@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! All my posts here are CC BY-SA 4.0 (or later).
#Vegan #Permaculture #Transition #PeerProduction #FreeCode #CreativeCommons #SciFi #Comedy #Juggling

Timezone: UTC+12

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

strypey, to Quotes
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

"Nothing good ever came easy."

Dove, #Bodkin, s01e03

#quotes

paninid, to random
@paninid@mastodon.world avatar

the Bubble

http://www.superversive.co/blog/sensemaking-in-the-bubble

strypey,
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

@paninid
> “AI” now represents whatever hype merchants are selling to make up for unused compute power left over from the crypto bubble

This was my guess too. But a good friend who works in a small, indigenous-owned company working on machine translation seems pretty convinced that blockchain mining hardware isn't particularly useful for training MOLE.

dannotdaniel, to random
@dannotdaniel@mastodon.social avatar

I suppose this Tree Swallow does have a valid point

strypey,
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

@WmShakesp3are
> there is some beautiful plumage right there

The plumage don't enter into it, it's dead right! : P

@dannotdaniel

strypey, to books
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

Tagesanzeiger review of Minor Detail;

"... the book's first-person narrative and empathetic tone mask a basic problem in the text: all Israeli soldiers are portrayed as anonymous rapists and killers, while Palestinians are victims of trigger-happy occupiers. Violence against Israeli civilians is not mentioned, perhaps because it is considered a legitimate means in the struggle for liberation against the occupiers."

, 2024

https://www.dw.com/en/frankfurt-book-fair-postpones-award-for-palestinian-author-adania-shibli/a-67093842

strypey,
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

This is like criticising a novel about the treatment of Uyghurs for not mentioning violence against Han Chinese.

Minor Detail is a novel about the lives of Palestinians under a military occupation that's been escalating for decades. Just like Nathan Thrall's non-fiction book A Day in the Life of Abed Salama is about the lives of Palestinians under a military occupation that's been escalating for decades;

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/10/how-the-occupation-of-palestine-shapes-everyday-life-and-what-happens-now

#podcasts #CurrentAffairs #NathanThrall #Gaza

strypey, to random
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

This is seriously the last time I'm taking an bus. As usual, I'm desperate for a piss, because for an 8 hour bus ride they only schedule 2 stops where passengers can go to the toilet.

We stop at Turangi, right outside the i-Site, and I ask the driver if I can quickly use the toilet. He grumps at me in his "papers please, comrade" accent, "No! Go back to the bus". No basic courtesy. No information about when we'll next be able to use the toilet.

Fuck this shit.

strypey,
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

is everything we were told competition would protect us from when it was privatized. It's long past time that - as with the trains - the privatisation experiment with long distance buses was declared a failure, and InterCity re-nationalized.

strypey, to Podcasts
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

This monologue by BlindBoy Boathouse is such a fantastic explanation of what it's like to be "mildly" autistic. The mastery of masking that makes people surprised to learn I'm autistic, the imposter syndrome that can amplify, the way socialising can lead to burnout and the failure of executive function, and so on.

https://shows.acast.com/blindboy/episodes/staugustines-suntan

@actuallyautistic

strypey, to random
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

Here's an example of a principled conservatives who defends the democratic rights of those they disagree with;

"[David] French is a conservative warrior, who has fought numerous legal battles to protect the right of Christians to participate in the public square. He’s not a squish by any definition. 'I’m going to fight for the rights of others that I would like to exercise for myself because I also know that my rights are fragile', he said."

, 2019

https://www.ocregister.com/2019/09/13/drag-queen-debate-spotlights-creepy-trend-on-right/

strypey,
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

"I understand the frustrations of religious conservatives, who have watched the culture head off in disturbing directions. But putting up with some drag-queen storytelling seems like a small price to pay to live in a relatively free society."

#StevenGreenhut, 2019

https://www.ocregister.com/2019/09/13/drag-queen-debate-spotlights-creepy-trend-on-right/

The US movement against re-electing President ManBaby can greatly improve its chances of success if it can make common cause with moderate conservatives who think like this.

strypey, to Podcasts
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

"A plan to update the system for regulating our media content has been running under the radar for years. Some of the agencies that do it now backed the move to one single body, but this week the government dumped it over fears it could cramp free expression online."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018938976/media-oversight-one-stop-shop-stopped

Thoughts on this? My knee-jerk anarchist response is that democratic governance has no place in decisions about citizens' expression, online or otherwise. But...

strypey,
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

... I'm aware that in a highly unequal capitalist society, the expressions of different people and organisations have very different scales of "reach". So maybe there is a place for regulation to create and maintain pro-democracy media environments. As always, the devil is in the details.

strypey, to random
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

The Julie Anne Genter incident highlights the difficulties faced by being an activist in Parliament. Nobody is better positioned to recognise a government's political gaslighting for what it is. "Read the report" fumed Genter...

https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/05/02/genter-outburst-deputy-speaker-had-never-seen-anything-like-it/

... as Associate Transport Minister Doocey smiled his shit-eating grin at her, and carries on talking fact-free nonsense about public and active transport. It's amazing outbursts like Genter's don't happen more often.

shoq, to random
@shoq@mastodon.social avatar

Not many read this back in February. It’s quite consistent with my own calls for an Urgent Reforms Movement. Everyone should find some time to read it.

Biden Must Reinvent What a Presidential Campaign Is - Simon Rosenberg

https://newrepublic.com/article/178433/biden-must-reinvent-presidential-campaign?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

strypey,
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

"We left the broadcast era of politics long ago, and it is time to start building campaigns not around top-down advertising but around bottom-up and shareable organic content appropriate for the networked information age we are now in."

, Feb 2024

https://newrepublic.com/article/178433/biden-must-reinvent-presidential-campaign

This!

@shoq

strypey,
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

He opened so well, then totally lost me with the nonsense about...

"the rise of what is perhaps the most serious threat we’ve ever seen to the American-led, rules-based order...

...we will need to keep our economy strong and prosperous, persistently proving that democratic capitalism remains the best system for human advancement"

, Feb 2024

https://newrepublic.com/article/178433/biden-must-reinvent-presidential-campaign

@shoq

strypey,
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

@shoq
It's pretty clear to me, after 20 years of watching capitalism dismantle the democratic internet of the 1990s, and the rise of capitalist-funded authoritarian rules across the world, that capitalism is not particularly compatible with democracy. One of the biggest challenges of the 21st century is to horizontally scale economic systems that are.

mcc, to random
@mcc@mastodon.social avatar

You're a character in a David Lynch movie. You're in the desert. You look up and you see this. WYD https://botsin.space/@postcardware/112464456016921870

strypey,
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

@Aedius
> i stop looking at the sun

Does that make the numbers go away 😳

@mcc

Hyolobrika, to random

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_of_Earth’s_Past

American journalist and writer Evan Lambert was critical of Liu Cixin’s perceived sexism, which was predicated in the author’s view that “women need the logic of men to balance them and temper their irrationality.” He cited the author’s characterization of Ye Wenjie as a “quasi-villain” due to her curiosity with alien species and her depiction as untrustworthy, incompetent and irrational. Lambert was also critical of the novels for what he regarded as its “thinly-drawn” characters. Lambert praised the Netflix television adaptation for addressing the source material’s perceived sexism by recharacterizing Ye Wenji as an antihero and replacing the main character Wan Miao into two new female characters.[10]

I suspected something like that. I guess I’m gonna have to read the original books to get the non-bowdlerized version. Does anyone know a good translation that’s as close to the original Mandarin as possible?

strypey,
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

@Hyolobrika
> Polish science fiction critic Wojciech Orliński argued that the trilogy represents Liu Cixin’s endorsement of concepts of world government, consequentialism as well as tacit approval of “China’s surveillance and control society”

Hmm. Not sure now which translations of the 3 novels I read, but I didn't notice this, nor the alleged sexism Lambert sees. Perhaps it's a literary Rorschach in which anglophone critics see whatever they expect a Chinese author to show them?

TheLastOfHisName, to Signal
@TheLastOfHisName@sharkey.world avatar

Folks need to start using #Signal, #Threema, or spin up a #Matrix server.

We all gon need dat shit.

strypey,
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

@TheLastOfHisName
> Folks need to start using Signal, Threema, or spin up a Matrix server

... or an XMPP server. @snikket_im aims to make it much easier to use XMPP.

strypey, to random
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

"More than 180 New Zealand public agencies have transferred masses of data to Microsoft cloud computing servers in Australia for storage and processing since 2019. Sensitive courts data could be headed that way."

#PhilPennington, 2024

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/495883/growing-government-reliance-on-offshore-cloud-services-has-security-experts-worried

#PublicService #PublicData #DataSovereignty

strypey,
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

"The NDMS [National Disease Management System] was being hosted within a 'private isolated section' of Amazon's 'cloud' of data warehouse servers in Sydney."

#PhilPennington, 2024

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/517188/urgent-overhaul-of-health-systems-to-catch-communicable-diseases-months-behind

#FacePalm

#PublicService #HealthData #DataSovereignty

smach, to random
@smach@masto.machlis.com avatar

What happens when you mandate masks at a conference now that most people no longer wear them but medically vulnerable people are still at risk because ? In the case of , the conference sells out.

Why a masking policy? “Many of us and our fellow community members can’t attend without health and safety guidelines in place. We want PyCon US to be an event that everyone feels safe attending,” organizers explained.

Well done @pycon https://fosstodon.org/@pycon/112445571644276379

strypey,
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

@smach
> What happens when you mandate masks at a conference

  1. It creates a lot of avoidable waste, as most people reach for disposable masks that aren't really effective in reducing transmission. See;

https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/112464830184021821

  1. It excludes neurodivergent people with sensory sensitivities, or subjects us to dirty looks or interruptions from mask zealots if we get exemptions

  2. It makes the conference about as respectful of personal choice as making women wear burqa would

Great job @pycon

strypey,
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

The disposable mask is the tinfoil hat of the left.

themaskerscomic, to random
@themaskerscomic@forall.social avatar

@whn just released this excellent 3 page flyer for on the Airborne Paradigm Shift of disease, please share, there is a print-friendly version as well and many translations, at:

https://whn.global/the-airborne-paradigm-shift-a-flyer-for-healthcare/

strypey,
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

@themaskerscomic
> just released this excellent 3 page flyer for healthcare on the Airborne Paradigm Shift of disease

Note the comments about the disposable surgical masks most people still masking up are using;

"Does NOT reliably protect against inhaling the smallest airborne particles and is NOT considered respiratory protection. Leakage occurs around the edge of the mask."

The same applies to cloth masks.

strypey,
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

Anything short of a respirator mask, handled with full surgical protocols (eg not re-masking without fully sanitising the mask), is about as helpful as wiping down groceries with hand sanitiser.

Go for it, it's a free country. But don't be surprised if the rest of us roll our eyes when told we should all be joining in with the health theatre.

@themaskerscomic

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, to auscovid19
@DenisCOVIDinfoguy@aus.social avatar

Fighting an invisible illness: The curse of Long COVID. By Milanda Rout

"Exhaustion, erratic heartbeat, brain fog, pain: women aged 31 to 45 are contracting Long COVID in greater numbers than any other part of the population. Why?"

@auscovid19

https://archive.md/Nvcej#selection-339.10-343.23

strypey,
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

@ABScientist
> they do not drink rain water

What's wrong with drinking rain water?

@neutron_chick @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • provamag3
  • kavyap
  • DreamBathrooms
  • InstantRegret
  • magazineikmin
  • thenastyranch
  • ngwrru68w68
  • Youngstown
  • everett
  • slotface
  • rosin
  • ethstaker
  • Durango
  • GTA5RPClips
  • megavids
  • cubers
  • modclub
  • mdbf
  • khanakhh
  • vwfavf
  • osvaldo12
  • cisconetworking
  • tester
  • Leos
  • tacticalgear
  • anitta
  • normalnudes
  • JUstTest
  • All magazines
    •