Notices by Jess👾 (jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange)

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/congresswoman-mcbride-announces-she?r=fsat&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

The huge majority of women in Congress are Democrats anyways. Have them put out a statement saying "Speaker Johnson. The undersigned women in Congress who use these restrooms welcome Rep. Elect McBride in our facilities. You can keep your meddling hands out of regulating out bathrooms the same as you can keep your meddling hands out of regulating our uteruses.

If you were truly interested in keeping the women of Congress safe from men, the Ethics committee could choose to respond to the XX sexual harassment and assault complaints filed against currently sitting congressmen that have gone nowhere.

I wonder if folks recognize that Google Maps is a giant ad platform. And it's not just the obvious promoted businesses - each larger zoom level that you want your business to appear in costs money. If you don't pay them, it doesn't show up until you're in the very smallest zoom level. It doesn't appear when you search for restaurants. Basically unless someone specifically searches for it, or zooms into the smallest zoom level, it doesn't exist.

Watching/playing Fallout, and thinking to myself: if it wasn't for the gawd awful science experiments, being in a self sufficient deep underground vault with friends and family might not be too bad.

You ever have one of those mornings that even though you've been making coffee in the same coffee maker for so long you can do it in your sleep, suddenly in the middle of it your brain freezes, and suddenly you don't know how to make coffee without stopping for 30 seconds, the having to consciously work through each step? Yeah, that was me this morning.

@0x0ddc0ffee
I mean, I've got some crazy bad imposter syndrome, but that doesn't mean I'm going to roll over and take it from some self centered moron who confuses confidence for skill.

If the Democrats ever want to be a challenger for the other 34 states that aren't the coasts, NM, CO, MN, and IL, they're going to actually have to stop calling/implying everyone in the "flyover" states ignorant stupid racists who don't know what's good for them. That doesn't mean accepting white supremacy, but it does mean that they need to start figuring out how to engage minorities and urban liberals in those states to be motivated enough to actually show up. Fight for statehouses. Stop just abandoning half the country.

The proper response to "but those scary trans people!!!" Is "Have you ever been laid off or fired by a trans person? Let's talk about the people who actually hurt you!"

It is frustrating that Signal still insists on requiring a phone number for everyone who uses their app, though. At least they finally made usernames so you don't have to share your phone number with others, but I don't really want to share it with Signal either.

@jkmcnk
@gsuberland @soatok

Every time I hear the term "Boys being Boys" to mean "being a sex pest", I get infuriated. "Boys being Boys" should be all the best and silliest parts of boys being themselves. Having stupid contests with one another. Telling terrible puns. Having lots of energy and running around the block 10 times. Being unreasonably proud of their worst looking scraggly chin fuz.

Like there's so many cute and silly and dorky parts of being a guy which are great for boys who love being boys. The fact that got stolen to mean objectifying and harassing women pisses me off SO much.

My one big piece of advice to anyone entering tech:

Don't get used to tech company salaries.
Don't get mortgages and car payments that you can only afford with tech company salaries.
Build as much emergency funds as you possibly can with tech company salaries.
Fully expect that you'll get laid off the exact same time the entire rest of the industry stops hiring people, and it may be a couple years before hiring starts back up again.

Sure, you may think those 6 figure salaries means you're living on easy street, but when it comes with only working 8 out of every 10 years, those numbers aren't near as good.

Condominiums have never made a whole lot of sense to me. It's like all the downside of apartments AND owning a home AND HOAs all at the same time.

Just thinking today about how the entire notion of "Stockholm Syndrome" was entirely made up to excuse the incompetence and violence of the cops threatening the hostages' lives.

> Nils Bejerot, the police psychiatrist involved in the siege, never spoke to Kristin directly, but he diagnosed her with a condition he invented. 

> "[Bejerot] made the assumption based purely on what he'd observed from an outsider's perspective, that they had a syndrome without there being any diagnostic criteria, without there being any type of study — and that's the basis upon which Stockholm syndrome is born." 

> "It's really easy to say, 'They must have Stockholm syndrome,' because it's comforting to think that there must be a syndrome that explains why victims act like this. And it's also a way of saying, 'I would never act like that.'" 

> "Stockholm syndrome became a way of silencing an indignant, angry, exhausted, courageous young woman who was speaking about the realities of the events from her point of view," he said.

> "It has nothing to do with the psychology of Kristin Enmark. It was a silencing strategy." 

> "The ideal hostage is a woman who keeps her mouth shut and thinks that the police are going to protect her," she said.

> "And when someone pops up like me, who says the opposite? You have to call it being unhealthy, insane, instead of looking at what the police did." 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-23/is-stockholm-syndrome-a-myth/102738084

Tell me I'm not the only person who has a strict ordering of most favorite to least favorite coffee cups ...

There's going back to some of the older terms like machine learning, neutral nets, etc. but I've got no particular ideas for a broader overarching category term. That should probably come from people who are actually prominent in those fields anyways.
@tinydoctor
@calcifer

@calcifer
At this point, the LLM shits have completely ruined the term AI, same as the shitcoin hype ruined crypto. It's time for those who do legitimate work in the field to simply move on to different terms for their research. There's no coming back from billions of dollars of marketing and tech fanboys polluting the term.

When you're trying to de-Amazon your life, and realize just how dependent you were on 2 day shipping, and how shit UPS and USPS and FedEx Ground are...

Every once in a while, I start feeling a little bit good about myself and my skills. Then I come across someone who is like EMBARRASSINGLY better than me at all of them. Whelp, guess I'll go back to making the best of being kinda sorta okay.

Even worse is when they're struggling to find a job after being laid off, and you're still employed. Oh shit, if THEY can't find a job, if this gig falls through, guess I'm just fucked.

When you have to work on a keyboard just SLIGHTLY different spacing than your usual one, and now you don't know your passwords anymore.

I'm certainly no psych, but I think the proper way forward is to stop bothering with psych diagnosing entirely. Mental health simply doesn't work in a neat taxonomy of conditions like other medical issues do. Rather than trying to split hairs to satisfy insurance companies and gatekeepers, or worrying about labels, we focus on, for example, @FinalOverdrive is having a rough time with life. How can we help xim live a better life? Therapy? Lifestyle adjustments? Accomodations? Meds? All of the above? There's no need to get so focused on formalized systems of labels - just focus on how to help people be their best selves.

@alice @ideogram @actuallyautistic