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I’m trans nonbinary, and I get very strongly bothered (not in this case as you are asking but…) when people suggest that being nonbinary means you aren’t trans (or that they are mutually exclusive groups), as my gender is distinct from that which was assigned to me at birth nya.

I share experiences with a lot of other trans people as well and so having people imply that I am separate from that community bothers me.

This combines with the fact that such separation often implies that nonbinary people want or need only a subset of things as binary trans people may often want/need (such as various aspects of medical transition), which is untrue - for example, I have HRT, much like many (but not all) binary trans people want or have, but often people separating “nonbinary” from “trans” seem to operate with the implicit subtext that nonbinary people do not transition or do not transition in ways they consider as “real” or “full” or “as important” as binary transition (not that I am suggesting that is actually a thing, just illustrating the subtextual framing I perceive - its also worth remembering that binary transition pathways/goals/etc. vary a lot between people too).

Not only this but this separation often comes with the implicit subtext/assumption that nonbinary identities are not strongly separated from their assigned-at-birth gender identity. There are certainly nonbinary people like that, but there are also lots of us who have an identity quite far from that assigned at birth ^.^.

Some nonbinary people don’t consider themselves trans, but a lot of us do (including me).

In summary, for me this is because my gender identity (strong sense of gender but not one of the “man/woman” genders and instead a third axis with some fem component) is strongly distinct from my AGAB, and I do/want-to-do things that other people in the trans community often-but-not-always do or want to do (such as accessing HRT, legal name change, surgeries (though not conventional binary ones), etc.)

As for the etymology, just think of it as cis=same, trans=different - rather than cis=same, trans=opposite.

Its not just the gesture, its everything else as well. You know, repeating nazi conspiracy theories about jewish people wanting to eliminate “”“whiteness”“”, supporting the AfD, etc.

And I think that yes, he would do that. I mean, look at how many people are sanewashing this and trying to pretend he hasn’t even done it. Look at the fact he was cheered on by the people in the crowd while doing it.

America (or at least enough parts of it with political attentiveness and less apathy) is so far right that advocating for what amounts to mass ethnic cleansing/purges (as Trump/GOP has done, and as fascists do) is a completely accepted position by at least 30% of voters. Not to mention the plans to suborn the entire US government into a hyper authoritarian, totalising christian nationalist social-regimentation-enforcer, amongst so many other things I can’t even count.

He did a nazi salute and supports the fascist party openly advocating for the naked use of state power to subjugate, destroy the life of, or kill millions (as is the logical conclusion of the logistics of finding and deporting millions) of people in nationalist “cleansings” and “purification” against minority groups. He’s obsessed with breeding and perpetuates “great replacement” conspiracies. He supports the AfD. He hates and infantilises trans people (not exclusive to nazis but yaknow, they were big on that shit to the point of mass slaughter of us).

Here is a salute comparison. Do not gaslight yourself or the rest of us: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pICDVb3jztA

I just wish we’d get solid, affordable RISC-V already. Especially with the arbitrary-length vector instruction extension, which I find to be a much better design for hardware compatibility than the fixed width extensions in x86 (and ARM too, AFAIK).

The catholic church still considers being trans a sin (and hence inferior to being cis).

I wish people would stop whitewashing that organisation, even if this is a tiny amount of progress (no shade on the op, just a general comment on the way conversations around organised religion and the catholic church in general seem to be happening >.<)

I’m not sure they’ll succeed in extinguishing linux. But I do get the worry, especially with WSL.

What I am more worried about is them potentially extinguishing git via their control of github. In particular, with their github cli tool and such >.<

We shouldn’t get bullied into believing people can be any sex they want to be. They can’t

They can’t

Sounds like a challenge for transhumanist tech to solve 😎✊⚧️Ⓐ💻.

(Other people have covered the factual incorrectness here - the short of it is that (1) gender =/= sex and (2) “sex” isnt some monolithic thing but a complex, multi-axis thing itself - most of these axes are changeable to various degrees as well ^.)

Something that might be useful long term is trying to train an AI and release weights to identify CSAM that admins can use to check images. The main problem is finding a way to do this without storing those kinds of images or video :/

My understanding is that right now, the main mechanisms involved use several central databases which use perceptual hashes of known CSAM material. The problem is that this ends up being a whackamole solution, and at least in theory governments could use these databases to censor copyrighted or more general “unapproved” content, though i imagine such a db would lose trust quickly and I’m not aware of this being an issue in practise.

One potential solution is “opportunistic training” where, when new CSAM material gets identified and submitted to the FBI or these databases by various server admins, a small amount of training is done on the AI weights before the image or video is deleted and only a perceptual hash remains. Furthermore, if a picture is reported as “known CSAM” by these dbs, then you do the same thing with that image before it gets deleted.

To avoid false positives, you also train the AI on general non-CSAM content.

Ideally this process would be fully automated so no-one has to look at that shit - over time, ypu’d theoretically get a neural net capable of identifying CSAM reliably with few or no false positives or false negatives ^.. Admins could also try for some kind of distributed training, where each contributes weight deltas from local training, or each builds up LoRA-style improvement modules and people combine them to reduce bandwidth for modification sharing.

If they’d called it Dogs arse Flu you wouldn’t even comment.

This is totally irrelevant?? It was a coronavirus, not a flu virus, which is why it’s not called as some kind of flu strain.

P.S. Sar-cov2 is the alleged infection agent and not Covid19, which is a list of basic symptoms.

It is the infection agent. Not the “”“alleged”“” infection agent. Also casual conversation and speech is a thing ^.

I assure you i’m not capable of having been infected by a computer model, and I have absolutely been infected with covid-19 in the past.

The uk has a serious surveillance state cultural problem.

And holy fuck is this dumb.

I like:

• fryup + frying
• dish + cooking

“Left leaning landlord” is an oxymoron ;p

Or at least if someone actually held to their principles, they would not remain both for very long ^.

(The concept of a separate ownership class, which is the defining feature of landlordism, is in direct contradiction with leftism, which at the furthest end pushes for the destruction of these sorts of hierarchical class systems, or at the very least attempts to abolish the gatekeeping and hoarding of base necessities like shelter)

I came up with an idea (on my alt account ^.^) to improve discoverability… it’s more focused on instance or group discovery, though it may be doable for users with a probabalistic reverse index for efficiency. See: https://infosec.pub/post/429743