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

"This worrying picture has led several scholars and activists—among them Sareeta Amrute, Nanjala Nyabola, Paola Ricaurte, Abeba Birhane, Michael Kwet, and Renata Avila—to characterize Big Tech’s global impact as a form of digital colonialism. On this view, primarily U.S.-based tech corporations function in many ways like former colonial powers. Driven by an expansionist ideology, these companies arrange digital infrastructures to fit their economic needs on a global scale. They contribute to the exploitation of low-wage, marginalized workers across the globe. They extract truly staggering profits with very little accountability and with harmful consequences for local communities. They institutionalize social practices designed by a small group of largely white, male, and American software engineers, undermining the self-determination of the societies they seek to expand into. And much like the colonizers of yore who tied all this to a so-called “civilizing” mission, they claim to do all this in the name of “progress,” “development,” “connecting people,” and “doing good.” +

If you've ever wondered if you're the villain of the story, arguing with the interpretation of reality as told by people with less power than you is a big hint.

OMG can we please stop using Islamic concepts to criticize Christian theocrats in the States.

The US far right doesn’t want to establish a ‘Christian caliphate’, they’re not ‘Christian taliban’, and they’re not going to introduce ‘Christian shariah’.

Don’t use Islam to try to scare white people. Muslims are not the ones trying to dismantle our secular republic.

me rn

saving PNGs from blender on minimum compression so optipng has something to entertain itself with

ok this is stolen directly from birdsite but i am also delighted. they should hand out these to everyone who is forklift certified https://twitter.com/acheyri/status/1645787480808116224?s=46&t=zk5VGdiXk1MkAodmYvtKsA

heard a weird sound. turned around. my supervisor is controlling a tiny RC forklift and placing a tiny pallet on a real pallet.

(the entire thread is also very good)

whoa, this is awesome, I've never had a white friend before!! haha yeah.... hey man, does this mean I can use the uh... the b-word? y'know, like, "how's it hangin, my buddy?" is that inappropriate?

“hermeneutical injustice” is a word i wish everyone knew and understood. it's like when you can't explain to someone how you are or what you need because you don't have good words for it. maybe you can't even understand yourself because you don't have the concepts. Even if you can explain it it takes so long and is confusing so it's unjust because most other people can explain themselves and understand themselves easier

The Rust Foundation is currently planning to set an extremely strict trademark policy, essentially prohibiting everyone for using the word “Rust” for the project names and domains (affecting project names like rust-crypto, names of YouTube tutorials about Rust) and also from modifying Rust logo (affecting e.g. Actix). They also managed to trademark the word Clippy, despite taking it from Microsoft.

They’re currently accepting community feedback. I think that proposed policy, if accepted, would greatly hurt Rust-related projects for no clear benefit. If you also have an opinion about that, please, give them your feedback.

https://nitter.cz/rust_foundation/status/1644132378858729474

UPD: I’ve been corrected: the current draft explicitly allows books, and I think allows websites as long as the domain name doesn’t contain the word “Rust”. The other interesting case is YouTube videos, since they’re commercial due to monetization.

Reminder to everyone that your encrypted backup is only half as useful if the only backup of the encryption key is in the backup.

OH: “oh, speaking of money laundering…”

ChatGPT/Copilot finally give programmers a chance to experience how non-technical people feel when trying to coerce programmers to create a thing.

You too can now throw imprecise natural language prompts at a magic coding box and get disillusioned by the results.