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I want to see an otherwise boring binary trans person apply for a GRC with a note that says "since the GRP cannot rely on medical evidence in decision making, I believe that the requirement to provide it violates my right to privacy".

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This press release undersells the judgement.

The court made it clear that the Gender Recognition Act does not require any medical treatment at all beyond a diagnosis of gender dysphoria to get a Gender Recognition Certificate, and that the Gender Recognition Panel cannot use any medical treatment or lack thereof against the applicant.

This brings up the question - if no medical treatment is required, and the gender recognition panel cannot use information about it against the applicant, why is it required?

Also, a strictly binary identity is not required to be eligible for a Gender Recognition Certificate.

39essex.com/information-hub/in

proposing the replacement of hot girl summer with hot girl autumn

Tweet by byroncclark:

"I feel like to many people don't recognise fascism because they think fascism will arrive selling oppression and tyranny, but if you're part of the privileged group fascism is selling you safety, normalcy, and tradition"

"Establishing that AI training requires a copyright license will not stop AI from being used to erode the wages and working conditions of creative workers. ... Our path to better working conditions lies through organizing and striking, not through helping our bosses sue other giant multinational corporations for the right to bleed us out." –
@pluralistic

pluralistic.net/2024/06/21/off

#Copyright #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

i love being a scientist

"the results matter not who you are"

except everything goes off of name recognition and who is coauthor and what journal you're on, and what institute you're at (and which country you're from)

we'll even sometimes voluntarily curate a better tracked and cross linked profile because that's how you get ahead, a very public resume.

We get assigned global identifiers, ORCiDs, to help disambiguate us, wouldn't want to be confused for someone with a similar name. Have to be googleable and uniquely identifiable.

oh and every time you travel your whereabouts will be more or less public. every conference schedule where you present will have your name attached and welll SEO'd, so anyone who wants to follow your movements can, easily.


"[gosh we can't find any women or minorities who want to be in this field long term]"

The EU enacted a new law a while ago that all bottle caps should remain attached to the bottle, to combat plastic trash.

All the bottle and packaging makers, from massive multinationals like Coca Cola and fucking Nestlé to small local producers invested in the development of new caps, changing their production lines, and shipping the new caps. Today, a month before the law goes into effect, it's basically impossible to find a bottle without an attached cap.

I don't know, I thought this story was weirdly relevant right now with Apple being a whiny bitch. Imagine being worse than Coca Cola and motherfucking Nestlé.

This is way too satisfying.
(Mac Portable ejecting floppy in space)

Reading programming resources from just ten years ago can hit like a truck. Examples will frequently build against the Twitter API or discuss parsing RSS feeds. I'd rhetorically ask what happened but we all know.

they don't tell you this, but in big cities, sometimes the moody walk through the sunset in the uncaring city has diegetic background music

I think I remember Dolly Parton talking about why she kept all her publishing rights and saying something like ...
I was in my 20s and I didn't know much at all about the music business but by then I had learned a thing or two about men and I realized I needed to be in charge of anything a certain kind of man told me "don't worry your pretty little head about that" and that has served me well over the years

Finally got around to reading about Private Cloud Compute and let’s just say I’m not super impressed
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