Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

I like how the last couple of generations seem to have tacitly agreed that it’s objectively unreasonable to expect people to iron their clothes and we should just accept a few wrinkles instead.

> The most distressing thing is that maybe it does work; if not well enough to actually do the work, at least ambiguously enough to fool the executives long-term.

-- @glyph via @tante

https://blog.glyph.im/2025/06/i-think-im-done-thinking-about-genai-for-now.html

so, so many parts of this that resonate with me. Thank you for sharing these thoughts

Sinds 2013 zijn er geen prostitutieramen meer in Utrecht, in 2021 sloot de tippelzone en nu zijn er plannen om nieuwe sekswerkplekken te realiseren in Parkeergarage Paardenveld. De buurt kwam laatst in opstand want ze vrezen overlast. Ik vermoed dat het politiebureau meer overlast veroorzaakt.

De kameraden van Wandelclub030 zijn begonnen met een stickeractie om solidariteit te tonen naar sekswerkers.

today in ADHD: oh shit I have so much to do [methodically works through todo list] oh, huh, guess its all done. I can do bullshit now.

So apparently when the display software of the SJ trains crashes it defaults to showing a trailer for Big Buck Bunny as part of its debugging info.

I initially posted briefly about this, but wanted to say a little more about Buscaglia, the journalist who "wrote" the AI-generated supplement in question.

Resist like your career depends on it.

https://loudpoet.com/2025/06/05/a-modest-defense-of-marco-buscaglia-ai-vs-journalism/

Here's the thing about content notes:

If I read them, I expect and NEED them to be accurate and complete. If I can't count on that, they're useless.
Let's get into the example that ruined a good few hours for me, shall we?

I decided to click on a post that was tagged with "forced transition". What I expected was a post about something social - maybe someone getting forced to wear a certain piece of clothing or getting addressed a certain way. Maybe a discussion about the social pressures to either perform being nonbinary or perform a binary gender. Something like that.

That's not what I got though. What I got was a joke about replacing soap with hormone gel, E in the men's toilets and T in the women's toilets.
That's not just forced transition. That's forced transition and the non-consensual admission of a substance that affects the physical health of someone without their knowledge.

Now, at first I, personally, was just upset about having to go to the women's bathroom again in that fictional world. That's what set off my knee-jerk reaction of "nope, I can't deal with this right now, I need to take a long fucking moment to breathe."
But the far worse thing is the amount of violence claimed as a fun joke that just didn't get acknowledged in the content note whatsoever.

Maybe that's on me, maybe transition only means medical steps to the op of that post and I just didn't know. But I wish they had put in that bit of information, because I would not have clicked on a joke about forcing medical transition on someone. I would not have spent the last couple of hours regulating my reaction to that and trying to find the words to express my issue.

I love how all these news articles about scams and security problems are always all "if something is too cheap to be true, that usually means there's something sketchy going on"

As if a normal person could possibly have any kind of reasonable idea of what stuff is 'supposed' to cost in this exploitative capitalist hellscape where every company lies all the time including the supposedly legitimate ones

"Learning from history" is great and all, but you do actually need to do the work of figuring out the specific cause-and-effect chain, and not just assume that because doing A once resulted in B, this will now forever be true whenever something like A is tried again, regardless of context or time

It's kind of funny how I've been essentially doing voice training, not for gender reasons but because it lets me mimick all sorts of animals, powertools, electronic noises, and whatever else, for shitposting purposes

Election-based systems of government wear the clothes of democracy but do none of its work

Zou fijn zijn als de kluisjes van de apotheek een modus hadden voor als je cognitief niet in topvorm bent. Na drie keer verkeerd intoetsen wordt het toch een beetje gênant 🙈

TIL that frogs, sharks, salamanders and a few other cold-blooded creatures have a third eye that helps them thermoregulate called the "pineal eye" (bc it works with the pineal gland)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parietal_eye

WANTED: Intel Architecture Labs 1990’s CD-ROM’s. They appear to have maybe been monthly. They contained a mirror of Intel’s ‘download.intel.com’ ftp server, specifically the /ial/ subdirectory which is not in the 2014 backup of the site on archive.org.

Lots and lots of white papers and design guideline documents in there. Especially looking for ones from the late 1990’s (1998-ish onward) if they exist. I’ve seen references in mailing lists to them that lead me to believe they do.
Example gem: intel trying to cover its ass after the FDIV bug, and have some more FDIV

Bestowing cursed knowledge time, the website of crt.sh is just an apache module that talks to Postgres and the website is generated from within the database itself from a 5k line plpgsql function

https://github.com/crtsh/certwatch_db/blob/master/fnc/web_apis.fnc

#Spotted at a Second-Hand Book Fair in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A woman (60s?) wearing a sequinned black beret and a fluffy pink jumper is showing a friend her cookbook finds. She says: "I LOVE cookbooks. I don't often make the recipes but they're so good for ideas even if you don't follow them."

A young human (7?) is inspecting $1 mystery novels as Mum selects a generous stack. He asks: "How do you know if they're good ones?"
His mum shrugs with a grin: "I don't! I'll give them a read and see. That's a part of the adventure. I never know where I'm going to go next!"

A woman (70s?) is inspecting cookbooks over her reading glasses. With raised eyebrows she says: "French tarts, I wonder what they're like." Her friend cackles wickedly and says: "Come on Daph, with the colourful life you've led I'm sure you've had your share."

A brisk woman (60s?) in a blue cardigan is volunteering at checkout. A man (80s?) approaches and she says: "Ah! You've got a dictionary. You're a man after my own heart."
He looks down at it, then up at her with a serious frown: "I find the words mean more if they come in a heavy book."

A man (70s?) walks up next to his partner who is browsing art books. He pecks her on the cheek and says: "Take as long as you want, love. The science fiction selection is excellent this year and I may be some time."

The typos spotted in this post are a bit under this weather this morning. If spotted, send them back to bed with a lemon honey and a hot water bottle.