Gaywallet

Gaywallet, 5 months ago

As an FYI, opposed does not necessarily mean opposite, it can and often means in contrast to or in conflict with. Shades of gray, but either word works fine here.

Gaywallet, 5 months ago

You’re absolutely correct, yet ask someone who’s very pro AI and they might dismiss such claims as “needing better prompts”. Also many people may not be as tech informed as you are, and bringing light to algorithmic bias can help them understand and navigate the world we now live in. Dismissing the article just because you already know the answer doesn’t really encourage people to participate in a discussion.

Gaywallet, 5 months ago

This is incredibly dismissive of the concerns raised and adds nothing to the discussion

Gaywallet, 5 months ago

Direct link to journal article

Gaywallet, 5 months ago

I used to think that SEO only affected people trying to sell products directly. It’s sad how badly it’s polluted the ability to find any content at all on the internet, as it’s cheap enough and easy enough to do at this point that they’re just trying to sell on ad revenue/clicks.

Gaywallet, 5 months ago

David Bronner, one of the grandsons of Dr. Bronner, is a fantastically interesting person with a lot of really charming eccentricities I think you were trying to capture when you said ‘crazy talk’. I’ve met him a few times at medical psychedelics conferences, he was introduced to psychedelics at burning man and has bought fully into how it’s expanded their mind and has helped them heal.

Gaywallet, 5 months ago

I would say that’s their story to tell

Gaywallet, 6 months ago

In the last 2-3 weeks I’ve been on a bit of a gaming binge. I’ve played through spider man 2, final fantasy 16, hi-fi rush, horizon forbidden West. Just started on Jedi survivor.

I also got to play through it takes two and just started on trine 5 with one of my partners. We’ve never really played co-op games together before despite both having gamed for ages and I’m having a lot of fun.

Gaywallet, 8 months ago

Different kinds of social media have different focuses. Reddit and forum style have a bit less focus on the person and more focus on the content than Twitter because of how people interact with the platform itself. Twitter is very person centric, encouraging you to follow people to cut through the noise. Having communities which surface voted content puts more emphasis on the community than the individual and draw out the timeframe of algorithm engagement.

Gaywallet, 8 months ago

Did you read the rest of the article? It talks about how she talked with others in the company about this, someone above her took it very personally as suggesting he was racist, and her prompt firing. It also highlights how bungie was exposed for both racial and gender bias by reporting just a few months before she was hired, indicating that these exposed problems likely still existed.

I don’t mean any harm when I say this, but why would you jump to the defense of a company in the first place, dismissing claims of racism or other forms of bigotry? The world is incredibly biased, and regular large-scale studies on company culture (and social culture) reveal widespread bigotry in our world. Simply assuming the status quo absent enough evidence on either side to clearly paint a picture is more often than not correct. What purpose does trying to discredit her accomplish here? How do you think it makes black people feel to see the only reply in a thread is an attempt at discrediting her?

Gaywallet, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

You seem to keep making a lot of assumptions about what happened, absent any evidence that it did. Why do you assume that she didn’t make ‘any attempt to talk to that Black employee’s immediate coworkers’? Why do you assume she ‘just talked to him’? Why do you assume there was no ‘further investigation’?

We don’t have any of this information. It’s not fair to assume anything about whether they happened or not. Why are you making all of your assumptions in the direction of discrediting this individual? The article that is linked here links another article exposing a pervasive issue of gender and racial bias at this company, so it seems rather odd to be assuming that they had completely fixed this issue by the time of her hiring, a mere few months later, and that it was not at play in this situation. However, even if this article was not linked and this company was not specifically exposed for these issues, it seems odd to me to assume in the direction that research on bigotry in the workplace also does not support.

Why do you feel compelled to jump to the defense of someone you do not know, over an accusation which doesn’t affect you and you have no stakes in nor any knowledge of the circumstances?

Gaywallet, 8 months ago

To anyone thinking of reporting this comment, he’s already been banned. I’m leaving the comment up because I think it’s a good example of the community rallying to push back on a racist idiot. 😄

Gaywallet, 9 months ago

It’s not common sense, that’s a common false judgement applied to people with less means - it’s a value judgement and diminishes their struggle. This is a reminder to be nice on our instance.

Gaywallet, 9 months ago

Fantastic, I’m great you have that going for you. I’m letting you know that making value judgements on other poor people for being poor is not okay. Don’t do that on Beehaw.

Gaywallet, 9 months ago

I told you that you need to change your behavior and all you’ve done is attempt to argue with me rather than understand why your behavior was not acceptable. You’re getting a 7 day ban so you can have time to think this over.

Gaywallet, 10 months ago

reminder to be nice on our instance

Gaywallet, 10 months ago

cheers m8 💜 it happens

Gaywallet, 10 months ago

This is a reminder to be nice on our instance

Gaywallet, 1 year ago

Fascinating, do you happen to have a link? No worries if it’s buried or you don’t remember, but I’d love to read it