Will Beason

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UT Austin iSchool PhD student studying ethical, sustainable AI. (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈
Dog sleeping on my knee as the fiancé and I watch Fantasy High.
Having fun learning Go in my spare time.
Doing some TTRPG writing with actual pen and paper.
Assembled a wooden orrery kit I got for Christmas today

Picked up a textbook about operating systems to satisfy my curiosity.

Dear fellow software developers: Everything the operating system tells you is a lie!

I think it's cool that even in Farsi, one of the smaller languages on Wikipedia, Elliott Page is gendered correctly. It's the same for many languages in non-Latin writing systems I can read: Cyrillic, Arabic, Greek. I also verified Hebrew (which I cannot sight-read). I didn't check all of them - but for all of the twenty languages I checked this was the case.

(By "read" I mean that I can sound out written words, not understand them)

Reading "Coding Freedom" by Gabriella Coleman this weekend. This photo of anti-DMCA protestors struck me.
Reading Starstruck. More art needs to exist like this.

Comparison of link targets across Wikipedia. Blue is links to articles about women, and red is links to articles about men, both as a proportion of all links on the article.

The first image is for all of Wikipedia, while the second is specifically articles about Physics. While the link situation is bad on Wikipedia in general, it is far worse on physics Wikipedia.

Specific data points in alt text. Articles about non-binary people were excluded from analysis.

Photo I took of the annular eclipse.