Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
plurality
We didn't just learn as we grew. We had to build the mental structures necessary to approach situations with wisdom and maturity. This must have been real work that took a great deal of time and energy, even if we didn't know we were doing it.
plurality
Thinking about how so many of us were not there when the system was growing up, especially early on, and the options we did not have as a result.
plurality
We sure have been acting like Jude today.
plurality, dissociation/derealization
Belle posted this somewhere else and we feel it's important enough to cross-post:
We were told that it's common for plural folks to experience some dissociation all the time, and it sort of makes sense of how so many seem to maintain denial even in the face of compelling evidence. We're not sure where this comes from, but there's a part of us that feels we're not really part of the world at all, and it's just a story or a game or a performance.
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ok is anyone actually neurotypical or is that just a rumor
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plurality
The entirely unjustified sense of camaraderie when you find out that a member of another system has the same name as a member of your own system.
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"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
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“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.
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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
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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.
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How gender are you feeling today?
why don't you make like a tree and convert water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight into chemical energy?
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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
When layering two pairs of pants, it's important to put the outer pair's pockets inside the inner pair's pockets. I have no idea why.
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I think about this a lot. Every game is a miracle. #GameDev
I like to listen to nothing during walks and find out what's going on in my head. (response to something in my timeline but doesn't need to be a reply)
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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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I’ve had it.
The reason you feel you can’t effectively communicate over zoom is that you confuse “captive audience” with “engaged”.
Just cos someone is looking at you doesn’t mean they are paying attention. They’re just being polite.
You earn attention. You’re not owed it.
Joined Aug 2018
