Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- 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.
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- 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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Ideological purity over user interests? ✅️
No understanding of why that ideology matters? ✅️
Enforcement of said ideology through pseudolegal rules that reward toxic dudebro behavior? ✅️
Yep, it's a GNU project.
#AskFedi: for those whose first computer experiences were with Windows 95/98 (or NT) and who look back on it fondly:
What would be needed to rekindle that early experience of wonder around computers and/or the internet? What stands out in your memory as the cause for that sense of wonder back then? (The answer to these two questions can be different!) 
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If you write email subjects like you write fedi subjects, it's way easier to write emails actually
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pandemic rhetoric
you really do have to wonder if the whole general idea of "strengthening your immune system" came out of the same toxic rhetoric that encourages toxic masculinity and nationalism, where you have to be stronger in its own right for no particular reason, and not just because of bad science
like, it seems pretty indisputable that, while it's pretty difficult to avoid all germs and you actually should not do that, exposure to the kinds of germs that make you sick is pretty much always worse than not
we have vaccines to get immunity now and getting sick "naturally" just opens you up to being miserable or worse, permanent damage, so, seems pretty bad
there are a lot of toxic men who feel like they can "tough out" an infection and that's simply not true. you can't fight a cold like you fight a bear, and like fighting a bear, you can easily just die
idk. feels like we need to particularly hone in on this rhetoric as being toxic, fascist nonsense instead of it being anything like fact
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I just want my friends to understand that if you message me a link to a YouTube video there is less than a 5% chance I will watch it. I’m sorry.
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After hearing about Eric Schmidt's guest lecture in an AI class, I looked up the transcript, and yes he really did say that if a Silicon Valley entrepreneur were to "illegally steal everybody's music" they would just "hire a whole bunch of lawyers to go clean the mess up." Then I was curious and looked up the syllabus for the course and based on the topic schedule, the most explicit ethics topic seemed to be "opportunities and risks" for which the guest speaker was... Eric Schmidt. 😕
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“What we sacrifice for automation”
https://www.fastcompany.com/90336550/how-much-are-we-sacrificing-for-automation
> If we don’t do it the way the machine is designed to process it, we yield our agency, over and over again to do it in a way that it can collect the data to get us the item we want, the service we need, or the reply we hope for. Humans yield. Machines do not yield back.
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"Should we privatize this thing?"
And
"Should we give control over this thing to an unelected rich person who has no reason to act in the public good?"
Are exactly the same question
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This guy at the Boxhagener Platz flea market is doing top quality #carryshitolympics 🙂
Also feels like this maps neatly onto "precision" in other disciplines (3D modelling, manufacturing, etc.) where working at higher precision gets you a more exact result but usually at increased cost elsewhere
Note that this is a philosophical classification much more than a technical one; many technical choices feed into how a language behaves, and the *intention* and underlying belief system of the designers are going to be the main determining factor here
Pondering whether it would make sense to classify programming languages on a "precision" axis, meaning where it sits on the axis of tradeoffs between "exactly (needing to) specify all the details of what you want it to do, resulting in guaranteed and predictable behaviours" and "doing hopefully-the-right-thing with little specification work, at the cost of less predictable behaviour and it sometimes guessing wrong"
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"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.
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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
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boost with CW: food used as a metaphor to make a really important point about AI and image descriptions
https://mastodon.eternalaugust.com/@pencilears/112978735034497272
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we have to kill capitalism so the internet can be good again
meta, communication styles
I've noticed that the (autistic?) practice of "repeat in different words what was said to explicitly acknowledge it and incrementally add onto it at the same time" often gets interpreted as "mansplaining" on here and I'm not sure what to do about that
- 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
