Very cool!
It reminds me of my fav, The Oxygen Catastrophy, where basically a plant did something new and caused the earth to freeze. In this case, by converting methane to carbon dioxide, a much weaker greenhouse gas.
Very cool!
It reminds me of my fav, The Oxygen Catastrophy, where basically a plant did something new and caused the earth to freeze. In this case, by converting methane to carbon dioxide, a much weaker greenhouse gas.
I like it!
I kind of feel like “locomotive” itself is a niche so this is more like a collapse of a niche rather than a mass extinction, but I love the analogies
That’s my fav too.
“The Oxygen Catastrophy” is just such a cool name.
Fuckin metal
I’m judging you, as I said I would
That’s the Holocene, and I’m judging you.
I was asking for extinction events, aka mass extinctions.
But this is still very interesting! Thanks for sharing it with me
I’m judging you, not because you chose the Holocene, but for how easy it was to get people without interesting opinions to identify themselves 😏
I wanted some of their side projects. Their web-things iot automation controller (and related standards) was pretty sweet. Until they spun it off into its own company without any staff.
Activity pub
… Activists?
Fediverse
… Versus?
Unfortunately this does not financially benefit the tv manufacturers, and may land them in trouble with the platforms they themselves advertise on (like Google).
They’re more likely to use AI to serve you more ads as an extra revenue stream; capitalism has gotta capital.
That’s a wild interpretation of what they said.
Dude described a branding problem, not a technical problem.
Omg mine too (too embarrassing to share).
I forgot how much more patient with pacing we all used to be back in the 00s. Just trusting that the video would go somewhere and there’d be a payoff.
Looking at some of the popular videos from back then, people these days would just scroll away because nothing hooked their attention quickly enough. Myself included. We’ve been trained to expect such quick payoff 😭.
Fuck, now I’ma have to go check on my old deviantart account.
Still peddling FUD?
IDK, I didn’t read it. Piss off with your disingenuous “no solution is good enough” anti-progressive bullshit
Tldr your novella of regressive FUD.
You can’t get a perfect solution so you refuse to accept any solution is the Hallmark of the disingenuous redpill in disguise.
Go sell your snake oil elsewhere
probably more important to fix that problem where the bike crumples
This solution is zero effort
microaggressions […] question of whether it even exists to any significant degree
It does. Ask POC
with a really hard solution
It’s zero effort to change jargon like this.
we could move to stop microaggressions, or we could like, move to stop racial bias hiring practices
We can do both. That was a bold false dichotomy
do not have normal behaviors
If your argument is that neurodivergent people can’t switch from “whitelist” to “allowlist” I think that says more about your personality than neurodivergency.
we may actually just be making things more complicated for people who do not function inside of the bubble of normality.
Ok there, that sounds like a pile of FUD to prevent progress
simply prime people to not care
Ok there psychology genius. Tell us how to do this and receive your nobel prize
I’m done replying to your novel length piles regressive bullshit and excuses dressed up in polite language.
There are many problems and many solutions. We don’t need to focus on one problem and pick only one solution.
My entire point here was that there is concern that industry jargon can be accidentally exclusionary to some demographics, interest and research on it isn’t new, and the effect is usually a “death by a thousand cuts” type thing, like migroaggressions are.
I didn’t specialize in this, so my knowledge on it is from one part of one class I took like 15 years ago, but I can absolutely see how it could matter.
People aren’t rational and society doesn’t raise us rationally. We can be perfectly ok with something in one context but not ok with it in another context. We can be ok with one thing, but not ok with another similar thing.
I agree there are deeper societal issues about how we raise boys and the incentives/traumas we put on kids. That doesn’t mean we cant pick off this low hanging fruit at no cost.
It’s important to meet people where they are, not where we think they should be.
Did they ever mention the history of the CS field generally being sexist towards women? Yes, of course. WTH? Why would you ever think someone passionate about this would not bring that up?
I would also argue that women being “averse” to terms like killing is equally presumptive Ok I think you’re intentionally misinterpreting my words now. This is not a dichotomy.
It’s better to identity specific facets of society that are problematic […] as opposed to “treating the symptom” so to speak.
I think it’s difficult to separate the two, they form a feedback loop. It’s like the broken window theory.
People see these little ambiguously exclusionary acts, and if they see enough of them then they get the subconscious message that exclusionary acts are ok, and the (possibly accidental) targets of the acts get the subconscious message that they’re not welcome which makes the subject raw and sensitive and primes them to look at acts through that lens.
In college I took a class on how humans and computers interact, and one of the things my professor was passionate about was how the terminology of programming languages tended to be exclusionary to women. Not explicitly so, but just using violent language that women were raised to find uncomfortable (eg killing a process), and it was pushing women out of computer science.
This was like 15 years ago, and he was already passionate about it at the time, so this isn’t really a new thing, its just getting broader attention.
I don’t know if that’s happening here, but it costs nothing to change so even a potential minor improvement is worth it.
Yeah I knew they weren’t plants but it made the analogy easier to pretend they were 😅
They have plant-ey vibes
They were all like “let’s get the Calvin cycle up in this house, lets light it up!” And so they did, and the atmosphere caught fire