In the Mae-vy

@noxyba.bsky.social

Mae like a deer, easily startled and born to have a load blown in her head by a group of sweaty guys hunting her for sport she/her

AI has dramatically increased the number of people posting emoji-riddles "announcements" in our Teams channels and triggering my anxiety so that's at least two additional demerits against it

According to the right, if you teach that racism is an actual problem that needs to be studied and addressed, that is a bad thing. But if you teach that racism is an actual *solution* that needs to be taught and encouraged, well, that is a good thing, a very good thing indeed.

this whole Arday and Cofnas affair is so fucking revolting. at least for a time universities largely kept their white supremacy in a shameful little cage in the back of their hearts. maybe i'm not surprised that it's been unleashed and is back with a vengeance, but it certainly is fucking harrowing.

look at how seamlessly they transitioned from “we must evaluate Arday’s life and work no matter the motives of his critics” to the opposite position: defending Cofnas because of his critics’ motivations, no matter the quality of his work

i don't feel like retyping my skincare tips from scratch from that one time they got deleted, but have some random little things, at least. · 2x daily oil cleanse, water-based cleanse, toner, light moisturizer, and daytime sunscreen is enough for most people to have presentable skin.

even as someone who is like, kind of okay with AI, an enormous problem is the "do more with fewer people" attitude that's cascading through every organization because of it. people are being asked to literally do impossible amounts of work as a way to force AI. this is crazy-making, truly.

"the transaction lacks economic substance" it has EMOTIONAL substance. "recharacterize the transaction" you don't get to tell these multinational entities what this administrative function means to each other.

trans women famously struggle financially and with eating disorders but on the daily other trans women who nobody asked will clock a skinny bitch and rush to smugly proclaim "just eat a burger, you dumb bitch!" are you giving out food money or are you just laughing at girls with small tits for fun

idk i think AI is mostly a social ill but also surprisingly useful for making sense of unwieldy and disparate datasets. your grandma shouldn't be using it but it's nice to have if you're answering dozens of emails and parsing seventy 50-page technical documents as part of your work week.