Notices by Another Angry Woman (stavvers@masto.ai), page 11

It's a real fucking testament to what predominantly white audiences are like when pretty much every class in this series has sold hundreds of tickets, and this one, introducing people to erased Black artists has sold less than 40 https://masto.ai/@vagina_museum/112150738556420894

@BigTittyBimbo

Oh capitalism, you've innovated again!

imo everyone should go on puberty blockers until like age 16, at which point you're perfectly old enough to choose whether you wanna go with endogenous hormones or store-bought. and then we just write off Puberty Year for each cohort, and maybe give them a year off school.

This is one of my favourite topics for me, not a physicist, to go off on one about after a few drinks, so it's nice to see a proper physicist actually saying it.

Like idk man, maybe it's the social sciences background in me but a variable that cannot be directly observed or measured that gets thrown in just to make the maths add up absolutely would not get published in any social sciences literature and would be critiqued as nonsense, so I've always been surprised that physicists can get away with it.

Paper is here https://arxiv.org/html/2402.19459v1

And a plain language summary here https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/09/controversial-new-theory-of-gravity-rules-out-need-for-dark-matter

Many years ago, I wrote this defence of geocentrism because truly, the science on geocentrism was pretty sound and the maths worked; believing the sun went round the earth was just Good Science https://anotherangrywoman.com/2016/10/17/in-defence-of-the-ptolemaic-model-sort-of/

And for every neutrino, inferred to make the maths work and eventually verified, there's an aether, an invisible unmeasurable medium which carries light through a vacuum.

Among many physicists - and others in the "harder" sciences - there's a weird perception that The Maths is objective, that The Observations are objective when basically it's as prone to error as any uni sociology questionnaires: it's just that the first year sociologist spent their entire year learning all about how even your own research question is informed by what you believe or want to find. Meanwhile the physicist, I understand, just goes "telescopes, yay".

@BashStKid do a full qualitative methods module in another discipline, learn how to write a reflexivity log, and apply that, always, to their own research

@BashStKid I cannot emphasise enough how doing a qualitative module helped me immeasurably in my own reasoning and practice as the methodology involves constant reflection on why you're asking the question, and how you might be influencing what you find, which is something *all* scientists should be doing

Raise your hand if you didn't think it was right up until you saw this very specific denial

@siege yeah, the space is kind of everything, unless you have TONS of money. They probably could have just about made it work (at least, on a keeping the kids happy level) if they used less of the warehouse, ordered enough jellybeans and didn't write the script with chatgpt

@siege a couple of years ago, we had a trustee who was really pushing for doing immersive events while we didn't have a space, and it was for this exact reason we were like NOPE

Here's their obviously AI generated website btw https://willyschocolateexperience.com/index.html

Really enjoying how swiftly the use of AI in marketing switched to "well this fucking sucks what the fuck" mode https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/27/glasgow-willy-wonka-experience-slammed-as-farce-as-tickets-refunded

@siege Furthermore, this is a woman who publicly posted - twice - about wizards shitting themselves and magic-ing it away, absolute deviant

@siege oh my god OH MY GOD that is the plot twist we need

@siege babe, she already *has*, apparently she was ~investigating trans people in fandom~ by [checks notes] reading fic in the most cis fandom there is