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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.blacksky.app · 5h

honestly i'm flattered. not sure i've earned the name, but it's who i'd like to be. if that makes sense?

Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.blacksky.app · 5h

i'm expected to be racist towards asian and middle eastern immigrants. i'm expected to despise our first nations people. just like the greeks, italians and other mediterraneans, the spaniards are expected to forgive the anglos and team up with them in the defence of the colony. fuck that.

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.blacksky.app · 5h

one of the weird things about australian multiculturalism, at least as i've experienced it, is that we are very good at assimilation: in my own lifetime i have gone from being one of the "wogs and ab*s" to being one of the whites. i'm expected to wrap myself in the flag and pretend i don't remember

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.blacksky.app · 6h

they raised me anglo. in the rural australia that existed at the time, there was no other possibility. i once spoke spanish fluently, as much as any small child can speak it. it is mostly lost to me now. just a vague grasp of the phonetics, some words, and a tiny bit of syntax. i want it back.

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.blacksky.app · 6h

i am having emotions about ethnicity, transness, and gender

weirdest fucking thing. the (entirely expected) chaos of migrating from bluesky to blacksky made me think a lot about the importance of names. and discovering that as it sits right now (because federation is complex) i'm not able to change my atproto display name from danielle to daniela has made me realise something. i've been holding "daniela" in reserve for a long time while i tried to make sense of gender vs culture. i'm... not there yet. "danielle" is the feminine form of my name that is understood by anglos; but i was born "daniel" and i don't know if my parents (one anglo, one spanish) would have chosen daniela or danielle for me if circumstances were otherwise. i... want to be daniela? if that makes sense? the spanish culture is the thing that was forbidden to me when i was young, and the thing i would like to connect with again (as the eldest i am the very last among my siblings to acknowledge that need). i just... don't know how to be "daniela" without shame? forsaking "danielle" for "daniela" is different to the "daniel" to "danielle" shift, but it's difficult it its own way

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.blacksky.app · 7h

depressing indictment: i did spend a lot of time, as a white trans woman, thinking about whether i'd rather live under the moderation rules imposed by white cis people or black cis people. turns out it didn't require a lot of thought

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.blacksky.app · 9h

that also makes sense. if i had the ability to control either my hourly rate or the total budget it would be easier, but it is what it is

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.blacksky.app · 10h

in an ideal world, both clients pay for 1 weeks work (or whatever the appropriate weighted average is). because what happens right now is that both clients pay for 1 hours work and the data analyst gets fucked

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.blacksky.app · 10h

fuck it. done. and thank you. 💕

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.blacksky.app · 10h

on the plus side, blacksky is a thing. grateful to the generosity of the team who put this together. oh, and yes, new handle

Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.blacksky.app · 8d

i feel very down on bluesky at the moment.

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.blacksky.app · 10h

thankfully i don't have a subscription so i can't read the article, but i'm going to guess that the author doesn't care even the tiniest bit about what happens to trans women in men's prisons. when rape happens to us, it's just accepted that we deserve it.

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.blacksky.app · 12h

i am pretty angry at bluesky at the moment. would not be at all upset at the prospect of migrating the account to blacksky, at least to the extent that adding a generic white tgirl would not be too awkward

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.blacksky.app · 12h

yellow fingers causing lung cancer would be a hell of a world to work in

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.blacksky.app · 12h

chelsea i wasted so many of my academic years thinking about how scientific measurement maps inexactly onto statistical measure theory, and what that means on the ground. and like, what, we're just gonna admit it's all just counting and the reals are a lie??? i... actually i am on board with this

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.blacksky.app · 13h

glaring at you in sigma algebra

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.blacksky.app · 13h

In my view the correct strategy would be to charge client A and client B the same amount of money, since neither client could possibly know in advance if X applies. But it still requires you to allocate more time to those clients who get slammed by X. If you work on a "time=money" structure... yikes

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.blacksky.app · 13h

Explainer: data analysis is weird and unpredictable. Projects A and B might be almost identical in form, but differ oh so very slightly in respect X, and you cannot know in advance if X is applicable. Project A takes 1 hour. Project B takes 2 weeks. Mapping time to money doesn't work well here :/

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.blacksky.app · 13h

Billable hours statistical consultancy

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.blacksky.app · 16h

❤️

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.blacksky.app · 17h

On reflection, the sad thing about this episode is that over the last few years tech companies have forced LLM integrations on users so recklessly that the assumption of good faith died a long time ago. It genuinely didn't even occur to me that it was just a bug

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.blacksky.app · 17h

The reason I freaked out is spelled out here. I work in pharma and cannot risk having LLM integration enabled by default when I'm working with client data. I've spent most of this year trying to disable the extremely risky AI integrations that many companies are pushing on users, and I panicked

Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.blacksky.app · 1d

it's also extremely dangerous for users who work in regulated industries. the potential for accidentally passing commercial-in-confidence data to an unauthorised third party is unacceptably high when you start inserting LLM links into console messages. this "feature" needs to be opt-in, not opt-out

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.blacksky.app · 17h

Sincere thanks to Julia for opening the bug report and explaining that it isn't intended behaviour 🙃

Julia Silge @juliasilge.com · 23h

Ah gosh, thank you for pointing this out! This is just plain a bug and not the intended behavior. I have opened this here for us to get this fixed:
github.com/posit-dev/po...

Assistant Console actions should respect `positron.assistant.enable` · Issue #9919 · posit-dev/positron

We turned on positron.assistant.consoleActions.enable by default in the latest release, but the way this plays out is that folks see those Fix/Explain prompts in their console even if they do not h...

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.blacksky.app · 17h

I posted this yesterday and was distressed at what looked like LLM prompts being pushed into the positron console by default. Evidently it's just a bug (details below). I am relieved. Reposting in order to correct the misconception implied by my original post, and also because now it's just funny 🫠

an R error message at the positron console with silly AI prompts popping up in places they shouldn't be. it is apparently a bug, so now it's funny not infuriating

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.blacksky.app · 17h

turns out it's a bug - they do have the assistant but it's not supposed to be enabled by default. i'm relieved

Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.blacksky.app · 17h

Thanks Julia. I genuinely panicked when I saw this. In a moment I'll delete the original thread to avoid spreading my panic further. Sorry, LLM intrusions into without opt-in user consent have gotten so pervasive now that I thought it was deliberate. Didn't even occur to me that it was a bug

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