Amy van der Hiel

@amyvdh
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As a (queer) cis man, I honestly think _everyone_ should think about what their gender means to them, and how they express it.

I've thought a lot about masculinity — what makes it toxic, or anti-toxic, or positive — and how that applies to myself, not just how I act but how I feel in my body. And I think because I've thought about that, I've had moments of gender euphoria. Of feeling right in my body and my presentation and all of that. Not just being okay with it, not unthinking acceptance, but legit euphoria.

More cis people need to do the work so they can feel that, because they'd finally understand some fraction of what gender means to people who have had to confront it, with whatever results.

@kpl doing lots of stuff, including some fuck ups (and recognizing them, etc) that’s being human, yeah?

having a kinda “go back to Massachusetts, pinko!” morning today

(I’m the pinko)

if you use GitHub you now need to actively disable AI co-pilot if you don’t want it to collect or use your data.

https://github.com/settings/copilot/features

Is there a term for this kind of no agreement tech railroading?

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Keeping money from going to the Harry Potter franchise isn’t just a symbolic gesture. It’s about preventing real harm to real people.

https://www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowling-anti-trans-organization

J.K. Rowling uses personal wealth to fund anti-trans org

This is where "Harry Potter" profits are going.

Advocate.com
Good morning Fedi!!
@kpl birthday? happy birthday!!! 🎁🎂🎈

My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"

Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC

Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models/RfC - Wikipedia

Kid wants to know how a router knows where to direct the packets it receives from the Internet to devices on a LAN.
Anyone has an intro course to NAT and NAT traversal (understandable for a middle schooler, I mean)?
@djoerd ha! colleagues of mine had a very apt (and amusing) discussion about whether it should actually be “bike-shedding” :)