Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es

It's the weekend, baby
#StarTrek

ok wow stop perceiving me alright https://genderdysphoria.fyi/en/social-dysphoria

"You know portal fantasies?" my colleague says at lunch.
"When someone goes adventuring in another world?"
"Exactly! Now, why don't they write about someone from a fantasy land coming to this world?"
I think of the crimson tentacle forests of my home.
And sip my coffee. "Mhm."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

The dominant narrative about "feeling sorry for yourself" is trash. We are allowed to mourn the things that have not gone well for us. We are allowed to be upset about life being difficult. Burying those feelings will not make it easier to deal with the situation; they'll just come back up again later with more intensity.

“The reason most public transportation is seen as ‘losing’ money is precisely because it charges for trips. If you don't charge fares, suddenly it can't ‘lose’ money. It just costs money, the same as the roads.”

This random comment has given me my new favourite argument for removing fares from public transit.

Last night the 11yo broke down the Google Slides middle school Chatroom for me:

1. At first they used a Google doc but the infinite scroll was too chaotic
2. In the slide deck each new slide is one “post”—some all text, some images, some both—
3. They use slides’ comments feature to “reply” to each other’s “posts”
4. This allows participants to easily flip between posts using the slide thumbnail navigation, so they can find the conversations they care about easily
5. He owns the file & if anyone spams it, deletes other people’s posts, or gets nasty, he can revert the file to its previous save state & remove the spammer’s access
6. He did share the file with me on purpose, I think because he was proud & wanted me to see what he’d made

Essentially they’ve created a chatroom with moderation in Google Slides, so they can get around the school’s ban on platforms like Discord. It’s kind of brilliant

BOSS: I need you to put these coupon stickers on all the Pick Me Up boxes

EMPLOYEE: Do you care where we place those stickers?

BOSS: Yeah, *on the box*. Don’t make me repeat myself. Idiots.

How gender are you feeling today?

Query for the trans, queer, neurodivergent &/or disabled people I see on my home feed

How are you all so very, very much a combination of:

• Pretty
• Gorgeous
• Stunning
• Handsome
• Funny
• Witty
• Lovely
• Adorkable
• Kind

🥺 :progress_pride: :disability_pride:

#trans #transgender #queer #LGBTQ #neurodivergent #disabled #disability

I think about this a lot. Every game is a miracle. #GameDev

my game boy transitioned, she’s a game girl now

Computers have been beating the best human Go players since 2016. The Go world champion retired in part because AI is “an entity that cannot be defeated.”

But a human just trounced one of the world’s best Go AIs 14 games to 1: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/man-beats-machine-at-go-in-human-victory-over-ai

I think this news story is more interesting than it might first appear (without knowing details, so grain of salt). It isn’t just a gaming curiosity; it points to a fundamental flaw with “deep learning” approaches in general.
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