Things I definitely don't care about: whether people in illegal settlements on Palestinian territories have to drive into Israel proper to buy a particular brand of ice cream
It's a Fun Opportunity for everyone to feel outraged about something though
Yes ice cream will melt if you smuggle it back through the checkpoint, but melted ice cream wouldn't be a problem if you'd just freeze the settlements
FTR I'm against BDS (it advocates for things I can't endorse, like an academic boycott, and ostracizes & punishes even the Israeli leftists who could change things, and makes Israelis defensive which swings them right) but boycotting the settlements is totally reasonable
But also FFS it's a brand of ice cream why is everyone freaking out
Politically here is what will happen: the government will respond strongly to avoid setting a precedent of boycott. The current unstable government is under strong pressure to prove they are sufficiently right wing, so expect lots of posturing to avoid a Netanyahu takeover
Also I'm craving ice cream now thanks guys
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Sigh, OK. I used VQGAN+CLIP in more of an auditing form this time, to see if the prompt "goyim" (the Hebrew and Yiddish word for non-Jews) generates a racist characature of a Jew. Unsurprisingly, it does
If there's any one thing I want folks to get out of the interview I recently did, it's the emotional impacts of ADHD, honestly, even if they weren't the main focus of the interview. I want you all to understand Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
ND folks, so you have language for the intense bouts of despair you feel sometimes in response to personal criticism or rejection from people whose opinions you value, and know it's not weakness but a difference in how your brain works
NT folks, so you know that adapting communication norms for ND folks is a matter of diversity, not fragility or tone policing, even if they often look similar
I very strongly wish the answer to high service loads for marginalized folks in CS were to adequately reward disproportionate service efforts, not to just tell us we shouldn't be doing it.
I've gotten a lot of emails telling me that SIGPLAN-M was the highlight of someone's year, helped someone get into grad school, made someone feel like they belong in programming languages research, and so on. Imagine the academic impact of all of those researchers in the future.
Good DEI efforts and mentorship efforts and safety efforts and so on are like that---massive, massive improvements for the community for the people we help. But somehow they're treated as less relevant than our individual academic contributions.