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Jackiemauro

@Jackiemauro@fosstodon.org

Data scientist | PhD in stats & public policy from CMU | interested in #causalInference #nonparametricStatistics #ML #criminalJustice, trying to get more into and learn more about #climate

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StillIRise1963, to random
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Don’t say shit about caring about trans people, gay people, Black people, brown people, immigrants or your own damn self if you don’t VOTE for Biden. And, you can kiss my ass too.

Jackiemauro,
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@StillIRise1963 also climate oh my god climate. Things aren’t looking good but holy shit the suffering that will happen if we follow the GOP’s path on climate…

RickiTarr, (edited ) to random
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What advice would you give to someone just starting out in a relationship?

Mine might sound kind of dark in relation to the question, but here goes:

People change, and they should, it's part of being a person. Some people are lucky, and they change in the same direction, but some don't, and that's okay too. There's no shame in leaving a relationship or changing the nature of a relationship that no longer serves you. We are all taught that every relationship, whether romantic or friendship, is supposed to last forever, but nothing is forever, and forcing something that no longer works, just ends in anger and bitterness. Knowing when to let go is as important as knowing when to hold on through a rough patch, and how to know either of those things is the most cliché advice of all, COMMUNICATE.

Jackiemauro,
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@RickiTarr what I’ve learned from watching my queer parents:

Conventional relationship rules can be a useful shorthand, but they can also be oppressive and constricting. If your relationship thrives when you live apart or whatever thing conventional wisdom says spells doom: do that thing. There’s no relationship police.

RickiTarr, to random
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I'm going to ramble a bit, but it will hopefully come around to something. When I was growing up, I read a lot of older historical book series, a big one would be the Little House On The Prairie series. While I really enjoyed it, there are some very obviously negative portrayals of Native Americans and African Americans. I remember being angry about it as a kid, and my Dad telling me, that part of learning about history is that we have to acknowledge the people we were, and still are. But because Little House on the Prairie is only semi-autobiographical, I still have mixed feelings about this. I do think they are well written books by a female author, an interesting perspective on early American life, and as an adult I can see and acknowledge the issues with the text. If we try to get rid of every author with racist ideas there wouldn't be much left to read from the 20th Century, and it also feels like being dishonest about who we are. So, I'm very mixed, how do you all feel about it? Do you think children can handle books with racial issues like this if it's explained to them? What is our responsibility here?

Jackiemauro,
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@RickiTarr my kids aren’t white and I really don’t think I’m gonna put books like this anywhere near them until they’re much older and hopefully have had time to internalize just how frickin awesome they are.

I don’t know how I feel about their white compatriots reading these books with proper context

mekkaokereke, to random
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If you got upset at me for pointing out that more people died of Covid under Biden than Trump, in large part because Biden rolled back common sense restrictions that were in place under Trump...

Then you'll hate me pointing out that Trump introduced a 25% tariff on Chinese EVs, and Biden is upping that to 100% tariff.

https://insideevs.com/news/719283/chinese-ev-tariffs-biden-quadruple/

We can't allow the US to get off of fossil fuels... unless US billionaires win! 🤡

Fear the BYD Dolphin! (an EV car for $12K)
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/T3nfyO_UHjk

Jackiemauro,
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@mekkaokereke @cshlan I mean just to be fair 1) Trump promises even more tariffs (https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/03/18/politics/donald-trump-tariffs-trade-war) and 2) the IRA does funnel a ton of money towards battery manufacturing and subsidizes the purchase of ev’s.

This is not me trying to say Biden is great, just adding context

grimalkina, to random
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"Randomized trials cannot address all causal questions of importance in medicine and health policy and may have limited generalizability; thus, investigators may need to use observational studies as a source of evidence to address causal questions. The challenge, then, is to balance the importance of addressing the causal questions for which observational studies are needed with caution regarding the reliance on strong assumptions to support causal conclusions."

A challenge of our time truly

Jackiemauro,
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@grimalkina also just to vent: I hate that if you say you want to do observational causal inference people just go: “oh, economics?”

NO.

mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
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Again, "Trump is worse!" Then blocked🤷🏿‍♂️

https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/@steter/112402055418029413

Gotta respect the doubling down! Replying to me posting some dude saying "Trump is worse!" then blocking me, with saying "Trump is worse!" then blocking me too! The commitment to the bit is impressive!

Listen, you can get as mad as you want. You can call Black folk criticizing Biden "Bitching" if you want. We're still going to do it.

The CDC under Biden dropped the Covid isolation period from "5 days" to "vibes days." Not Trump.

Jackiemauro,
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@mekkaokereke boy we heard a lot less about “vaccine hesitancy” when it turned out white people were the ones refusing.

hrefna, to random
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If you think that Biden isn't harm reduction from Trump, I don't even know what to say.

I don't like the man, and I have more reasons to dislike him than most, he wasn't even in my top 5 in the last election.

But the difference between him and Trump is night and day

"It's just cryptofascism" no, no it isn't, but even to the degree it were, the amount of damage that Trump can do is orders of magnitude higher and claiming these are identical is accelerationist at best and genocidal at worst

Jackiemauro,
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@hrefna (adding on with more ideas, definitely not negating those ones!)

Volunteer for a candidate you really believe in!

Go to city council meetings!

Support local independent journalism!

Run for office!

StillIRise1963, to random
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Nothing worse than stupid with words.🙄

Jackiemauro,
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@StillIRise1963 except maybe their consequences

GottaLaff, to random
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Via Angry Staffer:

…Project 2025 ..

  • would let red states monitor & prosecute women who get abortions

  • won’t commit to defending NATO nations

  • wd fire attys who won’t prosec his political opponents

  • suspend posse comitatus & deploy the military on US soil

  • wd end pandemic preparedness office

  • wd fire 1000s of civil servants

  • pardon all J6 rioters

  • try to make law enf officers immune from prosec

If this doesn’t scare the living shit out of you, you aren’t paying attention.

Jackiemauro,
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@MylesRyden @RebeccaBoyce I just got into the dumbest argument yesterday with people who sincerely believed Biden was worse than Trump on Covid and civil liberties and OOF.

mekkaokereke, to random
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Again for people (racists), complaining about falling birth rates:

The birth rate for women over 40 is not falling. The birth rate for women over 30 is not falling.

What's happening, is girls 15 to 17 are having fewer babies. Kids are having fewer kids.

Also, this is an interesting way of saying that "Teen pregnancy is down, due to sex education and contraception."

In 1991 25% of 15 year olds gave birth before they turned 21. That's bad. Now it's 6%. That's better.

https://npr.org/2023/01/08/1147737247/teen-pregnancy-rates-have-declined-significantly

Jackiemauro,
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@mekkaokereke you can’t have a birth rate crisis and a border crisis at the same time. Unless you’re racist. So…

Jackiemauro, to random
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We all know, the less you hold powerful people to account, the better they behave!

The less you constrain their actions, the more they control themselves for the common good.

Obviously.

Jackiemauro, to MountainBiking
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I biked from noe to the conservatory of flowers today with the kid on the back and HOT DAMN it was honestly one of the most incredible experiences of my life.

Gorgeous gorgeous day. Got to ride up Page , which is just so lovely. Then down which is honest to good one of the most beautiful promenades on the planet right now. There was art! There was nature! There was community!

God, you can really show off when you want to.

Jackiemauro, to SanFrancisco
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Saw this map of a hypothetical gondola system in and cannot get it out of my head. Imagine how gorgeous this would be!!

https://burritojustice.github.io/sf-gondola-map/

Jackiemauro, to Parenting
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Decided it would be good for my mental health to get back into my diary habit. My 3yo decided he would like to get into my diary habit too.

Jackiemauro, to internet
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So I’ve been here a little while and I still poke my head into ig now and then but im not invested anymore.

I’ve noticed a huge difference in my mental health. Huge.

Ive also noticed when I talk to friends on ig or twitter or TikTok it feels a little bit like talking to smokers.

I feel like a scold but I also feel like…you know this is bad for you. Why are you still on there? And worse, why are you getting news there?

Anyone else have this experience?

RickiTarr, to random
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I wish I could truly make people understand how much of a cult Conservative Fundamentalism is, and how much it truly brainwashes you. It is easy to say, "How can those people be so stupid, how can they not see?", but unless you've been inside it, you cannot understand how much effort is put into making sure that people cannot understand or see.

Jackiemauro,
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@RickiTarr Totally agree. I think I’m deciding that part of being a good ally is playing this difficult role where you have lots of patience and kindness and empathy for people who are acting cruelly. I can be the person who shares what I’ve learned and opens the door to learning together without judgement or recrimination or shame, because I’m not defending my own humanity in those moments. And I think as you say that approach is more effective. Even if it feels so hard sometimes.

mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
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Rapper Meek Mill is wondering out loud if Africans have access to streaming music apps like Spotify, and if so, if they listen to his music.

There aren't enough stories about the Africans working at big tech companies, but there are a lot of us. There are many Ghanaians, South Africans, Kenyans, and Nigerians 🙋🏿‍♂️, working in tech.

I often remind folks that Nigerian 7th grade math curriculum includes binary, octal, hexadecimal, statistics and data, algebra, and geometry.

https://youtu.be/2JTnr9XW-lk?si=D4ch-nw-zDkKNiAe

Jackiemauro,
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@mekkaokereke SIGH I really want to send my kids to public school when they’re bigger but it’s clear that we so desperately don’t want to teach black kids math, that we just withhold it from all public school students.

And getting to college and having to catch up in math is a terrible state to be in.

Jackiemauro, to SanFrancisco
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This article is sobering, sad, infuriating at what it takes to run a restaurant in these days.

And if my back of the envelope calculation is right, it means that basically a quarter of any bill you pay at a restaurant is going straight into a landlords pocket. Either the commercial space or out of the workers wages.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/san-francisco-restaurant-small-business-18494773.php

Jackiemauro, to random
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Make America Great Again by tearing down highways and restoring black centers of prosperity and by putting all the trains back where they used to run.

mekkaokereke, to random
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🤡

From Mother Jones:
"Dick Harpootlian, the party chairman, said whether Haley listed her race as white or not doesn’t really matter to him, but the issue is that the governor has shown a pattern of such actions.

'Haley has been appearing on television interviews where she calls herself a minority—when it suits her,' Harpootlian said. 'When she registers to vote she says she is white. She has developed a pattern of saying whatever is beneficial to her at the moment.'
"

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/07/indian-nikki-haley-says-she-is-white/

Jackiemauro,
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@jynersolives @mekkaokereke 1000%

What is the deal with tipping? Oh, racism.

Why when I cross this one street is everything suddenly decrepit? Oh…I know.

And on and on

Jackiemauro, to streaming
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Mad about being awful? being evil? Live in ? May I (re)introduce you to the joy that is a video rental store!

VideoWave on 24th has a huge selection, a friendly and deeply knowledgeable owner, and ice cream. Just got muppet Xmas carol. So pumped.

Jackiemauro, to internet
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I’m not gonna tell anyone what to do or be a scold but I personally would be so grateful for ‘s in this moment.

Jackiemauro, to SanFrancisco
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Anyone have recommendations for where to order in ? I need someone that delivers.

Jackiemauro, to Sociology
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Hey and scholars people, can anyone tell me why it is that religious groups are often so good at organizing themselves to share responsibilities but secular groups seem super bad at it?

Jackiemauro, to random
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I want a network of like “non lethal” streets. No one gets to move at a mass x velocity combo that would cause lethal injury. You wanna drive an SUV, ok sure. Max speed 2mph.

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