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

Redo, maar met alt text.

Every time I think about how much of the world’s most-used software runs on infrastructure wholly owned and operated by either Google or Amazon with no insight into that underlying infra, I get this feeling of creeping dread

Google ain’t just search, y’all
Amazon ain’t just a storefront

Those fucken goobers effectively control the world

Brazilian delivery workers have a new way to protect themselves: the bololô — an impromptu protest at the home of nasty customers, involving groups of workers driving around in circles, honking, chanting, and setting off fireworks
https://restofworld.org/2023/bololo-delivery-workers-fireworks-horns-protest/

Via tumblr:
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(Original post on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/C0U4FnMJmn0/ )

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Good Monday morning, fellas.

#openstreetmap While I was generating some numbers on editor usage yesterday (for the @geomob podcast we just recorded and maybe for a diary post too), I noticed a massive (at least in OSM terms) anomaly in the newbie signup rates for RapiD (Facebooks iD fork). In February 2023 it rocketed up to nearly 3'000 to then return to the previous couple of dozen per month.

Anybody know the background here?

Sometimes it's hard to know if a community or project is sexist or horrible or what. People have said that about #OpenStreetMap.

All I know is, I came out as a #trans woman, stood for reelection to the #OSMF Board, and *quadrupled* my votes.

Be careful with simple narratives. 🙂

I like this method of locking together laser-cut wood pieces, very clever! cc @s_ol

https://hackaday.com/2023/12/04/this-laser-cut-one-piece-wedge-tenon-locks-wood-joints-tight/

Angebot ist beendet.. Der Kühlschrank wurde abgeholt.
Danke an alle Booster!
Hätte den Post auch löschen können, aber dann wären die hilfreichen Antworten weg.

Ursprünglicher Text:
Hat Jemand in 64297 #Darmstadt Verwendung für eine Kühl-/Gefrierschrank-Kombination, BJ 2007 von Miele, top gepflegt, voll funktionsfähig, kostenlos an Selbstabholer abzugeben (Abholung bis 19.12.)? Oder kennt Jemand mit Bedarf? Es wäre traurig, wenn das Teil auf dem Sperrmüll landen würde.

#fedigive
#wish2hand

was reminded of this old banger of a tweet so i'm reposting it here on mastodon after *checks watch* 9 years

A visual representation of how high 2:1 isometric blocks should be

#PixelArt #GameDev

"What is AI? It is a marketing term. It's a way to make automation sound magical. As such it is a way to dodge accountability by making machines sound like autonomous entities rather than tools created by people and companies. Discussion about this technology becomes much clearer when we replace "AI" with "automation" and ask: What is automated? Who is automating? Who is profiting and who is harmed?"
- @emilymbender

https://youtu.be/eK0md9tQ1KY?si=DmIPhir4VQ0tNg3O

@smveerman @Gaelan the rare one is "Plan uw reis in de internationale app", for when the HSL falls over

de trein is stukkie wukkie, etc

There's also mention of employing AI in moderation online, especially for smaller platforms. And I don't think I'm telling most of you new things when I say that large language models tend to be biased against minorities, and language use we do. Especially when these models are trained on biased moderation from big corporations, as they probably will be. Such measures are also very easily co-opted by the government to spy on people who have dissenting views, something again queer people tend to have.

All in all my conclusion is that Dutch neoliberal politics (as most neoliberal politics) always uses the suffering of a minority group to do a few things:

1. divide minority groups and smash solidarity
2. use the statistics to increase policing
3. use the statistics to increase government control

All wrapped up in a fluff story about how much they care about us queers, while spitting on our safety and input every step of the way. The fascists have been in power for a while, they just hide it better than in 1937.

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Then the response said something that really peaked my interest. The minister talks about anonymity specifically in the context of hate crime online, and how this might impact the amount of hatecrimes received by queer people online. A statement that most queer people will realise is absolute bunk, most hatecrime I've personally received has been white men who have their full name and surname on platforms, and their face as a profile picture. This doesn't harm them, they have systemic protection on their side. Anonymity is a tool for queer people to protect their own identities on the other hand, and keep them from being outed or harassed in real life from slights on the internet. This measure would again hurt queer people, and especially queer people in subcultures that are more queerphobic the most.

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