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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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RickiTarr, to random
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Alright, lots of heavy discussions today, so let's talk about something silly!

What is a movie that always makes you laugh?

Personal pick:

Anything Mel Brooks, but Robin Hood: Men in Tights, it's just funny every time I watch it.

Jackiemauro,
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@RickiTarr

Bridesmaids
Blazing saddles
Old Mae West movies

I’m realizing I don’t watch that many comedies these days. Though I just went to see Babes and I loved it

grimalkina, to random
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It's kind of amazing how much people disparage work that's really intentionally about helping people. I don't even think people know they're doing it. Even when people emphasize the care aspect it's almost always at the cost of acting like you're less intelligent

Jackiemauro,
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@grimalkina how much of this do you think is misogyny? I feel like the disdain for “care” work is so embedded in disdain for women. I also wonder if that’s part of why tech ppl sort of sneer at managerial roles.

RickiTarr, to random
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Money doesn't buy happiness is something rich people say, because they can't figure out why people don't like them.

Jackiemauro,
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@RickiTarr I think if you’ve gone from worrying about money to not worrying about money, that’s an incredibly liberating feeling.

But my job has surrounded me with people who spend so so so so so much of their time wringing their hands about money because they only have $1M in their retirement account and they’re already 40 and etc etc.

So you can definitely make yourself miserable by chasing money and losing perspective.

But also good lord they’re so dumb.

Jackiemauro,
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@RickiTarr I guess the more accurate saying is “money can’t buy happiness if you’re determined to be miserable”

Jackiemauro,
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@RickiTarr It is the weirdest impulse. Like just chill. Order some Chinese food and watch a movie and be grateful.

RickiTarr, to random
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Sometimes, I think we need to stop blaming just Capitalism, and get more personal. Lots of countries use a Capitalistic system, but still manage to pay workers fair wages, provide free/inexpensive Healthcare, have paid maternity/paternity leave, longer paid vacation, shorter work weeks, ect. We use the word Capitalism like Christians use The Devil, but it's not some dark mysterious force, it is people who are choosing to treat other people like actual garbage, it is people who are making laws, people who are denying rights. The derision with which we speak the name of Elon Musk or Donald Trump, should be universal for rich fuckers who choose profits over people. They shouldn't get to hide behind, Oh, that's just late stage Capitalism. It's a choice for them, and it's a choice for the lobbyists who promote them, and it's a choice for the politicians who put those laws into action.

Jackiemauro,
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@RickiTarr yea it really gives the humans being immoral such a pass. Like “yea of course the CEO is laying off vulnerable people while raking in record profits and paying themselves record packages. That’s capitalism!

No. That’s a person making a choice within a system that allows that choice.

Also not for nothing that system doesn’t force to you accept these sorts of decisions without question or pushback.

GottaLaff, to random
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Folks, I'm going upstairs to watch this on TV now.

THANK YOU ALL

Jackiemauro,
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@GottaLaff THANK YOU

RickiTarr, to random
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How much alone time vs socializing do you need?

For me there are a few people who are usually equalizing, and I can just be around them, so I won't count that. But generally, I find about 3 times a week, I'm game for socializing. A day in between to rest is usually nice, but the larger the gathering or if we go somewhere particularly noisy or I'm meeting new people that involves more effort, and my social battery empties sooner. I'm very curious where everyone else falls on this!

Jackiemauro,
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@RickiTarr this has really changed since I had kids. Before I would say I was about where you are, but now since I am essentially never alone, I would prefer to be around other adults basically always.

mekkaokereke, to random
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4 years to the day after George Floyd was murdered, here's where we are:

  • Racist people are just as racist as the day before George Floyd was murdered.

  • Black people are still asking for the exact same things.

  • "Liberal" and "Centrist" white Americans are more racist, and less supportive of DEI than they were the day before George Floyd.

  • Police budgets have grown faster than they did the day before George Floyd.

  • Biden has undone any of the gains made during the protests.

1/N

Jackiemauro,
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@mekkaokereke I feel like we really have a huge weakness when it comes to sustaining any sort of political pressure. We can turn out for the protests, which feel righteous and glorious. But when it comes to the day to day grind of getting people elected, of keeping your issue front of mind…not so good.

Hopefully the subtext of who “we” is here is clear…

I felt this way after the women’s march too. And here we are, without even roe to protect us.

Jackiemauro, to SanFrancisco
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Just your friendly(???) neighborhood heron (???)

I don’t know much about birds, but it was cool.

GottaLaff, to random
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Was there ever a doubt?

is supporting ’s 2024 White House bid, she said Wednesday in her first public remarks since exiting the Republican presidential primary more than two months ago.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/22/politics/nikki-haley-donald-trump?cid=ios_app

Jackiemauro,
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@GottaLaff but it’s not like Biden is a black panther. What do they really stand to lose? I feel like they are mostly worried about not getting invited to doubles tennis at the club or something. It’s so weird to me.

Jackiemauro,
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@GottaLaff I actually honestly don’t get what these people find so terrifying about democrats…

hrefna, to random
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"But you will be using AI in…"

Possibly! I don't dispute that it may happen! I've seen a lot of thoughts in that direction for other technologies that never panned out, but I've also seen it go the other way.

Finding a use for the generative AI tools in the development process won't surprise me. Especially if the cost comes down.

What I balk at are replacement narratives or the idea that somehow it will invalidate human engineers.

Also: you should unionize to fight them trying.

Jackiemauro,
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@hrefna would be ironic if it replaced all the engineers but not the writers who had the foresight to unionize. I mean, I’d be out of luck, but I would recognize the irony

TransitBiker, to random
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Everyone has a gender neutral bathroom in their home .. possibly several of them. Make sure to use this fact against transphobic assholes.

Jackiemauro,
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@mentallyalex @StillIRise1963 @Alan @TransitBiker @KatM and why not, ya know? What’s the big rush guys? Take a break.

Jackiemauro,
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@StillIRise1963 @KatM @TransitBiker they’re also clearly the grossest when it comes to bathrooms.

arkadiusz, to analog

I really like cats, but never mind , bunnies are cool too! ~ Stare Zoo, Poznań, Poland 🇵🇱

Gear:
• Zeiss Ikon Taxona (Germany, 1954)
• Tessar f/3.5 37.5 mm
• Watameter Super Rangefinder (Germany, 1954)
• Kodak VISION3 250D (ECN2)

Jackiemauro,
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@arkadiusz maybe we need to get BunDay going

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.

grimalkina, to random
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So one of my first conference trips after focusing my research on software teams, I'd worked really hard & shared innovative science in a talk that was widely acclaimed. But what I remember most is I was crossing the street with a bunch of men in tech and a car pulled up on us really close to me and I jumped and they all laughed and mocked me for the next block and said it revealed my "real personality"

Anyway that DID perfectly describe every day as a queer woman in tech 10/10 no notes

Jackiemauro,
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@grimalkina god I felt this interaction in my bones

grimalkina, to random
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Random but: just before I got really ill I did a cool research project with my consultancy Catharsis about mid career women in tech using sudden pandemic WFH (along and despite its adversities) to advocate for being seen differently or to get chances that were denied when they were in person. Qualitative interviews with really cool stories about strategy in these moments. Then obviously I got crushed by illness so the data is just sitting on my shelf.

I should find the time to write it up 🥰

Jackiemauro,
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@grimalkina that sounds so cool!! Hope to read it soon.

Jackiemauro,
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@grimalkina any teasers in terms of findings?

Jackiemauro,
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@grimalkina cool!!

Jackiemauro,
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@grimalkina yea you gotta write this up 😂

Jackiemauro,
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@grimalkina I got my first job and my current role both while pregnant and I do sometimes wonder how much not being visibly pregnant walking around helped with that

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

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