Jessie Ann (she/they)

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A hundred years ago, there was a research centre, archive, clinic and museum space dedicated to sexuality. It researched and provided birth control advice, gynaecological services, and trans healthcare as well as doing advocacy work. Its work might seem ahead of its time, even now.

This is the story of Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute of Sexology #LGBTHistoryMonth

Ich hab da mit meinen bescheidenen Skills was gebastelt:

Nicht Mann nicht Frau und trotzdem da - Die #nonbinary #Antifa

EDIT: fixed typos, hashtag

#AntifaSticker #AntifaLogo #AntifaLogoRemix

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Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?
HEY SO I might be moving to testosterone injections soon instead of the topical gel. Does anybody have tips for HRT injections, especially stuff the doctor might not mention? I'm pretty nervous about it. #transgender #transmasc #HRT #LGBTQIA #trans

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The great scientific debate of 1928

This is the EXACT kind of shit we have been warning you about. "A.I." tools trained on data filled with asaumptions and prejudices about marginalized people and then being deployed in situations with literal life-&-death implications for the people involved. In this case, diaabled parents being more likely to be flagged as "unfit."

This is utter nightmare shit.

https://apnews.com/article/child-protective-services-algorithms-artificial-intelligence-disability-f5af28001b20a15c4213e36144742f11

Not magic: Opaque AI tool may flag parents with disabilities

PITTSBURGH (AP) — For the two weeks that the Hackneys’ baby girl lay in a Pittsburgh hospital bed weak from dehydration, her parents rarely left her side, sometimes sleeping on the fold-out sofa in the room.

Associated Press

Republicans are actively, literally, calling for trans children, trans adults, transness as a whole, to be eradicated— and yes that word is a direct quote.

If you still hold truck with them, extricate yourselves from my sphere. Right now.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cpac-trans-kids-eradicated-transgender-michael-knowles_n_64038d23e4b0c78bb7430b1c

At CPAC, A Call For Trans People To Be 'Eradicated' Gets Big Cheers

The conservative movement’s annual confab was creepily obsessed with trans kids and showcased the GOP’s alarming and intensifying anti-trans rhetoric.

HuffPost

Hi, I work with generative machines. Everything from Markov chain generators to GPT-3. I’ve trained and tuned many models with GPT2 and 3, all with the intent of simulating human interaction.

I know a fair bit about generative machines, both how they work, and how to tune and interact with them to get particular results.

I need you to hear this: they do not know or understand anything. They are complex probability tables.

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