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hrefna

@hrefna@hachyderm.io

SRE at Google. Queer. Poly :potion_polyamory: Trans :verified_trans: :nonbinary_potion: Engineer. Ace :flag_ace: Member of AWU-CWA. #ActuallyAutistic :rainbowinfinity: #UnionStrong

Opinions my own. Does not suffer fools gladly.

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Why is every single gif search system a nightmare?

hrefna, to random
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I have become increasingly cool on AP the more I have dealt with it.

I don't talk about it much for three reasons.

  1. I have stopped banging my head against it daily.

  2. There are people doing good work trying to fix the problems here and it may get there eventually… even if i thas to be dragged there kicking and screaming.

  3. Too many reply-guys, not worth it.

I'm still working on my project and it still uses my own AP derivative that I am still publishing, but I'm not hopeful for AP

hrefna, to random
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Man who does no real work claims that those who are actually working are not doing any real work. Film at 11.

hrefna,
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Evidently "real work" is defined as "making enough money that the project doesn't get cancelled" which uh.

So my work is only 'real' if my project isn't cancelled… and who does the cancelling? The same people who you want to keep around. I see.

hrefna,
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I recognize that the current party line among VCs is that we're all overstaffed and could be run more efficiently with half the people (c.f., twitter) but every time that is tried in practice it goes… poorly. Because they have absolutely no clue what real work actually looks like.

You would think they would figure it out eventually, but to them it is just an academic exercise in shuffling money around instead of involving tens or hundreds of thousands of lives.

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JFC, why can't the bluesky team use ANY established protocol for ANYTHING?

hrefna,
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@jenniferplusplus I'm very sympathetic for the social publishing problem.

I am a lot less sympathetic for chat-related systems when XMPP is RIGHT THERE.

hrefna, to random
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I take a particular joy in asking execs to explain things that I know are out of their domain. The answers I get are a lot more honest and straightforward even while they complain about how it isn't really their domain to answer (and still often quite relevant to their domain).

hrefna, to random
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is like… "Okay I know I am missing my kidnapped son, my spouse was brutally murdered by unknown individuals, and I'm hundreds of years out of place, but my absolute Number One priority is going to be rescuing this cat who just ran away"

I mean, legit priorities, and also wtf game?

hrefna,
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Really I think my final analysis on is something like "this game contains a third from four separate games, each of those games is inherently enjoyable on its own, but they don't actually work together particularly well and each part often end up getting in the way of the other parts"

hrefna,
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@anderseknert Yeah, exactly.

Like… I enjoy the colony building game. That could be the game. But then they don't commit to it because you still have this main storyline that's completely unrelated and takes you really far afield, and to do that storyline the base builder keeps getting in the way or consuming resources I could use for other things

But then the base builder also feels unfinished, with an overreliance on timed fetch quests because they didn't have anything else to do there

hrefna,
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@anderseknert Yeah exactly. I would really enjoy a "setting up a supply network for Vault 81 or Vault 53" game! But I can't play that game effectively without a very specific build and even then it's only one third of what that game would need…

…and then it keeps getting in the way of the rest of the game and the rest of the game keeps getting in the way of the supply network game.

My solution to the firefighting in this playthrough is to just… not report back to Preston >_>

hrefna, to random
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Okay, this is really cool. I'm currently watching a presentation by Professor Bird right now based this paper and it's fascinating and nuanced.

https://aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-long.50.pdf

It is not surprising that some would prefer to keep alive the fiction of a language as a bounded entity with a standardised orthography, and posi- tion data scarcity as the remaining challenge. How- ever, there is no need to ‘solve’ these ‘problems’ by shoehorning oral languages into the template provided by institutional languages. The necessary correction, we believe, is to shift our attention from languages to speech communities.
The Kunwinjku word for language is kunwok, ‘the talk’, which encompasses speech and stories, along with the associated knowl- edge and Country. If locals talk about teaching kunwok it is a metaphysical error for a newcomer to assume this is a statement about grammatical flu- ency in language-as-code.
The first author is often asked for advice concern- ing “good ways in” to Indigenous communities, and “good ways forward” for staying longer, or going deeper. Some people say they could never engage with an Indigenous community because they “wouldn’t know where to begin.” We hope to have shown that answers to such questions are highly contingent and local. Although our way in and way forward cannot be replicated, some lessons might apply broadly, such as the basic hu- man act of sitting with local people and cultivating a space of openness and possibility.

hrefna, to random
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We must not look at Elon's site
We must not read its posts
Who knows upon what bigotry has fed
The cruel and senseless boasts

hrefna,
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Down the pipe flow many a gripe
One reeks of racism
One calls out the reverse
One broadcasts bigotry
Leading with a transphobic curse

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TIL the "Streetcar Conspiracy"* of how General Motors killed light rail in America is apparently simplistic nonsense. [https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1016&context=cus_pubs]

Personally I love the idea of public transit but the reality of the times was that buses were more cost effective for most cities. Rail required an economy of scale & needed to be kept separate from car traffic to stay on time.
_
*you know, where GM conspired to put streetcars out of business by in favor of city buses as a way to promote car ownership)

hrefna,
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@FeralRobots …white people ride busses all of the time. Wtf.

hrefna,
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@FeralRobots That's also like… not a reason to not do it, especially given that Rochester is like 63% non-white, but regardless, wtf.

hrefna, to random
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I do not understand why this is so difficult for people.

Harm reduction is not about "starting the healing process." Harm reduction is about reducing harm.

Harm reduction is not about ascending, it is about slowing the descent.

Why. Is. This. Difficult.
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hrefna,
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Harm reduction is not "we have stopped using IV drugs to self medicate" it is "we're using clean needles and taught everyone how to do their injections safely."

Harm reduction is not "we have stopped self harming" it is "delaying the self harm until you have a safe space to do it in and an aftercare kit available to you."

Harm reduction is a way to ensure that you have more space with which to address the underlying issues, not a way of solving those issues.

hrefna, to random
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Girlfriend: "It's west-coast formal, which to you is probably semi-formal?"

Me: "Semi formal where I'm from involves a jacket and a tie"

Girlfriend: "Okay not that formal"

hrefna,
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@reverius42 Heh, she showed me a picture and I went "so the men are dressed like they are going golfing except none of their clothes have been ironed, the women are dressed for Church during the summer, about right?"

hrefna, to random
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Yes! All of this.

There are so so many ways to get involved.

Are you a parent? Get involved in your PTA.

Is there a Church in your area that has a strong social justice bent? Go talk to them.

Go get involved with any organization that aims to feed the homeless.

Go find student protestors or unions that are on strike in your area, find out what they need, and give them that (pizza and water are good startiing points).

Go and https://runforsomething.net, anything.
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hrefna, (edited )
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Overwhelmed by your options, feel like there are too many things?

Pick one (1) of the following:

  1. Commit to do https://5calls.org once a week

  2. Commit to attend https://code-cwa.org/upcoming-trainings (or an equivalent). Sign up this week

  3. Commit to read (or join a book club) for either No Shortcuts or Politics is for Power. Start this week

Whatever it is: start today if you can, if not put a reminder in your calendar for later in the week. But decide now and put a reminder to make sure to do it

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If you think that Biden isn't harm reduction from Trump, I don't even know what to say.

I don't like the man, and I have more reasons to dislike him than most, he wasn't even in my top 5 in the last election.

But the difference between him and Trump is night and day

"It's just cryptofascism" no, no it isn't, but even to the degree it were, the amount of damage that Trump can do is orders of magnitude higher and claiming these are identical is accelerationist at best and genocidal at worst

hrefna,
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Compare and contrast these two elements.

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-race-and-ethnicity-prisons-coronavirus-pandemic-c8c246f00695f37ef2afb1dd3a5f115e

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/trumps-first-year-has-been-private-prison-industrys-best

Think about every single individual who is affected by the previous versus the latter. Think of what that means for peoples lives.

Consider these changes: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/04/25/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-celebrates-second-chance-month-announcing-new-actions-to-strengthen-public-safety-improve-rehabilitation-in-jails-and-prisons-and-support-successful-reentry/

It's not abolition, not by any stretch, but think of how big of a difference these positions make and for how many people.

hrefna,
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Don't like Biden's handling of Israel and Palestine?

Great, neither do I.

But. If you honestly think that the situation will be improved by Trump I have shares of a bridge to sell you. Same with Ukraine.

Now, what this does mean is that voting is not sufficient. It isn't enough to vote. It isn't enough to just show up once every four years and check a few boxes and then go home.

So go unionize your workplace. Get involved with mutual aid organizations like Food Not Bombs.

hrefna,
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None of me ranting here matters of course. As Politics is for Power makes clear: We're being political hobbyists.

But enthusiasm does in fact matter, and narratives move slowly before they move quickly. I don't hold any illusions that me ranting here will change anything for anyone

People don't work that way. It's all relational

But it lets me vent and maybe it will encourage more people to get involved at a less superficial level, and it is my timeline, so there :p

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