If you're using Windows 11, Microsoft is now surveilling you in a new way. This may already be turned on on your computer, and you would not be notified; it activates whenever they detect you are in a "game", which in my experience Microsoft often false-positives on

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Understandable, yeah it's bloody exhausting

...is the "rich people" part actually controversial, or am I just too midwestern not to see it?

if IRL community isn't safe or possible, topical/hobbyist online communities can be a workable stopgap. we're all very much out there, and you're not alone, so please hang in there

I know this is easier said than done, but this is very much a sign-tapping moment for "find some community IRL if at all possible"
social media platforms are very good at amplifying the above discourse to unreasonable degrees, most (trans) people are simply normal about it and accept differences

there's probably some room for semantic debate there, but it definitely falls under the umbrella of "not fucking cool", which is enough for it to be not fucking cool

I'm kinda floored that any punishment was meted out at all, and even then it's so woefully insufficient for what they've done :(

fantasizing about having enough money to put together a ragtag team of linux devs to recreate the functions and user experiences of every single ancient windows-only software that's still integral to my current workflow

some lines were meant to be held o7

creatur

Actual guess: possibly a set-up for a romance scam, with the premise setting the expectation that the person on the other end is a well-to-do widow/widower

*taps the sign*
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literally the platonic ideal of whimsy

Definitely -- it feels like asking a carpenter to film an ad spot for the local furniture store, in a sense. The advertising may be necessary to keep the lights on, but it seems like they're probably asking the wrong person at that point...

(Not to imply that this is easy, either -- everyone's really strained for resources right now. But I think this is a pattern of behavior that could be noticed across a lot of public sectors in the build-up to the ongoing national meltdown in the US.)

That's not to say that researchers should be getting pulled away from their work -- they don't want to be putting on shows, and we shouldn't make them! But we probably do need to channeling resources into empowering science communicators, such that we can break down the "ivory tower" mythos.

To play devil's advocate: maybe that need for more support is symptomatic of a deficiency?
I think there's a case to be made that the atrophying/neglect of public outreach and educational efforts was the problem, and the loss of public trust was the result. Research benefits from being shared.

This seems like a highly effective way to make content creators not want to play the game

they're a crate investment

Sorry I know it's already been said 20 times but like

That is literally a normal nose lmao don't let insecurity claim you

Cheers for making this happen. This wasn't an author byline I'd ever have expected to see in a major publication, and it's great to see these sorts of voices elevated in this day and age

That seems like a bad diagnostic condition to me? Like, people are going to be into what they're into. It does seem like a risk factor for psychosis, but that's an outcome of uncritical AI use more broadly, and the proper diagnostic condition would probably be active detachment from reality

I regret to report that this is just hoyoverse

If anyone here has three minutes to spare, the conflict of interest here seems to be a freebie layup to pile some additional dissent into CBS's feedback form: www.cbs.com/showfeedback/
Doubt it'll make much of a dent, but doesn't hurt to register some additional dissent