Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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.
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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
Just finished watching two seasons of The Ark and despite the disastrously bad visual effects especially in the pilot episode (don't think I've ever seen a show hit the uncanny valley like that), I've been quite enjoying it!
One of the showrunners is Dean Devlin, and you can tell - if you've watched Leverage, you'll probably recognize the same notes of... hopepunk? scattered through the storylines, and the moral thread weaving them together.
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"The basic premise is that neither the institutions of power nor those opposing it will meet our demands without being forced to do so. The basic premise is that, without the self-organization of those directly concerned, we entrust it to the State to define the politics of care. And it will develop health capitalism where we want a politics that favors a production of care."
[translation: mine, if you find mistakes please let me know]
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"highlighting the points of convergence between AIDS and COVID makes it possible to remember the importance of a communal fight against the hierarchization of lives, for the defense of preventive, patient-oriented/care-oriented public health and in favor of a medicine that remains evidence-based and scientifically produced and validated."
[translation: mine, if you find mistakes please let me know]
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ACAB
morrowind and racism
so recently i found out about that morrowind mod that adds a complete recreation of emba-5 (a real small military town that was built in kazakhstan during the ussr times). the mod was made by a person who lived there and i thought it was kind of cute until it turned out the mod maker is a russian religious quack nazbol guy who says that it's a "uniquely russian" town and believes kazakh people cursed it and bastardized it after ussr fell. wack.
I find it really fascinating how an ever-increasing proportion of "folks I have stayed in touch with after meeting them in various completely unrelated communities over the past 15 years" are turning out to be trans in some way (even if I have a pretty good idea about why this happens)
subtoot, schools, LLMs
Like, I get it, LLMs are terrible and all, and you won't find me disagreeing there, but "our sacred homework standards!" is extremely *not* the hill to be dying on there
subtoot, schools
"Why would you use LLMs to do your homework instead of learning things??"
...because students are coerced into doing homework they never asked for and they have been taught for a decade+ that grades are the only thing that matters, and so they have no real choice but to optimize their participation in this bizarre social dance of pretending to learn things to participate in society?
If only people had been warning for decades that common schooling methods are inefficient and encouraging the wrong things. If only.
Looks like my own implementation works, at least: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/a7235920e314f37a992c6ed078970ddc?ts=4
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transphobia, harassment
My SECOND overt transphobia ever! Dang, they're coming often now!
I'm walking down the street, minding my business, some kid, he wasn't even twenty probably gives me a weird look. Then another. Then another.
Don't judge a book by its cover, but this guy is not winning any Nobel Prizes anytime soon. He doesn't have a very... thoughtful expression. Even though he's clearly puzzled.
I don't bother, I do look... striking today, and I've been given looks before. We stop at a red light. I don't look at him because who gives a fuck.
"What's that you're wearing?", I hear. The verb "wearing" genders me as a guy.
I look at the guy "pardon me?"
"What're you wearing? Why'd you leave the house like this?"
He's still gendering me make. I repeat the verb at him in the correct gender to correct him. He repeats the incorrect verb. It goes back and forth like this two times. I smirk.
"You're a boy", he says accusingly. He's about half my age but he uses the familiar "you". It's a bit rude in Polish to address a stranger like that. Also, "boy"? Fucker, I could be your mother, lmfao.
I smile. "Nope, I'm a girl".
"You're a boy". He's very angry.
I laugh a little. "Whatever you say." The light is green. I cross the street.
"Faggot.", I hear behind me. I turn sharply and take just one step towards him. I'm a good deal bigger and taller than him.
He scurries away like the rat he is. He taunts me, implying he wants to get violent. But curiously, whenever I take one step towards him, he takes two steps back.
He keeps acting "tough". I'm losing my patience, so I calmly but menacingly invite him to show me what he's got. He moves even further away, all the way talking shit.
"You're running away that easily? That was quick", I comment and move on.
Transphobes are weak spineless bitches. So are homophobes. I'm pissed off, but also very satisfied with this encounter. Those shits are weak. Even the ones who are physically strong.
prisons, spicy take to some
Imprisonment is a form of torture, no matter how 'humane' it is on paper, and should be treated as such from an ethical perspective.
And when you argue for imprisoning people as a form of 'justice', you are arguing for torture as a form of 'justice', with all of the implications that that has.
It's just a form of torture that's easy to rationalize if you don't want to confront those implications.
(I've figured out my own but want to see if there are any better options out there)
Are there any established algorithms for merging multiple overlapping but gappy sequences of items into a single sequence?
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One of weird things about being autistic is when I make observations about people and then they get creeped out or tell me it was unsettling.
Like, I'm literally commenting on something so obvious to me that it would have felt weird not to say something.
And I should note that I am saying this with an acute awareness of React having problems of its own, and being unamused by its internal complexity, and not *really* liking it.
But I've also learned not to trust promises of solutions that don't come with a clear understanding of the problem domain attached, because it usually means that someone is trying to sell you something, for money or otherwise.
I would take criticisms of the React model a lot more seriously if those criticisms actually critized, y'know, the React model, and weren't just picking on a bunch of badly designed libraries that happen to be built on top of it, or complaining about websites that happen to use it.
The same applies to supposedly 'better alternatives' for React. I'll take those seriously once they demonstrate an actual understanding of the problem space that React tries to inhabit - because very often they are 'better' by simply jettisoning some of the design goals that inform React's design, and so they can't actually replace it.
(Inspired by, but not a subtoot of, another toot about React)
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Anyway! People talk to me about feeling weird about writing and there’s this whole complex about innate talent and like, “who should calls themselves a writer,” and meh, I’m not having it.
Clearer and more structured thinking through writing is our birthright, and although we all start at different points and with different brain architectures, if you want to write you should write! And if you do it like any other mindful and reflexive practice you will develop deeper and subtler power. 🌬️
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I want to think out loud about writing for a second before I go into proper weekend mode, so if you hate that and find it self-indulgent or whatever, this is your warning. (I think feeling weird about feeling weird about writing is what keeps people from writing, and I don’t think gatekeeping about it is anything but an unproductive and ego-protective bummer, myself, but that’s just me.)
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Social Media Sites if they were Table Top Roleplay NPCs, a thread.
1) Tumblr. A very well dressed, witty and urbane goblin, that keeps stealing sandwiches and making a nest out of stripy knee length socks. Has ninety seven different celebrity shrines.
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@reinderdijkhuis I submitted ten of my best puns to a pun contest, knowing that one of them would win. But no pun in ten did.
- 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
