Renaissance Grrrl

@wrengr

Researcher and educator in linguistics, mathematics, computer sci., cognitive sci., gender/sexuality, philosophy she/her 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴♿️🦓🥄☸️🪷

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Renaissance Grrrl@wrengr· Jul 23

Everyone needs to work together to pop this bubble asap. If you have control over your stock portfolio, pull out of every company mentioned in the article (though it's impossible to be safe from second- and third-order effects) www.wheresyoured.at/the-subprime...

Screenshot from the link: "What’s most horrifying is that OpenAI and Anthropic don’t even have to die for this all to end horribly. For one company to be able to afford even $200 billion a year in AI-related operating expenses is ludicrous.

Microsoft, a company that makes about $318 billion a year in revenue, has about $169 billion of operating expenses a year, and that includes the cost of running OpenAI’s compute. The idea that we’re going to have multiple Microsofts-worth of opex entirely focused on AI compute in the next four years is absolutely fucking ridiculous, yet it’s one of the most commonly-held beliefs in the tech industry."

Renaissance Grrrl@wrengr· Jun 27

Sometimes i really wonder about Steam's numbers-to-words conversion...

Screenshot: "Reviews, All time: overwhelmingly positive (96% of 613); recent: very positive (100% of 10)"

Renaissance Grrrl@wrengr· Jan 29

For when you need some political philosophy and investigative journalism to go with your recommendations on which gasmasks to buy, @sarahjeong.bsky.social never disappoints www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

/What is tear gas for?/ It is for inciting riots. /How did people go out and get gas masks?/ They ordered them online, because they do not want to riot.

Renaissance Grrrl@wrengr· Nov 30

Baker also makes clear that the entrepreneurial work ethic solves a problem created by capitalism, or at least, pushes it into the future. “The idea that creating work, for oneself and for others, was not just feasible for any given individual but an expression of a person’s unique talents and creative potential neatly resolved the contradiction between the imperative to work under capitalism and the scarcity of work created by its advanced corporate form.”

Renaissance Grrrl@wrengr· Nov 29

Moroccan director Belabbes suggested the AI’s growing influence in the filmmaking and wider creative sphere was a new form of colonialism.

“The models they use in AI don’t belong to me. They’re not mine. I have to create my own worlds… otherwise it’s just a new form of colonialism. It’s the whitewashing of our heritage,” he said.

Renaissance Grrrl@wrengr· Jun 5

Got a screen cap at least, for those who missed it

[Screenshot of a quote skeet]
Estroclysm.neocities: "what does a person do in a polycule when they dont want to sleep with one or more of the others in the polycule"

Live.from.roys.house: "it causes a point defect in the crystalline lattice of the polycule,which is ultimately the mechansism by which you can make things like transistors"

Renaissance Grrrl@wrengr· Apr 23

In case you've been feeling like google search doesn't work anymore (for years now), no it's not just you. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

"Google’s indifference is unsurprising," Mehta wrote. "In 2020, Google conducted a quality degradation study, which showed that it would not lose search revenue if were to significantly reduce the quality of its search product. Just as the power to raise price 'when it is desired to do so' is proof of monopoly power, so too is the ability to degrade product quality without concern of losing consumers."

Renaissance Grrrl@wrengr· Apr 11

That last line says it all, doesn't it www.thenation.com/article/soci...

This isn’t new. There’s a long history of jokes as subversion, gallows humor as protest. But there’s something uniquely modern about the way assassination “discourse” has become, for lack of a better word, ambient. Not quite satire. Not quite sedition. A feeling. A refusal to say what you mean, because meaning things can actually be dangerous.

Renaissance Grrrl@wrengr· Feb 8

There's so much going on between the lines here. Make benches comfy again!

Designing one bench, as it turned out, was not enough. He began planning another. He figured out the contours by comparing all the benches in the Golden Gate Park; “The average wasn’t comfortable!” he said. After several versions, he settled on what he called “the off the wall” bench: A shape with slightly angled seat and backrest, which allows sitters to shift back and forth, prompting better posture. “I like to think they’re comfortable for everyone,” he said.

Renaissance Grrrl@wrengr· Jan 22

Woo! Our copy of TruthIsPublishing.com just arrived! 🩵 It's always such a delight reading @roderickstruth.bsky.social You should order the "ultimate edition" if you haven't already

Photo of the cover of _Starting Somewhere: Community organizing for /socially awkward/ people who've had enough_ by Roderick Douglass

Epigraph: "The oppressor can never be trusted as historian. Our task is preservation. Collective memory is a liberation practice. Remember and tell it." — Cole Arthur Riley

Renaissance Grrrl@wrengr· Jan 15

Sleepy kitty is sleepy

Photo of a tabby with floofy tummy and head-planted in the corner of a couch seat, eyes slightly open

Renaissance Grrrl@wrengr· Jan 13

😭😭

[Screenshot of SMS]
Unknown number: fuck
Unknown number: I'm sorry i don't actually know what i thought i would do at this point
Unknown number: i thought maybe I'd
Unknown number: feel better but i don't

Renaissance Grrrl@wrengr· Jan 13

🤣

[Screenshot of an SMS dialogue]
Unknown Number: i ended up getting my phd in physics
Me: no i fucking didn't

Renaissance Grrrl@wrengr· Jan 13

"Objectivity" is a deceit. It always has been. It's the lie we tell ourselves and each other in order to smuggle our biases ,unanalyzed, through the door.

Snippet from Dubois's article: Journalism that leaves its own behind must take a hard inward look, but is anyone expendable for the sake of some “objectivity” that enables real harm? If you agree with the employee guidelines that say /journalists have no place on the playing field of politics/, answer this: Can you name anything important that isn’t political?

If you or your group are able to cordon off politics from the rest of your daily life, you might have unexamined privilege.

Renaissance Grrrl@wrengr· Jan 3

The pricing options are because

Roderick says, "Reminder: If it's inaccessible to the poor it's neither radical, nor revolutionary."

Renaissance Grrrl@wrengr· Jan 3

Pattern recognition has to be my least favorite part of neurodivergence. "Oh, i see where this is going. Surely everyone else sees this too? Oh. Okay. Can't wait to sit here in silent horror while that car crash slowly happens."

Renaissance Grrrl@wrengr· Jan 1

Via @catminacab.bsky.social

Catmin: "this is the last day you can post this"
Edited screenshot of opening scene of The Firemen (SNES 1994): image of a burning building with the text "The year is 2024. Civilization has progressed little in the last 20 years."
(The unedited screenshot would say 2010 instead of 2024.)

Renaissance Grrrl@wrengr· Dec 11

Given the distribution of the allele, i can't help but wonder if this is another thing we can thank Neanderthals for— especially given how many other immune system things we got from them

World map of the current distribution of CCR5-delta32 allele. Shows concentrations: highest in Scandinavia and central/western Russia; moderate in northern europe; some throughout northern africa, middle east, and western india; low/none in central/southern africa, asia, australia, americas.

Renaissance Grrrl@wrengr· Dec 2

My kid didn't even know we needed a new slur for using a lead blower, but i guess now it's "rake motoring" —Catmin's Anticapitalist Treehouse of Solidarity

Renaissance Grrrl@wrengr· Dec 1

The idea of "law" has always been the central weapon of colonialism. Since the very beginning we have always used it to make ourselves feel superior and justified as we genocide and plunder. And if you think colonialism has ended, you need this book livingjusticepress.org/product/indi...