Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- 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
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I've been asked a few times by older inlaws how AI is changing the video-games industry, and I'm very pleased with how I've handled gently dashing their hopes :3 "We've evaluated it, but the output is well below our quality bar for most things." That's usually a good pivot point for talking about how the AI stuff is waaay over hyped.
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Are there good participatory budgeting processes that allow stakeholders with different amounts of money to allocate among several budget categories of fixed but different sizes, reflecting different priorities? Like in a ranked-choice kind of way? @ntnsndr
proprietary systems cannot be innovative, long-ish
There are lots of *practical* reasons why proprietary and commercial environments aren't really capable of producing innovation, but those are not the ones I want to focus on here.
The bigger reason why proprietary systems cannot be innovative is more philosophical. "Innovation", to me, is a very specific thing: it is the collective process of discovering and iterating on new techniques and technologies, to make society a little better for everyone every time.
The "iterating on" is important there; innovation is about *collective knowledge building*, about improving humanity's collective understanding of the world in a durable and sustainable way, and ensuring that those who come after us can build on our work to improve a little further.
Proprietary systems, by their very nature, cannot do this. "Innovations" in proprietary systems will live and die with the organizations in which they are built; the knowledge of their workings is secret and deliberately obscured, practically guaranteeing a loss of knowledge when the organization eventually folds - as every organization does sooner or later.
Proprietary organizations simply do not participate in the process of innovation at all; they *emulate* it, as a cheap party trick to impress investors and accumulate more power, economic or otherwise.
For something to be truly innovative, it *must* happen in the open, no exceptions. If others outside of your control cannot iterate on it, it is not truly innovation, no matter how clever it sounds.
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exhaustedly again asking folks not to use "crazy" as a generic derogative
don't boost shit that says "insane" when they really mean "coldly calculatingly evil" or "responding rationally but disappointingly to perverse incentives" or "foolish and shitty"
mental health problems are not the enemy you're aiming for
in fact by using this lazy shorthand you are doing the fascists' work for them - associating mental health issues with degeneracy, chaos, and evil, and furthering eugenicist beliefs.
irritated
The only DRM I could get behind is a limiter on gasoline powertools that only allows you to rev them a set amount of times before they lock up for the rest of the day, jesus christ
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ACAB
fundraiser for an african family trying to rebuild their house after a natural disaster
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There will come a point where you ask internet-oracle-of-choice "how do I self-host a Netflix alternative" and they will intentionally give you bad advice in order to discourage you.
That point is coming sooner rather than later, and we need to train *an entire generation* of internet users how to get out of this trap.
That's *our* work to do, RIGHT NOW.
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Learn to host your own services now. Because in the future you might not be able to discover how.
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this is going to be increasingly relevant from now (July '24) until November of this year. please, fellow white people, *check your sources* and be especially careful about what you say--and what you repeat. there is nuanced debate to be had, but you *must* understand the nuances *before* you speak up. this is a very important time to *listen* to BIPOC, *think* about what they say, and *not make assumptions*.
we all have a lot of learning, and unlearning, to do, especially right now. it's an excellent time and opportunity for *all of us* to sit down, shut up, pay attention, and think carefully.
adventures in game development
Just implemented rudimentary hot-reloading for my game engine in like 15 minutes 😁 This sort of thing is why I am excited about doing (non-web) game development with JS
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New idea to ponder:
Try replacing the word 'smart' with the word 'cruel' in regards to technology.
See how accurately it fits, and adjust choices accordingly.
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Humans invented art 40,000 years before we invented money
We’ve never needed monetary motivation to do beautiful things
and we never will
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@robinhood *495,000 years before the invention of currency
Just to really drive home the incredibly tiny amount of time money has existed. And that's giving a very generous 5,000 years where money in some form kind of existed at all (which is, itself, an overestimation of how long money has existed).
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US Politics, Tech, VC
At the top of The Verge, a tech reporting outfit that I thought lost its voice a few years back, is an absolute BANGER of a take down of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.
A worthy read about how two of Silicon Valley's most famous VCs have fully thrown in with Trump. #USpol
https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/24/24204706/marc-andreessen-ben-horowitz-a16z-trump-donations
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@KaraLG84 @jscholes @BorrisInABox I once heard about a boxed frozen tiramisu dessert. On the box was the instruction, "Do not turn upside down." That particular instruction was printed…on the bottom of the box…where you'd have to turn the box upside down to read it.
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From the text about the collective defense against the J20 charges:
"Let us pause in awe at the stupefying hypocrisy of those who profess to believe in the 'rule of law.' How can it be that the prosecutor, the court bureaucracy, and two grand juries were permitted to terrorize two hundred defendants with multiple nonexistent felony charges for nearly a year? Surely, if anyone is still naïve enough to earnestly believe in the rule of law, they should consider those who are complicit in pressing nonexistent charges to be the number one threat to civil society. Prosecutors, police, and judges neither believe in nor uphold the rule of law any more than the most iconoclastic anarchist does. The difference is that anarchists are honest about this and propose an ethical alternative, whereas the professionals of the justice industry shamelessly pursue personal gain and little else."
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more detail on nonconsensual genital surgeries and the fucked up language we describe them with
I explicitly avoid the term circumcision here because in addition to describing the procedure instead of the result (foreskin removal), the usage of a banal medical term across (generally american) culture to describe people is super fucked
like, oh, is this person cut or uncut? what absolutely fucked up language to describe people with. there's a reason why people who get genital surgery intentionally as adults avoid using terms like "neovagina" or "neopenis" non-sarcastically, because we shouldn't be fucking describing body types by how they were surgically altered.
and also, it's worth pointing out that everyone has foreskin, but foreskin removal of the labia specifically is generally outlawed under the cis bullshit term of "female genital mutilation"
and yeah. performing surgery on the genitals of a toddler without any medical reason is genital mutilation. imagine if routinely we just decided to chop off every kid's little toe for absolutely no reason. most people won't care, and yeah, it'll heal, sure. but also, what the fuck? that's mutilation.
I'm going into the more routine version because that applies to more people, but yes, it's worth saying that so many intersex people get even more complicated, riskier surgeries done to them intentionally because we want to act like they were always "normal" in the first place. and that's fucked up. there is basically never a reason to perform surgery on a toddler's genitals, and especially no reason to conceal that they had surgery done from them. fuck that.
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trans-hater rhetoric, feat. nonconsensual genital surgery
you abso fucking lutely cannot argue against trans procedures being "irreversible" when unnecessary, irreversible genital surgery on infants is common. oh, I can't take HRT because I might be unable to ungrow my boobs, but you're allowed to cut off part of my dick as a child just because you think that's good for me?
like, routinely, cis people will perform nonconsensual genital surgery on minors to push their unrealistic expectations of genitals, onto children, to ensure everyone has explicitly only has one of two genital configurations, where (at least among Americans, and others) one of those configurations is completely unnatural.
and like, you're not okay with people choosing to change their genitals, or their body in general, later in life, just because they might regret it?
maybe, you're just spewing bad faith nonsense and don't want to believe that people can make choices for themselves, which is why you make choices for them
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
