Beth Rennie
freshstrangemusic.ca
Beth Rennie
@freshstrangemusic.ca
Open source software developer in Toronto, Canada.

she/her 🏳️‍⚧️

https://kind.social/@beth
https://github.com/freshstrangemusic
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Trans women threatening this dynamic, not because we were "raised men" or whatever but because we infiltrated men's social spaces from birth and have enough examples of the contrary to prove the lie.
August 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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As for validity, well.

My 'preferred' pronouns, & my 'chosen' gender, and my 'dignity & respect' aren't much good on their own.

I need HRT.

I need access to civil society, without harassment & violence.

I need legal recognition.

I have material needs validity does not touch.

It's a platitude.
July 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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to the people that would go "if you've nothing to hide, you've nothing to worry about": plenty of people have harmless things they need to hide from the state, b/c the state will mistreat them over it, and, our actual government is currently calling everyone who dislikes this law a child abuser
July 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Nice! Monogram is on my list of places to visit when I'm in Calgary next week
July 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Bringing this back to LLMs:

An LLM is incapable of lying.

It is also incapable of being honest.

Both of those are intentions.

An LLM outputs words, with no regard for whether they are true or not. Such a regard is beyond its scope and capabilities.
July 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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bad news: the study was on both american and danish mbas, it's pretty large

also bad news: "technically there's still water in poisoned well" not the intellectual riposte you had hoped for
sources:

wage cuts:
www.nber.org/system/files...

self serving:
hbr.org/2016/12/mbas...

pollution and risk taking:
www.iimb.ac.in/sites/defaul...

promotion bias:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

vs unionised market performance:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
May 31, 2025 at 4:37 AM