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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 8h

"authorities recently arrested the girlfriend of the founder of Antifa in Portland"

What.

#politics

Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 7h

Let me walk you through a bit of what I wanted and what I got.

I said that I was building a relatively complex server-client application and I gave it a relatively common server layout (queue + backend/api + database + ui). I specified the version of gradle as 9.1.x

First, it generated it in […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 8h

"authorities recently arrested the girlfriend of the founder of Antifa in Portland"

What.

#politics

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11h

Like. I've maintained for awhile that we _could_ have ethically built generative AI models that would be more, not less, useful and be more energy efficient than our current set.

They would be tremendously valuable. But they wouldn't do the fun emergent behaviors that people are so enamored by […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11h

Industry "leaders" tripping over what AI can't do will never not be funny to me.

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22h

This is similar to my rule on LARP Safety People™

If they are running a LARP Safety team then they are usually great people who are under-appreciated, but if they go around setting themselves up as a LARP Safety Person™, making a lot of statements about it, appearing on panels, etc…

…there's a […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22h

Like, it isn't every time, but it is often enough that you start to pay attention to it after a while.

They have a consistent pattern of behavior. They usually talk a good game about safety, but when you dig past the surface it turns out that they also have serious safety and boundary problems […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22h

Those same doctors also then turn around and go: "yeah you can just take 12mg EV every two weeks, that seems fine."

Like… seriously now?

Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23h

Some of the biggest people who go "you need to unfriend/unfollow/block/whatever this person" with high levels of insistency are also some of the ones who are most likely to have problems with boundaries, IME.

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Doctors obsession with preventing us from reaching "supraphysiologic" estrogen is fascinating to me, in part because it's not like we are swimming in evidence of what a physiological level even _is_ in a lot of these cases. Especially given the common need to suppress testosterone […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 1d

As I'm watching this Vampire SMP (it's just a LARP in minecraft) and I just keep thinking of ways I'd structure it differently, based on LARP-running experience.

Examples:

* I'd have done a soft start where players trickled in rather than all arriving at the same time.
* I'd have told people […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 1d

One of the early challenges I experienced when unionizing is that people don't want to talk to those who sit close to them, they want to talk to people who are ideologically aligned.

That includes me, it's something I had to get over.

What I found, and many others found, was that ideological […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 1d

"Organizing isn’t reading Das Kapital, it’s making spreadsheets and talking to your coworkers"

This looks like a great interview: https://joinreboot.org/p/kinema-interview

I worked with Emma Kinema while we were in the process of building our union. I always enjoyed our conversations and found […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 1d

This is well worth going through: https://joinreboot.org/p/kinema-interview and I need to make time for the full audio.

"Organizing isn’t reading Das Kapital, it’s making spreadsheets and talking to your coworkers"

I worked with Emma Kinema when we were organizing our union and consistently […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Google's leveling system is wild.

"Senior" can mean anything from "spunky kid who was ambitious and could learn quickly" to "engineer with over 20 years of experience, an expert at multiple technology stacks and who has a broad view of the entire system, but who got tired of our promotion […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 1d

If you are panicking because "TRUMP IS GOING TO CANCEL ELECTIONS" or something like that, I'd like you to go through an actual analysis of what happened in Hungary with Orbán.

Hungary still runs elections, mind you. As do most authoritarian states.

Then go learn how the US does elections […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 2d

While I get the reason why people ask for recommendations for what to get for FFS and those discussions can even be valuable, the truth is that you need to talk to a #ffs surgeon and preferably read a book before that.

"FFS" is a selection from like 20 different procedures and everything works […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 2d

The "fediverse" as it is presently designed is fundamentally incompatible with the stated goals of the fediverse, but there is a lack of will to fix this. In this essay I will…

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Mr. Riegel. You are listed as a cleric of your Very Sus™ religion that seems to have demon converts, but I call to your attention:

Charisma: 18
Constitution: 15
Wisdom: 10

Wicander is a warlock, isn't he? Pact of the Tome, maybe?

#criticalrole

Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 5d

One time I was running a VtM campaign called Let's Make a Deal. It was basically all "your employer wants X so you need to get Y, but to get Y you need to get Z" etc.

Anyways part of this journey sent them into Enoch. Or rather a version of it in the Shadowlands.

So they decided to split the […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 5d

[kink education]

Hot take: one think that this entire discourse his highlighting is that we need to provide more opportunities for sexually active minors to get kink education.

They _should_ be educated on disease control, consent, options, respecting and using safe words, etc at least to the […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 6d

This person gets it

https://www.tiktok.com/@waykeeper_girl/video/7556698330932317471?q=kinktober&t=1759447575466

A woman with curly hair and blue eyes stares at a camera, headphones on and a hand with red fingernails outstretched. Underneath is the text

"Seeing people rage about the kinktober prompts when my first reaction to them was "wow that's tame"

Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 6d

[hard kink, firearms (relevant i promise)]

@puppygirlhornypost2 ……………wha.

Not the kink. YKIOK. How is that remotely problematic. Ugh.

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 6d

…why are people freaking out that the kinktober list has like, actual kinks on it.

Why.

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Seeing a regular pattern of people who medically transition trading dysphoria for dysmorphia—like standard "female beauty standards" type stuff—and then getting depressed.

Go read a book on feminism and then talk to a therapist about that.

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