also one of the core devs has a really cool dissertation on decentralizing scientific knowledge/research: jon-e.net/dissertation/

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

cmake2: like cmake but it kills you instantly

idk, just feels like a missed opportunity to bring some genuine insight into what makes this community tick and *why* Ziz was able to do what she did

As a weird autistic trans woman myself, so much of the stuff they kind of brushed over as weird or inexplicable (especially around Ziz's early life) was like "yeah that checks out". She's a weird autistic trans girl in a world not made for her who made some catastrophically bad decisions

Like, don't get me wrong, David's a great cohost and @iwriteok.bsky.social has done a phenomenal job researching all this (as always), but there's some big blindspots in how they talk about the psychological and interpersonal dynamics involved because neither of them are weird autistic trans women

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.

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.

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