JackieM / is on Nostr

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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2024-07-06 04:27:28

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and a truly passionate nerd will get super excited they don’t know and force you to research it with them endlessly until you figure it out (or collapse) because they assume you’ll be as fascinated as they are by the hunt of discovery and all you wanted was just a stupid answer.

2024-07-06 00:09:48

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I met him when I was a kid and I was such a fangirl 😂😂

2024-07-02 22:20:12

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NO! Omg sorry not you. I have been really getting a ton from this discussion. Elsewhere on mastodon I meant!! It was just striking that we here are talking about strategies for when Trump seizes power and were launched into a hellscape and a few clicks over someone is like “whatever they both suck I’m not voting!” 🤦‍♀️

2024-07-02 21:21:34

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(And yet here I find myself once again trying to convince a “leftist” they should indeed at least fucking vote for Biden AT LEAST agh)

2024-07-02 20:33:59

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But while I think there is some utility in scoping out the worst case, I think our top priority should be to avoid it. And that’s gonna require good old fashioned campaigning.

2024-07-02 20:32:12

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I have no idea. I think it varies a lot. I worked with some airforce members a long time ago and they were incredible patriots with a strong sense of duty.
I guess I imagine if scotus tries to toss an obvious Biden win, dems will refuse to accept that. At least I hope so. Then we have a constitutional crisis because the scotus has no enforcement authority.
Then I think we probably have to flood dc.

2024-07-02 20:17:17

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Also as far as I know (and this is very surface level) the end of fascism in Spain and Portugal weren’t particularly bloody were they? Portugal was a coup but it seems like it was kind of accepted without much bloodshed.

2024-07-02 20:08:54

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I guess I’m counting the Jim Crow south as a fascistic regime which was overthrown without a civil war. And remember that we are not yet in fascism, which gives us a fighting chance still. We have more tools available to us now, so it does not make sense to cede them as if a dictatorship has already been established. We should use them while we can. But I get your desire to have a plan for if they fail.

2024-07-02 19:40:59

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I mean, I do not have answers. But the best I’ve got is: whatever. The fuck. You can.
Go work for a campaign. Phone bank. Canvas. Register voters. Join mutual aid networks. Protest. Go tell your congressperson to get on board with AOC’s impeachment articles.
I wish there were more organizational structures to plug our energy into. I can’t be the person to build them. Maybe you can. Idk.
@npub1e80…2kp0 @npub1aef…0xhv @npub19zu…0jum

2024-07-02 15:12:06

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sorry if I misread. Your post sounded to me like “nothing we do matters cause hell appeal. We should just give up. “ but glad that’s my own frustration coloring things.

2024-07-02 15:08:54

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ok and what’s the move if that happens? Give up? What’s the move to keep that from happening? Cause defeatism is not helpful, and it’s not clever.

2024-06-29 03:39:08

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so hard to handle, but if you can bear it, keep at it. Be curious. What principle? What’s their theory of change—how will this end up with a good outcome? Has it worked in the past ever? What’s the cost and who will bear it? You have a few months. Try to come from a place of understanding and friendship.

2024-06-25 17:49:25

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honestly sometimes a pb&j hits the spot in a way nothing else will

2024-06-09 20:36:55

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goats?

2024-05-22 02:16:20

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would be ironic if it replaced all the engineers but not the writers who had the foresight to unionize. I mean, I’d be out of luck, but I would recognize the irony