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bradwilson, 3 days ago to random

In my dream the Wi-Fi went out so I woke up because I'm not putting up with a lack of Internet, even while sleeping. 😂

icecolbeveridge, 9 days ago to random

Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician.

Today is World Bicycle Day. If you need some help getting yourself into gear, give me a shout!

Lana, 10 days ago to queer

On the 20th of May, 1810, a member of the French nobility died. And nobody, including the attending physician who examined the body, knew what to write on their death certificate.

The Chevalier d'Eon had always had a naturally androgenous appearance, a fact which they capitalized on frequently throughout their life. The child of a minor French nobleman, d'Eon enjoyed the benefits of an education, excelling in school, and earning a law degree. After school, they took work as a political writer for a time, and then became secretary to a series of Parisian administrators, working in areas of finance as well as in history and literature.

But in 1756, they joined a secret network of spies known only to King Louis XV, and working without the official knowledge or sanction of the French government. d'Eon's mission was to infiltrate the court of Empress Elizabeth of Russia, and there, conspire with members of a pro-French faction of the Russian government against the Habsburg monarchy of Austria. At the time, Russian border crossings were restricted only to women and children. So, according to d'Eon's memoirs, they were forced to pass convincingly as a woman or risk execution. Thus disguised as "the Lady Beaumont", they served as maid of honor to the Empress.

Years later, d'Eon returned to France, awarded an enormous sum of money for their service to the King, and became Captain of Dragoons - a military title involving mounted cavalry. Later, they served in the Seven Years' War against England. When the war ended, d'Eon themself drafted the peace treaty, and was awarded another handsome sum of money for their efforts, receiving the title "Chevalier" - a French title of nobility roughly translating to "Knight".

In 1763, a series of political machinations saw d'Eon embroiled in a scandal. Having lived in London now for years, d'Eon published a series of letters detailing some (though not all) of their secret dealings as a spy. This breach of diplomatic discretion was scandalous in the extreme, but secured them the sympathy of the English public. In these letters, d'Eon claimed that the new ambassador to England, a man named Guerchy, had tried to poison them at a dinner. Guerchy sued for libel, and d'Eon strangely offered no defense at the trial. They were thus declared an outlaw and went into hiding. Eventually, Louis XV granted d'Éon a pension (possibly a pay-off for d'Éon's silence) and a 12,000-livre annuity, but refused a request to pay off the rest of their debts. d'Eon continued to work as a spy for Louis XV, but lived in political exile in London.

And here is where our story truly begins to get strange.

It was around this time that rumors began circulating in London that d'Eon was actually a woman, despite the fact that they routinely wore their military dragoons uniform, and claimed to be, and have always been a man. A betting pool over their true gender was started on the London Stock Exchange. d'Eon was invited to participate but declined, stating that an examination would be dishonoring whatever the result. After a year without any further updates, the wager was abandoned and the monies returned.

Then, in 1774, King Louis XV died, and d'Eon, sensing an opportunity to return to their homeland, attempted to negotiate an end to their exile. The resulting twenty page treaty permitted d'Eon to return to France, but demanded that they turn over any documents and correspondence from their time as a spy under Louis XV. Additionally, a clause in the treaty demanded that they present themselves as female during the voyage.

So the Chevalier d'Eon, now stylizing themself as the Chevalière d'Eon (a feminized form of the title given to them by Louis XV at the end of the war), and wearing their dragoon uniform, began making plans to return to France. However, now claiming to have always been a woman, they demanded recognition by the French government as such. They claimed that their father had to raise them as a boy, because his father could only inherit from his in-laws if he had a son. King Louis XVI complied with this demand, but required in turn that d'Eon no longer wear the military uniform and instead dress as a woman. Included with the offer was a substantial sum of money for a complete women's wardrobe. Whether it was because d'Eon really was assigned female at birth, as they claimed, or whether it was merely the money and station offered by the new King, d'Eon agreed. So, d'Eon returned to France a woman, and as punishment, was summarily banished to Tonnerre.

For the rest of their life, d'Eon would maintain this presentation, even offering to join with the Americans in the War of Independence, leading a battalion of female fighters against England, though their banishment ultimately prevented it. During this time there are accounts of the Chevalière d'Eon fencing, fighting, and participating in duels with other French nobility, always presenting as the woman they claimed to always have been. After the French Revolution, the king's pension vanished, and d'Eon was forced to sell much of their possessions to survive - though they did not give up their female attire. In 1809 at the age of 80, d'Eon suffered a fall and became paralyzed and bedridden. They died in poverty in 1810 at the age of 81.

But their story doesn't quite end there.

The surgeon who examined d'Éon's body after their death attested in their post-mortem certificate that d'Eon had "male organs in every respect perfectly formed", while at the same time displaying feminine characteristics such as "unusual roundness in the formation of limbs", as well as "breasts remarkably full". Though buried in an unmarked pauper's grave, there exists to this day a memorial in London listing the Chevalier d'Eon as one of the important graves lost to time.

Even by modern standards, the Chevalier/Chevalière d'Eon's gender identity is a bit of an enigma. Some have suggested they may have been intersex. Some choose to interpret their story as transgender or gender fluidity. Some have even coined a term - "eonism" - to describe similar cases of gender nonconformity.

Tell our stories.
#PRIDE #TransHistory

CSVCONF, 13 days ago to random

🤩What an inspiring and fun time we had at #csvconf! From incredible sessions with data makers to the epic piñata party, it was an unforgettable experience. Thanks to everyone who joined us at csv,conf,v8 in Puebla🇲🇽 and made it so special! 🎉🦙💞

anarcoaceituna, 14 days ago to random Spanish

Endereza la espalda bro ...

thomas, 16 days ago (edited 16 days ago) to random

I'd like to remind all Mastodon users that you can add a language filter to any follow relationship on Mastodon.

If you follow me and you don't speak German, you can easily remove my German posts from your timeline by adjusting the language settings.

Go to my profile page, select the dot menu and click "Change subscribed languages". Then select the languages that you speak.

This really is a hidden gem 💎 on Mastodon and not many people seem to know this feature :awesome:

#mastodon

hynek, 16 days ago to random

i beg, once again, tiny js libraries to stop assuming i want to npm-install everything or expose all my visitors to some free cdn service. just give me a directory i can put on a web server, ty

onezetty, 16 days ago to random Spanish

💫 🦄

maop, 22 days ago to opensource Spanish

#opensource #maintainer #developer #bigcorp

GossiTheDog, 22 days ago to random

For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

video/mp4

tixie, 23 days ago to random

iTerm, can you NOT PUT FUCKING AI in my terminal. I don't need AI in my fucking terminal ffs.

Damn, tech bubble is fucking rotting everything

gardeky, 22 days ago to random Spanish

No quiero su p*nche IA, Twitter, notion, slack, etc, sueltenme el brazo me están lastimando.

tzinacan, 22 days ago to random Spanish

Nota para mi: no te metas a trabajar en proyectos de gobierno.

jailandrade, 23 days ago to random Spanish

Hoy ha sido un día horrible con noticias de AI:

1. Sam Altman entreno sin permiso de Scar Jo su nueva herramienta de chatgpt y cuando ella pidio que se explicara como se genero esa voz dieron de baja el producto.
2. Microsoft acaba de comprometer la seguridad y privacidad de todos sus usuarios a expensas del calentamiento global que ojala le derrita todos sus data centers
3. iTerm, la terminal que usamos muchos en macOS acaba de integrar ChatGPT en su versión 3.5

https://iterm2.com/downloads/stable/iTerm2-3_5_0.changelog

internetarchive, 25 days ago to random

Why is The Wayback Machine so important for preserving our digital culture? According to new analysis from Pew Research Center:
❌ 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible
❌ 23% of news webpages contain at least one broken link
🔗 https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/

TechDesk, 26 days ago to ai

If you use Slack for work, your messages and DMs to friends and colleagues are now being used to train the company’s machine learning features — and everyone is opted in by default.

A quiet update to the company’s policy suggests messages, data and files sent by users are helping Slack to improve its in-app features like channel recommendations, search results and emoji suggestions, reports @PCMag. Individual users can’t opt out either, something critics have called a “privacy mess.”

https://flip.it/Tb1gRM

#Slack #AI #MachineLearning #Tech

kennysmith, 26 days ago to ai

I was so, SO happy to leave Slack behind. And, remembering how that last group of people used it: YEESH.

“If you use Slack for work, your messages and DMs are now being used to train the company’s machine learning features — and everyone is opted in by default.

“A quiet Individual users can’t opt out either, something critics have called a “privacy mess.”

https://flip.it/Tb1gRM

#Slack #AI #MachineLearning #Tech

From: @TechDesk
https://flipboard.social/@TechDesk@flipboard.social/112458353011795780

18+ leoperbo, 26 days ago to random Spanish

#ViernesDeMemes #política
Importado de caralibro, finísimo 👌

draco, 26 days ago to random

The new Philosophy Tube episode is such a banger! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVilpxowsUQ

theunderfold, 27 days ago to random

The Good Guys

netbsd, 28 days ago to random

New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.

https://www.NetBSD.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

sursiendo, 28 days ago to random Spanish

No Thanks, la app para boicotear las empresas que financian y apoyan a Israel

"Entre las empresas que detecta la aplicación se encuentran Coca-Cola, Nescafé, Starbucks, Adidas, McDonald’s, Chanel, Netflix, entre otras corporaciones de industrias que van desde la alimentación hasta los cosméticos."

#FreePalestina

https://desinformemonos.org/no-thanks-la-app-para-boicotear-las-empresas-que-financian-y-apoyan-a-israel/

gerrymcgovern, 30 days ago to random

"ChatGPT consumes a lot of energy in the process, up to 25 times more than a Google search. Additionally, a lot of water is also used in cooling for the servers that run all that software. Per conversation of about 20 to 50 queries, half a litre of water evaporates – a small bottle, in other words."

AI is predicted to consume twice as much energy as the whole of France by 2030

Training GPT3, took 1,287 MWh (Megawatt hours) of electricity.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/world-all-news/1042696/chatgpt-consumes-25-times-more-energy-than-google

jailandrade, 1 month ago to random Spanish

Acabo de descubrir que existe un caniuse pero para emails... para ver si la etiqueta HTML o la propiedad CSS que vas a usar tienen soporte en el cliente al que va a llegar el email, esto esta genial

https://www.caniemail.com/

Errantus, 1 month ago to random Spanish

C'est la vie!
#viernesdememes