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

It is such a scam that companies pay you wages after the fact, while rentiers seek rent beforehand.

Wages should either be paid upfront, or rent should only be payable after services provided. The current state of things puts workers at a huge disadvantage.

Why are people calling #Overture places database “alpha quality”?

All the big Overture companies have been involved in #OpenStreetMap for *years*, some almost a **decade** (e.g. Facebook, Microsoft). You don't really believe that this is something they threw together in an afternoon, do you?

This is probably the best quality they could do! 🤣

(Maybe the OpenStreetMap approach is just better 😉😉)

I feel like someone must have done this terrible #linguistics joke before, but I've never actually seen it.

"The Tragedy of the Commons" was written by a eugenicist and was effectively debunked as ahistorical fantasy decades ago. More propaganda in the service of privatizing public space and resources. Pass it on. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/the-tragedy-of-the-tragedy-of-the-commons/

it took me two years to remember the name of this palm pilot/pda piracy website that was wildly popular in the early #2000s

MrTAXI was the grand central station of palm pilot #warez in the day. like Home of the Underdogs, it also acted as a kind of repository for obscure pda software that was difficult to find, nevermind purchase.

i'm so glad that WBM managed to archive a fairly solid copy of the site, which bounced around from webhost to webhost until it finally disappeared in the mid 00's: https://web.archive.org/web/20040630083143/http://mrtaxi.karnt.com/

also very happy to report that uh, /u/skeletons_asshole, kept a mirror of mrtaxi's 4000+ PDA programs for archival purposes.. download here: https://mrtaxi.yeow.ch/mrtaxi.7z
a copy has also been saved at IA: https://archive.org/details/mrtaxi.7z

in a few days i'll put these up as a new exhibit at a live online #worldwideweb museum i'm putting together

from what i've heard of the twitter building, it currently has the same vibes as a carbon-fiber submersible with terrible safety inspection standards

Your racist friend is not going to be racist in a way they think you will call them out on. They will phrase things in a way they feel has deniability
This means you won't see your friends being obviously racist
If you want to understand racism you need to listen to those affected (though demanding that people affected by racism always explain themselves is also a racist action. sit down, shut up, and listen)
And if you expect it to be obvious to you when white people are being racist you will end up covering for racists

what cheapens the phrase "I love you" is when people say it who absolutely do not prove it through their actions. that makes "love" an empty word, a cardboard stand-in for actual affection, care, time, and energy.

you can say it but you have to mean it; you have to follow through.

@joepie91 and Eugen ‘Growth’ Gargron, whose ego is entangled with making mastodon (well, mostly just m.s) bigger forever, was exactly the sort of wannabe CEO tech ‘entrepreneur’ type that the media were salivating for, regardless that fedi doesn’t actually work that way.

Scary

#Mastoart #ArtWithOpensource #krita
#twitter #x

It's always amusing how people say my views on moderation and federation create an ideological bubble.

Bro, have you seen my timeline on a daily basis?

I talk to amazing people from all over the planet from every kind of identity, sexuality, and ethnic background you can imagine.

I have compelling convos with so many people who do not think like me regularly that I've just gotten used to having my worldview in constant flux.

If being in bubble means being part of an international community of brilliant, weird, engaging, and beautiful people from any identity one can conjure and some you can't, ha, then yes, I'm in a bubble.

It's fun here.

The whole "You can build up your tolerance to heat by suffering high heat continuously"

Is not only extremely dangerous advice, it's also very abelist advice that borders on the eugenics idea that "It's fine because most people will be fine".

There are a lot of people that can't live in elevated temperatures, they won't adapt, they will die.

Sure we're going into uncharted hot territory, but we don't need to pretend that it'll be good, helpful, or adaptable for everyone.

I am begging you to wave your pride flags today. Wave them every day. Get one to put up outside your estate and never take it down. Visibility isn't for a day or a month or a special occasion, it's all the time, and it's always important.

Make the folks that hate us more scared than we are.