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apm77

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Among other things an employee of a graphic design company in Adelaide Australia and an admin on an online transgender forum. Averse to labels but basically nonbinary transfemme living as nonconforming male so any pronoun will do. Diverse interests.

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juliaserano, to trans
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NEW ESSAY (building upon the last one): “Gender Ideology” Is a Conspiracy Theory – it displays all the hallmarks & I believe we should explicitly call it that. no paywall, please give it lots of "claps"!
https://juliaserano.medium.com/gender-ideology-is-a-conspiracy-theory-3cd8b837bb2b?sk=6ddb483e5b424b0ffacc1fae95be318a

apm77,
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@juliaserano "Past attempts to intentionally raise children as the other sex [...] failed miserably — this indicates that most cis people likely have a deep-seated gender identity too" — I am interested in whether good evidence exists for estimating the percentage of people who have a strong innate gender identity. Is it really "most", or only "some"? We should expect people to fall on a spectrum from weak to strong gender identity, but can we say with any confidence where the bell curve goes?

dorgaldir, to Autism Dutch
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I feel this so hard. Why can't people just be clear about what they want?
@actuallyautistic

apm77,
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@miss__Tery @zyd @dorgaldir @actuallyautistic The neurotypical style is to start by asking WHY the question was asked, and work backwards to figure out what the question means. In this case, you're supposed to realise that the point of the question is to test what you've learned in maths class, and you're supposed to remember that all the clocks discussed in class were analogue, so the teacher must want you to draw an analogue clock.

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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"Taken together, these flaws make LLMs look less like an information technology and more like a modern mechanisation of the psychic hotline." https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/
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apm77,
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@lilithsaintcrow This expresses something I've been thinking for some time. The author clearly encounters more tech industry true believers than I do, which accounts for some differences of perspective, but yeah. We are creating a world that human intuition is ever less equipped to navigate.

apm77, to random
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Please, everyone, try to recognise when you have a cognitive bias that manifests as a tendency to assume that people who do action X (which may or may not be verbal) have motivation Y. (BTW, is there a name for that? I don't know one.)

jamesthomson, to random
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If you want to confuse an AI image generator, ask it to draw Doctor Who.

Fairly generic woman Doctor, but at least it came up with one eventually.
A slightly different mix of Tennant, Smith, and Capaldi.
Another slightly different mix of Tennant, Smith, and Capaldi, with a touch more Tennant?

apm77,
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@jamesthomson At least the TARDalek is OK. It says so right there. Unless "ⱣCC" means "not".

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apm77,
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@AutisticAdam @actuallyautistic For me, the lyrics I return to repeatedly tend to be those for which I have a sense that the line expresses something important, such as an emotion, and by singing or listening to the line I am trying to capture and perpetuate that. (In contrast to an earworm, which is prototypically involuntary and annoying and void of depth.)

jake4480, to random
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Designers now always make things for regular and dark themes but unbelievably fail to include Hotdog Stand

apm77,
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@jake4480 Trying to remember my colour scheme. I think it was this. I guess this proves I am not a hotdog.

ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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Ancient Times
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/ancient-times

apm77,
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@ZachWeinersmith Having him say "when I was a boy" instead of "when I was a child" definitely sets the stage for strangeness and anachronism...

BrianBinh, to random
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The English suffix "-ard" (as in "drunkard", "laggard", "braggard", and "sluggard") is used to make adjectives into deprecating nouns.

"He's drunk" is just a description.
"He's a drunkard" is a moral judgment that finds the subject lacking.

The same process turned "he's wise" into "he's a wizard".

"Wizard" was the medieval equivalent of "smartass".

apm77,
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@miss_s_b Somewhat surprised I had to scroll down all the way to your toot to find a reference to Pratchett. If I scrolled down much further I might have found myself at bottom. @tzarfenix @BrianBinh

apm77, to random
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@stancarey You appreciate a good portmanteau as I recall. What do you think of Mossozoie as a name for my soft green toy tuatara, combining moss, mesozoic, and Zoe?

apm77,
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@stancarey The incorporation of "Zoe" is a happy bonus (serving to motivate the decision against an "-a" ending), and I feel my version is less ambiguous with respect to pronunciation. It also includes more of "mesozoic", and the difference between "c" and "e" is a line.

dgar, to random
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apm77,
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@dgar I think there's no chance the designer didn't intentionally make the shower dalek-like, probably some act of rebellion.

renchap, to mastodon
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Full text search has been merged in main branch, and will be in the next (and final?) 4.2.0 beta 🎉

It is opt-in, so it will take some time to be filled with people content as they enable their profile to be indexed, but this was one of the most wanted Mastodon features for some time.

We plan to deploy it to mastodon.social and mastodon.online in the coming days to have a bit more feedback on it and see how it behaves in the wild.

apm77,
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@renchap I would love an operator similar to from:account but returning posts boosted by the specified user. This is a feature Twitter never had and its absence always bugged me! (I suppose federation makes to:account hard to implement; Its main use on Twitter was to check if someone has already written a reply similar to what you have in mind.)

apm77, to random
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@stancarey I was recently musing on attributive-only adjectives (CGEL 553) and exceptions to the rule. Instances such as "there's nothing 'only' about being a girl" are typically indicated with quotation marks — and yet "there's nothing marine about giraffes or "there's nothing Sydney-based about McDonalds" seem fine — and occur only when the adjective has previously been introduced in attributive form.

apm77, to random
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EVERY SINGLE PERSON who doesn't think poor/unemployed people should be able to pursue hobbies, donate to charity AND accumulate savings, is a piece of shit. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/08/britain-poor-people-leisure-victorian-workhouse

stancarey, to sciencefiction

"Climate change is uncanny in the sense of manifesting as a haunting to human beings – something invisible that seems vast in power and scope."

@jeffvandermeer on climate fiction, friction, and hope:
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a43541988/climate-fiction-wont-save-us/

apm77,
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@stancarey @jeffvandermeer I'm only skimming the article, away from home right now and time is short, but this Ghosh person sure sounds like a loony.

stancarey, to linguistics

A taxonomy of language mistakes, and what causes them: https://web.stanford.edu/~zwicky/mistakes.pdf

apm77,
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@stancarey A 1980 publication, I see, with an emphasis on speech. That explains why chapter 10 is so short.

stancarey, to SF

How old is "verse" (in the sense "universe; one of many universes in a multiverse")? @jessesheidlower's Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction dates it to 2002, in Firefly, but it may be older:
https://sfdictionary.com/view/2753/verse

I introduced the HD/SF here, btw:
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2021/09/21/historical-dictionary-of-science-fiction/

apm77,
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@stancarey @jessesheidlower I invented the joke "Q: What do you call a short song? A: A universe" sometime in the eighties.

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