They/Them (T. T. Perry)

The Coddling of the American Man - Women’s Media Center In searching for solutions to the male loneliness crisis, some American men should take a look in the mirror.

This was the subject I felt strongest about & I keep returning to this piece I wrote. I’m so frustrated that many proposed solutions don’t demand that men look within at their own behaviors towards women & attitudes to caregiving.

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*Internal screaming intensifies*

During my PhD I found that the main utility of prediction models in hospitals was just forcing the doctor to listen to the nurse's worries about the patient

Father must rule over his castle and all that belongs to him as King

I despise these puritan bigots are trying hard to re-introduce the stigma and shame of menstruation after decades of feminist activism to remove it.

Pity sake, my dad bought my mum's sanitary napkins with the regular grocery shop, because it was convenient. They weren't exactly radical feminists...

This is a really stupid take.

idk I think the next Dem administration is gonna end up needing to put a lot of ppl in jail

Unfollowing all the incredibly gullible academics who don't understand large language models or data validation but insist on doing propaganda for OpenAI, Anthropic, and the rest.

How have all these people convinced themselves of the opposite of reality?

This is horrible advice!

No. The reason is because white people got huge boners for mass deportation.

He has *an* experience of it: being excluded from the elite circle. It is that part of it that is relevant to his project, I argue.

Likening PhD holders to a (non-functional) algorithm is a form of dehumanisation & anti-intellectualism that is a bellwether for contemporary fascism. Essentially it's a typical — if not the archetypal — first step towards fascism: to dehumanise, deskill, defund, and, ultimately, fire the academics.

It's my theory that ppl do things like hating on poor ppl their core identity because theyre under the impression that pretending to be rich, hating on poor peerss is the same thing as self actualizing.

Leaked Documents Show OpenAI Has a Very Clear Definition of ‘AGI’ We finally have a real definition of the elusive

The best evidence I can offer for this is that OpenAI's explicit definition of artificial general intelligence is "an AI system that can generate at least $100 billion in profits."

That's not intelligence. That's not knowledge. It is social destruction to enrich an elite ruling class.

I would put a slightly different sauce on this. Historically, a PhD represented inclusion in an elitest, exclusionary social circle associated with power, knowledge, and authority. What the AI bros want isn't intelligence or expertise. They want the exclusionary elitism.

A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military.

And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.

“youre goddam right im for ‘they/them’ theyre americans arent they?”

its really not that hard to flip this shit right on its head if you actually want to

democrats are going to be dealing with anti-trans hate until they either

- nut the fuck up and defend these people from bigoted attacks

- concede to every republican attack on the issue, inevitably leading to the total eradication of trans people from all public life

literally the only 2 options

🔵 Proud to share our new preprint 🔵

We compared humans and deep neural networks on sound localization 👂📍

Humans robustly localized OOD sounds even without primary interaural cues (ITD & ILD)

Models localized well only in-training distribution sounds, failing on OOD regime

Link & full story 🧵👇

Watching someone fall for it in real time is absolutely fascinating

Science is effectively dead in the US for at least the next 3½ years, and will then take another several years to even get started again. Canceled research doesn’t just uncancel itself, and scientists who find opportunity elsewhere won’t just come flocking back.

The damage is generational.

I just wanted to feel something

Zoom in on Cuomo's extremely creased forehead. 7 distinct ridges.

I'm just trying something, don't mind me.

why do trans people always have to make room for people who are actively hostile to learning anything about us. why don't they make room for us in their fucking tent

There are any number of reasons for America's high pedestrian fatality rate, including bad street design and an overabundance of SUVs and pickup trucks. But one very large factor has to be that recklessly endangering the lives of pedestrians is barely illegal in many places.

Ride-sharing apps are bad, actually Or why Matthew Yglesias has no clue what he's talking about

i'm doomed to write a version of this essay every single year. i wrote about Matthew Yglesias' intellectual sophistry, LPE, Uber's business model, the problem with venture capital, economic welfare, "economic analysis," and more. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/ride-shari...

I'm on a "conservative" list, so...

What it means to be a mentor Who was the person that changed your life?

New, from me: I became a PhD student mostly because one person, Patricia Wallace Ingraham, told me I should do it.

She passed away recently, and it made me think about the role of mentorship in our lives. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

A TERF is someone who will say "My body, my choice!" and then when you say you want to alter your hormones and genitals to feel more comfortable within your own body they say "Your body, my choice!" and somehow don't recognize the cognitive dissonance.