Notices by The research fairy 😷 🧚‍♂️ 🌈 (bgcarlisle@scholar.social), page 28

@FirstProgenitor

Key red flags of a tech bro:

- Use of the word "Disruption."

- An inordinate amount of time talking about "free speech."

- A disdain or ambivalence towards the idea of ethics in technology and engineering.

- A refusal to look at consequences beyond how something works.

- Strong capitalist tendencies.

- A belief in "neutrality" or "apolitical-ness" in software development.

- Anti-democratic stances, such as "benevolent" dictatorships.

- Fedoras.

This AI will do its best to turn any picture into a recipe.
https://aiweirdness.com/post/185726764757/this-neural-net-knows-your-secret-recipe

code & paper by @facebookai : https://research.fb.com/publications/inverse-cooking-recipe-generation-from-food-images/

colab notebook by @jonathanfly : https://colab.research.google.com/gist/JonathanFly/33946a08080041e90e8360b25e263a4e/facebook-cooking-demo.ipynb

@drifting_in_circles @red Same. We explained trans-ness to our kids and plenty of other things to our kids. They're mostly like, "Oh. OK." Kids already don't understand a lot about their worlds. Telling them that gender is more complicated than "boy" and "girl" isn't going to be some giant shock of something they've thought was a universal truth. They are constantly having shit they thought they understood overturned. Often without even being explicitly taught something. It's a lot of what being a kid is.

Headline of the day goes to:

"Young People Are Growing Horns. Phone Use Is To Blame, Research Suggests"

New shirt for Pride

"... whenever a techbro talks about 'disrupting an industry,' they mean: 'replicating an already existing industry, but subsidizing it heavily with venture capital, and externalizing its costs at the expense of the public or potential workers by circumventing existing consumer-, worker- or public-protection laws in order to hopefully undercut the existing competition long enough to bring about regulatory capture.'"

https://blog.bgcarlisle.com/2019/06/05/on-techbros-in-healthcare-and-medical-research/

Who called it "late stage capitalism," when it's obviously "workahol poisoning?"

Reminder:

Strikes and protests are inconvenient and loud and costly and a bit of an imposition on the rest of us

This is on purpose

It's *supposed* to be this way

If you are inconvenienced, it's working

Support the workers anyway