Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

We willen allemaal af van Amerikaanse big tech. Er zijn prachtige open (source) initiatieven, vol van prachtige technologie. Maar er is echt veel meer nodig om succesvol te worden. Hier een (pijnlijk) overzicht van wat er beter moet in de open wereld: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/manifest-big-tech-alternatieven/

These are from April 2024.

#AmsterdamPublicComment #AmsterdamGraffiti #AmsterdamStickerArt #palestine

“Achtung, Zug fahrt durch Bahnsteig 2”

Ich hoffe, dass der ÖBB meint durch die Gleis, und nicht der Steig 😅

https://mastodon.online/@danirabbit/114123308377405461

I took these in July 2024. A kid left their cute tiny toys under a large trash receptacle in a public park, and I got some shots from their smol perspective.

(I left the toys btw. They were gone the next day, so I hope a kid came back for them )

#amsterdamPhotography #photography #small #smol #quiet

Hello! I watch a lot of YouTube of the format "person with a special interest talks enthusiastically about their special interest".

I've channels for civil engineering, blade sharpening, mortality, fire ignition, knot tying, urban planning, neolithic tech, and more.

However, most of these channels are hosted by men. I would like to fix this!

Have you a favourite YouTube channel that focuses on knowledge transfer, that's not hosted by a man? Please leave a link in the comments below. Thanks!

#Bogusławki, nieopodal Sulęcinka.

Niestety, widać brak dobrego oprogramowania do mielenia HDR-ów — z tych zdjęć zdecydowanie dałoby się wycisnąć więcej.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.12756&mlon=17.33136#map=14/52.12756/17.33136

#las #wędrówki

How much money do you think the United States has spent since 1945 on the Cold War? Sometimes they ask this question then from the back of the audience comes in answer ‘billions and billions‘. A huge underestimate – billions and billions. The amount of money that the United States has spent on the Cold War since 1945 is approximately 10 trillion dollars. Trillion, that’s the big one with the ‘T’. What could you buy with 10 trillion dollars? The answer is: You could buy everything in the United States except the land. Everything. Every building, truck, bus, car, boat, plane, pencil, baby’s diaper. Everything in the United States except the land, that’s what we have spent on the Cold War.

So, now let me ask: How certain was it that the Russians were going to invade? Was it 100% certain? Guess not since they never invaded. What if it was only let say 10% certain? What would advocates of big military buildup have said? We must be prudent. It’s not enough to count on only the most likely circumstance. If the worst happens and it’s really extremely dangerous for us we have to prepare for that. Remote contingencies if there is serious enough have the prepared for. It’s classic military thinking – you prepare for the worst case.

And so now, I ask my friends who are comfortable with that argument, including the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, why doesn’t that same argument apply to Global Warming. You don’t think it’s 100% likely? Fine. You are entitled to think that. If it’s only a small probability of it happening since the consequences are so serious, don’t you have to make some serious investment to prevent it or mitigate it? I think there’s a double standard of argument working and I don’t think we should permit it.

— Carl Sagan, An excerpt of a speech given on the 2nd of September in 1990 at the 5th Emerging Issues Forum at NCSU

credulous liberals who entertain fascists aping semantics are fools and accomplices, plain and simple. fascists have nothing of substance to say, no reason to be heard. they should be disarmed and reeducated; persuasion is meaningless to people who do not internalize meaning.

fascists going after pronouns (eg grammar) is so demonstrative of their discursive vapidity. it doesn't matter that they already use pronouns, they don't care, they don't understand what language is anyway. it's just a vector for harm, for currying the means to harm. they are barking, frothing slimes

⚓ my ideal social encounter is a quiet intimate party where i can just lay under the floorboards and soak in the ambiance

"As long as there is Mass Surveillance, There can be no Free And Secure Internet for anyone anywhere."

#AmsterdamPublicComment #AmsterdamGraffiti #AmsterdamStickerArt #surveillance

Here's an excellent thread from @timberwraith on the toxic dynamics on Daily Kos. It's not just there of course, I see a lot of screenshots of centrists and so-called progressives echoing MAGA anti-trans talking points, or pointing to polls as "evidence" that supporting trans rights is an unpopular position.

Just about every trans and non-binary person I talk to was very aware of how willing so many centriset and "progressive" Democrats are to throw trans rights under the bus even before Newsom's bletcherous platforming of an anti-trans bigot and embrace of anti-trans talking points yesterday ... but I'm not sure how aware cis people are about this. So it's really worth highlighting!

https://mastodon.social/@timberwraith/114122448717557060

And many of these same "progressives" are also echoing anti-Black and anti-Palestinian talking points. Nothing new here, of course, but also worth highlighting!

#uspol

Piepklein beetje #bloomscrolling