More importantly, there actually is proper data showing that this kind of thing can actually make a meaningful difference, and surely we're all evidence-driven people here, right?
A 2008 experiment researched teenagers' perception of epilepsy with respect to people-first language. Teenagers from a summer camp were divided into two groups. One group was asked questions using the term "people with epilepsy", and the other group was asked using the term "epileptics", with questions including "Do you think that people with epilepsy/epileptics have more difficulties at school?" and "Do you have prejudice toward people with epilepsy/epileptics?" The study showed that the teenagers had higher "stigma perception" on the Stigma Scale of Epilepsy when hearing the phrase "epileptics" as opposed to "people with epilepsy".
Colored people puts their color first before their humanity and has hiatorically been used by racists doing racist things. People of color acknowledges that they are people first, and is a reaction to systemic discrimination. That is why white person isn't a big deal, since we don't have a history of oppression.
It is semantics, but there are reasons behind they similar sounding stuff is seen in very different ways.
Turn out it's the definition of rational as it can be empirically supported. From further up in the thread:
There actually is proper data showing that this kind of thing can actually make a meaningful difference, and surely we're all evidence-driven people here, right?
A 2008 experiment researched teenagers' perception of epilepsy with respect to people-first language. Teenagers from a summer camp were divided into two groups. One group was asked questions using the term "people with epilepsy", and the other group was asked using the term "epileptics", with questions including "Do you think that people with epilepsy/epileptics have more difficulties at school?" and "Do you have prejudice toward people with epilepsy/epileptics?" The study showed that the teenagers had higher "stigma perception" on the Stigma Scale of Epilepsy when hearing the phrase "epileptics" as opposed to "people with epilepsy".
Starting this afternoon, all existing OpenAI API developers “with a history of successful payments” can access GPT-4. GPT-4 can generate text (including code) and accept image and text inputs – an improvement over GPT-3.5, its predecessor, which only accepted text – and performs at “human level” on various...
Watch collectors are kind of an odd bunch. I’m talking about “dumb” watches specifically - watches that only tell time and don’t have any sort of smartphone connectivity or biometric tracking. Some of the fancier models might have a timer on them, but you’re certainly not going to be getting text notifications. Watches...
Spiro, who is acting on behalf of Twitter parent X Corp, claims that Meta has hired dozens of ex-Twitter employees over the last year. He claimed the company “deliberately assigned” them to work on Threads “with the specific intent that they use Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property in order to accelerate development of Meta’s competing app.” He argued this violates state and federal laws as well as those employees’ obligations to their former employer. In addition, Spiro said Meta is prohibited from scraping Twitter data relating to who people follow.
Oh, cry me a river. Dude fired a bunch of folks, Meta swooped them up, looked at their experience, then asked them to work where their experience is relevant.
Musk 100% did this with other people working in the auto industry. He hired folks from other auto and tech industries, and he hired folks with relevant experience in similar tech.
I always hate this saying. Even before smartphones where a thing people used to socialize and seek entertainment more than they were studying. People would read entertaining fiction books over text books. People would go to plays, music shows, over going to lectures. People would talk about gossip, weather, or other topics more often than exchanging knowledge.
I would even argue we seek knowledge way more often than we used to because it's available to us. But you can't retain that much knowledge and since it's available to us whenever we need it, there is no need to study it before we actually need it.
And a lot of social media use still is exchange of information. So many places that talk about hobbies is full of information or ideas.
But unless your job involves a lot of research there is no need for constantly looking up knowledge.
Fully agree. The reason I'm here is to escape corporate shitfuckery. if you expect anything other than more shitfuckery from Meta you're either a shill or hopelessly naive.
This conversation has been going on Mastodon for a while now. The problem kind of boils down to the following: there are people who think Meta is a bad actor and having the literal entire rest of the fediverse defederating is the best way of dealing with that. And there are people who also agree that Meta is a bad actor, and think that partial defederation is the best way of dealing with it.
Its really hard to come (read: impossible) to come to a consensus on this, because part of the argument about what is a better tactical approach depends on knowing how Threads implements things like account portability, and this is currently unknown. Most people even assumed that Threads would not implement this at all, but Adam Mosseri just announced that this is an important feature, so who even knows.
My god yes, also people who make horrible bots that interrupt the conversation just to push their owners' spelling or punctuation preferences.
It's prescriptivist, elitist, and even ableist. Also, social media by nature is colloquial, not formal - it feels like being told off for not wearing a business suit at home on the weekend.
Republican House member refers to Black Americans as 'colored people' in debate (www.msnbc.com)
Reddit kills awards and coins (old.reddit.com)
SuperTuxCart is unironically one of the best games I've played for a while. (supertuxkart.net)
One of the reasons is because I don’t play games that often but… It’s actually nice to play....
Violent brawl breaks out at Michigan GOP committee meeting (www.independent.co.uk)
FYI: Lemmy.world and other instances were hacked. Beehaw.org took itself down to mitigate risks (lemmy.world)
Drawing attention on this instance so Admins are aware and can address the propagating exploit....
Meta's 'Threads' wants to colonize the Fediverse (fortune.com)
I really hope this is a complete failure, like Meta itself.
OpenAI makes GPT-4 generally available (news.yahoo.com)
Starting this afternoon, all existing OpenAI API developers “with a history of successful payments” can access GPT-4. GPT-4 can generate text (including code) and accept image and text inputs – an improvement over GPT-3.5, its predecessor, which only accepted text – and performs at “human level” on various...
A Call to Action: Universities of the World, Join the Fediverse! (netzpolitik.org)
[Wristwatches] How a $260 plastic watch pissed off the entire watch community
Watch collectors are kind of an odd bunch. I’m talking about “dumb” watches specifically - watches that only tell time and don’t have any sort of smartphone connectivity or biometric tracking. Some of the fancier models might have a timer on them, but you’re certainly not going to be getting text notifications. Watches...
Anti-union (i.ibb.co)
Twitter threatens to sue Meta over the new Threads app (www.engadget.com)
Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene removed from US House Freedom Caucus (www.reuters.com)
The real miracle of modern technology is that we can carry around a device that contains more information than the Library of Alexandria, yet we mainly use it to scroll through Social Media
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Could we get official word on what Kbin's stance is towards federating with Meta?
I would like to know if I can feel safe here, or if I should pack it up and start looking elsewhere sooner rather than later....
Outlook suddenly started opening links in Edge, disregarding my default browser settings (www.theverge.com)
Current-era Microsoft continuing to push the boundaries of consent....
It would be a shame if someone posted the article about David Zaslav that GQ magazine apparently pulled shortly after publication this morning (lemmy.world)
Even worse if it were an easy to save single image and could be re-shared
Are you going to try Meta's Threads? (www.theverge.com)
Will people here use/try Meta’s #threads when available? Would love to know the reasons or if it would be just for fun/curiosity....
Just opened a bag of chips (lemmy.world)
What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?
i can’t stand megathreads – no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!