Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- 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
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> being plausible but slightly wrong and un-auditable—at scale—is the killer feature of LLMs, not a bug that will ever be meaningfully addressed, and this combination of properties makes it an essentially fascist technology. By “fascist” in this context, I mean that it is well suited to centralizing authority, eliminating checks on that authority and advancing an anti-science agenda.
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Dus #RTL wordt óók al onderdeel van #DPG. Voor mij had de @acm hier niet akkoord mee hoeven gaan. Ik houd niet van zulke machtige bedrijven.
Laten we vooral ook niet vergeten dat DPG vorig jaar de Big Brother Award won voor grove privacyschendingen. (Betalend) abonnee van een van hun 70 mediatitels? Je wordt getrackt, je persoonlijke data worden verkocht en tot 10 jaar bewaard.
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keep signing though. it must have a million *valid* signatures, and some percentage is always found to be invalid, so we should ensure the petition has enough wiggle room
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Morgen is de Rave voor de rafelranden voor de derde keer. De gemeente maakt het de organisatie moeilijk.
De tijden zijn aangepast, het eindpunt verplaats naar letterlijk een rafelrand van Utrecht. Geluid eerder uit.
Mocht je morgen naar de rave komen, neem vooral protest bordjes, vlaggen en spandoeken mee. De gemeente vind de demonstratie niet politiek genoeg, dan maken wij het politieker.
Dat gezegd hebben, de organisatie heeft een front banner en ze zoeken nog mensen die kunnen helpen met dragen van de front banner. Het is dat wij al andere taken hebben, anders we het wel op ons genomen.
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Ugh, my two favourite posts about autism self-diagnosis are now "Member-only stories".
https://medium.com/neurodiversified/self-diagnosis-is-valid-d96d41cfb02b
https://devonprice.medium.com/from-self-diagnosis-to-self-realization-852e3a069451
Any #ActuallyAutistic folks have any alternatives to recommend?
uspol, israel, europe, tech companies
Well, it's happened. The International Criminal Court's e-mail services (specifically those of the head prosecutor) at Microsoft have been shut down, most likely as a result of the sanctions that Trump applied to the ICC after the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu and Gallant.
The prosecutor now cannot do their job anymore.
The danger of relying on US-based tech companies is no longer hypothetical now.
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Kindergarten children dropped seeds in the crack of the sidewalk to see what would happen 💕 More photos: https://streetartutopia.com/2025/05/16/kindergarten-children-dropped-seeds-in-the-crack-of-the-sidewalk-to-see-what-would-happen/
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I'll certainly miss having a space on the internet to ask questions and receive help
Dear Author! We always had that. It was IRC, it was mailing lists, it was forums, it was the Fediverse. Still are, really.
You know what's common between all of those? None are centralized silos run by for-profit corporations. Maybe there's something to learn from that.
I'm sure we'll see spaces where developers hang out and help each other continue to be popular – whether they are in the form of Discord servers, WhatsApp or Telegram groups, or something else.
...or maybe some won't. Too bad.
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Several commenters under this post seem upset that the pill is prescribed starting at an age of 13 years.
Do these commenters want more teen pregnancies? Cause that's how you get more teen pregnancies
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my great uncle was a military orchestra conductor and eventually ended up in tiraspol and settled there with his family. no one really had contact with that part of the family...until we got a letter in the early 90s. asking for a vhs recorder. because they had heard we made it to the west, and therefore, we owed them, and they wanted a vhs recorder. so obviously my mom got them a used vhs recorder, because not doing so would be kinda admitting that all that emigration gave her was depression, xenophobia and isolation.
there's just the small issue where tiraspol ended up being the capital of an internationally unrecognized splinter republic. sending a vhs there turned out to be an bureaucratic nightmare. after regular mail failed, she eventually paid a long-distance bus driver to take it to ukraine and hand it off to someone there.
we never heard anything back.
anyway, that's the shit i think about whenever i see an vhs recorder in the trash
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As someone who conversion practices were attempted on, I urge you to sign this petition and get in to the finish line.
I was lucky enough to notice early ok what that “therapist” was trying to do and get out of there. These practices are cruel and dehumanizing.
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Free texture websites for 3D artists. I replaced a link with a new one: **OnlyGFX**. I believe cc0-textures' security was compromised, not sure, but playing it safe for now.
#artresources #assets #2dassets #gamedev #indiedev #textures
http://texturer.com/
https://ambientcg.com/
https://duion.com/
https://polyhaven.com/
https://stocksnap.io/
https://texture.ninja/
https://texturelabs.org/
https://www.cgbookcase.com/
https://www.onlygfx.com/
https://www.sharetextures.com/
https://www.texturecan.com/
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omg this is awesome!
There's a spot in town marked in Google Maps as "Turtle Log".
It is what it says, just a cool log where turtles hang out, but since it's tagged as a place I can ask the satnav for directions to "turtle log" and it'll work.
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“This town isn’t big enough for the two of us. MY BED, HOWEVER…”
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@joepie91 Om nog maar niet te spreken dat bedrijven miljoenen over de balk smijten om de meningen en het koopgedrag van de bevolking te beïnvloeden door middel van reclames 😬
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We just launched Error 417 Expectation Failed an independent foundation supporting radically contemporary Internet art and net-based arts practices. (๑´>᎑<)~*
🕳 https://error417.expectation.fail
The first call is out now:
⟶ Error 406 Tech Fascism Not Acceptable
⟶ 10 SCORES AGAINST TECH FASCISM
Find out more here:
🕳 https://tldr.nettime.org/@Error417/114511492783743134
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Boosting this again for a final push:
Most petitions don't have much impact, but if this European Citizens Initiative on banning conversion therapy reaches 1 million signatures by Saturday it will mean that it will be discussed at the European Parliament.
200,000 people have signed in the last 24 hours and it only needs 190,000 to reach the target.
Please sign and share. https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
