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Cake day: January 28th, 2022

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  • It is specifically targeted at folks who are not purely a binary gender (arguably by definition not cis, but I’m not going to enforce labels on anyone). Their preface/definition can be found below:


    Who can take part?

    The gender binary is a societal model that classifies all humans into one of two categories:

    Woman/girl – always, solely and completely
    Man/boy – always, solely and completely
    

    If you feel like that doesn’t fit your experience of yourself and your own gender in some way, you are invited to participate. This includes, but is definitely not limited to:

    people whose genders change over time
    people whose genders fluctuate in intensity
    people who experience more than one gender at a time
    people who don’t experience gender at all
    people whose gender is neither male/man nor female/woman
    

    We also welcome anyone who:

    rejects gender altogether
    feels like they’re outside of gender
    feels like they transcend or move beyond gender or the gender binary
    doesn’t really understand gender as it applies to them
    is questioning whether their flavour of trans might be binary or nonbinary
    

    It’s completely up to you whether you feel you fit any of these. This survey leans on the side of inclusive.








  • I suppose to wrap up my whole message in one closing statement : people who deny systematic inequality are braindead and for whatever reason, they were on my mind while reading this article.

    In my mind, this is the whole purpose of regulation. A strong governing body can put in restrictions to ensure people follow the relevant standards. Environmental protection agencies, for example, help ensure that people who understand waste are involved in corporate production processes. Regulation around AI implementation and transparency could enforce that people think about these or that it at the very least goes through a proper review process. Think international review boards for academic studies, but applied to the implementation or design of AI.

    I’ll be curious what they find out about removing these biases, how do we even define a racist-less model? We have nothing to compare it to

    AI ethics is a field which very much exists- there are plenty of ways to measure and define how racist or biased a model is. The comparison groups are typically other demographics… such as in this article, where they compare AAE to standard English.

















  • I do want to point out that social media use may be one of the first of these ‘evils’ to meet actual statistical significance on a large scale. I’ve seen meta-analyses which show an overall positive association with negative outcomes, as well as criticisms and no correlation found, but the sum of those (a meta-analyses of meta-analyses) shows a small positive association with “loneliness, self-esteem, life satisfaction, or self-reported depression, and somewhat stronger links to a thin body ideal and higher social capital.”

    I do think this is generally a public health reflection though, in the same way that TV and video games can be public health problems - moderation and healthy interaction/use of course being the important part here. If you spend all day playing video games, your physical health might suffer, but it can be offset by playing games which keep you active or can be offset by doing physical activity. I believe the same can be true of social media, but is a much more complex subject. Managing mental health is a combination of many factors - for some it may simply be about framing how they interact with the platform. For others it may be about limiting screen time. Some individuals may find spending more time with friends off the platform to be enriching.

    It’s a complicated subject, as all of the other ‘evils’ have always been, but it is an interesting one because it is one of the first I’ve personally seen where even kids are self-recognizing the harm social media has brought to them. Not only did they invent slang to create social pressures against being constantly online, but they have also started to self-organize and interact with government and local authority (school boards, etc.) to tackle the problem. This kind of self-awareness combined with action being taken at such a young age on this kind of scale is unique to social media - the kids who were watching a bunch of TV and playing video games didn’t start organizing about the harms of it, the harms were a narrative created solely by concerned parents.