QuincyOtter
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QuincyOtter
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Longtime IT worker. Been a furry since 2001. Space otter thing online.
Luci Bitchface Angerfoot5 cognitive biases leftist online communities routinely use to smuggle in transphobia and transmisogyny
- base rate neglect
The bias where undue attention is given to attributes of a specific case while ignoring the base population rate of those attributes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy
- availability bias
the false belief that the examples you personally have seen and are aware of are statistically valuable and significant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic
- out group homogeniety bias
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-group_homogeneity
the belief that all members of a minority group are all identical and share a community, a hivemind, shared decision making, and therefore should all share accountability for what any specific member does
this one is a real red flag in leftist spaces cos i have seen it so unevenly applied to the trans community in so many situations that would be very obviously seen as bigotry if applied to any other minority group; the belief that white trans women have a special and heightened responsibility to ācall inā our sisters - seperate and greater than the responsibility any cis white person has- betrays a bunch of false and transphobic beliefs about trans women in general
- Denominator Neglect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denominator_neglect
people focus on the total number of problematic trans people they see and never put it into the context of the total number of trans people that exist, including the ones they donāt notice or pay any attention to because they are specifically not a problem and you might not even know they are trans.
Itās awareness of THIS bias in cis people that drives some of us trannies to be vocally visible, and even to draw the complaint fhat weāve āmade it our whole personalityā because we know if we donāt you cissy fuckers are gonna try and tell us the 5 visible bigoted assholes amongst us represents the entire community
- Disproportionate scrutiny / Hypervisibility
Far from being a privelege, this one means that if any one of us fucks up even slightly, it becomes a huge internet drama, while cis people can fuck up in the same ways and itās just a day ending in āyā
this is all not to say that trans people being nazis, racist or bigoted isnāt a problem; just that it isnāt a problem that is *special* and specific to trans women. The ātransā part isnāt relevant and doing special callouts of a personās minority attributes is itself, a virulent form of transphobia that nevertheless is casually accepted in our communities
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Tisha Tiger / NeligerRemember that XChat was an IRC client long before the idiot-in-chief even thought of using that name.
šæš¶šš¶ "not yet begun to fight""No one wants to work, our turnover is terrible!"
Ok, do you pay a living wage?
"No"
Do you give annual raises more than 7%, the annual rate of cost of living increase?
"Also no, but-"
Do you give larger raises and bonuses to execs than to your workers?
"Well yes, but-"
Did you force people to stop working from home in order to justify the cost of maintaining real estate you own?
"I mean, we-"
Do you heavily invest in AI so you can justify massive layoffs?
"Like every other co-"
Do you ask your employees to pick up the slack for the people who have left?
"We had t-"
And did you install digital tools to spy on your remaining employees?
"Look we need to ensu-"
Sounds to me like people DO want to work, you've just made it unpatatable for them to work for YOU.
Made some super French toast for breakfast. What makes it super French? Croissant bread. Is French toast really French and not Dutch like French Fries? I would have to look that up. Feel free to pedantically correct me. I do love a bit of pedantry.
Just be nice about it please.
I've got the flu and just wanted a nice comfort breakfast.
Dunning my Krueger.
Last night I gave a brief explanation of the Dunning-Krueger effect to a friend when it came up in conversation.
This morning that person referenced it in a way that suggests at least some fundamental misunderstanding of the premise.
Paul CantrellWatching Fedi and the world react to the US president go absolutely unhinged in public, threatening war crimes as his cognitive grip disintegrates before our eyes, watching the horror and the outrageā¦there is something I want to tell you from Minneapolis.
And Iām not sure how, and Iām not sure if I can, but I want to try. People are always thanking us and calling us heroes and asking us for some kind ofā¦something, anything we can offer in the face of the authoritarian march, and well, here it is, here is something, if I can figure out how to say it.
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Christine Lemmer-Webber"I used AI. It worked. I hated it." by @mttaggart https://taggart-tech.com/reckoning/
This is a really good blogpost. And I"m sure it'll make some people unhappy to read whether they're pro or anti genAI. What's good about @mttaggart's blogpost is he talks honestly about how using Claude Code did actually solve the problem he set out to do. It needed various guardrails, but they were possible to set up, and the project worked. But the post is also completely clear and honest about how miserable it was:
- It removed the joy from the process
- If you aim to do the right thing and carefully evaluate the output, your job ends up eventually becoming "tapping the Y key"
- Ramifications on people learning things
- Plenty of other ethical analysis
- And the nagging wonder whether to use it next time, despite it being miserable.
I think this is important, because it *is* true that these tools are getting to the point where they can accomplish a lot of tasks, but the caveat space is very large (cotd)
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