Software wizard. Gym rat. Mom. Gamer. (Public account; feel free to request to follow but you must have a profile and posts I can see.) 🦋: leftoblique.bsky.social 🛼: Royal City Roller Derby (Coach, Killer Uprising)
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Last Notes npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried my best guess as to the reaction here: https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/635/095/063/038/740/original/cc496f73d62ecc64.webp npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried TDOV reminder: Trans men and nonbinary people exist. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried It looks like interaction between a planet's primary atmosphere and magma on the surface early in its formation could lead to the generation of a significant amount of water. This would mean that a planet might not need to accrete water purely from the protoplanetary disk in order to be habitable. We are starting to build better models of planet formation thanks to research like this! https://phys.org/news/2025-10-large-quantities-natural-consequence-planet.html npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried I, and I say this in all seriousness and in full knowledge of how this makes me appear by posting it from my public persona, absolutely would npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried Hey Stephen Colbert, https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/871/497/411/733/192/original/46946a3ac44f3337.png npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried We can reclaim sexy! But we do this by taking these characters from being objects to being subjects. This is why, e.g. Bayonetta is *both* porny and empowered*, while many other characters are not. It's why we still argue over whether early Lara Croft is good or bad representation**. We need more sexy characters written by women even as we push back against porny characters written by and for men. * if you ignore the most recent game, anyway ** she's both npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried The answer to that is that, society conditions us to see physical beauty and desirability as our most important attribute. We are rewarded for looking more conventionally attractive and punished for deviating. So identifying with objects of desire; dressing as objects of desire - that feels good. Posing for the camera in our heads feels good. Getting positive feedback on our appearance from others feels good. But it feels good because society tells us it's how we derive our value. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried I don't think any of that is controversial. But maybe this is something that will be: A common reaction to criticism of porny characters is to point to women who like those characters: who find them empowering; who cosplay as those characters; etc. And, okay, I'm not gonna yuck anyone else's yum. But I would also beg you to consider: *why* do women find these characters empowering? *Why* do they want to cosplay them? *Why* can a degree of objectification feel good? npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried I don't know who I have to say this to, but: If you put your name on a professional product - whether that's a pull request, a legal brief, a business report, or anything else - you are responsible for the quality and correctness of that product. Corollary: I doesn't matter if you use an LLM, task an intern, hire a temp, or crib from Stack Overflow. You had better be able to vouch for the final product. If you cannot, you are making it clear that you cannot be trusted to properly do your job. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried thank you for this perspective. It was hard for me to see why these media were so ineffective at getting their point across - I think a lot of us chalk it up to "media literacy" or lack thereof. You've helped me see that the reality is that they weren't critiques at all. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried It is not possible to have code deal with the real world on its own. The smartest guy cannot code a system that will handle, say, land title (regardless of what the crypto bros would tell you). Corner cases (and people) will inevitably fall through the cracks; systems will fail; exceptions will happen, and you need humans to deal with that. Even Amazon, who've come as close to perfecting supply chain as one could, have an army of customer service agents and generous policies to compensate. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried As someone who has worked in supply chain automation, there is no elegant code solution to real-world problems. Even Amazon, who one might argue has perfected the art of moving and tracking large numbers of things, has done so through (a) massive investment in infrastructure and (b) hiring a massive number of human employees who are (c) held to inhumanly strict rules in (d) a mostly closed and highly-controlled environment. Real life is messy; you need people (and often experts) to manage it. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried I just paid rent. It was free, through my bank app, and got to my landlord basically instantly. All I needed was my property manager's email address. I could send money to a friend the same way. This doesn't sound much different than ACH or PayPal but I assure you it is 1000% nicer. One of the many things you don't realize living in the US is how much friction is added to basically everything you do to ensure some middleman or service provider can profit off of it. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried Considering signing up for a pixelfed account to replace insta for posting random pics (not that I normally do but...) I would prefer to pick a server based outside the US. Is pixelfed.de a good choice, or do people recommend something else? npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried I love that the only platform more male-dominated than X is Quora, aka "mansplaining as a service" npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried X users: maidenless npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried see! It's easy! npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried You can just make up words in English. You can wordiate. See, I just did it right there. I wordiated. More importantly, you understood me - and therefore it's English. Isn't language cool? npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried So far they are deeply uninterested lol npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried Doing a little A/B testing on the Other Site to see what gets traction; it is Extremely Different from on here. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried Fun fact: English has umlauts! Goose -> geese is an umlaut; it's just that the öö sound has merged with ee in the modern language. Same with mouse -> mice, etc. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried Coming up for air to say: USAmericans, if you do anything today, *please vote*. And if you care for your fellow LGBT and immigrant fedi users, I beg you, even if you are in a "safe" state, *please consider voting for Kamala Harris*. We may need commanding popular and electoral college wins in order to quell potential violence from election deniers, even after this is all settled. Okay, gonna submerge and go silent again. Take care of yourselves, and if you haven't voted yet, godspeed. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried It's me. Hi. I'm the solution, it's me. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried Posted without comment. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/397/367/005/721/181/original/6d3adc26a2a6bee3.jpg npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried Happy Indigenous People's Day! https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/306/814/907/794/307/original/a729f2265e67b3fc.jpg npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried do you have access to a full version of this? Because I do not. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried it could be worse. Somehow I ended up a dance mom. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried Honestly, California is moving very quickly in the same direction. We're only a few years from having massive publicly-sanctioned shantytowns in our major cities, with increasingly severe penalties for anyone caught sleeping or loitering outside them. npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried Today is bi day of visibility and based on observations I can confidently say that bi people are extremely cute npub1s5e3qtyggn5edfhqw6nxrgk52ul9npz24n26232dyc2u5sz3w60qqeffjs Dana Fried what exactly is your goal for working out your upper body then? I can probably answer this if I know what you're aiming for.