Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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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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- 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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Go and browser search 'intelligence, IQ, racism, white supremacy', and do a bit of reading. Go on. As a treat.
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I don't think I'll ever get over the attribution of "elevated sense of justice" as a "symptom" of autism. My sibling in science. This is not what you discovered. What you discovered is that "willingness to cheat when nobody is watching" or (perhaps, even) "virtue signaling" are symptoms of allism.
Autistic people have the sense of justice that allistic people claim to follow. Autistic people are more likely to actually behave ethically, regardless of whether anyone is watching or there is a social reward for it. This is not a weird foible with autists! This is a wild ethical breach by allists! Willingness to compromise on your stated ethical values is not "normal" regardless of how common it may be. Thats's weird! And troubling!
That's something worth looking into when it comes to allistic people. Leave autistic people with our propensity to simply believe and act accordingly out of your doublethink.
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@joepie91 and Jevon’s paradox for energy!
food, capitalism
Supermarket croissants feel very illustrative for the state of food manufacturing; you can get them anywhere and their ingredients are of higher quality than ever in history, but they still taste like shit because letting it proof overnight and develop sufficient flavour is too expensive in a capitalist manufacturing environment, so instead they just add a bunch of sugar
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LLMs: astrology, for men
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#fediblock aipub.social for obvious reasons
Thank you fediverse chick for pointing out that instance
Thank you fediverse chick for pointing out that instance
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that silly feeling when perfectionism meets ADHD 
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every time i have to constantly fish out simple answers out of someone i feel ten years being deducted from my lifespan
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neurotypical people give me a straightforward answer to my question challenge
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✅ Laptop fixed
The new display isn't 2k and does have a little burn in, but I'm prioritising a working laptop over minor details 😛
And I get some art to hang on my wall 🙂
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You've seen that "honest anatomical chart" cartoon?
venting, 'alternative' software dev
I'm really disappointed in a lot of the 'alternative' software circles (environmental sustainability, minimalism, etc.). They often seem to operate on belief systems not just for their values (which is fine!) but also for technical beliefs which are trivial to disprove, resulting in often severe compromises that just aren't necessary.
It's for the same reason that I'm baffled by people who talk about how we need to 'organize' and 'collaborate' and then in virtually the same breath complain about projects having 'too many dependencies'. Dependencies are just about the optimal tool for doing in software dev what you say we should be doing!
I don't know, this stuff is just exhausting to me. I've already spent too much energy having to debate against people's belief systems in ordinary software development to reduce harm, I don't want to have to do it in supposedly progressive circles too, to get anywhere near a solution.
I just want to get to systemic solutions as quickly as possible with as little collateral damage as possible, whatever the best strategy for that ends up being, through methodical analysis of the *full* problem space. Why is this such a difficult ask?
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goddamnit i found out just now that I would have qualified for reduced transit fares when I was on unemployment. UGH anyway now you know too. lots of random assistance programs qualify https://www.metrotransit.org/tap-riders
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electronics is pretty literally magic. we draw glyphs in lines of sacred metal to instruct crystals imbued with thought to interact with mystical energy that pervades the universe in order to scry knowledge we could not otherwise have
we've bound the entire world in ropes of sacred metals so that every person will have immediate access to the magical energy needed for their scrying devices to function, and signals are sent through the aether deep into the universe to probe cosmic secrets
-F
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Tbh i think there's some fundamental emotional truths you can't substitute or get around with politics. Like there's a lot of leftists who, on paper, generally seem to get that we should all respect life and listen to each other but their rhetoric withers under personal prejudice or moral apathy and it's like
I don't think you can game theory people into caring about each other proactively. That's why intersectionality is such a big deal, you have to actually experience other people
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Like, you can frame this as a purity test kind of thing if you want but i think it gets even more fundamental than that. There's just some truths, that are like a lightbulb you have to screw into a socket. Theory helps you be like "we should turn the light on and we need a lightbulb to do it." But that won't generate light by itself if you don't do it.
And if you don't, you're still behaving similarly to people whose political ideologies are excuses not to find the bulb.
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If you've been part of a leftist group i'm sure you've encountered somebody who just hasn't reached a certain level of maturity but can pass the written portion of the exam, so to speak
- 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
