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.
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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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Superstition is thinking that being cold will give you the flu, so you should stay warm when outdoors.
Knowledge is knowing that the flu doesn't spread just because you're shivering, so you don't need to stay warm when outdoors.
Wisdom is knowing that a weakened immune system, vitamin D deficiency, being crowded indoors with a bunch of people, and drier air all contribute to being more susceptible to respiratory infection, so spend time outdoors but stay warm and take care of yourself.
And like, I don't know, maybe we should be demanding healthier UI, instead of just passing it off to be someone else's problem through stalebots?
I can't help but observe how every justification for the importance of stalebots, despite the varied stated reasons, always seems to boil down to "this is a workaround for a third-party project management UI that is not respectful of my mental health or time", but without actually drawing that conclusion
re: moderation, kind of meta but more general
I should've probably included the #FediBlockMeta tag, considering that half of the 'discourse' on there seems to fall into this exact bucket
moderation, kind of meta but more general
A shocking amount of people really needs to learn that a lot of bans/defederations/whatever are not handed out for specific directly-observable behaviour, but for the offender's active refusal to reflect or reconsider when approached about it.
This is true for defederations on fedi, but it is very much also true for community management more broadly.
Most moderators do not act impulsively. If someone got banned somewhere, and they're telling you that "all they did is <innocent sounding thing>", then the reality is that *they are probably lying*, and there was actually a whole conversation (or multiple) where they were asked to stop doing the thing and they trivialized it or actively refused.
That doesn't mean that every moderation action is always justified. But it *does* mean that if you want to question the legitimacy of a moderation action, you actually need to do the work of understanding the full context and not just go off whatever the banned person claims (nor just what's in the public logs).
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Ok, het is heel simpel: of de fascisten nu met hulp van Poetin groot zijn of niet: hun doel is anderen het bestaansrecht te ontzeggen.
Als je dan bij tegenstanders daarvan komt zeiken over verdeeldheid moet je je bek houden. Fascist worden is een keuze.
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fuck the royals, fuck the king.
turns out the fucking royals have been using the wealth of people who died with no will or next of kin to renovate their fucking palaces. scumfuck cunts, the lot of them.
transphobia, fascism, violent commentary, doctor who
So transphobes have been reviewbombing the new Doctor Who episode on RottenTomatoes due to its trans representation.
Some of the comments include people holding up Davros (the explicitly eugenicist villain from earlier episodes) as their role model, using the phrase "I sit with Darvos" (sometimes as a hashtag). At least one of the comments told the showrunner to kill themselves.
In case anyone was wondering how that's going.
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The day is almost here. Google will start deleting inactive Gmail and Google Photos accounts that haven’t been accessed within 2 years this week (December 1st).
This is a final reminder that if you have a Gmail or Google Photos account that you haven’t used in a while, log in to ensure it doesn’t get deleted.
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Frankrijk: A69 moet snel weg
#GlobalinfoNl
https://www.globalinfo.nl/nieuws/frankrijk-a69-moet-snel-weg/
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(Upon the advent of every new tech thing since the dot-com bubble)
Me: Is it just hype and exploitation?
Them: Yes, but the ratio of hype and exploitation here is completely novel, and the vulnerable group that we're taking advantage of ... it's just groundbreaking
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@researchfairy I love the Nate story, because they expected people to spend $1 per purchase so that “AI” (underpaid workers in the Philippines) could do what your web browser’s autocomplete could already handle
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Still grumbling about racial exploitation involved in ChatGPT
When thinking about whether or not to use ChatGPT, ask yourself
"How many times am I willing to call a Kenyan worker the n-word in order to get this task done?"
If the answer is zero, don't use ChatGPT
If the answer is greater than zero, what the fuck is wrong with you
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We all know that generative AI's main purpose is to obscure the fact that you're outsourcing work that is actually trauma-inducing to underpaid people in countries with weaker worker protections in a manner that prevents you from feeling bad about how they are exploited
But did you know that generative AI can also write a shitty essay with fabricated citations for you too?
Better learn how to use it, or you'll be left behind!!
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Studying philosophy prepared me to encounter extremely difficult, nuanced questions about what the right thing to do is, and to interrogate closely how we conceive of our justifications for weighing different concerns
But turns out the actual moral dilemma that's stumping us all is:
"If we invented a machine that does a shittier job of your office work for pennies, but it was powered by torturing people in Kenya, would it be okay to pay for fewer office workers back home?"
tired: protests are important, they are a way to demand change
wired: protests are useless, protests can't possibly cause change
inspired: protests are important, they're a way for likeminded people to meet and organize further actions that *do* cause change, and serve as a threat to established powers that this will happen
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Is there a term in linguistics for when someone creates a brand name that they think is a clever play on words, and people end up pronouncing it completely differently thus ruining the pun?
I'm thinking of things like Ko-fi, which is a play on "coffee" but everyone pronounces it “KOE-fee”.
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So this morning I was deep-diving into the dude who apparently added fake speaker profiles of women in tech who don't exist onto a conference website (presumably to make it seem more inclusive than it is) and now this. I mean this is basically a kind of catfishing and AI isn't necessary for creating fake people for all kinds of purposes, but I have a feeling it's still going to mean we'll see a lot more of them. https://futurism.com/sports-illustrated-ai-generated-writers
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Discussion of how to market genocide in Palestine, articles referencing dead children mentioned
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRvC3MJf/
This is a Tiktok video (6:18) made by a professional copywriter (user @howtowritecopy on Tiktok) showing all of us how journalists can use specific language to make us empathize or not empathize with victims of violence. She takes two headlines from the past few months and compares them.
Even if you know propaganda is happening and you know some of the tricks they use to manipulate the masses, you are still susceptible. The people producing these media pieces have been trained by experts in how to make you look away and stop paying attention when it suits them.
As consumers of news media, it is absolutely essential that we all learn these techniques to allow us to critically analyze the information we are given in order to know what they want us to think. This way, we can resist their chosen narratives and understand more accurately what is really going on.
This is so, so so important. If you can, please take a few minutes out of your day to learn things that our institutions don't want us to know. I hope you find it as informative as I did!
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I want to make a font out of my own handwriting, anyone have any good tips on how to do that?
- 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
