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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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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aaah, feels like we don't have ADHD today, but more like AD4K
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At #2dance yesterday, we were already over time with the final set and the VJ started playing OpenRCT2 
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@hugh @jonny I really think more institutions need to be introduced to the idea of webseeds. Like, you never have to let bittorrent-the-protocol through your firewall but you can still distribute things as torrents and reap the benefits. But you're right, the concept of P2P generally and bittorrent specifically is deeply intertwined with illegality and transgression in the minds of most decision-makers.
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I'm so unbelievably thrilled to see a new generation of people picking up the mantle of torrenting in the pursuit of preserving the basic information of our culture. People who have never scraped a site or packed a dataset picking up wget and a torrent client and going like "that's it? I can do that."
That's what actually empowering technologies do - show people they are already powerful, that there is no priesthood that they aren't already in. Bittorrent is an empowering technology.
edit: realized i don't think i've actually posted about what we're doing here, i'm talking about sciop and @SafeguardingResearch - https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/114289656473282421
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In de doos zat een cameratas, een spiegelreflex en twee lenzen.
We stonden te juichen en te springen :)
Hij zei: “Er bestaan dus echt lieve mensen die zomaar dingen voor andere mensen doen!”
We gingen naar buiten en hij fotografeerde en was zó blij (en nog).
De eerste foto’s zijn er en er zullen nog veel meer volgen. 💛
Dank lieve Ingrid en man-des-huizes. Dank Mastodon en wereld vol lieve mensen die mooie dingen voor elkaar doen.
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We mailden wat heen en weer en ik zei nog niets tegen de elfjarige (want kon het zelf bijna niet geloven).
En toen gistermiddag kwam de pakketbezorger aan de deur met een pakketje met een brief.
De elfjarige maakte hem open en begon hardop voor te lezen. Na de tweede of derde zin werd hem duidelijk dat vreemde, lieve mensen hem een spiegelreflexcamera gaven en zijn mond viel open.
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Ik plaatste hier af en toe foto’s die hij gemaakt had en mensen genoten mee :)
En toen… kreeg ik vorige week een berichtje van iemand hier die vroeg of hij blij zou worden van hun oude spiegelreflexcamera met 300 mm lens. Precies wat we zochten en waar voor gespaard werd.
Ze hoefde er niets voor - ze gebruikten hem niet meer en zouden er blij van worden als onze elfjarige er blij mee was.
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Ik vond een aantal weken terug een oude compact camera terug en hij werd nog enthousiaster. Elke ochtend ging hij minstens een kwartier eerder naar school om staartmeesjes, huismussen en ander moois te fotograferen.
Het plan ontstond om te sparen voor een tweedehands spiegelreflex en we waren laatst zelfs al naar Sipkes in Groningen gegaan voor een eerste oriëntatie.
Ondertussen fotografeerde hij enthousiast door.
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Tjongejonge, wat kan de wereld gelukkig ook mooi zijn (een lang draadje):
Onze elfjarige ontdekte in de kerstvakantie hoe leuk hij fotograferen vindt. Hij is al zijn hele leven dol op de natuur en ontdekte dat je met een telefoon die natuur in een foto kunt zetten. Er ging een nieuwe wereld voor hem open en hij fotografeerde vogels en in de lente hommels en bijen.
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technology, bleak, potential existential dread
One of my more 'ambient' concerns about technology, as it stands today, is the degree to which it makes social development and evolution impossible.
Computer systems require for everything to be encoded in standardized formats, to function. Standardized formats require exhaustively defining the space of all relevant information and concepts that can exist.
Which means that we're rapidly locking ourselves into an ossified, immutable society where everything must forever work how it does today - organic development of novel and better things rapidly becomes impossible because its outcomes are not representable in the computer systems that now run our world.
Even leaving aside the question of "who defines the space of possible things that can exist", the mere fact that this must be exhaustively specified *at all* is, I think, a potentially existential risk for humans' ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
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De #groteKleinLeedVerkiezing zoekt het kleinste leed, want groot leed is er al genoeg.
Doe even alsof je een laptop en een kantoor buitenshuis hebt (mocht je een daarvan of beide niet hebben) en overweeg: welke van deze vier dingen vind ik het MINST erg?
(This inspired by a conversation I was just having with someone)
The future is mutable, history is not
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Loving art but hating artists is akin to Loving Black Culture but hating Black People. (I'm saying this as a Black person artist.)
AI Image Lovers want to remove "the artist" from the equation in the same way that people want to use Black culture but remove Black people from the equation.
I have been trying to wrap my tongue around the words as to why this "AI Art" boom is so rotten and this is one of the reasons! 🥴
technology, bleak, potential existential dread
One of my more 'ambient' concerns about technology, as it stands today, is the degree to which it makes social development and evolution impossible.
Computer systems require for everything to be encoded in standardized formats, to function. Standardized formats require exhaustively defining the space of all relevant information and concepts that can exist.
Which means that we're rapidly locking ourselves into an ossified, immutable society where everything must forever work how it does today - organic development of novel and better things rapidly becomes impossible because its outcomes are not representable in the computer systems that now run our world.
Even leaving aside the question of "who defines the space of possible things that can exist", the mere fact that this must be exhaustively specified *at all* is, I think, a potentially existential risk for humans' ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
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wayland window with a drop shadow that changes position depending on the time of the day like a sundial
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Hot take: Pirating music is MORE ethical than using Spotify. The artists don't get paid either way, but at least piracy doesn't support exploitative corporations.
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OH: "remove the GitHub stale bot from your head, no matter how long you've had this you deserve it to be solved" (in the context of "oh i am too old to do trans things")
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TIL that the 'Daleks In Colour' mix of the Delia Derbyshire Doctor Who theme has the Pertwee title sequence in the spectrogram.
- 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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
