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I focus on the "shutting down Google Scholar" option now, more than the "listening to trans people" option.

We know by now Google is terrible at listening to trans people that aren't Google FTEs, but they're very good at shutting things down.

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@Cyborgneticz@scholar.social and it probably ranks your results lower than cis people's, also!

@chloe From most preferred to highest recall:

- something specific to your field (as an NLP researcher, I use aclanthology.org)

- Internet Archive Scholar (scholar.archive.org)

- Semantic Scholar (semanticscholar.org)

: my name

(I think this is the last of four introduction posts)

I got rid of one name a while ago, and replaced it with more names.

You can call me Elia if you know me, or Robyn if you know something I wrote. Neither of those is my deadname.

If you know a employee, ask them what they are doing to shut down Google Scholar.

It is one of the few places on the Internet where calling a trans person by their deadname is standard and expected. The other places are hate sites and the New York Times.

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: my battles

I was the first trans person to change my name on already-published research papers. I didn't think I was the first when I did it, which helped.

I'm part of the Name Change Policy Working Group (ncpwg.org) to make this easier for others. Many journals now allow name changes.

Google Scholar refuses to call trans authors by their names, or even talk to trans people. I made scholar.hasfailed.us. Google should either listen to us or shut down Scholar.

: my joys

I am poly, married, and not actively dating. My wife and my girlfriend bring light to my life.

I play randomized video games, particularly Link to the Past Randomizer. Modes that require glitches are fun.

I enjoy almost as much as my wife does. I have a Twitch stream series, Silver Ball Century, where I am playing virtual versions of pinball tables in chronological order.

I like to ride my bicycle, I like to ride my . I like to ride it where I like.

: my work

I do natural language processing. I hope for a future where NLP code can still be run by individuals, not just by hitting the expensive, opaque, harmful APIs of the same three companies. ChatGPT is a demo of a bad future.

I was the lead developer of the multilingual semantic network ConceptNet from 2006 to 2020. I don't run it anymore but it's still there (conceptnet.io).

I made "ftfy", the Unicode-fixer used everywhere: ftfy.readthedocs.io

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It's the end of the '70s on Silver Ball Century, my chronological stream of virtual : twitch.tv/arborelia

@megmac @mcc thankfully no.

Though it does support ISO 2022, and as I understand it, the unsuccessful pitch for UTF-1 was "at least it's not ISO 2022"

@mcc I love this idea and I submit the string "+d,+6t,+vu8-", an erroneous UTF-7 string that Python used to happily convert to erroneous Unicode and even erroneous UTF-8.

Python 2 gist from 2014: gist.github.com/rspeer/7559750

my misreading of tiny.tilde.website/@astrid/109 reminded me of this outstanding Radiohead cover from 2008, on a ZX Spectrum and several other pieces of obsolete hardware

the scanner plays a killer bass line

I skipped the first minute of loading time for you, you're welcome

youtu.be/pmfHHLfbjNQ?t=61

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"Pronouns" in conservative circles is a dog whistle. They fixate on pronouns so they can say transgender people are bad without bumping into hate speech rules. Mocking them for using pronouns themselves or not knowing what pronouns are isn't the burn you think it is.

Have fun with circling all the pronouns in screenshots of their tweets if that's your jam, but remember that you are not the intended audience. It's messaging for others on the far-right and it's way worse than flunking English class

Doors Dungeon Dive -- progress items are only in dungeons, and the dungeons are randomly generated with Door Shuffle. twitch.tv/arborelia

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This video is INCREDIBLE and SO worth the watch time.

I grew up in the ‘80s and ‘90s when it was just “common knowledge” that #disco sucked. I was puzzled when I finally discovered it for myself in adulthood and was like “damn, there’s some really good stuff here!”—turns out homophobes and transphobes crushed it using a playbook that is shockingly familiar to us (especially us #trans folks) in 2022.

Now hit me with some more of that sweet four on the floor! 🎧🎤🎹🎸🥁

youtu.be/q_c2dCO5WLo

Silver Ball Century, my chronological playthrough of virtual pinball, has reached 1979: twitch.tv/arborelia

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Imagine how shitty you have to be to get booed by people who are still willing to pay money to go see Dave Chapelle

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