Notices by Nancy Baym (nancybaym@mastodon.social)

Being midwestern is not something to be ashamed of or to overcome or succeed despite. That’s such elitist BS and folks propagating it show their ignorance not their specialness.

Geez to read the WaPo profile of Paul Rudd you’d think coming from Kansas was a childhood cancer he was able to triumphantly overcome. Of course being from Kansas, Rudd never implies that but the coastal press…

Lots of talk in my lab where Danielle Bragg, Alex Lu, and others are working on Machine Learning and ASL. AI has a ways to go on this front LOL

From: @bruces
https://mastodon.social/@bruces/109771778732133579

@pettter @toosharpbyhalf I don’t think she was posing a technical question so much as pointing out yet another instance of AI making all the female subjects into a certain genre of sex object.

@evan Don’t go back to Rockville

Here is an off the wall request but you never know: Do any of you know of books, references, (autobiographies?), about creating/running a retreat for other people to come to? I found one about building a yoga retreat in Germany.

@Gargron No apologies needed, grateful for all you are doing.