siderea

@siderea@universeodon.com

Psychotherapist-programmer musician-historian outsider-anthropologist healthcare-blogger science-explainer social critic essay-essayer and soothsayer. Professional wisewoman and amateur wiseass.

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irenes, to random
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us: hmm our laptop's disk space is running low, probably due to this thing where we obsessively download repositories of written information, we should be careful about that

also us: ooo someone packaged kiwix for nixos and bundled 70 gigs of Project Gutenberg books...

siderea,

@irenes The word "obsession" and its various grammatical forms is not remotely exclusive to OCD or any other condition in the DSM, and you are welcome to use it in the colloquial sense. It was a perfectly ordinary word before it was recruited for psychiatric purposes.

siderea,

@irenes That's very commendable.

betsythemuffin, to random
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Hey Masto-verse!

I am thinking about getting my genes sequenced, but I'm aggressively disinterested in the privacy practices of e.g. 23 and Me.

Looking for perspectives on how people who have done privacy-conscious personal genetics have evaluated providers for privacy and security concerns; secondarily interested in tools they have used to interpret this data.

(Looking ONLY for sequencing perspectives, NOT general genetic testing advice. Or for randos' commentary on adjacent topics.)

siderea,

@betsythemuffin I asked a very similar question a year ago, of the readers of my journal, many of whom are very privacy concerned, here https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1814008.html
You may find some of the responses interesting and informative, though ultimately unsatisfactory.

amydiehl, to random
@amydiehl@mstdn.social avatar

Survey (N=1,012) finds 77% of women say they prefer gig work to returning to the office bc they don't have to deal with coworkers. Just 23% of men said the same thing. "Women don’t always feel empowered [or] comfortable” in boys club settings.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/02/09/gig-work-economy-women-avoid-coworkers/72496492007/

siderea,

@aquasscum Not usually, hence my own confusion with this article, and I am a native speaker. That does seem to be the implication.

@DeliaChristina @amydiehl

siderea,

@Npars01 The gig economy is goddamn worker liberation. It is only because the United States sold workers down the river by giving responsibility for social supports like health care and retirement pensions to businesses so that businesses had ever more leverage and coercive control over workers that gig, temp, and self-employment work is at all problematic in the US.

@amydiehl

siderea,

@amydiehl That the problem is sexist men and the old boy's network is quite the assumption. I assure you, back in the '90s when I was temping for a living, I would be quick to point out that one of the great benefits of temping was being exempt from office politics, and it wasn't just or even primarily the men that I was avoiding.

I really wish people would dig the fact that sexism doesn't just mean men treating women poorly. It also has forms like "expecting women to put up with things men are not expected to put up with", like say problematic interpersonal dynamics in the workplace. The crucial difference being the sex of the person holding the expectation can be any.

siderea, (edited )

@amydiehl In this case, by problematic interpersonal dynamics, I mean oh, everything from being expected to participate in office social life from gossip to planning birthday parties, to being expected to handle various scut work like making the coffee or emptying the trash, to having to put up with impromptu drop-ins in their workspace by people who want to micromanage them or argue with them.

brainwane, to random
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It's All Too Much not because I am inadequate, but because standards for my class's behavior have risen faster than we've built the infrastructure and prosthetics we'd need to meet them, and because of an unequal distribution of the benefits of the information revolution.

https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2019/its-not-just-you/

a ton of fiddly expensive-if-you-make-a-mistake labor has emerged or shifted onto our shoulders, without commensurate logistical, psychological, or financial support for that shift.

siderea,

@brainwane This quote:
> all of these tasks that we are taught are inevitable parts of being adult in an advanced society exist either because our society is not as advanced as it pretends or because it has advanced in the direction of making things easier for capital and harder for labor (or both)

Is disturbing because it's wrong in a consequential way.

It is NOT the case these tasks exist due to lack of advancement or because they make things easier for capital. They are PROFIT CENTERS. They are PROFITABLE for capital to an extent I feel most people do not appreciate.

The reason Intuit has thrown an industrial fortune into lobbying Congress to prevent the United States government from handling taxes the way other countries do is not because it makes something easier for them. Their entire tax preparation industry EXISTS ONLY because of that obligation on the US taxpayer. There would be entirely out of business without it.

siderea,

@brainwane The reason that US health insurance has so many hoops to jump through for their customers (and, as I have written about before, for healthcare providers) isn't because they have carelessly failed to make it easy for their customers, but because they literally profit from every otherwise-covered medical procedure that they can get out of paying for. Their entire business model is "charge much as possible, then pay for as little as possible, keep the difference." Everything they can do to make it harder for their insureds to access care, or then to have it covered impacts their bottom line favorably from their perspective.

It isn't an oversight, it's deliberate.

siderea,

@brainwane Likewise the example of companies making it difficult to cancel subscriptions. It's all the same thing.

In the absence of strong regulations that prohibit it, all contracts between private individuals and companies regress to a mean of being deals with the devil.

To describe it as "a ton of fiddly expensive-if-you-make-a-mistake labor ... emerged or shifted onto the middle class's shoulders, without commensurate logistical, psychological, or financial support" misses that this is actively economic predation on the vulnerable.

siderea,

@trochee @brainwane "I am altering the terms of service. Pray that I do not alter them further."

siderea, to random

Is there a term that is the parallel of "latinate" that means the equivalent for Greek?

Like in the phrase "a preference for latinate and [Greek-ish?] naming conventions".

siderea,

@trochee Not bad, but I don't think it's correct. Like I don't think you can put Hellenic into that sentence and have it do the right work.

siderea,

@gjm Yeah, writing the question out, I kind of convinced myself that the way to solve my problem was instead of having an And phrase, using "greco-latinate" instead. I still thought the question was interesting I would have liked to know if there was a useful answer instead.

irenes, to random
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is kink-at-pride discourse going around again?

we've only seen the barest hints but we think we'll just offer this meme on the subject as a prophylactic

siderea,

@lritter
With apologies to XKCD: "Situation: there are 14 competing kink pride flags."

@irenes

dramypsyd, to random
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State senate passed PsyPact! Just need the governor to sign off and South Dakotans will be able to receive care via telehealth from ANY PsyPact psychologist! (And I’ll be able to provide assessments in all 41 PsyPact states)

siderea,

@dramypsyd Woohoo!

dkmackinnon, to random
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There's no way this can go wrong..... and why does Neuralink need Xylene?

I'm surprised this went ahead in humans after the problems with animal testing.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/musk-brain-implant-first-human-1.7099093

siderea,

@dkmackinnon for the record, I was going to comment "wubba wubba", but just to check I googled "wubba wubba Stephenson" and this was the first hit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nealstephenson/comments/1aesrqb/wubba_wubba_wubba/

stavvers, to random
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Hello fedi, here is an actual looking for advice post, to which you can reply with answers specifically pertinent to the request.

I'm looking for a printer for light office use. It'll mostly be used for printing black and white a4, sometimes on sticker paper. Multiple people will be using it to print from laptops, so it needs to be able to do that. I'll have to explain how to use it to multiple people, so needs to be simple and reliable. Cheapest possible ink refills please. Scanner desirable.

siderea,

@stavvers I have no idea what's good in printers these days because the last time I had to buy a printer was in 2012, and I bought a Brother MFC-7860DW, which turned out to be an absolute tank, one of the greatest pieces of equipment I have ever bought, and is still going strong.

grimalkina, to random
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Yet another cursed hotline idea: a hotline for the sweet caring CS grad students of CS faculty who are trying really hard to do social topics. We staff it with interdisciplinary social scientists and we answer and say things like "they want you to invent a measure for WHAT? Do you know how hard that is?" and "You're one hundred percent right to be wondering if demographics actually matter. They said YOU were a bigot for caring about it???? Sweetie it's time to come to our workshop on this one"

siderea,

@nbhansen
I'll hold the feet.

@bomkatt @grimalkina

siderea,

@grimalkina Real question: is there already some sort of organization for people who do social science in CS?

siderea,

@grimalkina Maybe someone should fix that. ;)

siderea,

@grimalkina Hah. I don't think of that as an old thing. I invite you to think of it as a Young Turk, bucking to change things, sort of thing.

siderea,

@grimalkina and I want to say I particularly think there's a lot of merit in your idea of a hotline. Maybe it doesn't need to be a hotline, but the resource of a bunch of social science professionals, basically on call to help out the sweet young things in CS in exactly the sort of way you mention, sounds fabulous.

The siloization (is that a word? Is now) of various fields is deadly. I think the prospect of injecting social science clue into HCI is an excellent one. It parallels how I would like very much to inject anthropology and software project management best practices clue into psychotherapeutics, and psychotherapeutic clue into anthropology and primary care.

siderea,

@trochee @grimalkina

I was definitely going to suggest that it should refer to itself as a conspiracy.

siderea, to random

I appreciate this maybe impossible or impractical, including for technological reasons.

But I really wish it was the law that every single piece of software had to have in it someplace readily accessible to the user the information of what organization or individual was responsible for that software and how to contact them to report bugs and other issues.

siderea,

@deirdrebeth And there's no info at all in here that I have found about who is responsible for this "Phone" app. Is it Google's original? Is it the manufacturer's fork? Who knows!

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