Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I forgot to say, I went to check out a couple of hacker/maker spaces in SF with a couple new Mastodon friends on Thursday, Noisebridge and Queerious.

Noisebridge seems very much a potential inspiration for the video game, Watchdogs and Watchdogs 2. Very busy and chaotic, lots of big industrial machines sitting around waiting for folks that want to use them/know how to use them.

From hints dropped by our ad gov your guide and joining their Discord it seems like they're having some culture clash issues with some new and existing members, some safety issues, some access management issues, and some issues getting members and guests to do needed cleanup in the space.

Like with SudoRoom, apparently, some masculine members and guests try to guilt some feminine members and guests into cleaning up, apparently based on the premise that many women in the space are not there to directly participate but as wives and girlfriends of the guy using the space. That dynamic is super duper not my favorite. In their parlance, it's shitty behavior.

So as much as joining Noisebridge appeals from a geekery standpoint, I'm on the fence.

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Would you be interested in a website that had articles comparing books to their movies and movies to their remakes? This would include a breakdown of plot differences, tonal changes, character/plotline additions and subtractions (and combinations) as well as an analysis of what works and what doesn't, and why it might have been done that way.

I would appreciate boosts.

Yo, folks... PSA time: if you're gonna accuse someone of posting AI-generated art, you need to do a _bare minimum_ of three things:

1) Look for the artist's profile / gallery / etc to see their history
2) No really, go find it, look at it, make sure you're not about to throw hate at someone who's invested years or even decades of their life into their craft
3) Find and document the AI markers in your report

Ask yourself, who are you trying to protect when you call out AI-generated art?

If your answer is "artists", then please take that extra time and do those extra steps so that you don't drive skilled creatives out of the public sphere.

#art #MastoArt #FediArt

#EMERGENCY

We have a neighbor who has homebound... since before our pandemic... with a skin infection that makes it painful to wear clothing. She does not leave her apartment and relies on us and others to help her with things.

There are presently five police officers outside her door demanding she go with them. Our local social services non-profit is refusing to get involved, saying to let the police handle it: "They're professionals."

Anyone in #NYC who can intervene as a patient advocate?

US folks, maybe consider bookmarking this to send this to your families/friends and also *talk* about it and about free test to treat. People don’t know.

[Edited to add: Believe me, I know who this columnist is. But the information is fairly crucial and this is an accessible presentation for sharing with wider circles.]

https://wapo.st/3IpWavT

I very much wish that audiobook producers/performers would figure out that it really helps to demarcate lengthy quoted passages (particularly in nonfiction) by actually saying "quote" and "end quote". Sure that actual word might not be on the page but it's information lost purely due to medium.

Performers usually do try to change their voice but success can be pretty variable. I feel like the necessity of saying "end quote" is something podcasters have generally figured out but audiobooks haven't.

Who called it “intellectual property problems around the acquisition of training data for Large Language Models” and not Grand Theft ̶A̶u̶t̶o̶c̶o̶r̶r̶e̶c̶t̶ Autocomplete?

Germany: The Fight against the Tesla Gigafactory

https://crimethinc.com/TeslaGermany

For several years now, locals, anarchists, environmentalists, and others have been engaged in a struggle against a Tesla “gigafactory” in the small town of Grünheide, only five kilometers southeast of the Berlin city limits. Now, Tesla is seeking to expand the facility at further cost to local forest and groundwater.

After locals voted against the expansion, activists established an occupation in the forest that is slated for destruction. Saboteurs burned an electrical pylon, halting work at the Tesla factory and costing the company hundreds of millions of euros.

Here, we present an interview with a participant in the forest occupation and a translation of a statement from the group that shut down electricity to the Tesla plant.

how HEAD works in git https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/03/08/how-head-works-in-git/

Absolutely astounding bravery.
A woman held a speech in the packed metro/subway of Tehran for March 8, Intl Women's Day, on the rights that women are being deprived of and demanding that women should not be ignored.

Weird train. Also weird track construction on KRM today 🤔 ...

#OH: This burning police car does not reflect the opinions of my employer

The boss has been pestering me to attend a leadership conference so I, completely jokingly, said, "A true leader would never sit in an audience being told what to do" and now half this office is in existential crisis

Make sure to properly Spaget your PLA before feeding it to the printer

#nsfw #author #selfpub #queer #kink #kinky

I wrote up a detailedish retelling of the first 4 hours of my currently ongoing first longer term #chastity experience 10000 characters. I hope that i will get an extra ~10 followers on Mastodon. I am looking for places to put them online.
Restrictions:
-fast turn around time (r/gonewildstories requires being signed up for a day)
-It should be possible to tag myself as other/nb
...

"Behind every great man is a woman that actually did all the work and got none of the recognition."