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Jackiemauro

@Jackiemauro@fosstodon.org

Data scientist | PhD in stats & public policy from CMU | interested in #causalInference #nonparametricStatistics #ML #criminalJustice, trying to get more into and learn more about #climate

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RickiTarr, to random
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Alright, lots of heavy discussions today, so let's talk about something silly!

What is a movie that always makes you laugh?

Personal pick:

Anything Mel Brooks, but Robin Hood: Men in Tights, it's just funny every time I watch it.

Jackiemauro,
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@RickiTarr

Bridesmaids
Blazing saddles
Old Mae West movies

I’m realizing I don’t watch that many comedies these days. Though I just went to see Babes and I loved it

RickiTarr, to random
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Money doesn't buy happiness is something rich people say, because they can't figure out why people don't like them.

Jackiemauro,
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@RickiTarr I guess the more accurate saying is “money can’t buy happiness if you’re determined to be miserable”

RickiTarr, to random
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Sometimes, I think we need to stop blaming just Capitalism, and get more personal. Lots of countries use a Capitalistic system, but still manage to pay workers fair wages, provide free/inexpensive Healthcare, have paid maternity/paternity leave, longer paid vacation, shorter work weeks, ect. We use the word Capitalism like Christians use The Devil, but it's not some dark mysterious force, it is people who are choosing to treat other people like actual garbage, it is people who are making laws, people who are denying rights. The derision with which we speak the name of Elon Musk or Donald Trump, should be universal for rich fuckers who choose profits over people. They shouldn't get to hide behind, Oh, that's just late stage Capitalism. It's a choice for them, and it's a choice for the lobbyists who promote them, and it's a choice for the politicians who put those laws into action.

Jackiemauro,
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@RickiTarr yea it really gives the humans being immoral such a pass. Like “yea of course the CEO is laying off vulnerable people while raking in record profits and paying themselves record packages. That’s capitalism!

No. That’s a person making a choice within a system that allows that choice.

Also not for nothing that system doesn’t force to you accept these sorts of decisions without question or pushback.

RickiTarr, to random
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How much alone time vs socializing do you need?

For me there are a few people who are usually equalizing, and I can just be around them, so I won't count that. But generally, I find about 3 times a week, I'm game for socializing. A day in between to rest is usually nice, but the larger the gathering or if we go somewhere particularly noisy or I'm meeting new people that involves more effort, and my social battery empties sooner. I'm very curious where everyone else falls on this!

Jackiemauro,
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@RickiTarr this has really changed since I had kids. Before I would say I was about where you are, but now since I am essentially never alone, I would prefer to be around other adults basically always.

mekkaokereke, to random
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4 years to the day after George Floyd was murdered, here's where we are:

  • Racist people are just as racist as the day before George Floyd was murdered.

  • Black people are still asking for the exact same things.

  • "Liberal" and "Centrist" white Americans are more racist, and less supportive of DEI than they were the day before George Floyd.

  • Police budgets have grown faster than they did the day before George Floyd.

  • Biden has undone any of the gains made during the protests.

1/N

Jackiemauro,
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@mekkaokereke I feel like we really have a huge weakness when it comes to sustaining any sort of political pressure. We can turn out for the protests, which feel righteous and glorious. But when it comes to the day to day grind of getting people elected, of keeping your issue front of mind…not so good.

Hopefully the subtext of who “we” is here is clear…

I felt this way after the women’s march too. And here we are, without even roe to protect us.

Jackiemauro, to SanFrancisco
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Just your friendly(???) neighborhood heron (???)

I don’t know much about birds, but it was cool.

#SanFrancisco #GoldenGatePark #birds

GottaLaff, to random
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Was there ever a doubt?

#NikkiHaley is supporting #Trump’s 2024 White House bid, she said Wednesday in her first public remarks since exiting the Republican presidential primary more than two months ago.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/22/politics/nikki-haley-donald-trump?cid=ios_app

Jackiemauro,
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@GottaLaff I actually honestly don’t get what these people find so terrifying about democrats…

StillIRise1963, to random
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Don’t say shit about caring about trans people, gay people, Black people, brown people, immigrants or your own damn self if you don’t VOTE for Biden. And, you can kiss my ass too.

Jackiemauro,
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@StillIRise1963 also climate oh my god climate. Things aren’t looking good but holy shit the suffering that will happen if we follow the GOP’s path on climate…

GottaLaff, to random
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Via Angry Staffer:

…Project 2025 ..

  • would let red states monitor & prosecute women who get abortions

  • won’t commit to defending NATO nations

  • wd fire attys who won’t prosec his political opponents

  • suspend posse comitatus & deploy the military on US soil

  • wd end pandemic preparedness office

  • wd fire 1000s of civil servants

  • pardon all J6 rioters

  • try to make law enf officers immune from prosec

If this doesn’t scare the living shit out of you, you aren’t paying attention.

Jackiemauro,
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@MylesRyden @RebeccaBoyce I just got into the dumbest argument yesterday with people who sincerely believed Biden was worse than Trump on Covid and civil liberties and OOF.

mekkaokereke, to random
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Again for people (racists), complaining about falling birth rates:

The birth rate for women over 40 is not falling. The birth rate for women over 30 is not falling.

What's happening, is girls 15 to 17 are having fewer babies. Kids are having fewer kids.

Also, this is an interesting way of saying that "Teen pregnancy is down, due to sex education and contraception."

In 1991 25% of 15 year olds gave birth before they turned 21. That's bad. Now it's 6%. That's better.

https://npr.org/2023/01/08/1147737247/teen-pregnancy-rates-have-declined-significantly

Jackiemauro,
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@mekkaokereke you can’t have a birth rate crisis and a border crisis at the same time. Unless you’re racist. So…

Jackiemauro, to random
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We all know, the less you hold powerful people to account, the better they behave!

The less you constrain their actions, the more they control themselves for the common good.

Obviously.

Jackiemauro, to MountainBiking
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I biked from noe to the conservatory of flowers today with the kid on the back and HOT DAMN it was honestly one of the most incredible experiences of my #biking life.

Gorgeous gorgeous day. Got to ride up Page #SlowStreet, which is just so lovely. Then down #JFK which is honest to good one of the most beautiful promenades on the planet right now. There was art! There was nature! There was community!

God, #SanFrancisco you can really show off when you want to.

#BikeTooter #SF #ebikes

Jackiemauro, to SanFrancisco
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Saw this map of a hypothetical gondola system in #SanFrancisco and cannot get it out of my head. Imagine how gorgeous this would be!!

https://burritojustice.github.io/sf-gondola-map/

Jackiemauro, to Parenting
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Decided it would be good for my mental health to get back into my diary habit. My 3yo decided he would like to get into my diary habit too.

#parenting #MentalHealth

Jackiemauro, to internet
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So I’ve been here a little while and I still poke my head into ig now and then but im not invested anymore.

I’ve noticed a huge difference in my mental health. Huge.

Ive also noticed when I talk to friends on ig or twitter or TikTok it feels a little bit like talking to smokers.

I feel like a scold but I also feel like…you know this is bad for you. Why are you still on there? And worse, why are you getting news there?

Anyone else have this experience?

#SocialMedia #tiktok #Instagram

RickiTarr, to random
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I wish I could truly make people understand how much of a cult Conservative Fundamentalism is, and how much it truly brainwashes you. It is easy to say, "How can those people be so stupid, how can they not see?", but unless you've been inside it, you cannot understand how much effort is put into making sure that people cannot understand or see.

Jackiemauro,
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@RickiTarr Totally agree. I think I’m deciding that part of being a good ally is playing this difficult role where you have lots of patience and kindness and empathy for people who are acting cruelly. I can be the person who shares what I’ve learned and opens the door to learning together without judgement or recrimination or shame, because I’m not defending my own humanity in those moments. And I think as you say that approach is more effective. Even if it feels so hard sometimes.

mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
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Rapper Meek Mill is wondering out loud if Africans have access to streaming music apps like Spotify, and if so, if they listen to his music.

There aren't enough stories about the Africans working at big tech companies, but there are a lot of us. There are many Ghanaians, South Africans, Kenyans, and Nigerians 🙋🏿‍♂️, working in tech.

I often remind folks that Nigerian 7th grade math curriculum includes binary, octal, hexadecimal, statistics and data, algebra, and geometry.

https://youtu.be/2JTnr9XW-lk?si=D4ch-nw-zDkKNiAe

Jackiemauro,
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@mekkaokereke SIGH I really want to send my kids to public school when they’re bigger but it’s clear that we so desperately don’t want to teach black kids math, that we just withhold it from all public school students.

And getting to college and having to catch up in math is a terrible state to be in.

Jackiemauro, to SanFrancisco
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This article is sobering, sad, infuriating at what it takes to run a restaurant in #SanFrancisco these days.

And if my back of the envelope calculation is right, it means that basically a quarter of any bill you pay at a restaurant is going straight into a landlords pocket. Either the commercial space or out of the workers wages.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/san-francisco-restaurant-small-business-18494773.php

#SF

Jackiemauro, to random
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Make America Great Again by tearing down highways and restoring black centers of prosperity and by putting all the trains back where they used to run.

mekkaokereke, to random
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🤡

From Mother Jones:
"Dick Harpootlian, the party chairman, said whether Haley listed her race as white or not doesn’t really matter to him, but the issue is that the governor has shown a pattern of such actions.

'Haley has been appearing on television interviews where she calls herself a minority—when it suits her,' Harpootlian said. 'When she registers to vote she says she is white. She has developed a pattern of saying whatever is beneficial to her at the moment.'
"

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/07/indian-nikki-haley-says-she-is-white/

Jackiemauro,
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@jynersolives @mekkaokereke 1000%

What is the deal with tipping? Oh, racism.

Why when I cross this one street is everything suddenly decrepit? Oh…I know.

And on and on

Jackiemauro, to streaming
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Mad about #streaming being awful? #amazon being evil? Live in #sf? May I (re)introduce you to the joy that is a video rental store!

VideoWave on 24th has a huge selection, a friendly and deeply knowledgeable owner, and ice cream. Just got muppet Xmas carol. So pumped.

#SanFrancisco #SFBA

Jackiemauro, to internet
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I’m not gonna tell anyone what to do or be a scold but I personally would be so grateful for #cw ‘s in this moment.

#meta

Jackiemauro, to SanFrancisco
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Anyone have recommendations for where to order #mooncakes in #sanfrancisco? I need someone that delivers.

#sf #mooncake #food

Jackiemauro, to Sociology
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Hey #Sociology and #religious scholars people, can anyone tell me why it is that religious groups are often so good at organizing themselves to share #childcare responsibilities but secular groups seem super bad at it?

#religion #society #parents #parenthood

Jackiemauro, to random
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I want a network of like “non lethal” streets. No one gets to move at a mass x velocity combo that would cause lethal injury. You wanna drive an SUV, ok sure. Max speed 2mph.

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