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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 17:10:58 JST 
Yuchen Pei
I've heard more about staffers gatekeeping politicians by redirecting people's complaints to /dev/null.
My workaround has been: if I want to complain by email about X to politician A, I add a politician B who agrees with me on X in the CC, who can potentially act as a witness.
But there's no guarantee that B's staffer will not redirect my email to /dev/null, or that B is not a buddy of A.
Maybe a better solution is something like http://alaveteli.org/, the FOI server software that allows people to send public FOI request emails to government departments and receive public replies from them. So one could put a CC to a designated email address which will publish the email online, and as added benefits others can adapt from these emails. I wonder whether such server software already exists. -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 16:44:01 JST
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@mart_brooks
Depends on what you define as intersex. According to https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224490209552139 Klinefelter and Turner do not count as intersex which is defined as (a) the phenotype is not classifiable as either male or female, or (b) chromosomal sex is inconsistent with phenotypic sex.
For Klinefelter both the chromosomal sex and the phenotypic sex are male. Same goes for Turner but female:
> Klinefelter syndrome. Babies born with Klinefelter syn- drome (47,XXY) have normal male genitalia. Male sec- ondary sexual characteristics develop normally in puberty, although the testicles typically are small. Erection and ejaculation are not impaired. Most men with Klinefelter syndrome are infertile, but an unknown proportion are fer- tile (Warburg, 1963). Because Klinefelter syndrome is most often discovered in the course of infertility evalua- tion, fertile men with Klinefelter syndrome are likely to go completely undetected. Abramsky and Chappie (1997) have suggested that many men with Klinefelter syndrome are never diagnosed because they are phenotypically indis- tinguishable from normal (46,XY) men.
> Turner syndrome. Among the most salient features of Turner syndrome (45,X) are infertility and short stature: Women with Turner syndrome who are not treated with growth hormone typically will be about 16 centimeters shorter than their predicted adult height based on parental heights (Holl, Kunze, Etzrodt, Teller, & Heinze, 1994). [...] Girls with Turner syndrome do not have ambiguous external genitalia (e.g., no clitoromegaly), nor do they typically experience confusion regarding their sexual identity. "A consistent feature documented in Turner's syndrome is the unambiguous identification with the female sex," according to a recent review in The Lancet (Ranke & Saenger, 2001, p. 310).
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 15:55:28 JST
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@taylan
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/turtle
@julia @octade -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 13:14:05 JST
Yuchen Pei
Excellent news: Queensland suspended puberty blockers and cross sex hormone for under 18s
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/system-governance/policies-standards/health-service-directives/treatment-of-gender-dysphoria-in-children
> The purpose of this Health Service Directive (HSD) is to specify a restriction on the provision of stage 1 (puberty blocking hormone) treatment and stage 2 (gender affirming hormone) treatment to children and adolescents under 18 years of age with Gender Dysphoria.
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 10:44:33 JST
Yuchen Pei
@TriptychTwinsRidesAgain
alright I see two explanations: 1. s14 was the first season to be in disney+ so in order not to confuse people it was rebranded s1. "Furthermore, Disney does not currently own the streaming rights to seasons 1-13 of the revival, so Gatwa's new numbering may help attract audiences who may be resistant to using multiple services just to catch up with what came before." https://screenrant.com/doctor-who-season-14-ncuti-gatwa-numbering-change/ 2. it's a woke reboot "There is no doubt that season 14 represents a fresh era for the franchise, with the first Black Doctor and the exploration of more inclusive themes, so changing the numbering honors these achievements." https://screenrant.com/doctor-who-season-1-reboot-ncuti-gatwa-era-explained-russell-t-davies/ -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 07:53:19 JST
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@TriptychTwinsRidesAgain
Season 2? Another reboot? -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 06:37:51 JST
Yuchen Pei
@Raccoon
Intersex people don't produce a third gamete, so intersex is not a third sex
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 17:57:37 JST
Yuchen Pei
@taylan
So any day can be monday
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 15:09:05 JST
Yuchen Pei
@mittimithai
She elaborated on that with that in the fetus development "Testosterone masculinizes the brain to bias male psychology to promote reproductive strategies that are more adaptive for males than females. (This helps to explain why little boys like rough play more than little girls, for instance, even though testosterone levels in little kids are roughly the same in early childhood.)", and by comparison there is no equivalent process in the female fetus development. Is this not right? -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 14:52:20 JST
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Behind the guardian piece
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 11:07:45 JST
Yuchen Pei
Found their definition: individuals born with both testicular and ovarian tissue
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 10:48:28 JST
Yuchen Pei
Resisting Elon Musk's Nascent Social Credit System 𝕏
https://simontv.org/p/resisting-elon-musks-nascent-social
> Yesterday 𝕏’s automated systems locked me out of my account for this innocuous post. The fix is trivially simple: I can regain access to my account (and broadcast SimonTV later) if I agree to the arbitrary determination of the automated systems that I have indeed transgressed and accept the negative score that will be recorded against my account by Elon Musk’s social credit system.
> I choose not to comply and instead invoke the power of the word “no.” -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 10:25:02 JST
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Hmm it was actually quoted from another paper (Blackless et al., 2000, p. 161) -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 10:20:59 JST
Yuchen Pei
Reading "How common is intersex? a response to Anne Fausto-Sterling" by Leonard Sax. It mentions true hermaphrodites that occur in 0.0012% birth. Does anyone know what is the definition of true hermaphrodites there?
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 05:40:47 JST
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@LostInCalifornia
That's a good point, and it's bad that musk supports a party like afd, but it is also unfair to characterise what he said here as encouraging people to be nazis and not feeling guilty when doing Nazi things -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 21:41:15 JST
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@LostInCalifornia
moving beyond / not feeling guilty is not the same as emulating -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 21:35:49 JST
Yuchen Pei
@LostInCalifornia
This part? Not really the same as what you said
> On Saturday, he said “children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents, let alone their great grandparents,” apparently referring to Germany’s Nazi past.
> “There is too much focus on past guilt, and we need to move beyond that,” he said. -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 20:37:30 JST
Yuchen Pei
Seems vastly inferior to rail
> Las Vegas: A Ride on Elon's "Vegas Loop" Did Not Change My Mind — Human Transit
https://humantransit.org/2025/01/las-vegas-a-ride-on-elons-vegas-loop.html
> It’s remarkable to me that the Clark County Commission approved this, with the head of the convention bureau calling it “the only viable way” to manage traffic on the Las Vegas Strip. Obviously, if there are no other options, there’s no need for analysis, but every transport planner knows how absurd that is. Other options include (a) extending the monorail north to downtown and south to the airport, (b) building a proper rail subway, or (c) developing light rail or BRT on the surface of Las Vegas Blvd, taking 1/3 of the traffic capacity but carrying far more than 1/3 of the corridor’s person trips. Was it easy to say yes because the Boring Company isn’t asking for public money? Certainly, but they are still taking something valuable: an enormous amount of underground real estate in public streets. This will have the effect of preventing a properly scaled subway from ever being built because its path is blocked by this warren of too-small tunnels. -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 20:23:03 JST
Yuchen Pei
Sounds like a cult
> Japanese Knotweed
https://bevjacksonauth.substack.com/p/japanese-knotweed
> “I have two little girls, I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete,” Moulton told New York Times reporter Reid Epstein (Nov. 7th). “But as a Democrat, I’m supposed to be afraid to say that.” You betta believe he is supposed to be afraid to say it. It didn’t take long. After his campaign manager resigned, he put up a plucky if brief sort of resistance, saying (Nov. 11th) "Look, I was just speaking authentically as a parent about one of many issues where Democrats are just out of touch with the majority of Americans," he said. "And I stand by my position, even though I may not have used exactly the right words." He didn’t explain what words he may have gotten wrong. Cue protestors gathering outside his office, and “LGBTQ+” advocacy group MassEquality calling Moulton’s comments “both harmful and factually inaccurate.” Soon we find the Dem Rep backtracking about his daughters, saying his remarks were “not about his young children’s immediate experience but about higher-level competitive sports.”
> Then came crunch time. On January 14th the House got to debate and vote on the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act – which would protect Moulton’s daughters from, er, “getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete.” In a long-winded, transparently hypocritical Vote Explainer, Moulton said the bill was “not the sort of balanced, fairness-oriented policy I’ve advocated for.” Pull the other one, Seth. We all saw the Democrats concoct a grotesque name – worthy of QAnon -- for this entirely sensible bill (young staffers trotted out a big sign with the words “Child Predator Empowerment Act” every time one of their speakers took the floor). But Moulton voted with the crazies because the bill was “too extreme.” -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 17:31:45 JST
Yuchen Pei
since when have images been placed behind the js-wall in the "modern" web
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