#showerThought for this morning--it bugs me when people refer to gender as "men, women, and everything in between," as if "male" and "female" are the default settings and nonbinary, genderqueer, etc are all abberations that deviate from standard parameters. 😑
Like, yes, the majority of people ARE cis, but that doesn't make them the default. That's like saying "there are mostly golden retrievers, therefore golden retrievers are the "standard" dog breed". No? That's silly.
Gender is a social construct anyway, it's not something you're categorized at birth as and any deviation from that assignment makes you an aberrant mutation. Gender is not sex, and sex isn't a binary either--despite the many fascinating varieties of how "sex" is displayed in other animals, intersex humans easily disprove this narrative, not to mention the question of "how many body parts and/or chromosomes is someone required to have to be categorized as "male" or "female"?
I have to say that I have mixed feelings about the Ninja Creami blender-style ice cream maker compared to a churner. But holy shit it makes perfect milkshakes with near zero effort. Makes it completely worth it.
#sociology#showerthought
Imagine a social platform randomly and without any explanation assigned every user to a group, say group 1 to 4. I'm 99% sure it would take less than a week until the groups actually begin to develop distinct identities even though their members are random. Do you think meta would give me instagram for a few weeks to test this if I asked nicely? :blobcatgiggle:
If i understand correctly, whataboutism is used to burry a statement without any solid counter-argument. The accusation of it burries the whataboutism’s argument, which could be valid nonetheless.
#showerthought Wondering if generative art complaints about copyright infringement are not somewhat partially analogous to the complaints of the reuse of audio samples in the music industry.
In most cases (there are exceptions) I wouldn't be nonconformist by choice. Most of times I am too lazy and/or not organized, I am from lazy and not organized environment and maybe didn't have a chance to develop better personality. And I feel it especially in everyday life, small things. For example I try too keep shorter and shorter hair with time passing, to reduce "maintenance". And I like very much my small apartment, because cleaning is easier and faster. Yay minimalism! :blobcatmlem:
Last time I saw videos about gender nonconformity and read some conversations in this topic. I think I rather don't do "typical feminine things" especially related to "expression", outfits, etc. And it could be partially because I don't like doing things not making sense to me personally only because other people do them. And more important - I wouldn't do "standard" thing if that thing would require active effort from me. Most times I feel I don't even have enough energy and time for things I really want to do!
strong wild animal preserving energy vibes *
Probably this made me gender nonconforming to some degree as side effect I think. At least in "nonconformity by lack of interest" way. And for me this is similar for other #lifestyle choices, free time activity etc. Oh, and anti-consumerism is partially built-in :blobcat_amused:
#ShowerThought: Comparing #London's chaotic industrial revolution slums where #Marx wrote, to today's East Berlin urban #Communist utopias and its endless rows of public housing, it's evident that #Marxism isn't so much about "Power to the People" or wealth redistribution, as much as the deep German pursuit of orderliness
If it's called #X and the logo is an X, won’t people confuse it with a close button everywhere the logo shows up? And the other way round? 🤔 I wonder how many accidental closes there will be because people tried to “share something on X”. 🤣
Like Wikipedia now, but matter-of-factly describing things we take for granted now, that in the near future will no longer be.
Like #Space exploration and #Astronomy. Made impossible by greedy billionaires whose legacy is the #Junkosphere. A now familiar concept, has its own page..
#ShowerThought. WhatsApp's concept of disappearing messages should really be the standard for emails in the workplace.
Granted, I'm not in this week and am missing the gentle flow of rubbish about missing students, who's not where and so forth, but on a daily basis, the vast majority of messages are irrelevant the next day. Even if 24 hours is perhaps not a wise yardstick, 3 days or a week would go a looooong way to clearing up people's inboxes.
Is anyone working on incorporating #FuzzyLogic into #LLMs? There was a brief period in the early 90s where “#Neurofuzzy” aimed for relevance, but nets were still shallow and fuzzy logic fizzled (AI Winter? Used but no longer called AI? Not competitive with existing control system formalities?). My #ShowerThought is that FL feels like it’s differentiable (continuous truth/belief values). If true, might be suited for integration with statistical machine learning. #ML
@lobrien not exactly what you’re looking for, but the “chain of thoughts” pattern is kinda like this. They have the model break a problem down into parts and solve it incrementally