tripu @tripu@qoto.org
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
Two thinkers I follow and respect, @jonhaidt and @profgalloway, are now advocating the need of some kind of ID for users of online social media. It’s an idea I always found intuitively repellent, and I fear the negative consequences that would have — but their arguments in favour are making me doubt.
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RT @SpacChad
This is how techno is made if you didn’t already know
And #stats like these:
- “Men account for just 24% of K-12 teachers, down from 33% in the early 1980s.”
- “Only one in ten elementary #school teachers are male.”
- “In early #education, men are virtually invisible. It ought to be a source of national shame that only 3% of pre-K and kindergarten #teachers are men.”
- “There are twice as many women flying U.S. military planes as there are #men teaching kindergarten (as a share of the occupation).”
THIS.
“We need a massive […] effort to get men to move into jobs in the growing fields of health, education, administration, and literacy (HEAL), equivalent to the successful campaign to get women into STEM.”
“There are three pressing reasons to get more #men into #HEAL.”
“First, given the decline in traditional male occupations, men need to look to these sectors for jobs. Blue collar jobs are disappearing. There will be more STEM jobs, too — but these are much smaller occupations. #STEM accounts for only about 7% of all jobs, compared to 23% in HEAL.”
“The second reason […] is to help meet labor shortages in critical occupations. Almost half of all registered nurses are now over the age of 50. […] We face labor shortages in two of the largest and most important sectors of our economy — health care and #education. But we are trying to solve them with only half the workforce.”
“The third argument […] is to provide a better service to #boys and men. Many would prefer to be cared for by a man, especially in certain circumstances. Consider the case of a man in need of help using the bathroom in a hospital or care home, or the middle-aged man needing a therapist to help with his addiction to pornography, or the fatherless teenage boy needing help from a psychologist with their substance abuse. It is not ideal if most substance abuse counselors are women (76%) when most substance abusers are men (67%), or that most special education teachers are women (84%) when most students being referred to special education are male (64%).”
“Getting more men into HEAL occupations would be good for men, good for the professions, and good for clients — a win-win-win.”
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#Flickr, year 2,709:
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I can buy a home that is close to work/school (to save time and money and avoid polluting) — or a home that is nice to live in (spacious, bright, quiet, on a pretty neighbourhood).
I don’t seem to be able to do both without going astray from #FIRE.
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Managed to convince #midjourney to create some #hackerspace #illustration s!
CC-BY-NC 4.0 Midjourney
I love the warmth, colors, the welcoming feel, the magical atmosphere. Exactly what I wanted to convet with Glider!
Prompt: hackerspace, hackers, programmers, computers, LEDs, warm light, by Miyazaki, Nausicaa Ghibli
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RT @ai__pub@twitter.com
// Stable Diffusion, Explained //
You've seen the Stable Diffusion AI art all over Twitter.
But how does Stable Diffusion _work_?
A thread explaining diffusion models, latent space representations, and context injection:
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#Nitter is an AGPLv3 licensed #Twitter frontend with all the features of the default site -- but more importantly -- it returns all of the freedom that Twitter's nonfree JavaScript takes away from you. Try out one of the instances at https://nitter.net
Millones de mamíferos superiores viviendo y muriendo en condiciones deplorables cada año, y queremos salvar a Laika.
…y por este tipo de idioteces no puedo llamarme yo «antiespecista».
Ningún animal no humano se va a sentir ofendido por usar el masculino genérico para referirse a él. Pista: no saben leer.
Las vidas de los animales (humanos o no) no son valores absolutos. Si hay que sacrificar a un señor de Murcia para evitar una hecatombe nuclear, lo correcto y moral es hacerlo. Si es muy conveniente (o sea: si las alternativas son enormemente caras o ineficaces) enviar a una perra (o a veinte) al espacio y dejar que muera allí para asegurarnos de que los primeros humanos que hagan lo mismo podrán volver a salvo, lo correcto y moral es hacerlo.
50 años después de la última misión a la luna, el ser humano volverá en las misiones Artemis I,II y III. La carrera espacial en deuda con Laika, H...
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
