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@mhoye Maybe Nonviolent Communication by Rosenberg? Or Mutual Aid by Dean Spade, especially chapter 5, No Masters, No Flakes.

@ai6yr

Hmm. Usually there is high demand for larger sizes of donated clothes. In general, the donor class is smaller than the thrift shopper class (for socioeconomic reasons you probably understand). So I would hesitate to take on the project you describe. Maybe ask at the thrift store. You may be seeing more of a local distribution imbalance than an actual surplus of plus size t-shirts.

@annika

✨Suggest tabs to close, help me make peace with letting go✨is the only possible good variation of this.

@inthehands

Drawing on my MS in Technical Communication.

Is it possible to present this as 3 separate images? Or to present the 3 images separately first, then present them together?

Consider: tell them what you’re going to tell them, tell them, tell them what you told them. “I am going to present 3 diagrams that join the numbers …. with lines in different ways to illustrate the concept of ….”

@inthehands @straphanger

Right. I had my own moment of “so, tariffs as a consumption tax, hmm.”

The part this admin is leaving out is the safety net. So that is where I would suggest we focus. Not on nudging more discretionary transit riders, but making sure very low income folks can at least get bus passes.

What moves out of the federal gov moves to state, local, nonprofit, community and individual solutions.

@badnetmask

I think it’s best to ask yourself, to the best of my knowledge, would that person want to see this reply? There’s a difference between a boost by someone you know IRL vs. a large account that does a lot of boosts, for example. I don’t think there’s a one size fits all answer to this.

@mkornblum @inthehands

Public health messaging is always a balance between rigor and what people will understand, what will motivate the correct action.

Also, the CDC could put more science into validating that measure. There are peer reviewed studies that make these estimates now. They compare wastewater levels to times and places where other methods were used to estimate prevalence.

@inthehands

You may find this lit review of interest https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/00913367.2017.1339368?src=getftr&utm_source=wiley&getft_integrator=wiley

Something to keep in mind is that we can’t really compare with the past, because things like magazines, TV, newspapers and their audiences are not what they were before. So an auto dealer that used to advertise heavily in the Sunday paper needs to try something different.

@raphael

Are you implicitly assuming this is for software developers? (Rather than the more general labor market)

That would help with some challenges I see with this idea, but not all.

@raphael

As much as culture and fit matter, so much hiring is still based on skills and job descriptions. For this matching to add value, you would need a well-populated field of positions and applicants.

So, I think this would work best if you could focus on one specific occupation but multiple employers. Maybe nursing?

From what I’ve heard, dating apps have similar challenges, working best for those ‘in the middle,’ not so well for outliers.

@bean

These Society for Technical Communication contests might fit the bill https://www.stc.org/honors-awards-and-recognition/technical-communication-competitions/

@lrhodes

Yes. I’ve already had some negative experiences where LLM generated correspondence, some quite polished, gave the impression the writer had thought something through and meant what they wrote, when in fact neither of those were true. Our actual conversations were then a frustrating waste of time.

@kims

This is currently the top post on r/SelfAwarewolves, which would be a fitting venue for that award.

@inthehands @peterbutler @RnDanger

Yes, non-citizens are counted in the population but are ineligible to vote. Noncitizen residents include permanent residents (green card), various visa types, and undocumented residents, a number that will always be uncertain. This source estimates immigrants to be about 7% of the US population https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/distribution-by-citizenship-status/?dataView=1&currentTimef

@inthehands @emjonaitis

Please teach him the rest of the Greek alphabet with alternative meanings and see if you can get them to take off :-) Like, it’s not really “all the feels” it’s “all the phis”.

@natebowling @carrideen

This is a resource I found useful on misogyny as a gateway to right-wing radicalization, with a young audience in mind: https://www.adl.org/resources/report/when-women-are-enemy-intersection-misogyny-and-white-supremacy Toward the end there are some concrete tips. At least provides evidence neither you nor the parents are making this up.

The week after I assigned the reading, Ben Shapiro spoke on campus and I saw some of that chill you mentioned.

@clarity

While economists are not mathematicians, they do a lot of math, and usually in the most incomprehensible Greek they can manage, whether in chalk or LaTex. And their elitist gatekeeping is legendary.

May be the source of some of the complaints. My experience of actual mathematicians tends to match yours.

@evan

A conversation where you can’t change the subject is called a meeting.

@grimalkina @brainwane

Something I’d be particularly interested to learn is to what extent there has been systematic review of biographies of women removed on notability grounds. Which if any Wikipedias have done that? (I mean operational/ administrative review more than research.)

At a minimum, it seems likely that some of those people will clearly meet the criteria after a few years.

@inthehands

After seeing post 1, I already knew what you were going to say in post 2.

File this away for the next hype-driven “AI as a thought partner for students” session.