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Inside: The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/09/aut…
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Inside: The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/09/aut…
#Pluralistic 1/
Today (3/9), I'm in person in #Austin at @utsdct:
eventbrite.com/e/the-buckman-…
And remote at #UManitoba:
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science/e…
Tomorrow (3/10), @rgibli and I kick off @sxsw's readings:
schedule.sxsw.com/2023/events/PP… 2/
eventbrite.com/e/the-buckman-…
And remote at #UManitoba:
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science/e…
Tomorrow (3/10), @rgibli and I kick off @sxsw's readings:
schedule.sxsw.com/2023/events/PP… 2/
The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble: Someday, we're gonna feel pretty silly about our autocomplete worship.
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In Aug 1920, Febb E Burn flipped her son Harry's vote with a few short words: "be a good boy" & "vote for suffrage." His vote was crucial: #Tennessee was the last state where women had hope of picking up the crucial 36th vote for ratification of the 19th Amendment. ⭐️ #VOTE ⭐️
For 72 yrs, women lobbied & agitated for the vote. In 1917, "militant" activists led by Alice Paul organized the 1st White House picket. It lasted months in all weather. Wilson had Paul & dozens others jailed in conditions so abysmal they went on a hunger strike. ⭐️ #VOTE
Mother: Check out Alice Paul, PhD. #JerseyGirl. #Quaker. Led the "militant" wing of the #suffrage movement. Stood on soapboxes & gave bossy speeches. Brought the 72-!!!-year fight for the #vote to victory, then wrote the ERA, still unratified 97!!! years later. @janpurcell2
📙#38/100 'Northern Lights' by @PhilipPullman
What an incredible story, and what a treat to read it as a 29 year old who just moved to Oxford!
I can't wait to read the rest of the trilogy, they're already in the post 👌
What an incredible story, and what a treat to read it as a 29 year old who just moved to Oxford!
I can't wait to read the rest of the trilogy, they're already in the post 👌
📙#39/100 Issue 233 of the
@parisreview
It's great to read ~250 pages of words by people I've never heard of, and to be introduced to ideas and works outside my usual scope.
I particularly enjoyed 'Violets' by @Bud_Smith & 'The Juggler's Wife' by Emily Hunt Kivel in issue 233.
@parisreview
It's great to read ~250 pages of words by people I've never heard of, and to be introduced to ideas and works outside my usual scope.
I particularly enjoyed 'Violets' by @Bud_Smith & 'The Juggler's Wife' by Emily Hunt Kivel in issue 233.
📙#40/100 'Nine Lives' by @DalrympleWill
Impartial & articulate look at sacred vs profane in India. Most fascinating are insights into how religion can underpin unequal social structures, or be the vehicle through which they are legitimately, albeit temporarily, scorned.
Impartial & articulate look at sacred vs profane in India. Most fascinating are insights into how religion can underpin unequal social structures, or be the vehicle through which they are legitimately, albeit temporarily, scorned.
#28 'Americanah' by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
This book asks profound questions about 'home', about what cultures expect - or demand - of people born into or outside of them, and how the backdrops of our lives can define the things we value, notice, and think about most.
This book asks profound questions about 'home', about what cultures expect - or demand - of people born into or outside of them, and how the backdrops of our lives can define the things we value, notice, and think about most.
#29 'The Hobbit' by J.R.R. Tolkien
A perfect adventure with gold, dragons, goblins, wizards, magic, peril, treasure, and morals. I wish I'd had this read to me as a kid because the various songs and scrapes lend themselves perfectly to that.
Book and author are both badass.
A perfect adventure with gold, dragons, goblins, wizards, magic, peril, treasure, and morals. I wish I'd had this read to me as a kid because the various songs and scrapes lend themselves perfectly to that.
Book and author are both badass.
#30 'The Eden Express' by Mark #Vonnegut
An eloquent & deeply human account of his descent into psychotic mania, two relapses, and eventual long-term health.
A @nytimesbooks review nailed it: "Required reading for those who want to understand insanity from the inside."
An eloquent & deeply human account of his descent into psychotic mania, two relapses, and eventual long-term health.
A @nytimesbooks review nailed it: "Required reading for those who want to understand insanity from the inside."
#Gender #Identity (FCO since 2009) Mathematical Analysis of @MoJGovUK stats 30 June 2018 wrt sexual offences (99.1% #Male) #Male-pattern Sexual Offending shared by #Transwomen, 60 is just under half of 128 #female from total population of 30M in #England & #Wales. @munkihanger
#Gender #Identity:
#Tavistock *Gender Identity* Clinic
#BAGIS #British Assn of *Gender Identity* Specialists
#GIRES *Gender Identity* #Research & #Education #Service &
@FCOHumanRights since 2009/10-ish!
Why does this #Lesbian of the #BritishEmpire know? 🤔
@faintlyfalling 😊😊😊
#Tavistock *Gender Identity* Clinic
#BAGIS #British Assn of *Gender Identity* Specialists
#GIRES *Gender Identity* #Research & #Education #Service &
@FCOHumanRights since 2009/10-ish!
Why does this #Lesbian of the #BritishEmpire know? 🤔
@faintlyfalling 😊😊😊
#Shoutout for @mrkhtake2 for patiently explaining that #Intersex people can ONLY be i) #female with Variant Sex Characteristics from typical #female sex characteristics presentation &... ii) #male with Variant Sex Characteristics from typical #male sex characteristics. @ClareCAIS
@SurvivorsnetBtn @RASASC_London @survivorstrust @Danvers07943910 @ObjectUK @BrightonSurvivorsNET “In the light of a highly disturbing increase of #transphobia locally & nationally…” IF everything anybody says or does is #transphobia, of course you can say it is rising. Any reputable statistics?
@SurvivorsnetBtn @RASASC_London @survivorstrust @Danvers07943910 @ObjectUK “…so the date @Womans_Place_UK event feels like a concerted effort to make #trans ppl, & particularly #transwomen, feel #intimidated and #invalidated” Is it the position of SN that the sensitivities of #transwomen mean that #democracy should be suspended any time they say so?
@SurvivorsnetBtn @RASASC_London @survivorstrust @Danvers07943910 @ObjectUK @Womans_Place_UK #Transwomen do face special challenges but they remain #bio #logical #males but it is fine for them #Gender express as ‘women’ but with the best will in the world, they remain #bio #logically #male @WomenEqualities @Commonswomequ @PennyMordaunt @MariaMillerUK @LesleySemmens
