kechpaja

Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music

Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial.

I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username.

Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see Kelvin Jackson (Kei) (npub1wuk…8t8t).

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Website: https://kechpaja.com
Languages: en fi de ~hu ~ru ~eo ~tlh

Last Notes

2026-06-10 14:30:56 UTC

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The problem is that you're forgetting group 4: people who believe that language and art (including the art of producing code) are the sole purview of persons, and that machines that imitate those things should not exist regardless of how well they do those things.
(Persons need not be human per se, i.e. animals do some of those things, but machines as they currently exist are definitely not persons.)

2026-04-15 14:50:32 UTC

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Olen samaa mieltä. Samoin on kuitenkin pakko myöntää, että se on _paljon_ vähemmän ongelmallista kuin se, mitä parhaillaan esitetään Yhdysvalloissa.

2025-12-26 16:01:52 UTC

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The only way this could possibly be improved would be if line 4 said "*slides him a seal*".

2025-10-08 12:56:54 UTC

The whole idea of trying to make it illegal to call a veggie burger a burger is absurd.
Can we go back to the timeline where comedians did comedy and politicians did serious things?

2025-08-01 16:05:06 UTC

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Rykäistä ja sylkeä sitä pois.
Se on ällöttävä käytäntö, kun ihmiset tekevät sitä kadulle, mutta valitettavan yleistä.

2025-02-23 14:54:16 UTC

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It might be worth considering an ry intended to support _all_ Finnish instance admins (or all admins running instances open to the public at least).
I can't comment on how that would affect the legal ramifications, but at least hypothetically it could help distribute the costs of keeping things running. Perhaps there would be a mechanism where users of participating instances could join the organization under a specific supporting membership tier and have that status recognized on the instance they are a user of.

2025-01-12 09:49:34 UTC

WRT #BlueSky: I know some people are getting a lot of mileage out of it, and I don't want to detract from that.
But whenever I log in after having been away for more than a couple of hours, I almost universally have to block a bot. Sometimes several. I feel like I spend more time blocking bots than interacting with humans.
And that's on top of the fact that blocking a user doesn't remove them from your followers list. At least, thankfully, they've started hiding blocked accounts on your publicly-viewable followers list, but this still artificially inflates follower counts. And there are still no polls, no way to increase max post length, etc.
Don't get me wrong, there are also some good things that Mastodon and other Fedi services could bear adopting (access controls for replies, quote boosts, etc). But still. Bots everywhere. Plus the fact that _here_ is where my posts actually get boosted, even on my other account with only 30some followers.
I'm not going to delete BlueSky, but for now, #Mastodon and the #Fediverse really are where it's at.

2025-01-03 01:44:44 UTC

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This is a wonderful thing, but it is absolutely not "post-scarcity" in any meaningful way. It's just people being kind and generous.

2024-10-19 13:26:19 UTC

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Okay, now I'm starting to see a lot of Christian iconography in a very different light.

2024-09-25 15:58:24 UTC

I have now officially voted for #KamalaHarris.
Or at least, the ballot is in the mail. But November is only a month and a bit away, and intercontinental postal service isn't always the quickest.
#politics #usa