Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

So it turns out Pink News's CEO has told staff to "be careful" hiring neurodivergent people because they'd use their disabilities to excuse poor performance and be hard to get rid of due to employment law. Solution: don't support this ableist rag.

See the whistleblower account on X for more:

https://x.com/PinkNewsStaff/

#LGBTQIA

My politics are: we should have massive carbon taxes, massive land value taxes, and generous UBI.

Is there an existing label for that?

Logitech is making a subscription based "forever mouse"? That's rich. I haven't seen a Logitech mouse made in the past couple decades where the left click doesn't die within 2 years tops

Put a fucking CW on your politics posts. It's tiring to have to clean up y'all's mess when trying to boost you.

The second thing is well worth more discussion. And I'm gonna take a hard stance on this. If people of color still find ourselves dependent on a small team of white devs to get what we want, that is a failure of the principles of the fediverse.

I understand why it still feels like we have to ask the mastodon team for things. I'm not dismissing the reality of where we are. But our goal should be actively move away from this dynamic. How do we do that?

I have a problem: there are a lot of very specific projects that I would want to work on, that currently do not seem to exist, but that I also couldn't realistically do on my own, and it's difficult to even start without someone like-minded to bounce ideas off.

Now I could share my ideas far and wide in detail and hope that someone is interested and responds, but I *also* have ADHD, which means that when they do, I might not be able to get back to them in a timely manner, and it may take quite some time before my interest loops back around to that specific project.

I'll likely keep my focus much better once I have someone else to collaborate with regularly/actively, but even then my availability/focus may be erratic, and it feels unfair to commit to working on a project and then make that someone else's problem.

The easiest thing for me to work with is someone who could commit to collaborating on a project, based on the ideas/goals that I already have, and subject to whenever I happen to have focus available. But that is so unbalanced in terms of what each party is expected to bring to the table, that that also feels unreasonable to ask for.

Not sure what to do about this, or how to proceed from here. Like, I can do a lot of the work, in principle, just not on any sort of predetermined schedule, but for this to work there needs to be some kind of synchronized-ish working on the project.

(Advice welcome, as long as you understand what "having ADHD" means and don't come up with useless 'advice' like "have you tried <neurotypical lifehack> to focus better")

KOSA passed the Senate 91–3. Of those 3, two are Republicans; this might be the first time I've ever agreed with Rand Paul.

Almost no Democrats stood up to protect us, and almost every one of them actively threw us under the bus.

If you have a @frameworkcomputer laptop and have the impression that the battery empties too fast when it's sleeping, or that it wakes up from sleeping for no obvious reason while closed, here's what's happening and how I fixed it (on Linux) for my Framework 13 AMD Laptop:
The underlying problem is that pressing the touchpad wakes the machine, EVEN WHEN IT'S CLOSED! Especially when you carry it around or have it in a bag it can happen that the lid/display presses on the touchpad enough to wake!

It's both true that, if elected, Harris would likely be by far the most progressive president I've seen in my lifetime, and that she really isn't all that progressive or left-wing.

The standard for presidents for the past few decades has basically ranged from apologetic appeaser to right-wing weirdo.

and now it's gotten to a point that people can no longer ignore that the apparent stability was never real in the first place, just a comforting illusion

so everything feels even worse than it really is because of having to process the loss of the illusion at the same time

you know why things feel so particularly bad these days?

it's because people with a certain level of privilege have lived their whole lives, as have their parents, with the assumption that no matter what battles they win or lose, everything will somehow work out without anything really bad happening

question to fedi: does anyone have a link to that program that let you made pictures out of “tiles” of some sort and it had a limited palette? i remember i saw it on itch.io once

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> everyone fucking hates capitalism, and it pisses them off, but they dont know they hate capitalism, so they just complain about every issue individually as if its some series of unconnected phenomena with no root cause

from: @powerburial@tumblr.com
src: https://powerburial.tumblr.com/post/189012470710/everyone-fucking-hates-capitalism-and-it-pisses
#capitailism

I've seen a lot of awful and ridiculous AI hype in the past two years, but this weekend there was one that briefly took away my ability to even.

I recovered, and wrote up a newsletter post:

https://buttondown.email/maiht3k/archive/medical-science-shouldnt-platform-automating-end/

Dit is een toffe site, zeg: https://waarzitwatin.nl/

Heel veel details over welke grondstoffen en ingredienten er gebruikt worden om allerlei dingen te produceren, de veiligheid daarvan, enzovoorts.

A random thought pinging off a thread about Fediverse culture, but I wonder how much smugness & instinctive hostility to criticism is a defining function of DIY or progressive spaces. Like if you've built something, be it open source software or a community garden or a cycling campaign or a community fridge, and put a lot of effort into it, and someone comes along and says "This isn't working/isn't accessible/is actively hostile to people like me", we need to accept that criticism with humility

But yes the Fediverse has a racism problem, as does the environmental movement, the sustainable living wing in particular has a big ableism problem. And the people raising these issues are doing this not to knock the movements down but because they actively care about them and want to make them work better. And we should be grateful for the feedback which will help these things succeed in the long run, but too often we're not

The reason calling MAGA weirdos weird works is Wilhoit's law:
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
If you tell them they're the out-group their entire worldview collapses and they imagine what it would be like if they were on receiving end of habitual cruelty.