Erik Haugen @ech@qoto.org
Computer programmer
"From what we can tell, Haugen works at Google. So much for "Do no evil."" – Kent Anderson
Joined Mar 2023
@queenofnewyork @futurebird @keyboardworrier@lgbtqia.space Well, I won't say "never" – you make a good point that anything's possible.
But one thing to consider about those examples is that major political movements have been trying to undo affirmative action and make abortion illegal for a very long time, and they've been very explicit about it the whole time.
"Keep trans people out of an activity (like chess) open to only non-trans" is really not what I'm hearing anyone saying these days – it's not just that people are lobbying for that but have no political power to speak of.
In that sense, at least, this would be different from those examples.
@keyboardworrier@lgbtqia.space @queenofnewyork @futurebird Seemed a bit dickish the way it was worded so I took it back; beg pardon! But yes – any chance to wrestle with the cognitive dissonance?
@queenofnewyork @keyboardworrier@lgbtqia.space @futurebird Strictly about this specific prediction, I really don't see that happening: a chess tournament open to everyone, male or female, as long as they're not trans? (In some sports it sort of happens indirectly – trans men can compete with cis men usually *unless* they're using hormone treatments, for example.)
@queenofnewyork @keyboardworrier@lgbtqia.space @futurebird Not really – most chess tournaments are just "open", no gender. Women can play against men without forfeiting their other titles.
@futurebird "Trans men will be stripped of all chess titles won" IIUC only stripped of *women's* chess titles won, yes? They wouldn't be stripped of titles from open tournaments, right?
@Sinistar7510 https://44bbdc6e-01a4-4a9a-88bc-731c6524888e.filesusr.com/ugd/0813a9_6b0ea3c8b15a48cab92db4f0fd7991b7.pdf From Crenshaw herself. I think this is more or less what conservatives who use the term mean by the term, isn't it? I don't think this canard about nobody knowing what it really is is very useful.
@floppyplopper @stavvers seems similar in most of those: mostly open contests, mostly men participating therefore most at the top level are men, occasional women's-only events.
@dpnash@mastodon.online @stavvers "At high levels, this is a large performance difference." Isn't it just a "bigger pool of people" and not any known "performance difference"?
@timo21 @gwensnyder Even libertarians "censor" – i.e. have strong opinions about for example what their kids read.
It's just a question of process.
To that end: Chatgpt makes me concerned. Is it making bad decisions I wonder? I don't know.
@revere23@stranger.social @DeanObeidallah Well, he did more than just question the election: he did things like pressure Pence to not count some states' votes due to ongoing disputes about their veracity. (Pence I assume was well aware that those questions had had their day in court and all failed spectacularly, so rejected the request.)
Your point remains, though: I'm having trouble finding anything in these indictments that isn't "going through the front door". Like, was Trump involved in some effort to get armed attackers in place to take over congress or something? I don't think so? (If so wow did he fail spectacularly, there were instead only like 2 guys with zip ties. If he were trying to do this, wouldn't there be more of a force there on the day of?)
@Ulrich_the_Elder@mastodon.social @amaditalks @ami_angelwings @stavvers IIUC it mostly isn't. There are women's chess events/tournaments, though. Why? Well, why not?
@GrayGooGirl @stavvers I'm sure that was someone's motivation at one point or another, but certainly isn't the main thing going on. In any case, not having women's sports would mean inequity in things like college scholarships. There's real money involved. (I guess one solution to that would be to not have athletic scholarships, but what about pro sports?)
"excluded from the """real""" league" Women's sports is very much real. (And a lot of "men's" sports orgs don't actually ban women (MLB is an exception).)
I think most men understand that there are plenty of women who can absolutely crush them at any given sport. :)
@skipchris @stavvers Yeah, mostly IIUC tournaments don't have different categories for different genders.
@randahl except right above this in /explore I was seeing Gargron pushing the stickers and mugs.
@Jer @briankrebs Sure – we know some self-driving ride-hail cars call home for manual take-over when they are confused. But, it can't be the solution to the problem "my data connection is out". It has to be confused in some way beyond that.
I suspect it got confused by something, then couldn't call the help center for remote manual take-over. This makes the CEO's comment somewhat correct, in the sense that if the data connection was working it wouldn't have happened. But "not the whole story", since it doesn't describe the root cause of the failure.
@Jer @briankrebs It is difficult to believe "do nothing" would actually be the next failure mode, so I suggest the thing about lack of data is not the whole story. But maybe, I guess. 
@ErictheCerise @fedops @briankrebs Well, in this case, maybe not so networked. :)
(Point remains though)
@Jer @briankrebs Sure; if mobile data is out or whatever, you shouldn't expect to be able to hail a ride via the app. But the cars don't need to be blocking the street in this case. They can drive and navigate without mobile data.
Clearly this incident with Cruise was some kind of glitch. Not the first time this sort of thing has happened, either.
Computer programmer
"From what we can tell, Haugen works at Google. So much for "Do no evil."" – Kent Anderson
Joined Mar 2023
