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.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
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- 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
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medical, gross
TIL that (persistently) foamy urine can be an indicator of kidney issues, specifically losing protein too quickly
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PSA
If anyone has a secret mobile phone hidden from an abusive partner, remember to switch off or put in airplane mode (or turn off emergency alerts in notifications settings) or the phone will be activated with the loud national alert on the evening of 23/04.
(United kingdom 🇬🇧)
hospital
One of the nurses plays OSRS on a private server, apparently
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parenting, politics, abuse
been thinking a lot about collective parenting, and how it has become such an alien concept to people because of the woefully long and damaging legacy of the nuclear family.
it's pretty simple too. if a child has multiple homes to go to, escaping abuse becomes a simpler matter.
yet people can't imagine it. just like capitalist realism.
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Oh great neurotypicals fucked around with the clock again
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💜 New Zealand vs TERFs
The horrible TERF woman fled back to the UK. She never even made it to Wellington, and there was no longer any event to protest there. But people still showed up en masse to stand up for trans rights 💜
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COVID, foul language
Youngest has #COVID. He’s under the weather, but not so bad as not to be able to go to the zoo, which is why I’m glad I tested him, because if I had followed OMT advice and just hadn’t, he’d have been infecting a whole restaurant full of people in about an hour for the birthday party we would have been attending at the zoo.
Reader, we’re not going to the zoo, and we’re not going to be spreading around this endemic ≠ harmless pathogen. Because we’re not fucking sociopaths.
"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!
- 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
