lynn / clarissa

Educator in computational peculiarities. Phenomenologist. Algomusician. Trans-transdisciplinary.

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2024-08-30 04:05:26

trans babyface strikes again:
woman asked me casually if I was over 21, I laughed and said yeah I was born in the 1980s
then her eyes go wide and she's like "noooo do you have your ID on you? I have to see this"

2024-08-28 19:47:27

So this post
https://tilde.zone/@bittertea/113041301628917181
made me think about something:
so lately we've been talking, collectively, a lot about the idea of "algorithmic injustice": algorithmic decision making as a way of laundering harmful biases in a way where no one is to blame
but when it comes to our legal system that was already true
no it's not a computer, but it is a system of rules and technicalities and distributed responsibility that does great evil and yet no one is "to blame" because everyone involved is just Doing Their Job and following the law

2024-08-24 20:44:32

I realized awhile back that if I'm going to be pissy with people who use "butthurt" I also have to excise "sucks" out of my own vocabulary

2024-08-18 17:38:18

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if you press it usually comes down to a kind of "but some people are better than others, you can't force Equal Outcome!"
and, like, seriously kill the phrenologist in your head

2024-08-17 00:37:51

Sometimes you just have to write code to figure out enough to write down your ideas before you write the real code

2024-08-12 17:47:08

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I stand by an old gemspace post I wrote that I think there's a case for having more protocols than just http, ones that are good for limited things

2024-08-12 17:43:45

I really do like gopher for personal journaling and I like the community of people who write gopherlogs

2024-08-08 01:06:34

Do you know why humiliating fascists is good?
Because definitionally they are weak-willed cowards
they are emboldened when they think the average person will let their escalation slide
they are small and scared to act when they think there is a chance they'll be confronted
wide-spread humiliation and disdain is a fantastic way to keep them feeling unsupported
I don't mean laughing it off and not taking them seriously, I mean actively making them feel judged and afraid of humiliation and confrontation

2024-08-07 15:32:05

One of the reasons I don't like and don't use "enshittification" is that it's inherently agentless and undescriptive
an opinion I feel is validated as I've seen its usage drift into "things getting worse over time" rather than the active thing-being-done by the capital holders

2024-08-05 01:33:55

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oh I ain't talking about generative models I mean handcrafted code to produce artifacts e.g. art installations powered by processing

2024-08-05 01:28:47

It's surprisingly hard to find references connecting procgen and the surrealist movement
which feels wild because the a lot of the surrealists were all about connecting randomness to art
am I just failing at finding?

2024-08-01 21:36:26

In all our public spaces you shouldn't have to go more than a few blocks to <li>get water</li><li>use the bathroom </li><li>throw away trash</li><li>sit</li><li>charge your phone</li>

2024-07-31 20:46:49

Oh! Okay for people who are currently dealing with covid you might not know that there have been a number of papers in the past couple of years about how anti-histamines like loratadine actually compete with covid at receptor sites and it has some affect on how severe the infection is and how infectious you are to other people
like it's not a miracle cure but it's *something* and given that these are the low-side effects anti-histamine family there's not really a downside to trying

2024-06-21 17:19:41

I legit want to start a new cultural perception that driving everywhere when you don't have to is immature indulgence, like a kid binging on their first halloween's candy or drinking all night in college
e.g.
"oh you *never* take the bus? what are you a sixteen y/o who just got their first wheels from daddy? are you hoping to impress that boy from 3rd period math?"

2024-06-20 02:55:12

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this is basically my post that I will reference from hereon out anytime I see someone say "everyone should go to therapy"

2024-06-20 02:48:25

if "the purpose of a system is what it does"
then I feel very comfortable saying that therapy, as an institution,
is primarily meant to establish and enforce a kind of banal normalcy, placating feelings that could lead you to radical enacted dissidence while also pathologizing any significant deviations that make you less useful to capital
and then---only secondarily---to actually help people improve their lives

2024-06-16 15:46:22

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the archetypical example has to be profesh conservative detrans circuit speaker watson who literally will tell you she went on testosterone because she thought it made her cooler than everyone else but all the other trans people were fake and cringe and didn't like her slurs so she stopped taking T
and that's why no one should ever be allowed to transition again

2024-06-16 15:21:52

Almost every "I was in the woke/trans/sjw cult" person, if you really listen to them, ends up sounding like
"well I used to do [X] for attention and to be told I was special and had the right opinions and then people still didn't like me and said I was 'an asshole ' and 'kind of a bigot ' so that's when I realized I was in a Cult of Sheeple but you, dear conservatives, aren't like that you're smart and special and were right about everything
....love (and pay) me?"

2024-06-05 19:58:04

All discussion of walkable neighborhoods on the internet will immediately devolve into weird drivers acting like you proposed for there to be snipers perched to shoot you if you step into a vehicle

2024-06-03 00:04:19

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fedi has its cultural problems, broadly, but at least no one admin can ban me from saying cis

2024-06-03 00:03:13

least favorite cis archetype:
the person, usually a guy, who is like "haha nobody cancel me for this but..." before saying something totally transphobic

2024-05-27 05:01:18

Look I'm just saying that if you're an american you should be rrreeal sympathetic to the idea that a population doesn't deserve to be warcrimed just because their government is full of monsters

2024-05-24 23:58:04

There are definitely parts of the queer community where we need to, like, *un*normalize going to therapy
or, more accurately, normalize never going to therapy
it's not actually a universally applicable unqualified good for all people

2024-04-18 17:53:36

Tech sector workers will look at a trillion dollar company run by the most amoral people you've ever seen and think "I can change him"

2024-04-11 02:11:36

Chris Rufo: Okay guys so if we want to get a christian nationalist state we're going to need to lie about our enemies. I want you to tell people critical race theory is racist indoctrination by marxists. I want you to call every gay and trans person a groomer. Make up stories about how every academic we don't like is a plagiarist even if the people they supposedly plagiarized from say it doesn't count as plagiarism. Okay? These are lies and I'm lying right now but it's going to work as long as we say it enough times.
The worst atheists you know: Holy shit!!!
Me: I know, right? Like the dude just keeps announcing his master plans like some kind of movie villain. That can't possibly
The worst atheists you know: I had no idea the woke degenerates had gone this far!
Me: ....work

2024-04-10 15:47:32

So does Thiel specifically give money to the stupidest motherfuckers you've ever seen or is that somehow a side effect of other criterion?
Inquiring minds want to know
https://www.wired.com/story/this-woman-will-decide-which-babies-are-born-noor-siddiqui-orchid/

2024-04-07 20:39:54

When gendercrits define a woman as "the sex class that produces large gametes whether or not said woman has ever made those gametes or ever could" they have no idea that they're providing the most perfect example possible of butler's point that all attempts to define a rigid objective notion of sex are still just social artifacts under the hood

2024-04-07 14:54:13

"transgenderism and idpol are a distraction from the real issues of class" says person who posts 27 hours per day about Trans Bad