Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

"Fuck their borders."

Via the Sea Urchins (a France-based collective of 'anti-fascist pirates').

https://seaurchins161.wixsite.com/collective/

I would like to note that most anti-trans rhetoric is something along the lines of:

"Trans people can't have rights because cis people might abuse those rights."

I deal with a lot of late identified people in my work.

The thing that is hard to process a lot for me is how brilliant people have had their lives wasted by late identification.

The stories/recoveries are near uniform - gettng diagnosed changes their lives completely (usually for the better) and most start to thrive post diagnosis (although it can take a few years).

But the wreckage, the shame, the lost decades - the personal conflicts, the breakdowns, the burnouts...

It's near uniform... lives that have been excruciatingly hard due to circumstances outside their control, which they have internalised as personal or moral failings.

I know there's no easy fix, and I don't really have anything extra to add except that it's so frustrating... and heartbreaking...

I hate hearing this song... and it's going to keep playing on loop.

also journos stop calling trans people "trans activists". people aren't activists by virtue of existing, or if they are, then something's seriously wrong with the system in place

The names of the Finnish months also seem pretty lush. Starting in January:

Tammikuu ("oak moon")
Helmikuu ("pearl moon")
Maaliskuu ("earth moon")
Huhtikuu ("cleared woods moon")
Toukokuu ("spring moon")
Kesäkuu ("summer moon")
Heinäkuu ("hay moon")
Elokuu ("crops moon")
Syyskuu ("autumn moon")
Lokakuu ("MUD MOON")
Marraskuu ("dying moon")
Joulukuu ("Yuletide moon")

https://uusikielemme.fi/finnish-vocabulary/interesting-words/the-meaning-of-the-finnish-months

@L_howes
A friend of mine at the university library spent quite a bit of time helping a customer trying to find some elusive references, before they said that the "references" came from ChatGPT.

Here's a first... I just got an email because ChatGPT suggested an article I wrote to somebody. Could I send them a copy? Except, I never wrote the article, it doesn't exist. PLEASE realize right now that this tool isn't pulling out cool references for you. It's making plausible titles and matching them to authors names.

Has anyone done any writing on the use of neo pronouns in contemporary sci-fi? I've noticed a good majority of the books I've picked up has some form, and I've found it pretty comfortable - wondering what an academic look at this might show.

Again, for the people at the back: deterring stalking is more important than deterring the theft of property. People's safety is more important property. Even your property. Even my property. Even stuff I would be very angry at having stolen.

Thanks to the Met Office archives, these sheets were scanned & made openly available, but how could the observations be extracted?

The answer? Ask for help: https://bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52040822

16,000 volunteers stepped forward during the first UK COVID lockdown to transcribe every observation.

@sasha_strange “Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.

That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore.”

― A.R. Moxon

Is there anyone out there who’s in the Los Angeles area with a 3D printer or wood who could cook up a kickstand for a smartphone that can be used by a hospital patient confined to their bed? Off-the-shelf solutions assume a flat and perfectly even surface, which is definitely not the case here.

Bit of a long shot, I know. But if I’m gonna find anyone with the requisite expertise and equipment, it’s here on the #fediverse.

I don’t usually ask, but—please boost!

Checkout the stunning "living bridges" in India. They become stronger over time and, because they're alive, do not rot in the humid tropics.

Whoever did this and I would get along well.

Latest data from the Open Repair Alliance is out!

🥳 >81,000 repair attempts logged by community groups all around the world

📈 Signs point to community repair events on the up again after the pandemic

🛠️ Most common items at events are lamps, vacuum cleaners and laptops, with the most fixable being lamps, sewing machines and hair dryers

🇩🇰 Repair Cafe Denmark joins the fold

More info and downloads at the ORA website

https://openrepair.org/news/open-repair-alliance-dataset-increases-to-81000-records-of-community-repair/

#OpenData #RepairData #RepairCafe #Repair

I'm so old I remember when we thought the internet would cut out the middleman.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-13/amazon-amzn-takes-half-of-each-sale-from-2-million-small-businesses

It's often said that those who crave power are the last people who should be allowed to have it.

Looks like Jacinda Ardern and Nicola Sturgeon have nicely demostrated the corollary to that, namely that those who can be reasonably trusted with power are happy to give it up.

Our friends at Freegle (UK #reuse and sharing platform) are looking for help to cover web hosting costs.

Please donate if you can, and spread the word. Reuse infrastructure doesn't come for free!

“An MIT Technology Review investigation last April found that self-driving companies, including Tesla, took advantage of the collapse of Venezuela's economy by getting workers in the country to label self-driving data for an average of just over 90 cents an hour.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-ai-will-not-take-jobs-create-future-work-opportunities-2023-2