Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @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
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Anne C.A. Baanen
@schratze I've lived in a few places where you need a rfid card from the municipality to unlock the garbage bins. Which wouldn't work in Germany, because you'd have to fax a Abfallbehälteröffnungsanforderingsdokument three months in advance of each time you want to throw something away.
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born to cuddle 
forced to work 
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
chatgpt
chatgpt is really being used as the new "i copied your question into Google and copy-pasted the first result with no verification or any value". I want off mr bones' wild ride
And if you answered "no dentist", what's the reason for you?
Trying to figure something out... please boost for reach!
Do you have #ADHD, and have you been to the dentist at all *in the past year* (even if just for a check-up)?
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assuming community doesnt or cannot happen online is ableist
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In time of climate change, skyrocketing wealth inequality, pandemic, and global strife, it's good that the New York Times decided to focus today on what really matters…
*checks notes*
…unabashedly laundering the reputation of a convicted fraudster whose wide-scale "medical startup" con (enabled in no small part by puff pieces in NYT in the first place) destroyed a lot of trust in medical progress, Elizabeth Holmes.
*sigh* 🙄
Unrelated: I wonder why people mistrust the #media. It's a mystery!
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please boost for visibility <3
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hey fedi! i just broke my own single-user instance and had to reinstall. i've lost a good number of my followers and mutuals.
if we used to be mutuals, or if you just think i'm kinda entertaining, please be so kind as to follow me! i have bad takes on politics, privacy and technology, my mum says i'm pretty cool, and i bake a good banana bread.
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kids these days will never get to experience the expectant excitement of this screen ever in their life. not the tense sound as it reads your disk or the clicky sounds of your harddrive as the game is installed, or the celebratory drive opening as you finish... soulless downloads is all we have left. pour one out for....
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“ What I hear in that is, “Those aren’t existential to me. I have millions of dollars, I am invested in many, many AI startups, and none of this affects my existence. But what could affect my existence is if a sci-fi fantasy came to life and AI were actually super intelligent, and suddenly men like me would not be the most powerful entities in the world, and that would affect my business.”
Great interview with @Mer__edith by @wilf
https://www.fastcompany.com/90892235/researcher-meredith-whittaker-says-ais-biggest-risk-isnt-consciousness-its-the-corporations-that-control-them
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no no, let's hear out the royalist on this excellent idea
about posting "news" for "awareness", especially for allies
Things you should ask yourself before posting "news" articles about negative subjects in particular:
1. Is this something that nobody saw coming?
2. Is this an article that provides an actionable step forward, some sort of concrete way to deal with the problem?
3. Does this article elevate a perspective of a marginalized group that isn't normally covered?
If you can't answer "yes" to at least one of those questions, *do not* post it.
It's ragebait, it's not useful, and it won't make anyone aware of anything they're not already aware of - all it'll do is make people feel more depressed. It's worse than doing nothing.
If you *can* answer "yes" to at least one of those questions, then post it - but with an appropriate CW, because a lot of us don't always have the energy to deal with negative news.
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#Mastodon monoculture problem
https://rys.io/en/168.html
> Mastodon-the-software is used by far by the most people on fedi. The biggest instance, mastodon.social, is home to over 200.000 active accounts as of this writing. This is roughly 1/10th of the whole #Fediverse, on a single instance.
> Worse, Mastodon-the-software is often identified as the whole social network, obscuring the fact that Fediverse is a much broader system comprised of a much more diverse software.
🧵/1
bluesky
First Bluesky scrapebro spotted
I can't believe the SarcMark(r)(tm) is still somehow alive and getting updates, 13 years after its completely hopeless introduction, and despite it now having a FOSS alternative (🙃)
ChatGPT shit, quora
Just realized that Quora released an overly confident GPT-based thing as well...
I guess they're trying to make their userbase redundant?
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How many of those who want to create “AGI benefiting ALL of humanity” & concerned about
“existential risks” were at #ICLR2023 in Kigali? We know they show up to any of the conference rotations when they’re in their usual places with visas barring most ppl in the world. But I am blabbering on about the global apartheid system of visas that restricts the movement of non white people. Genius minds like Hinton & others can’t be bothered with such minuscule issues: they’re thinking about HUMANITY!
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You mean to say the fediverse isn't moderated by people in sweatshops in countries with names I can't pronounce???? 
- 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
