0xabad1dea
@0xabad1dea

This is a graph of Discord’s algorithmically inferred gender (extracted from β€œrequest your data” json; axes are probability and days) for a user whose display name is β€œTiffany”, whose bio is β€œshe/her”, whose pfp is a drawing of a girl and whose profile theme color is pink.

Algorithmically inferred gender is worse than useless. Presumably the issue is that she talks about programming, and all the deliberate β€œI am explicitly telling you I am a girl” signaling in the world can’t convince a computer. I sometimes watch a livecoding streamer whose youtube stats claim his audience is 99% male even though you can see fem-coded chat participants regularly. Algorithms like this are deleting the women



azurelore
@azurelore

trying to paint my nails in between packing tasks here, and jesus. i've never had steady hands, but now they're vibrating like i'm holding a jackhammer. it's genuinely ridiculous how hard it is to get the brush, in one hand, to hit the right part of the nail, on the other hand.

even raising my hands up 45 degrees, with my wrists on the desk, to type this, the fingers are quivering so hard. someone who didn't know would think i was doing it on purpose.

at least i can physically type, which is better than i was doing a few months ago.

using the mouse is... interesting however.



azurelore
@azurelore

those few hours where your nails are technically dry, but where doing anything with your hands including blowing your nose will screw them up regardless

...

okay, pushed myself and did a little more packing, but i'm spent again now 😩

meanwhile my partner has finally officially become a uhaul lesbian


azurelore
@azurelore

this is not the kind of packing that i signed up for 😩

...

you know there really should be a boutique subscription service like hellofresh, where you fill out a questionnaire to narrow down your tastes when you set up then after every order, except it's for gang bangs πŸ€”


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