FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

This is a graph of Discord’s algorithmically inferred gender (extracted from “request your data” json; axes are probability and days) for a user whose display name is “Tiffany”, whose bio is “she/her”, whose pfp is a drawing of a girl and whose profile theme color is pink.

Algorithmically inferred gender is worse than useless. Presumably the issue is that she talks about programming, and all the deliberate “I am explicitly telling you I am a girl” signaling in the world can’t convince a computer. I sometimes watch a livecoding streamer whose youtube stats claim his audience is 99% male even though you can see fem-coded chat participants regularly. Algorithms like this are deleting the women

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I’ve just replaced the paper in Mastodot: the Mastodon Dot Matrix Printer

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OH MY GOD

‪today we call it “mathematics”, a non-trademark-infringing name, because few are willing to acknowledge the genius of Stephen Wolfram, author of A New Kind Of Science, founder of Wolfram Research, and the creator of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha, and discoverer of the Wolfram L—‬

“What next, should I have a computer that eats my dinner and fucks my wife?” is one of those perfect sentences that just sticks in your head

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most beautiful, (physically) based rendering of a cow's skin you've ever seen, wonderfully soft, but it's a sphere. the cow sphere

My gender? That mini-usb-b connector some LCD panels run VGA over.

I was trying to talk about omegaverse on Tumblr and my phone's autocorrect coined the word "usb gender" which I think is something we should do more with.

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modelling a cow as spherical

Fortify.

I dig it.