birchduck.bsky.social
Queer women's hockey (and other women's sports) fan. Looks at birds. Located in a cornfield IL
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I'm in a very red area (I think 30% vote Dem), and there's protests here and very few assholes driving by
(I'm out of town for the one this weekend in my tiny town but 🤞)
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Old clothes last longer
My 30 year old T-shirts are in better shape than my 1 year old T-shirts
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Also, I was not the only trans person in this thrift store getting super excited to unexpectedly find clothes than made me feel good. It made me misty-eyed.
Happy Pride month y’all, may you find clothes that make you happy when clothes shopping previously made your skin crawl ❤️🏳️⚧️
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The Mineral Cup is looking for volunteers!
If you know your way around SquareSpace, Tumblr, or Pillowfort, that expertise is especially welcome.
Show your interest on the #MinCup website: www.mineralcup.org/volunteer
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They should be retired! Or have updated their bigotry since middle school I guess
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dare we say it: is this a gap in the market?
bsky.app/profile/nogo...
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You totally green screened them! If I had mad skillz I could do funny things with that 😂
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I use machine learning models in some of my statistical analyses, I have for years, working with some Random Forests this week. But using such tools to do science is so different from asking an algorithm to be the one reporting the results.
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Rude. We even elected a fat rich guy, perfect face of evil, and he's (at least doing a damn good job pretending that he's) got a heart!
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I'm a known hermit, so I would go quietly mad by day 1 and become increasingly less quiet about it
It took 2 weeks of nobody else being at my work location before I went noticeably strange, in comparison
I do have non autism brain stuff
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And I don't have a bunch of pre revolutionary war ancestors (like maaaaybe 1 but probably none). All but 1 came to the US after or around the Civil War.
And they weren't the best people! Probably draft dodgers, one probably on the run
But that's not ok for people now for some reason...
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iNaturalist already has people trusting strangers to tell them if a mushroom is edible 😧
That's not something one can afford *any* mistakes on, ever.
Machine learning can be super useful!
But this is going to make even more work for your dedicated volunteer identifiers.
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I've read the blog. I've pointed out iNaturalist for years as "reasonable use of AI".
"We will incorporate a feedback process for the AI-generated identification tips so that we can maintain high standards of accuracy."
Google's user feedback suggests wrong spelling as a correction to right
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And your final sentence? Same.
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If you can't do it yourself, store bought is fine!
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Oooof. One can squint and lalala about folks from Central and South America, but Vietnamese immigrants.... That's like directly our fault signed with a flag and "America wuz heer" graffiti