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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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zackwhittaker, to random
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Once in awhile, and it's becoming more frequent, someone emails me to ask why some very bad privacy practice — like sharing someone's sensitive search terms on a medical provider's website with third-party advertisers — is allowed to happen or isn't illegal.

Elect better lawmakers, and demand better from them. That's it. Nothing will change until lawmakers start serving the interests of their electorate and not the big tech giants that fund their political campaigns.

Jackiemauro,
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@zackwhittaker or! Become that lawmaker!!

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.

dataandpolitics, to tech Spanish
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I used to post of a lot of snarky tech Hot Takes.

I have found it increasingly difficult to maintain a perpetual state of cynicism and snark.

For the most part, tech is full of people trying to do the right thing most of the time in order to care for their loved ones.

The bad apples — and boy are there some bad ones — are better snarked about people other than me.

TLDR: I’m tired and snark is temporarily fun but ultimately draining to the work at hand.

Jackiemauro,
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@dataandpolitics totally agree. And even though it’s fun and even sometimes a valuable outlet, I’ve become increasingly convinced snark takes us further from solutions.

hrefna, to twitter
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It's almost impressive how bad #x née has gotten. I ended up on there briefly earlier while looking into the and between the functionality and the people who crowd mentions it has gotten so, so much worse.

Jackiemauro,
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@hrefna what is keeping them over there?? I sort of get the big accounts who are used to thousands of replies/retweets but everyone else? I don’t get it.

mostaurelius, to books
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A pack horse librarian delivering books in rural Kentucky in 1938. During the Great Depression, the Pack Horse Library Project was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program in which the librarians, who were often called "book women" or "book ladies," delivered books to remote parts of Appalachia.

source: https://www.facebook.com/GoodwillLibrarian

@bookstodon

Jackiemauro,
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@mostaurelius @bookstodon oh shoot new career ambition unlocked

RickiTarr, to random
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I get so mad at myself when a commercial makes me feel something besides just disgust and annoyance.

Jackiemauro,
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@RickiTarr sometimes I like to think of the one person behind that ad who is almost certainly an actually talented creative paying their bills and just be like, nicely done. Hope you get to tinker on your weekends.

StillIRise1963, (edited ) to random
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I would NEVER ride in an Elon Musk “robotaxi” for multiple reasons, least of all that it might take my Black self to a camp.🙄

Jackiemauro,
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@StillIRise1963 or just slowly roll me backwards into a shallow pond and then be impossible to get out of…

Jackiemauro,
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@StillIRise1963 so, so horrible. Like I don’t mean it as a joke, I really think anything that man makes is a trap and no one should go anywhere near it.

Alice, (edited ) to random
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I seriously hate weddings.

I don’t want to waste my day/night sitting through a boring ceremony and watching an attention-seeking bride prance around like a princess while I’m stuck at a table eating cold food and making smalltalk with a stranger about their boring job.

Jackiemauro,
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@Alice I had no idea about any of these traditions till like last year 😂. Thank god for growing up with queer parents.

When I got married we had just parents at the ceremony in city hall, then I got a bunch of food ordered from a great restaurant and truly an absurd amount of booze and had a big house party with all my friends till like 4am.

No gifts. No other parties involved. It was one of the most fun nights of my life.

RickiTarr, to random
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Tell me a silly/funny childhood story!

I'll start:

One time in Sunday School, the teacher was talking about the difference between humans and animals, and mentioned that Animals had Tails and humans didn't. I let her know this was not true, because my Dad had a tail, just in the front, instead of the back. The teacher was silent for several seconds, and tried to correct me in a church appropriate way, but I doubled down, and insisted that my little brothers also had front tails too. This got so heated that the teacher had to go get my parents to take me out of Sunday School.

Jackiemauro,
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@TheJen @RickiTarr these stories always melt my little shit stirrer reform jew brain. My husband was kicked out of Sunday school for arguing too. I thought the whole point was to argue! But I’m sorry that happened to you, it seems really awful to experience as a kid.

Jackiemauro,
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@TheJen @RickiTarr yea I mean as an adult it sort of seems like a badge of honor to be kicked out of such a narrow minded group. Can you imagine being so insecure in your understanding of your own sacred text that you couldn’t even manage the questions of a 5 year old?? Yeesh.

davidaugust, to politics
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Worth remembering.

Jackiemauro,
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@davidaugust I mean also what in the recent past makes people think the gop ever intends to apply the same rules to the dems as they do themselves???

clive, to random
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So I booked a flight for next week, the first time in quite a while

At first I was looking at United, but a lot of their planes were Max 8s or Max 9s, or just Boeing in general, and I was like ... do I realllllly want to roll those bones

Then realized Delta flew the same routes but with Airbuses

So: Delta

I wonder how many other people are making these sorts of calculations?

Not too many, I'd suspect, but not zero

Jackiemauro,
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@mzedp @clive fastest bookmark ever

ai4blobcat, to rstats
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I’m still considering whether to attend posit conference 2024. I’d like to attend the career fair to look for data science related jobs, meanwhile listening some talks. But the ticket is still expensive even for the students, I applied for Opportunity Scholarships but haven’t got any replies from @Posit till now. I doubt is it worthwhile to spend $1198 on a 3-day conference mainly for the career fair? Can anyone have some experiences of posit give some advice? Really appreciate it @rstats

Jackiemauro,
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@ai4blobcat @Posit @rstats 😞😞

Jackiemauro,
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@ai4blobcat @Posit @rstats hope so too! Fwiw although I haven’t been to posit I also think $1,200 is a lot to spend of your own money for a career fair. Hopefully you can get some of that cost defrayed somehow!

timnitGebru, to random
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$660M crypto money to “save humanity from the existential risk of AI.” Same people wrote a few years ago how “without AI we are doomed.” Selling utopia and apocalypse for billions. No one knows how to circle money amongst themselves like these people.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/25/a-665m-crypto-war-chest-roils-ai-safety-fight-00148621

Jackiemauro,
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@timnitGebru and if they really crave being the saviors of humanity—they could actually do that! There is an actual thing we need to do here that rich people could really help out on.

Jesus like if we promise to throw them a parade or something for limiting climate change can we get them to drop this dumb AI thing? Statues? What to they need here?

KimPerales, to random
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The more you know...

had come under the spell of a seductive new theory of “knowledge” possessed by a skilled & experienced workforce as essentially not worth the ⬆️HC costs. CEO McNerney purged the veterans into early retirement. He called longtime engineers & skilled machinists -those who cared too much about the integrity of the planes & not enough about the stock price were “phenomenally talented assholes"-ostracized them into leaving the co-.

https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-03-28-suicide-mission-boeing/

Jackiemauro,
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@KimPerales better than a phenomenally inept asshole…can only have those as ceo

LukeBornheimer, to random
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Massive turnout for today’s @sfbikebus ❤️ Thanks to everyone who joined us!

Bike Bus helps children and families feel safe biking to school while spreading joy and raising awareness for the critical need for safe bike infrastructure in cities.

Join the Bike Bus movement today!

A large group of children and adults ride on Shotwell Street in San Francisco as part of the SF Bike Bus on March 27, 2024

Jackiemauro,
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@LukeBornheimer @washingtonpost what route do you guys take? How do I learn about future ones?

compost, to climate
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should never be hidden behind a content warning.

I will never be sorry for the worries about our planet or care to offend those who could not care less about it.

Jackiemauro,
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@compost we don’t disagree here. The question is just how best to do that.

And my contention is that putting climate horrors in front of people who don’t want to see it isn’t effective. And can harm other people who do care about climate. And that cw’s are a really wonderful tool here generally that I don’t want to see lost.

But I really, really get your fury and fear and frustration. I feel it too.

Jackiemauro,
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@compost if you think this kind of posting makes a positive difference, obviously I’m not going to stop you. But for me, my thinking is:

  1. the number of people I will alert to climate change on mastodon is basically 0
  2. I want to build a consensual and not confrontational social media space, and cw’s are a good tool for that
  3. there are more effective actions I can take outside of social media that don’t leave me feeling like I’m screaming into a void.
Jackiemauro,
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@compost i am so glad to hear you have inspired such powerful behavioral change! I will keep putting cw’s where I believe I could cause harm, because of my experience on other sites that shredded my mental health. But we do not all have to act the same! Thanks for engaging with me and with the good fight!!

Jackiemauro,
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@martijn @compost the joys of mastodon!! ☺️

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