Zoë O'Connell / is on Nostr

IT (DevOps) Geek, former Politician/Cambridge City Councillor/Westminster candidate, ex-Army Reserves (Signals/Intelligence)

Cambridge, UK/Lagos, Portugal

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2024-08-26 09:16:18

I just asked a chatbot to provide a third-person narrative of a chef making a specific sauce, to see how it would gender the chef. The chef was male.
You got that right... even ChatGPT fails the Béchamel test.

2024-08-16 21:42:24

Those who were interested in my #Worldcon #Hugos2024 sankey charts and are of a more technical disposition might want to check out the source code now at https://github.com/zoeimogen/hugo-sankey.
Still some tidying up to do, mostly to make images easier to find. (i.e. an index page)
Also working on visualising E Pluribus Hugo data used for nominations. Here's a very busy sankey graph for Best Novel nominations 2024!
https://zoeoconnell.co.uk/system/media_attachments/files/112/973/875/475/277/432/original/5f0d63051fb55880.png

2024-07-31 17:23:51

British Medical Association calls anti-trans Cass Review “unsubstantiated”. https://www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/bma-to-undertake-an-evaluation-of-the-cass-review-on-gender-identity-services-for-children-and-young-people
This is major: the BMA is the major union for doctors in the UK and not a niche group, most doctors are members.

2024-05-15 12:30:58

Remains to be seen if this was a one off but the first water quality test by the Environment Agency in the River Cam found E-Coli was offscale high.
Most other sites the graph only goes up to 2 000cfu/100ml. Cambridge levels are 2 700, and the limit for bathing is 900. https://environment.data.gov.uk/bwq/profiles/profile.html?site=ukh1201-09801
Hats off to the Cam Valley Forum for campaigning to get this monitored!

2024-05-14 21:40:02

I see the current lot in power can't even get reimplementing section 28 right without effing it up. They're de-facto section 28ing the straights too.
No discussion of sexual assaults and consent until MINIMUM age 9. (Some kids will be 10)
No discussion of actual sex or the negative effects of porn until MINIMUM age 13. (Some kids will be 14)
Have they actually ever met a teenager? Do they think nobody experiences sexual harassment or assault before they're 10?

2023-08-03 15:33:13

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1vu7…nmuv My old motorbike, an Aprilia RS125, had a warning in the owner's manual that no part of it was edible.
A warning important enough to also bear repeating in the workshop manual.
I don't know if that's just an Italian thing or if there has been a particularly interesting court case against them in the past.