Emily 🏳️⚧️
@atomwitch.net
Computational physicist | TTRPG nerd | climbing jock | trans girl | she/her
Reposted by Emily 🏳️⚧️
Bird photography tips, an oldie that is hopefully useful for spring migration right now.
April 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Bird photography tips, an oldie that is hopefully useful for spring migration right now.
Reposted by Emily 🏳️⚧️
(1/9) I often see the effects of hormone replacement therapy summarized as a snappy little list of distinct effects- eg, estrogen HRT gives you “breast growth, some fat redistribution, etc”. This is an easy way to talk about it, but it often understates the actual effects.
April 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
(1/9) I often see the effects of hormone replacement therapy summarized as a snappy little list of distinct effects- eg, estrogen HRT gives you “breast growth, some fat redistribution, etc”. This is an easy way to talk about it, but it often understates the actual effects.
Reposted by Emily 🏳️⚧️
Seeing new people discover this for the first time is one of the last remaining unalloyed joys of the internet.
why didn't anyone tell me that deep space nine had transgender lesbian romance
April 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Seeing new people discover this for the first time is one of the last remaining unalloyed joys of the internet.
Reposted by Emily 🏳️⚧️
I can't remember if I read in Stone or Serano the framing that doctors wrote books about how to distinguish the few worthy trans people from the unworthy crowd and then had a profession-wide meltdown when they discovered that trans people can read books
Sandy Stone's 'Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto' talks about this, and the sheer resentment, bitterness, and petty vitriol sexologists and medical professionals direct at trans women for "gaming" their shitty, worthless, fucked-up system.
It's been going on forever.
It's been going on forever.
Yes but, and this might sound insane to cis people but it literally just is, they will still say that
April 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I can't remember if I read in Stone or Serano the framing that doctors wrote books about how to distinguish the few worthy trans people from the unworthy crowd and then had a profession-wide meltdown when they discovered that trans people can read books
Reposted by Emily 🏳️⚧️
also one of the core devs has a really cool dissertation on decentralizing scientific knowledge/research: jon-e.net/dissertation/
Swarmpunk
Rough Consensus and Running Code in Brains, Machines, and Society, a dissertation by Jonny Saunders, Institute of Neuroscience/Department of Psychology, University of Oregon. Summer 2022.
jon-e.net
April 5, 2025 at 5:28 AM
also one of the core devs has a really cool dissertation on decentralizing scientific knowledge/research: jon-e.net/dissertation/
Reposted by Emily 🏳️⚧️
the porn brain of the new right. the reactionaries dreaming of rape. the unsettledness of all things. is there a better way?
yes.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-gend...
yes.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-gend...
The New Gender Synthesis
To be only masculine or only feminine is to be half a human being.
www.liberalcurrents.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
the porn brain of the new right. the reactionaries dreaming of rape. the unsettledness of all things. is there a better way?
yes.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-gend...
yes.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-gend...
Reposted by Emily 🏳️⚧️
if slouching is so bad for you then why does it feel so good and natural to sit hunched over like some sort of little goblin hoarding some sort of precious gem
April 4, 2025 at 5:59 AM
if slouching is so bad for you then why does it feel so good and natural to sit hunched over like some sort of little goblin hoarding some sort of precious gem
Reposted by Emily 🏳️⚧️
If being the sole, largely unsupported provider of childcare and domestic labor is so glamorous and empowering and fulfilling, why aren't men signing up for it in droves?
Being a stay-at-home mom is something that is encouraged or compelled by many misogynist cultural norms and material conditions. But it is not a *feminist* desire or a *feminist* choice. Feminism wants women in the public world.
April 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
If being the sole, largely unsupported provider of childcare and domestic labor is so glamorous and empowering and fulfilling, why aren't men signing up for it in droves?
Reposted by Emily 🏳️⚧️
People actually should be forced to reckon with the fact that their “individual choices” that just so happened to be “right” for them & their family might have broader societal implications that serve to further the oppression of women.
This has been empirically demonstrated many times! You can’t expect men to have a place of domination and superiority over women in the home and treat women as equals outside of it.
Also, men who have traditional, stay-at-home wives treat women in their workplaces extremely unfairly, meaning that the choice to stay home *actively hurts* the choices of women (mothers or no) who want to work... while women who work do not hurt stay at home moms at all!
April 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
People actually should be forced to reckon with the fact that their “individual choices” that just so happened to be “right” for them & their family might have broader societal implications that serve to further the oppression of women.
Reposted by Emily 🏳️⚧️
My point is that
> if you consider sex the biological traits associated with masculinity or femininity since there is a certain overlap between trans women and women's brains
is a bit too essentialist too, because there need not be such overlap and we shouldn't ground the right to transition on it
> if you consider sex the biological traits associated with masculinity or femininity since there is a certain overlap between trans women and women's brains
is a bit too essentialist too, because there need not be such overlap and we shouldn't ground the right to transition on it
March 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
My point is that
> if you consider sex the biological traits associated with masculinity or femininity since there is a certain overlap between trans women and women's brains
is a bit too essentialist too, because there need not be such overlap and we shouldn't ground the right to transition on it
> if you consider sex the biological traits associated with masculinity or femininity since there is a certain overlap between trans women and women's brains
is a bit too essentialist too, because there need not be such overlap and we shouldn't ground the right to transition on it
Reposted by Emily 🏳️⚧️
If you aspire to ANYTHING beyond the mud, you must be utterly ruthless to troglodytes asserting that "people shouldn't be allowed to change their sex." There's no ignoring or compromising with such an attack on science and choice.
The only path to the stars is through the ribcages of transphobes.
The only path to the stars is through the ribcages of transphobes.
March 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
If you aspire to ANYTHING beyond the mud, you must be utterly ruthless to troglodytes asserting that "people shouldn't be allowed to change their sex." There's no ignoring or compromising with such an attack on science and choice.
The only path to the stars is through the ribcages of transphobes.
The only path to the stars is through the ribcages of transphobes.
Reposted by Emily 🏳️⚧️
cmake2: like cmake but it kills you instantly
March 21, 2025 at 2:53 AM
cmake2: like cmake but it kills you instantly
Just finished this series and I quite liked it! It's a good introduction to the Rationalists and their weirdness, but I really wish they'd had a trans woman on to co-host given how important transness is to understanding Ziz and her friends/followers
New Behind the Bastards ⚡📚⚡
Robert sits down with David Gborie to trace the Zizian’s development, from part of the Bay Area Rationalist subculture to killers.
@iwriteok.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
Robert sits down with David Gborie to trace the Zizian’s development, from part of the Bay Area Rationalist subculture to killers.
@iwriteok.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
March 21, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Just finished this series and I quite liked it! It's a good introduction to the Rationalists and their weirdness, but I really wish they'd had a trans woman on to co-host given how important transness is to understanding Ziz and her friends/followers
Reposted by Emily 🏳️⚧️
It's also about threats of state violence against everyone from hosting providers to electronics manufacturers to deform and cripple an entire technology stack to accommodate crap like DRM and undermine end-user ownership and control of their equipment
Intellectual property enforcement is not about anyone "asking" you to do anything!
It's about using state violence & threats thereof to physically intimidate (and, if necessary, cage) those who share or reproduce information in a manner the IP "owner" hasn't authorized.
It's about using state violence & threats thereof to physically intimidate (and, if necessary, cage) those who share or reproduce information in a manner the IP "owner" hasn't authorized.
it's not a horrifically immoral leveraging of the violence of the state to ask you to pay the people who make a video game if you want to play a video game, imo bsky.app/profile/rech...
March 21, 2025 at 1:28 AM
It's also about threats of state violence against everyone from hosting providers to electronics manufacturers to deform and cripple an entire technology stack to accommodate crap like DRM and undermine end-user ownership and control of their equipment
Reposted by Emily 🏳️⚧️
If it works for you: I'm not here to tell you to stop.
I think a lot of the efficiency issues will be addressed in time.
Provenance of training data might get fixed at some point, I doubt any time soon though.
I think treating statistical tools the same as deterministic tools is always a mistake.
I think a lot of the efficiency issues will be addressed in time.
Provenance of training data might get fixed at some point, I doubt any time soon though.
I think treating statistical tools the same as deterministic tools is always a mistake.
February 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
If it works for you: I'm not here to tell you to stop.
I think a lot of the efficiency issues will be addressed in time.
Provenance of training data might get fixed at some point, I doubt any time soon though.
I think treating statistical tools the same as deterministic tools is always a mistake.
I think a lot of the efficiency issues will be addressed in time.
Provenance of training data might get fixed at some point, I doubt any time soon though.
I think treating statistical tools the same as deterministic tools is always a mistake.
Reposted by Emily 🏳️⚧️
We have pilots, or developers, in the loop on purpose. They are capable of real reasoning, and in most cases, they have been trained in the area they are operating in.
They have limited context. It's better to know when you can't rely on your tool, than to think it is good when it isn't.
They have limited context. It's better to know when you can't rely on your tool, than to think it is good when it isn't.
February 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
We have pilots, or developers, in the loop on purpose. They are capable of real reasoning, and in most cases, they have been trained in the area they are operating in.
They have limited context. It's better to know when you can't rely on your tool, than to think it is good when it isn't.
They have limited context. It's better to know when you can't rely on your tool, than to think it is good when it isn't.
Reposted by Emily 🏳️⚧️
I think one of the reasons that I like Rust, and why I've been so reluctant to really use LLMs at all comes from a core tenet in building safety critical systems:
When it really matters, it is better for a tool to say "I don't know", give up, and to make it clear it is doing so, than to guess wrong
When it really matters, it is better for a tool to say "I don't know", give up, and to make it clear it is doing so, than to guess wrong
February 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I think one of the reasons that I like Rust, and why I've been so reluctant to really use LLMs at all comes from a core tenet in building safety critical systems:
When it really matters, it is better for a tool to say "I don't know", give up, and to make it clear it is doing so, than to guess wrong
When it really matters, it is better for a tool to say "I don't know", give up, and to make it clear it is doing so, than to guess wrong
Reposted by Emily 🏳️⚧️
when the usenet thread is about to get good
January 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
when the usenet thread is about to get good
He beep!
January 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
He beep!
Reposted by Emily 🏳️⚧️
one of the most notable things about tech worker organizing is that it is frequently motivated by *moral* concerns about what the company *does* bc they fail to live up to the values that the company purports
arxiv.org/pdf/2307.15790
arxiv.org/pdf/2307.15790
January 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
one of the most notable things about tech worker organizing is that it is frequently motivated by *moral* concerns about what the company *does* bc they fail to live up to the values that the company purports
arxiv.org/pdf/2307.15790
arxiv.org/pdf/2307.15790
Reposted by Emily 🏳️⚧️
this can turn into broader labor struggle bc you cant change policy without fighting management/owners.
anyway tech worker radicalization against the rightward turn of the owner/investor class would be amazing. may this be the beginning of a flood that washes away those reactionary fucks
anyway tech worker radicalization against the rightward turn of the owner/investor class would be amazing. may this be the beginning of a flood that washes away those reactionary fucks
January 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
this can turn into broader labor struggle bc you cant change policy without fighting management/owners.
anyway tech worker radicalization against the rightward turn of the owner/investor class would be amazing. may this be the beginning of a flood that washes away those reactionary fucks
anyway tech worker radicalization against the rightward turn of the owner/investor class would be amazing. may this be the beginning of a flood that washes away those reactionary fucks
Reposted by Emily 🏳️⚧️
Wife suggested the RE4 shopkeeper but he's Senor Cardgage. Flasher coat curled around his shoulders, looking at Leon, "oh salutrations ma'am, can an old man offer you some high ballistics?"
January 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Wife suggested the RE4 shopkeeper but he's Senor Cardgage. Flasher coat curled around his shoulders, looking at Leon, "oh salutrations ma'am, can an old man offer you some high ballistics?"
Reposted by Emily 🏳️⚧️
Duke Nukem 3D level I built in high school
none of you are prepared for what this house is like
2908 Kennedy Ave, Grand Junction, CO 81504 | MLS #185808 | Zillow
This 2040 square feet Single Family home has 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. It is located at 2908 Kennedy Ave, Grand Junction, CO.
www.zillow.com
January 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Duke Nukem 3D level I built in high school
Reposted by Emily 🏳️⚧️
none of you are prepared for what this house is like
2908 Kennedy Ave, Grand Junction, CO 81504 | MLS #185808 | Zillow
This 2040 square feet Single Family home has 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. It is located at 2908 Kennedy Ave, Grand Junction, CO.
www.zillow.com
January 6, 2025 at 5:44 AM
none of you are prepared for what this house is like
Reposted by Emily 🏳️⚧️
this is undeniably true, accurately modelling the world is as much if not more a matter of emotional intelligence than it is whatever iq tests purport to measure
my take, from having spent a long time in and around academia, is that being genuinely rational is as much a matter of character as "raw intelligence"--as much a matter of *emotional self-regulation* in the face of the challenges to one's ego that inevitably emerge in investigation and debate
January 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
this is undeniably true, accurately modelling the world is as much if not more a matter of emotional intelligence than it is whatever iq tests purport to measure