement-clause-decision-applies-retroactively/
USians learn to talk about Section 230 without assuming it's either all or nothing challenge 2023
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HTTP 199 Good Enough
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@tillianisafox Copyright is enclosure for ideas. It turns ideas into property, into capital, which serves to make the powerful and wealthy even more powerful and wealthy.
I like the idea that if you make something, you own it in some way for at least some time, but copyright isn't the way to do that IMO. The rich and powerful violate the copy rights of people every day without repercussions.
Maybe we should all learn to be OK with not having complete control of our creations.
Would you, personally, find a CW for all-caps text helpful?
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So @internetarchive scanning books for their digital library is copyright infringement:
http://blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/the-fight-continues/
But OpenAI slurping all of that to train a model that then can generate text and put actual authors out of business (already happening with copywriters), is not.
Figures, there are no $billions of VC / corporate money behind Internet Archive, why would anyone want to support a public service, right? 🤦♀️
IA ≠ AI, know the difference!
Abolish copyright.
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imagine if mozilla invested in firefox rather than jumping on every tech fad with two feet
first crypto, now AI…
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I'm not worried about the AI apocalypse. I'm worried about the "VCs subsidize AI tech and sell it at a loss just long enough to make everyone rely on them (aka 'disrupting the knowledge worker industry') before bumping the price up and quality down just like Uber and Amazon and the rest" apocalypse. #ai #vc
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Hey this is your friendly reminder that Low Quality Facts [at] mstdn [dot] social is an NFT peddler
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it is very funny that plants evolved capsaicin and the human response was literally "oh are you trying to scare us? scare us with your little baby chemical? actually we LIKE that. it's such a silly little thing that it AMUSES us."
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Ngl, “first time listening to ___” reaction videos are one of my favorite genres rn. There’s just something really wonderful about people capturing and displaying that kind of joy and discovery.
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I work on #Excel, and this still cracks me up every time I see it
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meta, mastodon, vis.social admin
My understanding of Mastodon culture is that consent is a huge part of every feature and practice.
As a moderator, the explosion of images that were created with tools built with apparently stolen artworks, without consent of the artists who created them, was stressful...to put it mildly.
So we asked folks on vis.social to stop posting them. As did other instances.
The push-back was also stressful. So we had to make it a Rule.
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
