183231bcb

@183231bcb@transfem.social

Hi, I'm Beth. I'm a #queer #mathematician. I'm also a #webcomic and #musical theater enthusiast. I am #AroAce, #Trans, #Enby, and #ActuallyAutistic

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Original text and images I post here are public domain unless otherwise stated. Anything I share that I didn't write or draw probably isn't.
Old accounts:
@183231bcb (2023-07-19 to 2023-08-22)
@183231bcb (2023-05-29 to 2023-07-20)
@183231bcb (2020-08-29 to 2023-06-17)
#fedi22 #geometry #topology #combinatorics #math #asexual #aromantic #Sondheim #TeamStarkid #PandorasTaleWiki #RainverseWiki

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djsundog, to random
@djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology avatar

new rule: if your company puts a LLM bot on the front lines of your customer support effort, your company should be legally bound to adhere to whatever the LLM bot states on your behalf.

oh, you put a lying machine at the front door and it's telling people your product does things it doesn't actually do? and now you're stuck making your product do these things? maybe you'll think twice about deploying lying machines...

183231bcb,

@djsundog Also, if a company has an AI make a claim that has legal consequences, the company should be held liable as if the CEO had made that speech.

E.g., if an AI falsely accuses someone of posting CSAM, the CEO should be prosecuted for falsely reporting a crime.

dgar, to random
@dgar@aus.social avatar

The existence of Norway implies...

183231bcb,

@dgar People from Trueway can only tell the truth, while people from Falseway can only lie.

Suppose you are traveling and you come to a fork in the road. One path leads to where you want to go, while the other leads to certain doom. At the fork are 16 people, one from each of the 16 logic gate way countries, but you can't tell which person is from which country. You can ask one question to figure out where to go. What do you say?

mekkaokereke, to random
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io avatar

Now that y'all have seen the differing career impacts, media coverage of, and societal reactions to, Black women being accused of plagiarism (Claudine Gay) and white women being accused of plagiarism (Neri Oxman)...

you can understand why I say that widely used automated plagiarism detecting software that advertises a false positive rate of 1%🤦🏿‍♂️, is devastating for Black students.

Another flavor of: in a racist country, being falsely accused has devastating consequences

https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/Race-and-Wrongful-Convictions.aspx

183231bcb,

@mekkaokereke In Fall 2020 I was forced to use HonorLock, an "anti-cheat" suite which recorded videos of students taking tests in their dorm rooms and then used AI to determine whether or not they were cheating. I had to manually override it a lot because it automatically determined
a)All black people are cheating because it can't recognize their faces at all,
b)Anyone who has a roommate is cheating, because it's impossible to take a test in the same room as someone else,
c)Anyone with autism or ADHD is cheating because their eyes move in unexpected ways,
d)Anyone with photophobia or related eye conditions is cheating because their eyes move in unexpected ways,
e)Anyone using accessability software is cheating because there's software running on their computer
...and a whole bunch of "cheating" accusations that I couldn't discern any reason for.

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
@BlackAzizAnansi@mas.to avatar

So is this the year of corporations just dropping all pretense and kicking their employees and customers in the ass?

183231bcb,

@BlackAzizAnansi They've been trying to replace employees with machines for decades. I don't think this is new.

183231bcb, to random

Boost if your account is ace/aro friendly and you're okay with getting follow requests

so that I can follow or follow-request you.

RickiTarr, to random
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

It's so weird that we are all supposed to be ashamed for burping and farting. I deeply apologize to everyone for keeping my body from literally exploding, so uncouth.

183231bcb,

@RickiTarr I've had students who have been so mistreated by previous teachers/schools that they think they need to apologize for needing to use the bathroom.

RickiTarr, to random
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

Imagine finding out you're a powerful wizard, and you still have to go to school for 7 years! Also, a guy is trying to kill you the whole time. Are the grown up powerful wizards going to help you? Nope, not really, you have to ask other students to help you not die, but some of them are also evil, sooo watch out for that. But at least you're not living under the stairs all the time, I guess.

183231bcb,

@RickiTarr Also, you're protected by a super strong "love" spell tied to your family, but "family" for the purpose of that spell is only who your close genetic relatives are, and not who loves you.

Oh, and also, you inherit a slave and your favorite principal encourages you not to free him.

183231bcb,

@Jennifer @HumToTable @RickiTarr The indie video game A Hero And A Garden by @npckc is about someone who tries to be a hero but that doesn't work out so he becomes a magic gardener instead. Also all the characters are explicitly shown to be queer so it's obviously way better.
https://aheroandagarden.npckc.net/

183231bcb,

@MayInToronto @RickiTarr The Hogwarts ethics class would just try to convince them slavery is ethical.

183231bcb,

@LeonianUniverse @RickiTarr

Eglamore: I never got over my love for one woman who chose someone else.

Lemony Snicket: Me too.

Severus Snape: Me too.

Eglamore: She died, but left a kid behind.

Snape: Same for me.

Lemony Snicket: Yes, the woman I loved had three kids before she died.

Eglamore: But I knew what I needed to do: I was a mentor for her daughter, a stand-in father figure when her birth father was absent.

Lemony: I'd make a terrible mentor, so I couldn't do that. But I managed to remain friends with her and her eventual husband, and after they died I wrote 13 books about how badass her kids are. Badass is a word which here means "a positive quality that my ex, her husband, and all three of their kids possess that I do not." I did offer to directly help them but they declined my help, and they were probably right to do so.

Snape: Well I dealt with my jealousy by joining the Wizard Nazis even though they want to kill people like the woman I claimed to love, but I didn't see the contradiction because she's One Of The Good Ones. Then after she died I abused her son for seven years because I hate that he exists.

Eglamore:...
Lemony:...

Snape: And my author says that I'm a hero!

RickiTarr, to random
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

Yeah, New York Times, where would they be getting that idea?

Few Transgender Children Change Their Minds After 5 Years, Study Finds But the study, which began in 2013, may not fully reflect what’s happening today, when many more children are identifying as trans.

183231bcb,

@RickiTarr @RickiTarr I wonder how many people have previously subscribed to the New York Times before later regretting it. Clearly New-York-Times-Reading-Identified people don't face enough gatekeeping before they make an irreversible life-altering decision.

183231bcb,

@farah @RickiTarr Marriage needs to be banned because it's a totally irreversible process that you'll regret but be unable to do anything to fix. But also a lot of people are reversing their marriages with divorce, and that's somehow also proof marriage is bad even though it contradicts my previous argument.

Also, marriage isn't real: it's biologically impossible to get married, and that's why we have to ban marriage.

RickiTarr, to random
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

Where do you live and how do you feel about it?

Obviously, don't tell me exactly where you live, no actual addresses please! You can be as vague as you like.

I live in Central Missouri in the U.S.

Pros:

This is an absolutely beautiful place, green rolling hills, lots of rivers, lakes, ponds, and natural springs, cool caves to explore.

Lots of farming here, so great access to quality fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, and dairy.

It's relatively inexpensive to live here compared with other states, because it's a "flyover".

I'm close enough to three major cities, that it's an easy day trip, and I'm about halfway to anywhere in the U.S.

We have one of the best Conservation departments in the U.S. and this is one of the few things that is a bipartisan issue. Lots of awesome nature programs that are free or cheap, state parks, conservation areas, bird watching, hunting, boating, foraging available to everyone.

Cons:

Yeah, it's a big one, it is a RED STATE, while a lot of the cities are blue, there is a large rural population, that votes red. Abortion is not legal here. People often vote against their own self interest.

While I'm not against responsible gun ownership, lots of people aren't responsible, and people have access to guns that definitely should not.

We have very few employee protections here, while the cost of living is relatively low compared with other places, it's taken years to get to a $12 minimum wage, and it's still not enough.

183231bcb,

@RickiTarr I live in https://transfem.social. The worst part is you have to be careful to avoid getting eaten by a shark. The best part is you can get eaten by a shark.

mentallyalex, to random
@mentallyalex@beige.party avatar

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-invent-new-hybrid-food-by-growing-beef-inside-grains-of-rice

After a moment of screaming inwardly at the visualization of "meat and bone grown in rice" this is a very promising article for sustainability.

183231bcb,

@RickiTarr @mentallyalex Also what if cats and dogs who need to eat meat could eat meat without us needing to kill other animals for them.

183231bcb, to random

STOP DOING CHARACTER LIMITS!
Years of imposing artificially low character limits on social media yet NO REAL WORLD use found.

Want to write a short post? We had a tool for that, it was called "write less text than the maximum allowable length!"

We went from 100,000 character limits on forum posts in dial-up days to 500 character limits on Mastodon or 3000 on Misskey.

Look at some of the character-limited posts that character-limiters want us to take seriously:

  1. OTOOAIBOOAOMTGMKCIITMOM <--A giant acronym that's incomprehensible to anyone outside of the in group, just to save characters.

  2. An image containing a giant wall of text with no alt-text using 100 times as much data as the text on its own would use just to circumvent a character limit and exclude creatures who need accessibility.

3)Here's my very short post: a thread (1/2395872935)

These are REAL character-limited posts dreamed up by REAL social media users!

"Oh, I love short character limits: it means I don't have to spend time reading long posts. Instead I'll spent 20 times as long reading long posts split into threads and continually have to find my place!"
--Statements dreamed up by the willfully ignorant.

@Amelia and her headmate can't even agree on what character limit to use: is it 3,000 or 5,000? They have completely played us.

RickiTarr, to random
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

Who is the best Batman villain and why?

183231bcb,

@RickiTarr The only Batman media I care about is Starkid's Holy Musical B@man, so I'll say Sweet Tooth is obviously the best Batman villain.

183231bcb, to webcomics

If you like webcomics and use matrix chat, you are welcome to join my webcomics room:
https://matrix.to/#/#Webcomics:the-apothecary.club

183231bcb, to webcomics

This is a selection of my favorite . They are in alphabetical order, NOT order of preference.
(A thread)

Alice and the Nightmare
https://www.aliceandthenightmare.com/

Castoff
https://castoff-comic.com/
https://tapas.io/series/Castoff
https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/castoff/list?title_no=50984

Cosmic Fish
https://cosmicfishes.com/

Dumbing of Age
https://www.dumbingofage.com/

Heartless
https://heartless-comic.com/

Heroes of Thantopolis
https://www.heroesofthantopolis.com/

Inhibit
https://inhibitcomic.com/
https://tapas.io/series/Inhibit/info
https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/inhibit/list?title_no=40462

Lefty Cartoons
https://leftycartoons.com/

Monster Lands
https://monster-lands.com/

Namesake
https://www.namesakecomic.com/

Never Heroes
https://www.neverheroescomic.com/

Never Satisfied
https://www.neversatisfiedcomic.com/

Novae
https://www.novaecomic.com/
https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/novae/list?title_no=106507

Pandora's Tale
https://pandorastale.com/
https://tapas.io/series/Pandoras-Tale
https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/pandoras-tale/list?title_no=287377

Pathways: Chronicles of Tuvana
http://pathways.elainetipping.com/
https://tapas.io/series/Pathways-Chronicles-of-Tuvana
https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/pathways-chronicles-of-tuvana/list?title_no=128848

Radio Silence
http://www.radiosilencecomic.com/
https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/radio-silence/list?title_no=35242

183231bcb, to Matrix

Use XMPP! It's totally secure and federated. The only thing you can use it to talk about is how much you love XMPP and how much you hate Matrix.

https://xkcd.com/191/

183231bcb, to random

Can anymany tell me how I'm "supposed" to use end-to-end encryption with XMPP?

As far as I can tell there are three totally different ways to do E2EE:

a)OTR : "[https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0364.html](Not intended to be a current standard), or technical specification, as better (albeit, newer and less well tested) methods of end-to-end encryption exist for XMPP. "

b)OpenPGP: There are at least two different XEPs about it. XEP-0027 is obsolete, while XEP-0373 is "experimental" but hasn't been updated in almost three years.

c)OMEMO: "Experimental" and hasn't been updated in over two years.

Is there a way to do E2EE in XMPP which is neither deprecated nor experimental? What's the "Current stable" way to do it?

183231bcb, to random

Fediverse implies the existence of fedichorus.

183231bcb, to fediverse

Welcome all new fediversians coming from Tumblr!

183231bcb, to random

just hit 1000 verified apps.
https://flathub.org/apps/collection/verified/1

183231bcb, to retrocomputing

I've a question about modern "homebrew" games made for old consoles:

Why is the original Gameboy such a popular target? Itch lists a whopping 6406 games tagged as targeting Gameboy. The second-most popular old console is the NES, with only 1848 games on Itch: less than a third as many as the Gameboy. The Gameboy Advance sits at only 450 games on Itch.

Why? What makes the Gameboy so much better of a platform for indie devs compared to the NES or later consoles?

mira, to random

can someone explain the differences between state-capitalism and state-socialism?

183231bcb,

@mira In state capitalism each state has one town called the capital of the state (e.g. Richmond, VA).

In state socialism the state runs a social network.

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