Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Don't listen to what these companies say. Watch what they do.

When they say "all code will be created by A.I.", are they hiring software engineers?

When they say "AI will replace SaaS", are they acquiring SaaS products?

It occurs to me that if your "A.I." code generation technology really worked, you wouldn't pay $3 billion to acquire a software product. Especially one that does "A.I." code generation.

Printed and laminated a prototype of my solar slide rule on 350g A3 at the local print shop and it works fairly well! Correcting sextant height for index error, temperature, refraction, height of eye and lower limb is fast, as is computing latitude from the noon sight. Computing Hc and Z is a bit more involved (using additional scales on the reverse side)

Beware of "compostable" products that aren't actually compostable at home. In digging through my compost pile this week I unearthed 3 forks (from takeout food I purchased several years ago) that I think were made by the California-based company, Karat Earth (aka Lollicup). On Amazon and elsewhere the sentence the company uses in marketing is "simply toss the fork into a compost bin when finished." And the forks themselves have the text, "compostable" embossed on them. On company's own website, however, is a logo from the Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI) indicating, in a small font, that forks are "commercially compostable only," which means they only begin to break down at ~190 °F (88 °C). Somebody needs to file a class-action lawsuit to force greater transparency on marketing materials. #compost #composting #fork #takeout #food #psa #plastic #restaurants #greenwashing #polymer #corn #bioplastic

A quadriplegic man named Normand Meunier died via MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) after being neglected for 4 days in ER. He was denied a specialized mattress, wasn’t turned & ended up with terrible bed sores.

His partner says she was threatened with removal from the ER for advocating for him.

Everyone who’s involved in the assisted dying debate, both disabled and non disabled, should be following this inquest.

People need to understand that you can’t ethically administered assisted death if you aren’t committed to helping patients live as well

Mr Meunier didn’t want to die. His condition wasn’t terminal.

He suffered such severe neglect that he couldn’t bring himself to return to the hospital.

His pressure sores couldn’t be treated at home, so he opted to end his life rather than face returning to the place that harmed him

No one should suffer like this, yet disabled people know all too well the level of neglect that can occur in the hospital.

They know how important it is to have an advocate, but they also understand that your advocate can be removed at any time.

The imbalance of power is huge

With just a bit of compassion and care, Mr Meunier would still be with us.

Instead he fell through the cracks, suffered the consequences and then the government stepped up to end his life.

It feels very wrong that the same system that neglected him also ended his existence

I will be following the inquest closely & hopefully writing an article about it.

I support the right to die, but we need to have some very tough conversations about how to protect disabled and marginalized people from neglect, coercion & abuse.

We’re failing at that right now. Let’s change things.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quadriplegic-man-medical-assistance-in-dying-coroner-inquiry-1.7526270

#MAiD #assisteddying #ableism #disability #chronicillness #eugenics #disabilityjustice

Maybe to be prepared, we don't only need to have sufficient stocks and a battery powered radio, but more local communities producing whatever are our first needs. For me it connects to the #CommunityEconomy, with local energy grids in the hands of neighbours, telecommunications infrastructure that is owned and governed by your local community, food coops and community supported agriculture.

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Then there is the #Preparedness Strategy by the European Commission, urging all EU citizens to have an emergency kit at home and have stocks at home for at least 72 hours. Being prepared is not bad, I'd say, but IMHO this is far too individualist. Between the neighbours and local community we care for each other. That is lesson number one from such a crisis situation. You can never have everything you need at home, and mutual support and interdependence is vital.

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a constant game of trying to guess if some fedi instance is named this way because it's some fellow traumaqueers being edgy (good for them, full support ), or channers made another fucking cesspool that's asking for immediate defederation

the overlap between naming styles is far from zero

My subtitles! I can't hear without my subtitles!

"I am starting a petition to no longer refer to AI "art" as AI art but instead as Computer-Rendered Artificial Pictures (CRAP).

Pass it on."

workshop specifically for cis people to “discover their gender”

workshop consists of reflections on questions such as:
- how would you describe your gender?
- what makes you feel that way?
- what attributes are prescribed to your gender, and how do you (or do you not) align with those?
- how about those around you?
- how do others perceive your gender?
- how would you change how others perceive your gender?

everyone knows trans people exist but they consider their gender separately to trans people and innate to themselves. put a stop to it.

I was asked by a 20 year younger friend how my internet was back then. I needed a moment but then I told her the story of an IRC channel and how we made the day for a young girl who happened to be on our IRC channel. Because this is what my internet was like back then and I wish sometimes it still was like this. Let me tell the story:

I was 25, the channel members were like 20 to 30 years old. Somehow this young girl found her way to us. She was 14 when she joined the channel. >>