I find this "religion and scularism don't exist" ring true more and more for me as I try to de-colonize my mind and my Judaism.

Christianized (maybe I just made up this word?) people ask me about Judaism (or Jewish people) using a framework that simply doesn't apply outside of their world view.

They ask about Jewish clothing style (e.g. kippah, tzitzis) as if their sense of aesthetic beauty was somehow not almost entirely informed by notions of beauty, shape, harmony, and goodness as codified by Christian hegemony while driving the development of art and science. Somehow when "secular Jews" do Jewish "religious" stuff, it's ritual or religion, but when Christian(ized people) root their behavior in Christian ideals, it's just normal, secular, rational, objective.

I don't give a shit if there are "internet laws" LIE and protect marginalized workers you boot licker

techbros aren't a queer problem btw

they're an everyone problem

just do to minority sizes, their impact on disabled folks & women is probably the most immediately obvious

while i’m in the spotlight, i run https://git.gay, a source code sharing/collaboration platform used by over a thousand users, and its sister site https://pages.gay, providing free static site hosting for git.gay repos- and i’m far from done making things :) try them out!

i think

people don't understand

there's tech gays

and gay tech

one is assimilationist af and tries to speak techbro but gay

and the other is trying to figure out how to make catgirls real and somehow in doing so built that package that did the thing you exactly need for the other thing that now everyone uses

too few people talking about AI's role in certain genocides happening in certain parts of the world

#Surveillance #Sabotage #directaction

I so want heirloom consumer electronics to become a common thing.
Fridges and freezers that are 75 years old, and have run continuously.
Washing machines that outlive their owners.
Even modern devices, like phones or computers, that become family heirlooms, passed down from parent to child.
And I want the people that manufacture and repair these machines to be as respected as lawyers or doctors. Artisan electricians and repair men.

So. To give you an idea of the energy consumption, the whole #38c3 (for the 17k people for 4 days) consumed as much energy as.... 5 bitcoin transactions. It's not me who says it, it's the C3POC.

@TheConversationUS
This bit deserves promo:
"COVID-19 infections continue to outnumber flu cases and lead to more hospitalization and death than the flu. COVID-19 also leads to more serious long-term health problems. Trivializing COVID-19 as an inconsequential cold or equating it with the flu does not align with reality"

ableists: we should stop drugging ADHD kids & students just for being different

me: ok, you know what's better for me than ADHD drugs actually, zoom meetings & auto captions. also uncomfortable clothing to comply with dress codes are incredibly distracting. you should allow the kids to stim, draw, play with their hands, while they are listen, and do not demand they stare at you or put them on the spot with random shit tests. and a lot of research shows that schools start too early which causes too much sleep deprivation, this is harmful not only to grades but to health outcomes over their lifetime. much of the curriculum is built on this "memory bank" idea which is some Victorian shit that has been thoroughly discredited, spending too much time on route memorization for weak subjects hurts actually. there is also a lot of evidence that Bush era's No Child Left Behind is a complete disaster--

ableists: no not like that we meant train the kids with carrots and sticks like a dog

me: you were already doing that to all the kids. that doesn't work on a lot of NDs, and can cause more problems like PDA. I'm not even convinced it's good for the NTs either

ableists: well your parents did it wrong obviously

The European Commission is going through Apple’s OSes feature by feature, with the help of interested parties and industry collaboration, and deciding where the API lines should be drawn. It’s absolutely fascinating.

And remember, Apple brought all of this on itself through its years of misconduct and inability to follow the law.

Don't miss the 30 pages of proposed specs in the PDFs here (summarized in screenshots here; no alt-text, follow through to original link): https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/dma100203-consultation-proposed-measures-interoperability-between-apples-ios-operating-system-and_en

My mom, who is in her 70s, and not particularly tech savvy, just explained that she hates Google now, because the first results are always AI, which just pulls from other sources and is usually inaccurate.

So let’s stop assuming that non-techies, older people, and mothers and grandmothers are too naive to see through the hype. Mostly it’s the tech bros and finance douches who are too stupid to actually understand what they’re boosting.

All of us right now