Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
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You will never speak to anyone more than you speak to yourself in your head.
Be kind to yourself.
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best thing about wearing a mask out is not catching all of the crud when i go out, but the second best thing is when i get home i can take off the mask with one hand and shake out my long auburn tresses in slow motion, revealing myself to be incredibly hot
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A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work
Want to really understand large language models? Here’s a gentle primer.
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A Texas jury has found that feeding the homeless is not a crime.
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"At first we believed that programmers were latently sexist/transphobic, and due to their demographics had never thought about the fact that minoritized communities might need to change their name or gender marker. However with further research, we discovered the problem was larger: Programmers had never thought about anything, at all"
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I've long believed that the crucial advantage of the term "queer" over the acronyms is that is acknowledges that diversity is not something you can exhaustively enumerate. we must be always prepared to embrace diversity that we hadn't considered before. this is the most consistent inclusivity
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OpenAI discontinues its AI writing detector due to “low rate of accuracy”
Research shows that any AI writing detector can be defeated—and false positives abound.
If someone finds a way to skip the privacy questions please let me know.
Reminder that the Windows account creation process has speed tech. You can skip the tutorial by logging out with Ctrl+Alt+Del and logging back in.
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‘Stop calling it Twitter’ says guy who deadnames his own child
https://chaser.com.au/general-news/stop-calling-it-twitter-says-guy-who-deadnames-his-own-child/
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Google’s “Web Integrity API” sounds like DRM for the web
It's just a "proposal," but it's also being prototyped inside Chrome right now.
😣✋: Traveling the country to sightsee.
👉👉: Traveling the country to meet your Internet friends.
stream announcement
https://twitch.tv/madewokherd Still trying to get good enough at foot controls to get through BIT.TRIP Runner.
I'm gonna say mojeek is.. situationally useful. It's good for when I have a set of seemingly-unrelated words and I want to find a page with all of them.
Easy mode in Klonoa helps out a lot more than I expected, as I'm working with significantly less dexterity than in the past.
stream announcement
https://twitch.tv/madewokherd Just doing some casual Klonoa today.
religion/proselytism
The Jehovah's Witness who sent me a letter never responded to my email. It's almost as if they were never interested in a conversation at all, and had no interest even in politeness once it became clear that my Quakerly ways weren't going to be convinced by some passages in a shady translation of an old book. :(
Moved from google to duckduckgo years ago because google was ignoring my search terms. Now I'm moving from duckduckgo to https://www.mojeek.com/ because duckduckgo is ignoring my search terms. Haven't used it long enough to give an actual recommendation but it seems promising.
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PSA
You DON'T need to have ANY of the below to be trans:
* Noticeable gender dysphoria.
* Strong dislike of your genitalia, body, voice etc.
* A desire for HRT or surgery.
* A medical diagnosis.
It's enough to feel that your gender doesn't match the one you were arbitrarily assigned at birth.
You don't need anything else to be valid 
#trans #transgender #enby #NonBinary #agender #genderfluid #genderqueer #GenderNonConforming #cisnt #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQIA+ #LGBTQIA2S+
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thanks to chronic illness communities online for being the only way many other chronic illness patients will ever figure out what the fuck is wrong with them because the medical system sure as hell won't
Joined Aug 2018
