Inhabitants of the anglosphere, even when they think the perpetrators of an atrocity are wrong and the victims of it are right, *still* seem to always manage to empathise with the perpetrators.
I happen to think that striving so hard to have the right politics that you forget to actually be *good* (as in courageous, temperate, wise, merciful) is a really bad thing and we should avoid it.
New Zealanders really need to stop being such fucking busybodies who know what's best for everyone. I think it's our worst national trait.
My friend Mira's set up a Patreon! They are a very good technical writer (they write at mirawelner.com) and you should definitely flick them a visit if you like my stuff.
https://www.patreon.com/cw/MiraWelner/home
#TransDayofvisibility, I suppose. I know not what good tagging myself like this does: the part of me that's competitive doesn't need it and the part of me that's trans feels like it makes me seem a bit pathetic.
rent. I can never be both. If I'm struggling to feed myself and pay my bills, I can"t be the person who writes those articles that everyone shares. If I'm the person who writes those articles, I can't be struggling as much as I am because I'm clearly fairly capable and socially adjusted.
I guess what I'd say for these days is that we can be *both*. I can be smart *and* need the help of readers to pay rent: neither invalidates the other. And yes, it should be different. But it isn't.
Today is the transgender day of visibility. I don't know what to say more globally on the matter, but personally: there is a part of me that is the heterodox tech thinker. I write articles: I get quite a few views, I am popular. Then there's the trans side of me: the person who can't get a job however good and socially well-adjusted I am. Those parts don't often cohabit in people's minds. I can be the clever person who write the things that people love, or I can be the trans girl trying to make
I love seeing the Microsoft Teams referral codes for some of my articles in my analytics. Who are the people sharing my work on Teams chats? What are they like?
Unfortunately, I fear that it's easy to see why LLMs became popular: getting anywhere in our currently arranged society requires us all to generate unreasonably large quantities of what is, frankly, total crap.
Today in the LinkedIn papers (aka: "please give Iris a job or something"): five misconceptions people have about being trans in the workforce!
https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/five-things-trans-workplace
Five things you get wrong about being trans in the workplace | deadSimpleTech
In this article, then, I'll discuss five misconceptions that people commonly hold about trans people, with a tilt towards workforce interactions. In each section, I give a brief explainer of the misconception and why it's wrong, and then give some points for what you, as a well-meaning cis person (or a trans person privileged enough to have dodged most of this shit: they're few and far between, but I've met one or two of them) can do to help mitigate or undo the damage that the misconception causes.
