Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

"Police interactions are people's first engagement with the prison system. Police can be in any public setting. They're on the street. They're in hospitals, libraries, train stations. They're in our schools. They're in our workplaces. They enter our homes - sometimes when summoned, sometimes by force, with or without a warrant. As K's experience illustrates, police bring the threat, and often the reality, of harassment, surveillance, criminalization, arrest and even death. Patrolling protests - including protests against the police - is part of their job. Police ensure that, particularly for marginalized people, there's always a possible path from everyday life to prison."

— Maya Schenwar, Victoria Law, Michelle Alexander: Prison by Any Other Name, p. 144

Being detained three separate times in my life (one for shoplifting, once for fare evasion and another for protest activity), this whole chapter, especially being based in New York City, is really getting hard to read, but I feel seen in a way I wasn't expecting.

Make this Doctorow 's article your most important week reading:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/17/hack-the-planet/#how-about-a-nice-game-of-chess

TIL you can view every issue/PR on the entirety of GitHub

we have to kill capitalism so the internet can be good again

Non-newtonian motivation: gently nudging me to do something is okay, but if you push me it becomes very hard to do the thing

You know how everyone votes for a politician for their populist progressive promises and is all surprisedpikachu when the politician fails to achieve any of them?
Just once I would love to instead see a politician get elected on their safe corporate moderate platform and then shock everyone by implementing surprise socialism

Het is weer zover.

Den Aha levert diepvriesspul.
In een tas.
Die in de tas babyromaines zit. Bevroren dus, 5 stuks.
Winterwortel: deels bevroren.
Bleekselderij: idem.
Prei: idem.

Dan nog groente in stukken.
Een fles kapot.
Op de kokosnoot 'zit iets raar nats'.

Ik snap dat gewoon niet. Ze vergoeden het maar ja: te laag bedrag voor bezorging dus ik moet naar winkel die ver weg is, dus met tram.

Soms, soms gaat het goed.
Meestal niet.
Vandaag dus weer niet.

Just Stop Ads

Wat een nuance in een programma voor kinderen, iets om als volwassenen van te leren:

Indonesië in de oorlog, Klokhuis

"Honderden jaren was Nederland de baas in grote delen van wat we nu kennen als Indonesië. Janouk gaat vierhonderd jaar terug in de tijd en ziet hoe Nederland delen van het eilandenrijk met geweld veroverde. Veel Indonesiërs wilden een eigen land. In augustus 1945, kort na het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog, riep Indonesië de onafhankelijkheid uit. Janouk ziet wat voor oorlogen er nodig waren voordat Indonesië eindelijk een eigen land werd, en hoe deze tijd hier in Nederland wordt herdacht. In de sketch zien we hoe Nederlandse kolonisten zichzelf heel erg beschaafd vinden, maar zijn ze dat ook…"

https://hetklokhuis.nl/tv-uitzending/5519/indonesie-in-de-oorlog

#Klokhuis #OnafhankelijkIndonesië

Neuroqueer in Nederland

https://writefreely.gladtherescake.eu/gladtherescake/neuroqueer-in-nederland

Whenever you see a headline or an editorial piece which is wildly at odds with the evidence of your eyes and ears, just ask yourself, "How would the public accepting this as fact benefit/empower/enrich the billionaire who owns this megaphone?"

So, Microsoft decided to break lots of people's computers:

https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-cracking-down-dodging-windows-11-system-requirements/

Any "security improvements" that require people to buy a new computer (or phone) is a security upgrade that poor people and/or people in the third world don't benefit from.

It is worse than useless, it is discriminatory, it is obscene. It throws people under the bus, causes us great economic duress, for the sake of other people's security. It erects a walled community and keeps us out, and pretends things are safer by removing us from the statistics.

Choose your phone!

Your options are:
- company that seeks rent on every transaction that happens through the phone
- company that tracks your location, habits and usage to build detailed profiles on you to inform advertising
- custom ROMs that can’t run your banking app

a lot of processes in the industry i work in now rely on spreadsheets

like really janky ones with hours of people's lives burned away by copy/paste weekly or daily and pointing and clicking, following a checklist

so i think "aha! i can help!" and i replace the spreadsheet with an automated process

and hours per week are saved and i am a hero and it feels great

but then they need to make a little change and they can't, they have to go through me, i have effectively taken their power away