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CaptainJanegay

@CaptainJanegay@mastodon.coffee

General-purpose northern lesbian. Don't like coffee (don't tell anyone). Autistic.

I'm a union official, I work at a co-op, I've previously been a pride organiser. Also a self-hosting nerd, fietser and occasional seamstress.

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stux, to random
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She has a real good example of how algorithms on platforms like Instagram not only try to make you addicted but also divide us even more

I real LOVE the fact Mastodon and most of the Fediverse software avoids this all together

A girl explaining comments shown on an example Instagram posts. It looks at your age, gender, interests and serves comments based on that.

CaptainJanegay,
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@shadowwwind @stux @mekkaokereke Right - you do get a sort of interest-based filter, because you will see more content from accounts and instances that other people on your instance interact with. That can have big downsides: for example, if your instance is very white then you may rarely see replies by black people, unless someone on your instance is interacting with them, which is a problem that needs mitigation; but it's still a lot better than what commercial platforms do.

aral, to ai
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You steal from one person and you’re a thief. You steal from everyone and you’re an AI company.

CaptainJanegay,
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@aral The law locks up the man or woman,
That steals the goose from off the common,
But lets the greater felon loose,
That steals the common from the goose.

mekkaokereke, to random
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Shout out to all the 1st generation Nigerian American students about to be falsely accused of cheating, because some amateur hour AI cheating detector software recognizes that you write just like cousin Chukwuma back home! 🇳🇬🤷🏿‍♂️

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/16/techscape-ai-gadgest-humane-ai-pin-chatgpt

CaptainJanegay,
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@mekkaokereke This is a really fascinating study in how the tech economy integrates into post-colonial* power structures, and has the very strong potential to perpetuate them. Horrifying.

*"Post" in the sense of "after the advent of"

miriamrobern, to random
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So like... yes, this endangers same-sex marriage. It also endangers interracial marriage. It also endangers marriage for people who aren't Christian.

This is a blanket permission to be as bigoted as the clerk wants to be.

And if you don't think the fascists will push this as far as it will go, you haven't been paying attention.

https://www.advocate.com/politics/tennessee-marriage-licenses-officials-lgbtq#toggle-gdpr

CaptainJanegay,
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@miriamrobern It's broader than that, even. There are lots of people who have Opinions about other people's marriages. Many disabled people face disbelief or disgust about their marriages. People who appear to be immigrants, even white/european immigrants, may well face accusations of marrying to get around immigration rules. An officiant who believes marriage is for making babies could refuse to marry an older couple. The list goes on.

spencerbeswick, to random

Food Not Bombs trial rescheduled after too many jurors objected to $500 fine for feeding homeless

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/housing/article/food-not-bombs-trial-busted-jury-panel-homeless-18617041.php

CaptainJanegay,
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@spencerbeswick I find cases like that fascinating from a legal perspective. There have been several similar situations in the UK recently relating to climate protesters. I think it's an interesting barometer of the distance between what's legislated and what people actually find morally acceptable; just one of those interesting avenues through which the law is shaped by forces that aren't supposed to be able to shape it

CaptainJanegay, to climate
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What a shock: Shell, having realised that it's only on track to make a profit of a meagre £30bn this year, has cancelled its plan to reduce fossil fuel production, and scrapped a bunch of renewables projects.

Here's an idea: liquidate the company, distribute its infrastructure to the relevant governments and use its reserves to build publicly owned renewables instead.

https://inews.co.uk/news/business/shell-to-put-profits-above-clean-energy-as-oil-boss-signals-the-speed-to-green-will-slow-2403927

forteller, to linux
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App idea for Linux: An app where I set a regular amount that I want to donate each week/month, and then it locally and privately logs how much time I spend using the different apps on my machine and distributes the money accordingly.

With different options to blacklist some apps, weigh some apps more than others, always give X amount to some apps regardless of use, also give to things that won't be tracked (like the DE), etc.

CaptainJanegay,
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@forteller I'd love this for websites, too - a sort of "Ko-fi aggregator", where you set a budget for each month, record websites you want to contribute to as you go along, and then the software divvies up the funds and pays them out

CaptainJanegay,
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@meejah @forteller That sounds great! Sad that I didn't know about it while it was running

ChrisMayLA6, to ukteachers
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What are we doing to our children that around 28% are avoiding due to ?

We pressurise children more & more, make a test-based, inflexible activity, stress out those delivering it & then expose them to all sorts of sh*t on ..... and then tell them to fail at school is to fail at life.

No wonder they're anxious....

Frankly I'm surprised its 'only' 28%!

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/02/almost-three-in-10-secondary-pupils-in-uk-avoiding-school-because-of-anxiety

CaptainJanegay,
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@ChrisMayLA6 I think climate collapse is a very real contributor to this. Young people are often more clear eyed about it than adults, and they know that their lives are going to be defined by ever-increasing crises, gifted to them by the fecklessness of their parents' and grandparents' generations.

CaptainJanegay, to random
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The UK government simultaneously using navy ships to deliver aid to Gaza and also continuing to allow arms sales to Israel is just mind-boggling. No, I'm not surprised, but I am furious.

ChrisMayLA6, to technology
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thinks (by which he seems to mean digital technologies) will make the more efficient & means we can stop pouring money into a 'leaky bucket'.

Quite apart the vacuity of such techno-boosterism, you would have thought in the wake of the disaster, anyone thinking deploying technology is the answer, might want to be more careful.

Many people are watching Mr Streeting & are getting worried about how he thinks about NHS reform!

I'm one of them!

CaptainJanegay,
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@simon_brooke @djr @ChrisMayLA6 Capita has also played a significant role, especially in the NHS

CaptainJanegay,
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@Wen @simon_brooke @djr @ChrisMayLA6 From what I've heard they're also a terrible employer, no effective health & safety management, crap leave policies & retaliatory firings

CaptainJanegay, to random
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Unbelievable that the PVV is now the largest party in the Tweede Kamer of the Dutch legislature. Not so long ago its vile leader, Wilders, was denied entry to the UK on the grounds of extremism.

Europe is burning.

CaptainJanegay, to random
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Does anyone (maybe @FediTips ) know of a masto client with very granular feed controls?

For example, I would like to be able to:

  • Filter certain words on a per user basis, so that I can e.g. filter posts from someone who posts a lot about a TV series whose main character is called Cat without limiting my access to the best thing about the internet (cat pics)
  • Decide that I only want to see a randomly selected 30% of posts from an account that posts good stuff but overwhelms my feed

Ideas?

CaptainJanegay, to accessibility
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"If I write to a company to tell them something is not accessible to screen readers, even with all the knowledge I have as an accessibility specialist and all my practice writing bug reports and steps to reproduce, I get scripted responses telling me--essentially--to turn it off and on again. If there is an accessibility team at the company, I have to be the person who finds it--there is basically a 5% chance the main support team knows about it."

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1b3yvs8/im_totally_blind_heres_why_i_selfhost/

CaptainJanegay, to random
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I hate that it's necessary, but the i have been doing a series of articles about measles that are really powerful, most recently this one:
https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/good-for-sec-url-measles-shattered-health-furious-parents-vaccination-2863688

Hopefully it will encourage some people who haven't had the vaccine to go and get it asap.

CaptainJanegay, to random
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When will we learn - the only way to stop privatised public services from behaving like this is to prohibit them from paying a dividend in any year in which they breach environmental regulations, or other significant public protections.

https://inews.co.uk/news/south-west-water-sewage-sea-exmouth-2840195

CaptainJanegay, to random
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Just had a person inform me that I "don't understand what money laundering is" because I explained that cash is difficult to trace and criminals will often use someone else's account to deposit proceeds of crime into the banking system in order to avoid detection. Sigh.

The confidence of mediocre white men talking to women about their own jobs etc*

*To be clear, my job involves anti-money laundering, not money laundering. Transferable skills though

CaptainJanegay, to random
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I've found a use of ChatGPT that I think is ethical and appropriate: producing a paragraph about the dangers of training LLMs on LLM-generated text, which I've now fed into shreddit to replace all my old reddit comments with. ✌🏽

CaptainJanegay, to random
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God, I'm using a new-to-me phone and now I have to teach it to swear and say vagina all over again

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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Just in case you'd forgotten, Trudi Warner still faces prosecution for pointing out to jurors that they have the right to acquit a defendant according to their conscience - a principle that sits well within the .

This is what authoritarian looks like as it breaks cover....

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/05/solicitor-general-urged-to-drop-prosecutions-of-jury-rights-activists

CaptainJanegay,
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@ChrisMayLA6 Holy fuck, this is a bold strategy 😂

CaptainJanegay, to cycling
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Does anyone have any helpful tips on cycling with a menstrual cup? I did that for the first time today, and let's just say it wasn't the most comfortable experience... 🤪

ChrisMayLA6, to Sexism
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So the good news is that the gender pay gap continues to close, although its still around 9% in aggregate terms (with wide variations).... but, its now 55 years since the Equal Py Act - that's at least two generations - and still we haven't made it to full equality.

Yet more evidence that sexism continues to pattern our society & we (still) need to work on eradicating it.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/06/gender-pay-gap-in-great-britain-smallest-since-reporting-first-enforced

CaptainJanegay,
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@KimSJ @ChrisMayLA6 This is the distinction between a pay gap and a wage gap. A wage gap is "two people do the same work to the same standard but the woman/black person/disabled person etc gets paid less"; a pay gap is "huh, so we stopped doing that but women (and other marginalised groups) are still getting paid less, I guess the factors are more complex"

CaptainJanegay, to random
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Based on my extremely unscientific observations, it feels like there's a major online disinformation campaign happening to make women afraid of accessing reproductive healthcare.

There have always been myths and scare stories floating around the internet, but I've never before seen so many people absolutely terrified about two things - side effects of hormonal contraception, and pain from routine cervical screening.

I don't know where this disinformation is circulating, but it's really harmful

CaptainJanegay,
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Cervical screening is uncomfortable but not painful for the majority of people. If you're worried about the process, speak to the healthcare provider beforehand - they have lots of options to help, ranging from going slowly and explaining every step as you go along, to using smaller instruments, to offering pain relief.

And consent-wise, intimate exams are just like sex: you can say stop at any time, and they will stop, and you can try again in a different way on a different day.

CaptainJanegay, to random
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It is 6pm and I am going to THROW MY WORK COMPUTER IN THE RIVER IF IT DOESN'T LET ME GO HOME SOON

CaptainJanegay,
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I am home. The computer is dry. My colleague is never allowed to go on annual leave in February ever again. 🙃

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