Merry Hadaway

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Dear all trans women: Whatever you talk about or how you behave is how women talk and behave, because you are a woman who talks and exhibits behavior.

You do not need to copy or mimic some kind of headcanon cis woman. Literally *anything* you do is definitionally something a woman does.

READ. THIS. ARTICLE!

Most people don't know how to pronounce my name ("SOAR'lyeh" is close enough) but I've never had anyone giggle at it. Let alone a supposed professional. I know Anglophone SF culture has always been parochial, but you would think. You would bloody well think.

Good to see one paper taking a stand.

I don't know how you can say that blatantly discriminating against trans people is not discrimination, but that's the UK now.

Don't think for a second it will stop with trans people.

We've been telling you this for a decade.

6/ Analysis - @jamiewareham.co.uk

"This is a rare positive ruling for the Trans+ community - but it only received a handful of mainstream media stories. I'm confident if the ruling had been negative, it would have been blasted across headlines as a propaganda tool against gender affirming care."

A team photo with four people, and the logo 'gender plus' in front of a white wall, with a greyed out overlay

A UK judge has ruled that a private gender clinic was right to get an "outstanding" review from the UK medical regulator the Clinical Quality Commission 🏳️‍⚧️

It's a rare positive ruling for the Trans+ community - let's take a look at it 🧵

UK organisations with trans members/service users: this is the time to:-

a) refuse to comply with transphobia
b) make it clear to your trans members/service users that you are going to refuse, so they know they are safe.

Don't be intimidated into appeasing fascists, please.

YES.

More trans girls everywhere please.

I think a lot of people need to realize that they’re not too much to love, that they’ve been loved by the wrong people, and that’s not your fault; it’s their fault for trying to diminish you.

Dear UK govt,

You seem a bit confused about this, so I hope that I can make it clearer:-

- LLMs are not people. Corporations are also not people.

- trans people, Palestinians, refugees, disabled people, and indeed all other human beings *are* all people.

Please act accordingly. FFS.

Merry

OpenAI doesn't realise that PhD-level expertise has very little to do with the stuff you know and more to do with how you can think. I forget facts from mine all the time!

The value in my PhD is knowing how to reliably generate, evaluate, and defend or dismiss information that's new to the world.

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Beyond the utter pile of crap he's talking here, there's something about his wording that is *incredibly* red-flagging. I would not want to leave this man alone with a teenage girl of "buying her first bra" age.

(Frankly I think a huge proportion of transphobic cis men are predators.)

Oh *definitely*!!

Among so much I don't understand about "gender criticals" (such a misnomer) who still think they're protecting women: if hating on trans women was good for cis women, *Donald Trump wouldn't do it*.

They need to look at which men agree with them, and *why they do so*.

Well they should stop pursuing aims that kill lots of people then, shouldn't they.

If enough cis people and enough organisations refuse to comply with the UK gvt's transphobic bullshit it *will* become undoable.

Protect trans women using women's spaces/trans men using men's. Be inclusive. Be kind. Put the safety of trans ppl over the comfort of a tiny minority of bigots.

A black and white cat curled up on top of a flower pot, with the stem of the plant in the pot just about visible through the fur.

Happy International Cat Day! Put your paws together please for the felines who work hard to keep the places you love running.

Fliss makes sure young plants have plenty of heat for growing in the glasshouses at Stourhead in Wiltshire...

Trans flag with "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me."

How to get involved in NHS youth gender service consultation The NHS has announced a public consultation into changes to its youth gender services. Here's how to get involved.

NHS announces public consultation into youth gender services – here's how you can get involved

The UK for the past 80 years, accurately: Chamberlain was wrong and appeasing fascists is bad. We are an awesome country and we won't do *that* again.

The UK gvt at the moment: I know we're Labour but we can have a little fascism (and a lot of appeasing Trump) as a treat.

I would like everything everywhere to stop getting worse all the time

Sending huge solidarity to trans actors and other trans performing arts industry professionals today.

It's got to be *horrible* knowing that there are colleagues (actors and directors and writers and crew) still willing to work with Rowling. :(

Oh no, not Flynn too. :(

I'm so upset about Ahmed, and also Jumbo, who was recently in a production of "Macbeth" with an (awesome) nonbinary actor playing Malcolm ffs.

It's such a fricking far-right playbook thing. They put the comfort of the only women they deem acceptable (cis, but let's face it also het, white, abled, femme, thin, and apparently under 5'11" too...) ahead of the *safety* of all other women. It's enraging anyone is falling for it.

Oh that's *absolutely* what they're aiming for. Trans people are just seen as an easy first target. :(

Wild-born chough fledges in Kent for first time in 200 years The red-billed chough, once a common sight, vanished in Kent due to habitat loss and persecution.

#GoodNews on #biodiversity, because we all need some

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