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- Comment on Adding a Sever 3 days ago:
The person you replied to isn’t a Piefed user…
- Comment on Is this a scam or am I being paranoid? And if so, what kind of scam is this? 3 days ago:
It’s called remote deposit cheque fraud. It’s a fake cheque. If you cash it, it will eventually get flagged as a a fake, and the bank will take the money back, even if you’ve already spent it or sent it to the scammer. And if you never send money to the scammer, they get nothing, but it also costs them nothing to make the attempt, because you’re the one depositing the cheque and wearing the risk.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I do the same. My name is pronounced differently by hispanohablante folk, and I use that pronunciation when speaking Spanish.
- Comment on Do crooks lose the "buzz" from stealing when found a surefire way not to get caught? Like pirates are with a vpn? To me it lost the thrill once I got one. 1 week ago:
My “thrill” is in not funding corporations that are speed running enshittification whilst also making bank off of bigotry and hatred.
I doubt I’ll ever get bored with that…
- Comment on Why are some Linux community so toxic? 1 week ago:
The same thing happens in trans communities, but the answer isn’t for the old guard to try and handle everything themselves, burn out and then shut down newbies that are looking for community and help.
The answer is for the crusty old guard to create the space and keep the worst offenders out, whilst letting the people that aren’t burnt out support each other and keep the community thriving.
Sometimes that means letting common questions be common, because if you’ve got a positive community, someone will always be there with an answer and a link to an even more detailed resource.
- Comment on I'm not sure that talking-point is a winner... 3 weeks ago:
She doesn’t care about maths. She cares about making the bigots feel confident enough to express their bigotry. She wants her voter base to feel powerful and also persecuted, so she’ll switch frames of reference as needed.
- Comment on How was a comment made five days ago on a post that was posted six minutes ago? 3 weeks ago:
FWIW, I’ve only ever heard it used that way…
- Comment on Is there a word for people who will mess something up and blame the victim for it? 1 month ago:
DARVO - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO
- Comment on Why do you post here or other social media? 1 month ago:
Because I value community, and I’m not interested in a community filtered through the interests of a profit driven company
- Comment on Is Framework an ethical company? 2 months ago:
And I’d argue that positioning their company as the moral choice makes their decision to support bigots worse than if they’d never positioned themselves that way in the first place. Which makes them basically no different to HP or DELL.
- Comment on Is Framework an ethical company? 2 months ago:
The question was are they moral. They’re not. The fact no one else is either doesn’t excuse that
- Comment on Is Framework an ethical company? 2 months ago:
Unless they’ve walked back their support of DHH, then they’re actively supporting an alt right racist/transphobe
- Comment on Is Framework an ethical company? 2 months ago:
Did they walk back their sponsorship of DHH?
osnews.com/…/in-bizarre-move-framework-embraces-d…
Because supporting that bigot is outwardly unethical…
- Comment on What are the most confusing false friends from your language to another that are spelt exactly the same? 2 months ago:
So is fanny for that matter…
- Comment on Hypothetically, if a Black Millionaire had their home broken into by a poor White person, how much danger is there of the Black Millionaire getting shot by cops "by mistake"? 3 months ago:
Slightly? It’s openly racist
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
It will change society. It won’t improve skills.
Studies already show the opposite at play. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872v1
If the LLM could teach you how to code, but couldn’t do the coding for you, it would be a tool for improvement. But it isn’t used that way. Instead of saying “teach me how to code this”, people are more inclined to say “code this for me”.
On top of that, they’re controlled by corporations who are not in the slightest bit interested in your welfare, privacy or economic success. They will invade your privacy, fuck over the environment, fuck over people and load their LLMs with propoganda and barriers that serve their political and social interests.
And as a bonus, they’re a nightmare for the environment.
Having said all of that. I agree, they are going to fundamentally reshape society. But it’s like the industrial revolution. Yeah, we ended up with a more efficient society, but it didn’t make people freer, it further entrenched wealth in the hands of the wealthy, whilst fucking up the environment. That’s what LLMs are going to do.
We could do them differently. That implementation isn’t inherent in their nature. But we won’t do them differently, because the people pushing it want the shitty outcome, because it’s not shitty for them.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Think of how shitty and scam filled the early internet was. Did we abandon it because of how shitty it was at first,
It wasn’t though… That was mid to late term internet
- Comment on Why are flat earthers so badly harassed and ridiculed by globers? 3 months ago:
If you don’t know just say you don’t know or don’t engage, don’t call me or others names in the comments. Let’s keep this civil.
- Comment on is there a dedicated directory for hair on the ThreadiVerse? 3 months ago:
You could use asklemmy or something similar
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Kagi has a fediverse search
- Comment on I'm sure a good lot of you, like me, had been anticipating/dreading that moment when we say, oh fuck this is it, for real. Like the BIG oh fuck. My question is, how ready are you? 4 months ago:
Sucks that I wouldn’t be able to shitpost about it, though.
That’s what mesh networking is for
- Comment on How does genital nomenclature change as a person transitions? 4 months ago:
You know your friend better than we do. Do what you think is right, and make sure you’re open to accepting that you’ll get it wrong sometimes, and then self correct.
- Comment on What should I NOT do in front of rich people? 4 months ago:
What should I NOT do in front of rich people?
Diminish yourself or your self worth
- Comment on PSA 5 months ago:
Here’s what the science actually says …cornell.edu/…/what-does-the-scholarly-research-s…
What these people say? It’s not science. It’s bias, wearing a veneer of science, so that people who don’t like the idea of trans kids existing can point at something other than their own internal discomfort.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 5 months ago:
Like it or not, the distinction is meaningless to people outside of the US
- Comment on PSA 5 months ago:
What they’re getting at is they don’t ask for people who are trans, they ask for people “navigating gender dysphoria”.
It’s like someone using “females” instead of women.
When you choose that framing, it’s often a sign of something deeper at play…
- Comment on PSA 5 months ago:
So Littman and Bailey are controversial. Not unethical. (Fyi Lisa Littman is herself a trans woman).
Incorrect. They are both unethical.
Littman for example, when doing her study on rapid onset gender dysphoria, targeted only online spaces which were full of parents that were upset and angry at having a transgender child. Her sample was deliberately and knowingly biased towards supporting the hypothesis she invented. Her audience also didn’t involve any trans people, only the parents of trans people, and parents who were, as a group, explicitly more likely to be strongly uncomfortable with the idea of having a trans child.
This wasn’t a mistake, or an oversight. It was a deliberate choice she made to bias her results. That’s not “controversial”, that’s outright unethical.
Similarly, Bailey regularly lies to his participant audience, and loads his studies with questions predisposed to get the results he wants to show.
The study linked to in this post is a classic example of that. None of the results of this will be designed to help people navigate dysphoria. The study is trying to draw trans people in to think that they’re helping, when in fact, the results will be used to actively undermine their ability to seek transition care and support.
Bailey and Littmans findings make the trans community angry because the research supports that for some trans females, (not all but some) they transition due to a sexual kink. That they can only be sexually excited by being a woman.
Even that’s not true.
When you look at the definitions Bailey uses for autogynephilia for example, if you apply those same measures to cis women, it turns out, they too more often than not, meet the requirements for autogynephilia. It only becomes a paraphilia when the woman is trans though, and it only becomes an explanation for the woman’s identity, when the woman is trans.
It’s taking a real correlation, ignoring the fact that the correlation isn’t unique to trans folk, and then using that correlation as an explanation for trans identity.
He never said it’s true for all female trans people.
He said it’s the only way to be a trans woman that is asexual, bisexual or gay.
The only trans women who don’t fit his criteria of transitioning due to a paraphilia, are straight trans women. Who, by the way, he calls “Homosexual transexuals”. He can’t even recognise their gender… And speaking of that, even though he thinks that trans women who aren’t straight should be able to transition, he doesn’t think that they’re women, and will repeatedly misgender them or talk only about their birth sex when talking about them.
Take a look at this, from his personal blog…
In this screenshot, you can see that whilst defending a woman who had nazis at her rally, he refers to trans women as “male” without ever referring to them as women, whilst also showing a diagram that says all trans activists are paraphillic (and thus, not really trans)
Bailey genuinely believes he is doing good science. But he’s not. He’s got a lens through which he perceives transgender identity, and he is absolutely not open to challenging that. That’s not good science…
I struggle to understand how you can call anything the man does “ethical”
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 5 months ago:
I mean, Kaity and I run a Jellyfin server for our family to access, as well as a couple of friends. But that’s about as public as it gets…
- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 5 months ago:
We have the materials technology to manufacture materials that could make up a Dyson Swarm. We are not even close to having the technology to make materials that would be sufficient to make a Dyson Sphere.
What we don’t have is the resources, logistics, energy supply and manufacturing base to implement either…
- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 5 months ago:
Induced radioactivity is mostly the result of contamination from radioactive materials. Whilst it’s possible to induce radioactivity from gamma rays directly, you’re talking “background noise” levels of radiation. Which is to say, the cable isn’t going to become notably radioactive, and even then, the part that does, will be the part that isn’t protected by the atmosphere. And for people to navigate those areas of space safely, we already need shielding, so it wouldn’t be any different on the space elevator.