AnarchistArtificer

@AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hope i don't get downvoted for this⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I find the wide variety of ace experiences super interesting. For my part, I’m bi and also demisexual (and I have been working hard at practicing not ace-erasing myself).

  An example of the interesting variety I mean is how libido and attraction aren’t necessarily coupled, and also that even besides those factors, there’s a spectrum of ace attitudes towards sex. I had a friend who had a high libido, but was also quite sex-repulsed. That is to say that she masturbated plenty, but had no inclination towards sex. This caused some tension when she entered into a romantic relationship with an allosexual woman who had some difficulty understanding an ace person being both sex repulsed and high libido (though tbf, my friend was learning how to navigate the line between enjoyable cuddles and unpleasantly sexual stuff. She also tried to fit into the model of aceness similar to what you describe, but she found that her discomfort with sex was such that it made her feel less close to her partner (in contrast to how our sex-ambivalent ace friends had described their experiences).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turning Portal 2 into a Web Server⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is horrifying and impressive in equal measure. Thanks for sharing, OP

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI model collapse is not what we paid for⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I share your frustration. I went nuts about this the other day. It was in the context of searching on a discord server, rather than Google, but it was so aggravating because of the how the “I know better than you” is everywhere nowadays in tech. The discord server was a reading group, and I was searching for discussion regarding a recent book they’d studied, by someone named “Copi”. At first, I didn’t use quotation marks, and I found my results were swamped with messages that included the word “copy”. At this point I was fairly chill and just added quotation marks to my query to emphasise that it definitely was “Copi” I wanted. I still was swamped with messages with “copy”, and it drove me mad because there is literally no way to say “fucking use the terms I give you and not the ones you think I want”. The software example you give is a great example of when it would be real great to be able to have this ability.

  TL;DR: Solidarity in rage

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica Is Coming To Android/iOS⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The early-mid game is one of my favourite gaming experiences of all time. It’s usually the most part of a survival/crafting game, but I was surprised by how well Subnautica was peppered intrigue.

  As you and many others on this thread have said though, a mobile port seems odd. Even if the UI were reworked, I can’t imagine that players would be able to feel the same sense of awe that I associate with the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I discovered my partner was an undercover police officer sent to spy on me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The legal battle was a civil suit, based more on the violations of Kate Wilson’s human rights, than on the legality of actions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black Mirror AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Markov Babble” would make a great band name

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For the little guys.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, I didn’t expect to get a soundtrack accompaniment to my science meme. I really enjoyed this, thank you for sharing it with us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a particular cut of beef that’s ideal for this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with both your original comment and the edit, but especially the bit about cast iron. Neglecting mine for an extended period led to uneven patches of seasoning, but when I got round to giving it a proper scrub, it was like hitting a reset button. I’m going to try to be better at basic seasoning/maintenance this time, but the joy of cast iron is knowing that it’s super forgiving if you do mess it up.

  Tangential to your edit: I enjoy being able to sharpen knives, but that’s mostly because I’m a nerd who has other tools I need to sharpen anyway, so I already have the stones. Something that I found striking though is that when I was learning how to sharpen knives, I asked if I could practice on various friends’ kitchen knives. Most of them were poor students, so I sharpened many cheap knives, and I was impressed by how well some of the cheaper ones performed compared once they were sharp. They held their edge for surprisingly long too.

  I’m quite fond of my Wusthof chef’s knife, which was a bit of an indulgent treat for myself, but I am utterly baffled by the gear acquisition syndrome that so many seem to fall into. It’s not just that prospect of someone who barely cooks buying a $300 knife that perplexes me, but that so many of these people keep acquiring more knives. If they said that collecting knives was just their hobby, and that they were never intending to actually use them, then I’d shrug and say fair enough. That’s pretty rare though — the underlying implication that these people seem to operate under is that the fancy knives make you a better cook (and that the perfect knife will make good cooking into an effortless, joyful endeavour). It’s an odd culture that’s developed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Love this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree with the “complaining about young people” line having coolness increase proportionally with age: when I was a young adult, I often joked about kids these days in a way that seemed to get a lot of laughs. The humour was in the fact that I was a young person talking about young people as if I wasn’t one of them (and beneath that was me making light of the text that, likely due to being autistic, I have always felt isolated from my peer group).

  Anyway, I got good at leveraging this for humour, but as I aged, the joke potential expired: I was too old for there to be any irony in saying “kids these days”, but not old enough for it to be cool to complain about young people.

  On the bright side, I am sufficiently old to be able to torment young people by misusing their slang. It’s most likely effective if you use the slang in a mostly right way, so I enjoy the challenge of needing to actually understand correct usage of new slang. Amusingly, studying current slang as an outsider is a skill I’m well versed in, given that I had to do this even when I was young.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing about labels is that their usage depends on the particular context at time of use. I have a friend who is non binary, for example, but finds herself weary of explaining how someone can be femme presenting, use she/her pronouns, and be non binary. This means that when talking to people who aren’t LGBTQ, she finds “lesbian” is the most effective label to communicate, even though it’s a label she has largely outgrown the truth of. For some people, how they engage with identity labels is quite straightforward, and they present the same labels out to the entire world. For other people, more nuance is needed, and that’s okay too.

  That is to say that if you read the above comment and thought “bi but with a type sounds like me, but I don’t want to call myself bi”, that’s fine. Labels like “bi” can help make oneself be more legible to the world at large, but you do not owe the world that. You are allowed to have complexity that doesn’t neatly fit into simple labels, and even if you did strongly identify with a label, you’re not obligated to divulge this freely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I made another jelly⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is so cool.

  What’s your favourite hammer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s the consistency of it that’s so impressive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Proton is so good that even when a game has a native Linux version, I often opt for the Proton version (so my games are all in one place). I was even able to install mods for games like Baldur’s Gate 3 (albeit with a bit of tinkering)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uncultured⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  "Always forget the name when I want to remember it. "

  Is that a problem you run into regularly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uncultured⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFDcoX7s6rE

  🎵I want it awl, I want it awl, I want it awl, and I want it now🎵

  (The song that gets stuck in my head whenever I use an awl)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only thing that I would miss is contactless payments via my phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Definitive Guide to Steam Play Tools⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Neat info. Positive comments in this thread prompted me to go read the thing, and I appreciated how it is a ground-up explanation, but still quite accessible. Now I understand why WINE is not an Emulator (I had been wondering, tbh)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SignalGate Meets WordPress: Outgoing National Security Adviser's Phone Dumps Messages via Israeli App⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Archive link for anyone who finds this useful archive.ph/E7XFt

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SignalGate Meets WordPress: Outgoing National Security Adviser's Phone Dumps Messages via Israeli App⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, it’s actually easier to trust sources like unionriot.ninja — though by “trust”, I don’t mean “take them at their word”. It’s more like a “I understand how to situate this journalism within its wider context”. Which is to say that I find them easier to vibe check.

  I find smaller outlets like this are often pretty good with their sourcing. For the example, from these guys, I think I read some really good coverage of some specific issues in the prison system. The article was clearly written to persuade (and as you say, clearly left wing), but the way it was doing that felt transparent. In particular, I think there was a quote they used from a legal expert, but they also included links to that person’s work/full quote, which makes it easier for a keen reader to vibe check the person. I like their transparency.

  I agree that it’s hard to place them on a “reliable” spectrum. My instinct would be to place them quite high, because the fact they’re open about their biases (i.e. left wing perspective) and they are good at citing sources makes it easier for me to evaluate their work. However, that doesn’t feel right when we consider what kind of news outlets would typically sit there — many of our heuristics for parsing media are still anchored in a more traditional model of news coverage, which these guys clearly aren’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wolf Reboot⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trophic Cascade would be a cool band namr

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tender moments⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “looking for a woman to play out the guy’s MFF fantasy”

  Sometimes the driving force is a bi-curious woman. What usually happens is that the boyfriend agrees to it because he sees a MDF threesome as being hot, and sapphic love as being less real or serious. Then he freaks out during/after the hookup because of insecurity he feels when seeing his girlfriend enthusiastically making out with a woman. I’ve learned the unpleasant way that it’s no fun to be unicorn hunted.

  The worst part is when they try to hide what they’re doing. I once only found out a woman had a boyfriend and that they were looking for a MFF threesome on the third date. Trying to hide their intentions is gross because it shows they have some awareness of how people don’t like being instrumentalised in this way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have a shamefully dark question for firefighters. I'm sorry but I'm just too curious to not ask... It's about the smell and how that affects life.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t really relevant to your question at all, but you reminded me of a (male) friend who is a gynecologist and married to a woman. I expected that the professional context would nullify any potential arousal towards his patients, but what I was curious about was whether this might bleed over into his personal life — i.e. did he still find his partner’s vulva arousing, or does it put him into doctor-headspace. Apparently his profession causes no problems whatsoever in his sex life, because the compartmentalisation is so strong.

  He said that it feels almost like conceptual homonyms. For example, in the sentence “up past the river bank is the bank where I deposited my money”, the word “bank” appears twice but means two very different things. Similarly, a vulva is a vulva no matter the context, but the meaning of it differs so much depending on the context that his brain literally doesn’t parse them as being the same.

  Like I say, it’s not related to your question, but I thought you might find it cool nonetheless. I would expect that firefighters would show a similar ability to compartmentalise, but perhaps the high-stress context of smelling human flesh may cause it to work differently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Content moderators are organizing against Big Tech⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whilst automated tools can help on this, there is a heckton of human labour to be done in training those tools, or in reviewing moderation decisions that require a human’s eye. I think that in a world where we can’t eradicate that need, the least we can do is ensure that people are paid well, in non-exploitative conditions, with additional support to cope.

  Actually securing these things in a way that’s more than just lipservice is part of that battle— I remember a harrowing article a while back about content moderators in Kenya, working for Sama, which was contracted to work for Facebook. There were so many layers of exploitation in that situation that it made me sick. If the “mental health support” you have access to is an on-site therapist who guilt trips you into going back to work asap, and you’re so hurried and stressed that you don’t have time to even take a breather after seeing something rough — conditions like that are going to cause a disproportionate amount of preventable human harm.

  Even if we can’t solve this problem entirely, there’s so much needless harm being done, and that’s part of what this fight is about now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The moment I was radicalized⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a good friend who is Czech and I spent a couple weeks there with her family. One of my takeaways from this trip was that Czechs like mushroom picking, and are proud of how many castles there are (Czechia doesn’t have the absolute highest number of castles, but apparently it does have the highest castle density)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose a number, 1-5!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, but “slight” is the operative word here. I’m autistic and there are some cutlery that feel so unpleasant in my hand that I can barely force myself to use them. In the past, it has even resulted in me hardly eating (when the lack of good cutlery was due to the nice ones being missing rather than just dirty). I felt very silly that I was letting myself go hungry over an irrational preference, but I find that some battles aren’t worth fighting.

  I have also found that other neurodivergent people often have strong opinions on cutlery, which has been a wee source of solidarity. I think that, in addition to the concrete reality of people’s preferences, there’s a reinforcing cycle where once a cultural thing becomes associated with a particular group, there will be in-group jokes made about that association, which reinforces the link. That is to say that the relevance of this meme somewhat transcends the reality of the relative frequency of neurodivergent people having strong opinions on cutlery

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Philosophy moment⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure where this obsession with air fryers has come from.

  It is March…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At last we know all his answers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I respect these choices. Peak chaos shitposting energy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Autism is a modern epidemic"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it weird to think about this sometimes, especially the fact that in a different time, I’d have probably been institutionalised, despite modern standards considering me “high functioning” that I got to go to university (where I met many other autistic nerds).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best starter hands-down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And Charmander is just the basic pick. Picked by people who are 100% distracted by fire.

  I cannot lie, this attack against me was super effective