To think if I, some minimally enlightened Gen X Cis Het white man from a small town can figure all this out and see the field of red flags waving for attention, what’s wrong with everyone that voted for it? Why are people so narrow minded, ignorant and fearful that they let a bunch of people who just want to push a narrative lead them merrily into damnation?
The sort of Doctor I would want my child seeing would be aghast at this type of unnecessary procedure.
Plus isn’t there the matter of privileged medical information?
So a young girl who goes to a Doctor and is told that there is something that would make her run afoul of these ballot measures won’t be outed, they will just not progress with joining sports. The external difference between a “trans” individual and a girl that won’t or can’t comply will be nil. They aren’t going to get a gotcha, they are just going to get reduced participation.
Does this mean when the fascist pricks that have pushed this shit don’t have hard figures on how many trans kids they have barred from sport they will just take that whole number and claim they have kept that many “trans kids” from sneaking into women’s sports?
Fuck this whole steaming pile of shit gets worse the more I think about how a maximally evil person could manipulate this to push a fictional world view.
Yep that would give the next Liberal government a great portfolio to sell off to their mates for pennies on the dollar to start the cycle fresh.
Hey it’s the assistive tech discussion around pervert glasses. Sure they can be used for helping people with a variety of differing needs. But they are primarily going to be used for feeding the appetites of perverts (sexual or technological).
Checking for hernias, something that could give you a lot of grief if it went bad. Arguably not that big a deal not something I hear being done a lot these days. I had to do the same when I was doing flight training. The intent was to prevent a medical issue from blowing up into a much bigger deal, and while potentially embarassing it was minimally invasive.
This, this is not medically necessary this is solely informed by culture war nonsense and transphobia. And once the transvestigators get involved how many girls families will be expected to spend thousands of dollars on genetic and hormone testing? This is being presented as defending women’s sports but it’s actually a potentially massive impediment.
Conservatives and Christians turning women’s sports into the Battle of Bến Tre. What a time to be alive.
Not sure if it’s because I am of an age where watching birds is becoming more and more interesting but I really like these little birds, almost as much as my wife does. I can’t remember where I saw it but I recall someone had photos of the males in breeding plumage taken into the Ultraviolet band and they are pretty spectacular. They are minimally disruptive, can be surprisingly bold, keep the insects down and don’t leave crap everywhere.
Kinda wish they could chase away the masked lapwings (plovers) in my yard who have taken to treating my deck and back step as their toilet since their chicks hatched. Nothing like the noise of a plover doing its kekekekekekekeke alarm call at you because one of their dopey chicks has decided to run under your feet.
His wet footprints, fresh out of the nearest toilet… What a visionary.
Wow I haven’t been super informed about this. How much of a bite will this take out of women’s sports participation?
They are literally throwing a huge hurdle up in front of every girl or woman that wants to play sports just in case one of them might be trans, not to mention anyone with non standard genital presentation or hormone imbalances or any of the other little variations of the human form that they like to pretend don’t exist. These people are the sort who would go target shooting with an ICBM.
Then again a lot of these freaks don’t really get why women would want to play sports when they could be having babies I guess. I swear the sooner we can start putting religion in the rear view the sooner we can start recovering as a species.
Totally agreed, I cut myself off before the diatribe became a screed, but if I had kept going I would have touched on that point. You did it a lot more succinctly than I would have. Thank you.
Looks like anything calling for Andy Yen to go has disappeared. Wonder how far they are going to go with this?
I realised I had bitten off far more than I could chew so I dragged in the slop bots. I could have opened the project up to other contributors and or stepped back or even away entirely and let the project continue but it made more sense for me to let big tech splooge all over it.
Maybe I am being unfair, but fuck that so sick of this slop code shit ruining everything because people are too fucking lazy to write their own code, too proud to get help, and too dumb to utilise the appropriate free software license.
And before one of the AI fucking collaborators chimes in “erghh local models” its all still built on theft of the community commons, and once the AI industry shits itself to death and the VC funding dries up development will stagnate, who is going to pay out the mega dollars to train new models, so your local models will see some minor updates but that’s it, I’d be really careful about lobotomizing yourself because an LLM can think for you.
Kinda salt in the wound of the fact that a non-zero amount if the inflation that’s led us here is based on major constructions either underway or planned for AI data centers. They disrupt the economy while trying to steal the jobs that underpin that economy.
Of course if the AI industry keeps hemorrhaging out the arse then maybe we as a society will just leave them bleeding out and move on with our lives.
It’s a shame they don’t care about any of the reasons this is a tragically bad and ineffective set of laws that score as many own goals as they do.
They are aware that these laws have been pushed along by the very multinational corporations they sought to legislate… Hmm I wonder why that might be?
They know that the online gambling advertising industry pushed this as a smokescreen to take the heat off their gravy train.
They know that the laws don’t work and create a whole host of other problems.
But think off all the control and surveillance opportunities it opens for the intelligence state.
I’ve recently been told that to do my job I need to provide ID and biometrics to a multinational, I started asking the real questions and it turns out that as soon as they “de-identify” the data they gather they are welcome to use it however they see fit.
This is an industry that is being handed the keys to the city in terms of our most sensitive data and they operate under a loose set of rules and guidelines and just do whatever they want. We are a few bad data breaches away from a national catastrophe and our government doesn’t care as long as they get to monitor which porn sites people like the most. It’s disgusting.
Hence the new job. My current colleagues swear like sailors, bitch moan and complain about every aspect of the job, and a few of them just refuse to do things the right way out of sheer bloody mindedness. And the morale on the worst day here is at least 3x better than the aspirations of the call center. Plus I am getting a wage that I still don’t feel I have actually earnt compared to the big company. In this one particular aspect of my existence, life is very good.
Depends how persistent they are. I was at the end of my rope after a day of pressure, bloody corporate culture mentality. Current job I said “No thanks” and they went “Cool”.
I have gambled $10 in my life. Less than half of that being my own money. Had an uncle who tried to convince me to give it a go and after 3 $2 bets he gave up. Every workplace I have ever worked I have had to go through the same explanations that I find gambling distasteful and don’t want to participate, got a lot of flack from a manager once for pointing out that statistically buying a lottery ticket doesn’t significantly alter your odds of winning. Hell buying a ticket once a week for your entire life doesn’t do much to change the odds.
Why would tech bros target a constrained market like the disability industry when they could target the much wider market of perverts? Honestly of there was any hope of these sorts of HMI devices being designed, manufactured or used ethically I would love them, tech enthusiast type I am. I literally bought in the first batch of the HTC Dream that reached my state, and bought the first Samsung Galaxy S (the first generation) that was sold in my state, I was the quintessential early adopter, really wanted to buy Google Glass back in the day. Now I am not and cannot be that person anymore, I see the privacy violations, the damage that unconstrained techo-capitalist manipulation is wreaking on our society and I have to be slow and measured.
These pervert glasses are bad news, and the pervert isn’t necessarily the person wearing them. If I was blind I would still get the ick from the idea of strapping a device to my face that allowed a techbro to filter and interpret reality, there’s at least a few cautionary tales worth of material in that, see episode 5 season 3 of Black Mirror for one example.
Here’s the thing though, all that data they are generating is being processed and some portion of it retained. It’s cool that they have chosen accessibility over privacy, if they lived a life that kept them isolated that would be entirely their choice. But they are taking this invasive spy tech into society, people who don’t want to be closely surveilled are not getting a choice.
I have not been into a Coles store since the Palantir stuff was revealed, because I get to make a choice. There’s an IGA I don’t go to because they are pretty sneaky about their AI surveillance disclosure (you can only find the notice in the back corner of the store). I started shopping for hardware at Mitre 10 not Bunnings when they were doing their AI thing. I opt out when and where I can, but what do I do when some brings that surveillance tech into my workplace, when they take it to my kids sports games, when I walk past them on the street. I have endless sympathy for the situation they find themselves in but there is no divorcing the technology from the invasion of personal privacy.
Until we get those rights hammered out, fines in the millions of dollars for these shitful companies that are constantly spying on us would be a good start, I see this becoming a more and more polarising matter as time goes by.
Hell even if we had a company backing these glasses that didn’t want to use the incidental data generated by their operation, how long would it be before they had a competitor who would offer a more featureful set at a lower price and drive them out of business simply by offering a better deal by turning people with a disability into ambulatory Flock cameras?
Don’t know if we can see why, you’ll have to post a few more angles to show us what you mean.
But are the vulnerabilities real? The reason the slop submissions are such time sinks is that they look plausible enough to not immediately discard, but they turn out to be non issues under further investigation. This is why Curl no longer has a bug bounty. It was just way to tempting for brain addled “coders” with a Claude subscription to see it as a potentialpassive income stream.
Most of what I hear about these AI bots going through a code base and finding hundreds of bugs is reports from AI boosters of not outright marketing claims from the slop merchants themselves, I wonder why they would want to push a narrative of LLMs fixing Swiss cheese software architecture in minutes 🤔