FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

- A person’s gender should be recorded
- A person’s gender can be recorded
- A person’s gender is not Turing complete
- A person wants to give you their gender
- A person doesn’t want to give you their gender
- genders exist
- people only have one gender at once
- A person’s gender is not a vector in an n-dimensional space
- genders are not vulnerable to privilege escalation attacks
- a person’s gender is legal in all jurisdictions

Mistaken beliefs programmers have about gender:

- People have only one of two genders
- People will have only one gender in their entire life
- Okay, people will only have at most two genders in their entire life
- A person's pronouns can be derived from their gender
- Pronouns can be enumerated in a dropdown list
- People will not change their pronouns
- A person has pronouns
- A person has a gender

1/4 📢Today, 64 orgs & experts urge the @EU_Commission to halt proposals for using #AgeVerification tools when implementing #DigitalServicesAct & #eIDAS.

Evidence & lived experiences show these tools are dangerous, discriminatory & unsafe.

READ MORE: https://edri.org/our-work/open-letter-the-dangers-of-age-verification-proposals-to-fundamental-rights-online/

In this #election season, let us honor a true #democracy

this has been my desktop background since 2014, across multiple computers and operating systems. i don't have anything particularly coherent to say about it i'm just feeling emotional about space is all

it's a good thing we got rid of public arts & education-communication funding because i'd really hate it i had to watch experts talk about their expertise in a professional manner instead of youtube influencers regurgitating half a wikipedia article while shilling for nordvpn. i thank God every single day we don't have to worry about the emergence of a new carl sagan

i actually fucking hate right now specifically is the thing

imagine Carl Sagan being like "The journey of this lone spacecraft across the vast emptiness of space, into horizons as yet only dreamed of by centuries of philosophers, astronomers, stargazers, and artists, reflects humanity's own journey from ignorance to enlightenment. As Cassini turns its gaze backwards on our humble little world, we must reflect upon the mysteries of our own existence as well. That's why I've partnered with StarBox, a custom astronomy-themed loot crate curated by Nerd Corp,

"Don't forget: while there may be billions and billions of stars in the universe, around which may orbit untold habitable earthlike-worlds, only one harbors a world with a species intellectually advanced enough to be able to remember to like, subscribe, and comment on this video."

apparently, one possible giveaway for ai-generated art is the presence of what look like jpeg artifacts, but not present systematically, because (this person's conjecture) jpegs were part of the training data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBUHDvY60l0

“‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman”

https://theconversation.com/the-data-on-extreme-human-ageing-is-rotten-from-the-inside-out-ig-nobel-winner-saul-justin-newman-239023

> Regions where people most often reach 100-110 years old are the ones where there’s the most pressure to commit pension fraud, and they also have the worst records.

I'm surprised. This is my surprised face.

@hikari Hello, I find your model here useful, but as the diagrams are from 2016, I decided to augment them with a third diagram, showing today's state of the art technology, "AI".

As this is a derivative work, I note the license, © 2016 hikari_no_yume, CC BY 4.0 (International) , still applies.