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.
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- 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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Just a reminder:
DO NOT…
… buy hardware that does not support standards-based boot, or does not provide the affordances for standards-based boot to live outside of the operating system storage media.
Bonus myth, re: Things that "everybody knows" that are wrong 
(has references to crimes)
Bonus round!
THE LORD OF THE FLIES
This novel featured a group of kids, alone on an island after a plane crash, regressing into conflict and violence, and is often named as a cautionary tale of how things will immediately fall apart when there is no law and order.
Unfortunately, that story is entirely made-up nonsense. A similar incident actually happened in 1966, where a couple of kids from (near) Tonga stranded on the island 'Ata, only being rescued 15 months later.
Contrary to the story in Lord of the Flies, they successfully governed themselves, developed ways to resolve conflicts among themselves, kept themselves healthy even despite injury, and survived the experience.
Apropos of nothing, inviting both LLM speakers *and* someone from Wasmer to your conference is a pretty good way to make me distrust your judgment 🙃
Reading through a conference schedule and gradually expanding my list of "tech people who shill LLMs and who I will not work with in the future"...
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quoted ableist slurs, PSA about a popular meme
so, "deranged" means "insane" means "crazy" means "inferior to normal people by way of a diagnosable psychological difference". it's intrinsically ableist. the "they have played us for absolute fools" meme template is ableist. stop using it.
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Paying a few dollars a month to use Twitter, which is run by a billionaire.
Donating a few dollars a month to help your Mastodon server, which is run by people who care about their communities.
Periodic reminder to check the "About" section on your Mastodon server to see if they have donation links. :)
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Here's a blog post about the academic definition of Intersectional/Intersectionality, and comments on usage.
https://geekblog.malcolmgin.com/2023/09/29/intersectionality-youre-probably-using-it-wrong/
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The oldest active torrent on the Internet is a 20 year old Matrix fan film. That's our weekend plans sorted.
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/28/the-oldest-living-torrent-is-20-years-old/
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So it turns out Europol want the access to all the data that would be collected under plans to scan messages for CSAM. Confirming worst fears that child abuse is being used as an excuse for routine mass surveillance of all images and messages https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/29/europol-sought-unlimited-data-access-in-online-child-sexual-abuse-regulation/ . #surveillance #eu #privacy
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Things that "everybody knows" that are wrong :boost_requested: (has references to crimes)
@joepie91 THE MARSHMALLOW EXPERIMENT
Ultimately, the researchers failed to replicate the results of the famous marshmallow experiment; rather, their results now indicate that socioeconomics was the determining factor behind delayed gratification and later success in life.
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Things that "everybody knows" that are wrong (has references to crimes)
Let's do a round-up of a couple!
THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA
The burning down of this library is often seen as one of the biggest losses of culture in history. In reality, it seems that the library mostly stored copies of works, and while big, it stored very few *unique* things - therefore, not much was actually lost.
THE BYSTANDER EFFECT
The claim is that when there are many bystanders of an incident, none will take responsibility. This is based on the murder of Kitty Genovese, where it was claimed that there were many witnesses, but none of them did anything.
That's false - in fact, the amount of witnesses was limited due to the location, and multiple people alerted the police, but the police failed to respond in a timely manner. More recently, research into the bystander effect suggests that the entire theory is wrong - people *do* consistently come to the aid of others.
THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT
Claimed to 'prove' that given power, people will turn malicious and start abusing others. In reality, the experiment was fraudulent, and proved no such thing - the guard in the experiment were actively *encouraged* by the researcher to be abusive.
THE BROKEN WINDOW THEORY
This is often seen as some sort of 'scientifically proven fact' about human behaviour; if you leave vandalism or other "anti-social" behaviour untreated, it will invite more of it.
In reality, this was just made up by a cop in New York, never proven, and used as a justification for violent and oppressive policing tactics. There's no evidence that this is true, or ever was.
THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS
This theory claims that when a group of individuals are given access to a common shared resource, they will each act selfishly and collectively exhaust the resource, whereas it would've been fine if one party controlled access. Usually reference over-grazing.
In reality, this concept (in its current form) comes from a thought experiment where it was just *assumed* to be true, rather than from actual research; and instead there is a long history of shared resources being effectively collectively managed without giving any one party total control over access or distribution.
This doesn't stop authoritarians from using the tragedy of the commons as a justification for their accumulation of power; claiming that otherwise, the resources would be exhausted.
STOCKHOLM SYNDROME
This theory claims that victims of crime and/or abuse will develop an irrational attachment to the perpetrator, implying that they can no longer be trusted to have agency in determining how to deal with the situation.
In reality, rather than being based in rigorous research, this concept was coined by a criminologist based on a single bank robbery in (as the name implies) Stockholm.
Crucially, the victims were quite clear about the reason for their trust towards the robbers; the police were acting irresponsibly in this incident, endangering people unnecessarily, and therefore the robbers were the more rational and less dangerous party in the conflict. Not quite the 'irrational attachment' that's so often claimed...
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shooting, fascism
So I'm reading up on the apparent background of the shooter in Rotterdam (note: identity not *officially* confirmed) who killed 3 people, and well...
- Seemingly traumatized by their treatment as an autistic person growing up (the "doesn't have empathy" claim was mentioned, among other things)
- Socially isolated, with a history of being abusive
- Shooting appears to have been a revenge shooting on people that they felt had slighted them in some manner
- Active 4chan user (an archived thread is where most of the background comes from, and enough details match the person that it looks credible to me)
- Supporter of the FvD (essentially the Dutch alt-right party) as well as Putin
- Slurs and conspiracy theories all over the place, is also an anti-vaxxer
This is possibly the clearest case I've seen so far of the recruitment process described by many folks; vulnerable/isolated/traumatized young guys are targeted with gradual fascist rhetoric, and that becomes their only social space.
I'm hesitant to post the link to the thread, because well, it's unfiltered 4chan. I'm not sure how other folks feel about this. Feedback is welcome.
And to be clear, none of this *justifies* what they have done. They are ultimately personally responsible for the actions they have taken.
But... the responsibility doesn't *end* with the shooter either. There's a very clear path towards how this happened, and a lot of people are not taking these origins (I don't want to call them 'root causes') seriously enough. This is absolutely a collective, societal problem too. Because there is more where that came from.
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I think the public is still holding onto the idea that elon musk is that way despite having all that money and purported genius, as opposed to the idea that being elon musk is what it would take to be that way
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From the Siteground Security plugin for WordPress. It's no wonder RSS struggles to maintain traction. (I'm not disabling my feeds, I don't care how "insecure" it might be).
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I saw a tiktok earlier today talking about how the kubotan is illegal to carry in Australia without a "valid reason", and how "self defence" isn't seen by the police as a valid reason.
I shared in the comments how I carry one, and tell the cops that it's not a weapon, it's a tool for smashing a car window if I get into an accident and need to climb out of my car.
The sheer number of responses that I've gotten to the comment that say something along the lines of "the cops aren't stupid, they know it's not for a car window".
I take classes with policing students. Trust me, they are not clever, not competent, and they are lazy.
This weird faith people have in cops has to stop.
#AbolishPolice #Abolition #AbolishPrisons #anarchism #CommunityNotCops
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"What is your wish?" the genie said.
"That whenever someone tells a stranger to smile more, they will smile a bit wider themself."
"The person telling will smile?"
"Yes, and they won't ever be able to smile less. And it's cumulative."
"Ooh, that's creative. Granted."
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic
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It was a wonderful week to plant our last crops of the season: miners lettuce and winter purslane. They will provide leafy greens throughout the winter, along with our kale, which we already planted months ago.
#organic #veggies #agriculture
#biologisch #groente #tuinbouw
Starting to feel like a call center today with all the phone calls
- 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
