@gargron It's kinda weird though that the post mistakes Austria from Australia... switter.at is an Austrian domain.
So there's a post about the Switter/Cloudflare thing on HN, with 41 points and only 1h old, but it's missing from the frontpage 🤔 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16876040
@rixx @sandzwerg @xpac @MacLemon Okay. I guess I can't imagine how a project can be "meta about the hackerspace" then, if "hey let's organize an anti-racist event for the space" or "let's create a code of conduct" do not count as meta but as projects *in* the hackerspace... can you name an example of what would be "meta"?
@rixx @sandzwerg @xpac @MacLemon I guess I've never been part of any hackerspace precisely because I've always felt they'd need to change/be more aware of certain topics before I can actually join. Which would definitely put me in the meta category.
I don't know if this is wrong though, it's debatable if people like me shouldn't be "space invaders" that kinda force unpolitical people to think about e.g. consequences of their actions, their openness, anti sexist measures and so on...
I heard that "Take me like the sea" will finally be shipped out this week! I am so excited to see it! :3
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@rixx Das mit den trans Leuten stimmt nicht, glaube ich (hatte ich auch erst falsch gedacht). Es geht explizit um eine Liste von Menschen, die mal in irgendeiner Form stationär untergebracht waren - das sind die wenigsten trans Personen.
this quote from Bunnie Huang is, i think, probably the best justification for proactive correction of biases i've seen
What does it look like in Tusky when someone blocked me on Mastodon? I found I don't follow a person anymore, and I can still see mutual followers but profile is empty for me and doesn't show toots, while they *do* show when I open the profile in a browser window where I am not logged in. Also trying to follow again gives me an unnamed error.
It would be helpful to get a clear message about being blocked like on Birbsite, is that not possible?
“A developed country is not when the poor have cars. It is when the rich use public transportation.” Gustavo Petro, socialist candidate for Colombian presidency
Amazing how people who are self-described "brutally honest" never seem to give out brutal complements or be brutally vulnerable.
They can't just be like "Hey @KitRedgrave that skirt looks motherfucking fabulous on you and if you don't like it, tough shit." or "Jesus Christ I am dying of nerves right now at this interview. Just telling it like it is, bruh."
A concrete rebuttal to "I don't see race": a number of facial-recognition developers famously ignored race too, and - having failed to actually test a variety of skin tones - ended up with software that literally couldn't see black people.
@VOID I'm so sorry to hear about it, and simultaneously hope that more breakups go this way.
i didn’t know how to tell people about this so
i stopped on the side of the road on my way home, sat down under a random tree, tore a page out of my sketchbook, and stayed there for an hour making this
The paradox of productivity in 2018 is even if you're writing a quantum tech article whilst simultaneously dogwalking, podcasting your fourth Ph. D, & inventing the next revolutionary drudge-work-automating app (that will be consumed by a tech giant), you'll always be making not-enough per hour for a dignified existence.
No amount of neurohack pills, 180-hour crunches and AI assistants will ever free us, because neofeudal capitalism will consume all abundance.
The wheel must break.
In Portugal ist es jetzt wohl sehr viel leichter für trans Personen ihren Namen und Personenstand ändern zu lassen
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Und Operationen an intersexuellen Kindern sind wohl auch verboten. 🎉
''The U.S. is now one of the only countries [where] you can legally buy multiple firearms,... without a license, but you could be charged for carrying condoms”
- a sexworker
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