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Aua, das tut weh.
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@jschauma/116315060556000470
Aua, das tut weh.
Another #NoKings picture from yesterday
Taken by Eric Lee for the New York Times in Washington DC
An obvious throwback to 60 year old flower power vibes
And you might disagree with the sentiment, but you can't deny the power of the image
the more you try something the more you appreciate professionals.
I started music lessons and now appreciate what it means to be a musician.
I started vibe coding and have a renewed and even greater than before appreciation for professional developers.
In fact, all my experiments with vibes have lead to same conclusion on their use in a corporate environment: easy to impress up where everything is abstract, impossible to convince down where details matter.
The vast majority of people who will be impacted by trans bans in sports will be little girls with short hair or arms that are "too muscular."
It will also mean that when a woman is good at her sport the disgusting grumbling and whispering about "may she is he" gets taken more seriously.
This happened with Paula Radcliffe for running marathons too fast. If it helps you to think of a white cis woman being the victim of this.
Of course little black girls will take the brunt of this. As ever.
@inthehands while ai is causing new problems here I think this is also part of how we teach people how expertise and the social value of "smartness" works.
Sure people often need to rely on the expertise of others, but we should emphasize that it's an exercise in community and trust.... and usually we don't, schools present it as an exercise in authority... so yeah people go looking for something that produces authority for them.
Edit: wrote some more about this: https://bayes.club/@wronglang/116307615948005128
I contribute to extremely applied research on mundane but politically spicy topics such as health and inequity. I have a degree in chemistry and a PhD in evolutionary biology that gave me enough time wrestling with the gnarlier parts of statistical algorithms to be an expert on most* of applied statistics. I try to respect that work when posting. The way expertise is treated on social media and in daily life is broken, and it's hurting all of us. #Introduction