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Alexander Baez Ubeira (he/him)
@alexbaez.bsky.social
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Data/Public Procurement Analyst Public servant SQL/Python/Linux Data science/ AI Ethics curious Trans liberation now 🏳️‍⚧️ Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Law school dropout, engineering student UAH
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Cis people, you must HAVE TRANS PEOPLE'S BACK, get resources to help them (money, jobs, shelter, support, contacts), and stand up to transphobic attacks. Doctors, lawyers, people with technical skills, etc. learn about trans people's predicaments and help.
it’s about to get very, very hard to be transgender in the united states. likely harder than it’s been in american history. do not let them scare you into backing down. do not give into transphobes framing. stand up to them however you can. it shouldn’t be this way but we have to fight
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I don’t think I have ever been this burnt out and demoralized and part of this is because institutions are not taking our concerns about the pedagogical harms of widespread and uncritical adoption of LLMs in higher education seriously.
It’s exhausting to do this without any support.
I had 9 meetings about students using Chat GPT/LLMs on their papers today.

If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
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New episode of the podcast is up on hausofdecline.ca/podcast ! I am joined by @sherrycdrom.bsky.social and @progesteronipizza.bsky.social to discuss how we are plausibly going to save the world by writing the gayest song of all time.
*WCW Voice*
I have eaten the chilli, that was in the crock-pot
i made chili in the slow cooker, it is now officially fall
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I started HRT soon after my 45th birthday, and let me tell you: even starting that late, estrogen is *magic*.

Feeling so much better only weeks later was a huge relief.

Two and a half years later, and I wouldn't change a thing.
I’m so grateful for late transitioners who share their stories.

You give hope to those of us who thought our moment had passed.

You show everyone that it’s never too late to live truthfully.
Awgh FUCK! A TEAMS BA...
* so bloated it makes you explode *
Please check your kids’ Halloween candy carefully this year.

I bit into a chocolate bar and found Microsoft Teams.
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*inflates you making you big and round,*
v1.109 is rolling out today! #NewProfilePic

We've given the app a mini makeover with some new shades of blues! Plus, a whole bunch of bug fixes and performance improvements to make your experience better.
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📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/
PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
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T h e P o w e r o f p e a c e f u l N a t u r e

#pixelart #ドット絵 #art
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One time my dad was carrying a piece of furniture down to the basement and accidentally knocked a hole in the drywall at the top of the stairs. My toddler brother would put toys in it. One day he put his face up against it and yelled “AHOY THERE YOU HOLE!” We called it the Ahoy Hole for two decades
When my little brother was little he was being hyper somewhere and my mom said “Harrison, please behave”. He exasperatedly snapped “I AM being hayve!!”
do you ever have things that someone has said to you that live forever in your head (non-serious edition)? some older boomer hippie guy said “hahmmus gives you fahts” to me 26 years ago at a free fridge and i think of it every fucking single time i buy hummus to this day.
That's one crackling fast distro
Just installed void linux, wish me luck girls, boys and those whomst neither 🖤
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I just donated $50 to the greater Boston food bank. if you match my donation to your local charity I will send you a personal picture of my son
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also!! if you have any interest in my music which is cool if you like ebm by an uncracked egg that worshipped koji kondo and/or doom about murakami books and/or album covers that reference neu! covers, everything on the games brown bandcamp is pwyw
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maga world influencers are once again screaming themselves hoarse about sharia law and i’m reminded of the time an islamophobic lobby org outsourced their anti-sharia protests to literal neo nazis. same as it ever was, i guess.
In 2017, an anti-Muslim nonprofit crowd-sourced the organization of a nationwide series of rallies. Many of the people who stepped up to help turned out to be well known white supremacists.

@socialistdogmom.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social

www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
I don't want to overstate this, but after watching dozens of your candid selfies, I'm astounded by your ✨️Natural, effortless, generational beauty✨️
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rough math is that at least 25 million Americans, all white, living in Trump voting households are gonna lose Food Stamps on Thanksgiving month. Wild

bsky.app/profile/esgh...
Also: while on the surface this appears to more directly benefit black Americans as a relative percentage of the population

1. White non-college voters show up more to vote than non-whites
2. Black voters who use SNAP heavily concentrated in gerrymandered super red states
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Bernie Sanders joins Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at Zohran Mamdani's "New York is Not for Sale" rally at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, NYC.
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The Indiegogo campaign for my new audio drama "Librarian" is now live!

We've got some fantastic perks lined up: behind-the-scenes content, digital/physical art, and even the chance to have a character named after you!

www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...
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i should be able to click a button at the beginning of a sports season that says “i’m normal” and i don’t get served any ads for crypto or gambling
Is it the aptera?! I freaking love that car
👁👄👁❤️
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I really need people to understand that a government this antagonistic to its own citizens that has manufactured crisis after crisis is not a government that intends to honor democratic removal. Because they know what would have to happen for the nation to heal.

It’s gonna get bad.