Something I don't think people understand well that I feel like needs to be shared around: human logistics is important.
(Topics and language used limited to be less likely to be banned on corporate platforms, especially since I shared this on facebook)
This is the answer to basically every "Why aren't we doing anything?" topic.
If it requires people in groups, especially large groups, to do something then it runs into human logistics.
People are a chaotic bunch and lives are complicated, we do a lot of individual things... but if we need to do something together then it runs into complicated lives and chaotic thoughts/feelings.
If you've ever organized a D&D game or even just a board game night, you're well aware how hard it is to get people to coordinate and commit... now imagine if you try to organize this and people drop out, you and everyone involved go to prison and your families suffer...
So while it seems simple that people just need to do this thing together to solve a problem... it won't happen until either the immediate cost of not doing it becomes worse than failure or until a leader emerges that addresses the problems keeping people from joining and coordinates the group to act in unison.
The reason why the "You just need to solve this by voting!" crowd is in the wrong is because success there means organizing far far more people than any other means of fixing things. And there's already another organization leading that charge... poorly, so you've got to organize and lead so well that you drown out the multi-billion dollar political machine that's biggest interest is in shutting you down...
...and again, failure means things get worse. (See "Spoiled Election" if you want to learn more about this specific case)
And all of this is just the "lives are complicated" side of things, the "people are chaotic" side is also a hurdle. So many people agree something needs to be done, but if everyone insists it must be done a different way then it's not going to get done (ie. you get enough people to show up to your game night, but you fail because everyone spends the entire time arguing over what game to play)
So the takeaway of this is two things:
1) you're not going insane, you're just unfamiliar with human logistics and the ideas you've been taught have been carefully sanitized to erase the logistics so you're less able to repeat them (great example see Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott and how many of us were taught about the protest groups organizing carpools so people could still fulfill necessities while boycotting)
2) if you're charismatic you can start organizing efforts, you may not lead the big effort but you can get things started and you're critical to stopping the infighting by keeping everyone on the goal.
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So after being told I probably have Central Sensitization Syndrome I've been off and on diving into learning more...
Finally sat down and properly learned wtf "malaise" (in particular Post Exertional Malaise) is and now I'm sitting with the classic "Oh, that's a thing" feeling. Oh, and it can be triggered by just having too much feelings sometimes?!
Ugh... at least I've got something that fits going forward so I can start contextualizing this shit... but oof
God damn, the job scammers have gotten atrociously bad... I'm getting multiple a day.
Context: these are people who use fake job postings for identity theft and sometimes for laundering illegal purchases.
How to spot them:
- No job should be contacting you from a free email address unless it's a very small and non-tech related business.
- They apparently love to use Microsoft Teams currently
- The email doesn't name a company
- The email address doesn't match the company name in the signature
- They try to push you to continue the conversation outside of email (they do this in cases where they're spoofing emails so can't receive replies)
- The email address isn't actually to you, but instead to a free account (this is them taking advantage of people's tendency to use reply-all, so they can get a reply while making it look like the email is coming from someone else)
- They're talking about multiple unrelated positions, often paying higher than the norm
- They're holding interviews today and you need to respond immediately if you don't want to miss out!
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Being suggested by Youtube a new SCP short released 6 days ago named "There is no antimemetics division" (things that make you forget) certain you watched a series by the same name a while back... finding the whole thing eerily familiar as you watch it.... it really gets you in the creepy mood of the content.
As far as why I got this experience. First I have time blindness (I can't remember very well how far back something happened) and memory issues (I can remember the plot and some key elements, but it's not very vivid).
Turns out both were doing the same scene from the same book, which is why it was so eerily familiar.
As far as the shorts themselves... the new one looks like it's got more of a budget and a more professional team... but the old one did so much better with the pacing imo and that makes a world of difference.
Old one from a year ago (there's 4 episodes, but the scene is literally half of episode one): youtu.be/w-IiVeGAydE?si=BFqD6u…
New one: youtu.be/3v8AsTHfAG0?si=ekOrir…
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Looking into it, the original form of the story was released creative commons share-alike, so these are fan adaptations under the same license. Side channel profits from advertising and donations.
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There are those who punch Nazis because it's the only way to keep the community safe (Paradox of Tolerance) and there are those who punch Nazis because they want to hurt people and found they get celebrated when their victim is a Nazi.
The latter group is not an ally.
When we run out of Nazis the former group celebrates. The latter group either starts a witch hunt or finds new victims.
You can tell the difference when ableism and body shaming show up in leftist spaces: someone mocks a fascist in a way that hurts others. The former group condemns it, the latter calls the former fascists for calling it out.
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For people using GPG, I've updated my key for the year.
keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-fin…
If I knew people on here using my old key I'd provide a signed statement, but I'm pretty sure none of y'all have it from last time...
Also once again, I've got a guide for using GPG in Android to make things easier for everyone: foggyminds.com/extra/OpenKeyCh…
Random idea for a D&D or similar "cursed" item:
The Ring of Curse-Bane
A simple ring with the inscription "I cannot free you, but I hope to spare others"
The ring is magic, but otherwise inert on it's own. However, when the wearer also is subject to another cursed item, this ring forces them to make a save to be able to part with a cursed item even momentarily (this is in addition to the typical check a cursed item usually forces). It makes the wearer more blatantly obsessed with any cursed items they carry as well.
If the wearer dies while subject to a curse, their body rises as an undead with the sole purpose of protecting the cursed item from being taken.
I imagine it being originally created by a magical prodigy who encountered a curse but didn't have access to the means to break it... so made an item that basically amplifies and feeds on a cursed item's power to prevent the curse from being passed to anyone else.
The increased obsession can be helpful potentially as it makes it much more obvious if you've been cursed, and if you can't be freed from it then it at least makes it less likely the curse will affect anyone else.
Random fiction world building idea:
Playing off the concept of "What if dragons aren't greedy but instead there's a benefit to them to make a nest out of gold?"
A world where dragons sleep on gold coins because it is a soft metal (coins because chips slide around and maybe help with molting?).
Easy start, but adding more to it: what if because of their bodyheat, weight, firebreathing, and scales they grind down and compress the gold as time passes. But then it becomes less comfortable, kinda like an old pillow that becomes flat.
What if they happily exchange chunks of this compressed gold for new gold coins?
So I'm imagining a world in which people get compressed gold from dragons and carve it into coins and distribute it. But then as the coins get handed around over time, they start to wear and resoften, and when too soft they get exchanged at the dragon horde again for a new compressed coin.
Economy as an ecosystem!
(Also Dragons obviously hate the 1% because they horde the gold without any real need, like if someone was causing a pillow shortage out of greed)
So... I should make some updates...
I managed to fuck up my back sometime on Saturday, spent Sunday with excruciating pain anytime I tried turn, even if it was just rolling over in bed.
It was bad enough that I took my once yearly aspirin (for those who don't know: any pain medication basically works once per year, but it works really well that one time).
Just as that was settling down this morning (it still hurts like hell, but I can now stand for a few seconds before it becomes agony...), my vertigo came back! ... I really can't win can I?
Primarily used my powerchair to even get around my apartment the past couple of days, and that's pretty extreme given how tiny the place is.
For broader strokes, mixed with a little recap: Still looking for work, though the market is crap. I can't do physical labor, I can't do sales, and I don't have much in the way of credentials for anything. Plus this is one of the worst times of year to be looking, though it should be picking back up in January.
Thanks to the move to Washington, losing employment didn't mean also losing healthcare. While they haven't been able to do much about it other than calm my nerves, I've been able to see doctors as shit goes haywire in my body. (I've got some medication, the motion sickness pills help with how much the vertigo amplifies my car sickness, but otherwise not much but wait and rest)
My physical pain has not been handling the weather well even before all of this. I'm very very grateful I ordered that powerchair when I did, because it's the one thing keeping me at all functional.
I didn't realize it when I picked this place, but turns out the landlord of this apartment tower is actually a non-profit partially kicked off by the city of Seattle to provide low-income housing. One of the perks of this is that I got contacted by a resident advisor who's job is to help me get things sorted out.
Right away she got me set up to have my power bill slashed in half (unfortunately only applies to the next bill, but still that's a big help). She also got me set up on the low income bus pass, literally slashing the price to a third.
Tomorrow I've got an appointment with her to help me actually make an appointment with a primary care provider (always a struggle for me between executive dysfunction and mild phone anxiety).
I've still got to go do an interview for food stamps, but barring health blocking me further I plan to do that this week.
Oh, and slowly making friends. There's hope on the horizon for a social life.
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You ever found yourself trying to do something really simple, like show a username on a web page, but you can't because there's too much "architecture"? This...YouTube
learned a great new quote, someone made a companion to Arthur C Clarke's "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
"Any sufficiently familiar technology is indistinguishable from nature" - Virginia Postrel
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Random phone security 101, unlocking methods, please boost:
- Biometrics: prevents casual unlocking by someone just picking up your phone, but otherwise no real security. A cop (or other assailant) can force you to unlock your phone easily (often even without a warrant)
- Pin Code: Slightly more secure, prevents anyone from accessing easily without knowing the code. But anyone with access to your phone, time, and skill can get in. Can be significantly improved by turning on Keypad Scrambling and Distress Codes (most devices do not offer either feature without a Custom ROM, see below) and Lockouts (available much more often).
- Password: your security is proportional to how much a pain in the ass it is to unlock your phone.
- Two-Factor (Custom ROMs Only): by combining Biometrics and Pin Code you get security that rivals a secure password while still being almost as convenient as a pin code.
- Pattern Unlock: Just don't, it's honestly probably better to use just Biometric over this
Explanations:
- Keypad Scrambling: This feature re-arranges the keypad on your lock screen. Downside is you can't unlock from muscle memory, but upside is that no one can unlock your phone from smudge patterns.
- Distress Code: This is a second pin code that when entered will instead erase your phone instead of unlocking it. They can't tell which is which until your phone is being erased. Also increases security on brute forcing as there's a chance they accidentally erase your phone in the process.
- Lockout: This is where your phone prevents access after a certain number of failed login attempts. It significantly slows down brute force attacks. Phones with this feature will usually either force you to enter a more secure password after this limit is hit, but some offer the option to automatically erase your phone.
- Custom ROMs: these are alternate systems you can install on your phone, usually variants of Android. They often offer more features and security than your phone normally has, but there are unfortunately some tradeoffs due to Google's demand for control (example is you can't use tap-to-pay with a Custom ROM)
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For those who might not be caught up on Last Week Tonight, or just love weird shit
Here's their auction to benefit public broadcasting:
Random bit of trans vocabulary as I've recently seen people rejecting a phrase because they were confused by it.
"Socialized male" and "socialized female" aren't synonyms for someone's sex, they are experiences and culturally relevant.
People are confused because the term "socialize" has multiple meanings.
One is something done by you: "I was socializing with my friends"
One is something done to you: "I was socialized as a man"
To summarize Webster respectively:
The first is "to participate actively in a social group"
The second is "to fit or train for a social environment'
We say someone is "Socialized Male" or "Socialized Female" not to indicate what their sex is, but to indicate that in their formative years they were saddled with the expectations and treatment associated with "male" or "female" in our society.
The trans women getting confused think it means something like "grew up as men" or that our social groups were men, and that's not at all it.
It means we were treated as men.
We usually grew up with more women in our social circles than men, even if we didn't know we were trans yet. We were often seen as an exception, which means even our acceptance was flavored by it.
What "socialized male" means to me is that I grew up being labeled a predator and a threat by default.
Even if I wasn't specifically raised such, I was still affected by the fact that so many men were raised to believe it was okay to lie, cheat, and manipulate to abuse women. And because of that there was literally nothing I could say or do to convey that I was being genuine because far too many were dishonest about it.
I had to build entire patterns and routines of behavior around how to behave around women to make them feel safer, almost always to my personal detriment.
I to this day am still anxious and hesitant in so many interactions because for decades of my life they were forbidden to me because they were far too likely to make someone I care about feel unsafe.
When I say I was "socialized male" it means that was something done to me. I had to figure out how to navigate life and survive while being forced into a traumatic box by society that didn't remotely fit me.
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@Juniper 🏳️⚧️ ugh... socialization has absolutely no reference to how we respond to it.
This is an actual academic sociology/psych term and is entirely about the environment we were raised and the expectations we were raised with.
For instance, someone who grows up in a conservative household and community is socialized conservative, this is regardless of whether they ever accepted any of it.
If you're assigned male across the majority of your interactions growing up, that's what this means. It doesn't mean you are a man, it means you had to deal with the traumas of being treated as one.
And yes, this is something that's shared with cis boys, because it's not about how we responded to it.
Like I've said elsewhere, if we transition early and are accepted then we don't deal with it because we get socialization that matches our real identity.
Saying trans female socialization literally means that we were raised with the expectations that we would act and behave as other trans femmes.
I'm American, I was socialized hyper-capitalist... does that make me a capitalist? No. It means I dealt with the expectations and trauma of hyper-capitalist expectations being put on me.
What about being socialized Christian (which basically means growing up in a Christian, even non-practicing, home), does that make me not Jewish? Nope. Do I get "Christian Privilege" for it? Hell no. Does that mean people can call me Christian? Still no.
And we do end up with many of the traumas of cis boys/men, the difference is for us is that it's in stark relief as we move away from those expectations and re-socialize ourselves.
Socialization is explicitly the expectations that were put on us and not how we responded to them.
If you want to talk about socialization specifically in how we responded to it? It's failed socialization, they wanted us to be men and we rejected it, they failed. But failure doesn't mean we didn't deal with them trying, it just means it didn't take.
Hey, the Python Software Foundation (the people who make the Python programming language and the standard interpreter for it) just took a big hit to support those of us being targeted by hate.
If you're in a position to do so, maybe consider giving them a donation for being apparently one of the few tech organizations that have our back: psfmember.org/civicrm/contribu… (if you want to verify the link it's the donate button on python.org/)
I almost cried given how many brands and organizations turn their back on us when they're not even standing to lose money.#FOSS #LGBTQIA #TransRights #Trans
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/N…
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python.org/sponsors/applicatio…The PSF has withdrawn $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program
In January 2025, the PSF submitted a proposal to the US government National Science Foundation under the Safety, Security, and Privacy of Op...Python Software Foundation Blog
Dear god my life is cursed with technology right now...
Brand new bullshit issue: my android phone refuses to accept that the wifi is connected to the internet, I can open up pingtools and confirm the dns and ping work fine, even check the URLs it uses to check access and those are fine...
But it won't accept that it's connected and as such tells all the apps there's no connection... despite it being confirmed as working.
This morning I had intermittent network issues on my phone, but my laptop has been fine all day... and now my laptop is still fine but I'm getting this nonsense with my phone...
uuuuugggghhh
Suggestion, seeing someone on youtube talk about adding an anti-ai logo on their product:
Someone needs to set up a non-profit org to just to have these logos be a reliable thing.
For those unaware, a lot of certification logos are not governmental, they're organizations licensing the logos (in many cases for free) and defending their usage via trademark law.
Basic gist of the process:
* You design a logo
* You establish the terms under which the logo can be used (ie. has a basic audit trail to prove that no AI was used)
* You trademark the logo
* You advertise the certification
* You start suing people who misuse the logo
It's not a nothing process... but it just takes time (paperwork, court cases, but also just accepting and dealing with reports) and money (money primarily for registration and legal fees)
If someone does do this, I honestly suggest multiple marks for best effect:
* No AI - everything is generated by them from scratch
* Best Faith No AI - you may have used stock images or the like and as such can't guarantee they didn't use AI
* AI assisted - as much as people complain, it helps to have because it increases adoption and recognition, basically they can prove that all important bits of the content are human created (ie. maybe they used AI for a texture or a background in images, or they wrote most of the text but used AI to fill in small portions)
* AI edited - provably human generated content, but then it was fed through AI to modify it (ie. hand drawn art cleaned up and colored, or written text that used AI literally as an editor)
* AI content, while there's all sorts of ethical debate, many who use AI do believe it should be labeled. And a recognizable label of such could help with recognition of the no AI label
And then a sort of secondary mark for those who pay this org to proactively verify the work (good way to generate funds for the lawsuits against those who falsely label)
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Resharing, I've arrived I'm (kinda) set up in the apartment.
But now what's short of the goal here is going to be debt I have to pick up.
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Whelp, server is back online with only one tiny hitch... for some reason my router (OpenWRT) isn't sharing IPv6 addresses and I've literally changed nothing in the move...
So going to have to chew on that for a while...
Heads up that this account (and whole server) is going dark for the next week.
Tomorrow morning shutting down the server for the move, will be back the 22nd or 23rd.
Sharing this story from @Cory Doctorow because it's so much of what I've been saying.
Shipping a model that runs badly – that needs more data-centers and energy to run – is a way to convince investors that it's doing something really advanced (after all, look how much compute and energy it's consuming!).
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@Dan Shuman @Cory Doctorow The whole article points out that AI itself isn't useless, just that it's being used inefficiently.
Basically like having 20-30 people doing the job of 1 person just because it looks impressive to have that many people on the payroll.
It doesn't mean the 1 person job isn't any good, just that a lot of resources are being wasted that don't have to be.
AAAAAAAAAH!
... slightest hint of possible bad news and I fucking spiraled into a panic attack...
Nothing bad actually happened... other than the panic attack which has me completely wrecked...
Twitchy, on the edge of tears and a complete fucking nightmare storm of emotions...
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I swear... dealing with someone making an anti-AI rant that is so clueless and bordering on incoherent that a low power LLM could do a better job...
Really makes me lose some faith in humanity...
I really wish people had a better ability to grasp nuance instead of blunt "AI evil" or "AI good"... we're fucked.
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