Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Liberal: I want to have imperialism abroad!

Fascist: we can have imperialism at home.

Morning reminder: being unapologetically yourself and loving the things you love is inherently an act of resistance against people and systems seeking to control you

If you find yourself for a moment forgetting the horrible things happening and getting caught up in a small act of creativity or joy, that isn’t betraying anyone or anything. Being fiercely ourselves is good

irgendwie misstraue ich diese Packstation

stichwort: package lost

If you’re affected by the IETF LLC’s inaction, or just find the body in charge for designing the Internet we all rely on to be in the wrong here; I invite you to sign my open letter to the board: https://boycott-ietf127.org

The IETF LLC thinks it’s reasonable to continue holding meetings in the US, whilst the safety of many attendees is in danger there

Discussion starts at 1:57:00 https://www.youtube.com/live/0l_QTKtBN3w

reminder that whenever the gop complains about "censorship" what they always always mean is "you're making me feel bad about being a white supremacist." when they say that universities shouldn't be able to "indoctrinate" students, what they always always mean is "you shouldn't be able to tell people that white supremacy is bad." it is never a good faith argument and it should never be treated as such

"i'm here, on the severed floor of lumon. i don't know who i am or how i got here."

steven hawking's time traveler party is obvious ruse to steal a time machine. if you show up the only thing waiting for you is a detail of goons with baseball bats

oi dutch queers i need your input

do you have any recommendations for trans-friendly GPs in Utrecht? i know about the roze in wit website but i wanna hear feedback from others on the doctors

looking to change GPs as my current one is ass and i wanna start the official transition path

thx and boost in advance

Put differently, it's not even that I distrust Graber exactly... but networks centered on a single person or company have a single point of failure, and we've learned the hard way about how easily single points of failure can be exploited by fascists.

If you value progressive organizing, I posit that you should be wary of inheriting such single points of failure. Make your advocacy and activism resilient to any one person or organization being compromised.

The problem with the whole "Meta has used tens of millions of published works for training LLMs for profit" thing is the "training LLMs for profit" bit, not the "there are irregular channels for accessing books that would otherwise be prohibitively expensive or literally impossible to access" bit.

Like, "piracy" is going to be the only way a lot of people can access a massive portion of the information and media out there until capitalism ends. Whether the act itself is "good" or not, it's necessary for a lot of people.

What isn't necessary is LLM "hyperscalers" doing it industrially.

-- "what is beauty?"
-- "when you have the fewest deviations from the norm. i've been told it's a type of mediocrity that i possess."

US academics hosting international conferences which are already planned: I'm sure you all have experience pivoting to all online events and don't need the help I'm able to offer. But do DM me if you want to hear about running a large event via FLOSS platform and tools. I'm super happy to help.

I went to strongly encourage you to switch to virtual now. There are significant advantages to this approach including lower carbon, greater participation from Latin American participants and others who are normally excluded by US border policies, and, of course, its a way to protect your reputation and respect your overseas participants.

In person international travel to the US puts researchers at serious risk of arbitrary detention. You owe it to them to not ask this.

By having a virtual conference, you have greater scope for international participation and can maintain the international relevance of your institution. You can still build on networking and collaboration opportunities for yourself and your students.

I can help you organise/host an algorave connected to your event. This could include sonification of data connected to your discipline or other artistic exploration of your topic area. This can include a chat channel and wprknfor networking. The cross disciplinary exploration is often very helpful.

My endstops broke so while I wait for the new ones I've improvised
#3Dprinting

I feel somewhat worried about the sentiment "I use Signal because I trust Meredith Whittaker"

that has never ended badly