@ryanc And now I get your point about the tax form. Like, what do you do when your gender *as recorded on your birth certificate* isn’t available on the form? I imagine HMRC would just say it’s your AGAB, and that you’ll be breaking the law if you don’t disclose it. So shitty.
@ryanc Well I suppose the genuine (depressing) answer is that the UK doesn’t recognise your GRC, so they’ll say it’s your birth certificate gender. But if it’s any comfort, they’re violating your (and my) human rights out of vengeful transphobia rather than administrative convenience
It just struck me that this classic tweet has become an example of what it describes. It’s only a matter of time before Musk or some other techbro calls their latest product “Torment Nexus”
@HauntedOwlbear@ryanc It’s a total mess, and I can’t begin to imagine how someone who has gone through a gender recognition process in another country is supposed to unpick that and start again, given their documents will all now reflect their assumed gender. Absolute farce, and one that “protects” *no one*
“They’re all out of step except us!” cries the UK government, as it blacklists more than 50 countries’ gender recognition processes for being “too lax”, the latest being California, basically because it recognises nonbinary identities
@ryanc Totally. My default search engine is DDG, but I’m not going to pretend it’s actually *good*, it just means Google only get to see the 25% of my searches (and 90% of image searches) that get repeated with a !g or !gi
@tymwol@ryanc It’s got bett*er*, but image search is still pretty cronky. The point was I was trying not to be The Guy Who Responds To Posts About Google By Recommending DDG :-)
@ryanc Weirdly, this is the second person I follow on social media today who's been approached by GBeebies researchers trying to source "progressives" to act as tethered goats in one of their shit-stirring "debates". They are declining this exciting opportunity, too
@HauntedOwlbear But yes, I started that paragraph thinking “yes, fair enough, we shouldn’t close our eyes to the potential benefits, either,” and ended it thinking “YIKES, YANN”
Meta’s “chief AI scientist” showing all the careful ethical reflection you’d expect from, well, Meta’s chief AI scientist.
“I think [having machines that are smarter than us] is exciting, because those machines will be doing our bidding.” Yikes, Yann, don’t let Roko’s Basilisk catch you saying stuff like that
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